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As of January 2025, Australia is the most successful team in Test cricket with an overall winning percentage of 47.87, ahead of their nearest rival South Africa on 39.19. [ 8 ] Top order batsman and former captain Don Bradman holds several batting records.
In cricket, a players' batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out, usually given to two decimal places.. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player ...
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 and winning the first ever Test match in 1877; [9] 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 [10] and ...
Note: If the qualification is removed, the record Test batting average is Australian Kurtis Patterson's 144.00; Patterson made scores of 30 and 114 not out in his only two Test innings. [40] A very few one-Test wonders have never been dismissed, leaving them without a defined Test batting average.
Australia's Usman Khawaja celebrates after scoring a double century during day two of the first test cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.
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 .
Australia Jack White: 1 Feb 1929 12/136 v. Australia Johnny Briggs: 24 Mar 1892 12/286 v. India Nathan Lyon: 9 Dec 2014 11/181 v. West Indies Geoff Lawson: 7 Dec 1984 11/183 v. West Indies Clarrie Grimmett: 12 Dec 1930 11/215 v. Australia Derek Underwood: 25 Jan 1975
In cricket, a player's batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out.Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability, and largely independent of their teammates, batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter.