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List of Australian test captains, hanging at the MCG. This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Australian cricket team for at least one Test match (not including vice-captains and other players who have deputised on the field for any period of time during a match where the captain has been unable to play).
Pages in category "Australia Test cricket captains" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a list of Australia Test cricketers. A Test match is an international two- innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the Australia cricket team .
Australian cricket team in England in 1980, the 1-Test series is drawn 0–0; this was the Centenary Test to mark 100 years of Test cricket in England. [77] New Zealand cricket team in Australia in 1980–81, the 3-Test series is won by Australia 2–0. Indian cricket team in Australia in 1980–81, the 3-Test series is drawn 1–1.
Australian cricket during the 1980s was comparatively unsuccessful, particularly following the retirement of players such as Marsh and Lillee. Queenslander Allan Border, rated as one of the finest middle-order players in history, took over as captain and attempted a re-building process. For quite some time, the common wisdom was that Australia ...
He was also the first wicket-keeper captain of the Australian cricket team. [1] Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Barry Jarman, Adam Gilchrist, and Tim Paine are the only wicket-keepers who have captained the Australian cricket team. Paine is the longest serving wicket-keeper Test captain for Australia.
Kimberley John Hughes (born 26 January 1954) is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia, Natal and Australia.He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of South Africa, a country which at the time was subject to a sporting boycott opposing apartheid.
The Australia national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket.Along with England, it is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, playing in the first ever Test match in 1877; [11] the team also plays One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season [12] and the ...