Australia national cricket team record by opponent
The Australia national cricket team represents Australia in international cricket and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.[1] Australia is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.[2] The team also plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season[3] and the first Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,[4] winning both games.
Australia is the most successful Test team in cricketing history. It has won more than 350 Test matches at a rate of almost 47%. As of January 2016, Australia have played 786 Test matches; they have won 370 matches, lost 208 matches, and 206 matches were drawn and 2 tieds as well.[5]
Australia is also the most successful ODI team in the history as well, where they have achieved an unbreakable record in ODI history. As of February 2016, Australia have played 868 ODI matches, winning 537 matches and losing 291; they also tied 9 matches, whilst 31 had no result.[6] They have won Cricket World Cup in record of 5 times, more than any other nation, in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015, and also runner-up in 1975 and 1996.
Though Australia is brilliant in Test and ODI arena, they showed poor performances in Twenty20 Internationals. As of February 2016, Australia have played 81 T20I matches and won 40 of them; 38 were lost and 2 tied and 1 no result match as well. The winning percentage is only 51.25.[7] During 5 ICC World Twenty20 tournaments, Australia's best performance came during 2010, where they lost the final to England, became runner-up.
As of January 2016, Australia have faced all nine teams in Test cricket, with their most frequent opponent being The Ashes rivals, England; playing 341 matches against them.[8] Due to more matches against England, they have registered more wins against England, but the best winning percentage of 100.00 against Bangladesh, where won all 4 tests.[8] In ODI matches, Australia have played against 18 teams; they have played against England most frequently, with a winning percentage of 60.90 in 136 matches.[9] Within usual major ODI nations, Australia have defeated New Zealand on 86 occasions, which is their best record in ODIs.[9] The team have competed against 10 countries in T20Is, and have played 14 matches against South Africa. Out of that, Australia have defeated South Africa in 9 occasions each.[10]
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Test cricket
- Statistics are correct as of 9 January 2016
Matches played (by country)
Team | Opponent | 1st Test | Last Test | Matches | Won | Lost | Drawn | Tied | % Won |
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Australia | England | March 1877 | August 2015 | 341 | 140 | 108 | 93 | 0 | 41.05 |
South Africa | October 1902 | March 2014 | 91 | 50 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 54.95 | |
West Indies | December 1930 | January 2016 | 116 | 58 | 32 | 25 | 1 | 50.00 | |
New Zealand | March 1946 | November 2015 | 55 | 29 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 52.72 | |
India | November 1947 | January 2015 | 90 | 40 | 24 | 25 | 1 | 44.44 | |
Pakistan | October 1956 | November 2014 | 59 | 28 | 14 | 17 | 0 | 47.45 | |
Sri Lanka | April 1983 | January 2013 | 26 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 65.38 | |
Zimbabwe | October 1999 | October 2003 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Bangladesh | July 2003 | July 2003 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
ICC World XI | October 2005 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 9 January 2016. |
One Day International
- Statistics are correct as of 15 January 2016
Matches played (by country)
Team | Opponent | 1st ODI | Last ODI | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | No result | % Won |
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Australia | England | 5 January 1971 | 13 September 2015 | 136 | 80 | 51 | 2 | 3 | 60.90 |
New Zealand | 30 March 1974 | 127 | 86 | 35 | 0 | 6 | 71.07 | ||
Pakistan | 7 June 1975 | 20 March 2015 | 93 | 58 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 65.00 | |
Sri Lanka | 11 June 1975 | 8 March 2015 | 91 | 56 | 31 | 0 | 4 | 64.36 | |
West Indies | 14 June 1975 | 10 February 2013 | 135 | 70 | 59 | 3 | 3 | 54.16 | |
Canada | 16 June 1979 | 16 March 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
India | 6 December 1980 | 23 January 2016 | 120 | 70 | 40 | 0 | 10 | 63.63 | |
Zimbabwe | 9 June 1983 | 31 August 2014 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 93.10 | |
Bangladesh | 30 April 1990 | 21 February 2015 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 94.73 | |
South Africa | 26 February 1992 | 23 November 2014 | 88 | 46 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 53.97 | |
Kenya | 23 February 1996 | 13 March 2011 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Scotland | 16 May 1999 | 14 March 2015 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Netherlands | 20 February 2003 | 18 March 2007 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Namibia | 27 February 2003 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
United States | 13 September 2004 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
ICC World XI | 5 October 2005 | 9 October 2005 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Ireland | 13 April 2007 | 27 August 2015 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
Afghanistan | 25 August 2012 | 4 March 2015 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 15 January 2016. |
Twenty20 International
- Statistics are correct as of 31 January 2016
Matches played (by country)
Team | Opponent | 1st T20I | Last T20I | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | No result | % Won |
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Australia | Bangladesh | 16 September 2007 | 1 April 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
England | 13 June 2005 | 31 August 2015 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 58.33 | |
India | 22 September 2007 | 31 January 2016 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
Ireland | 19 September 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
New Zealand | 17 February 2005 | 28 February 2010 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 90.00 | |
Pakistan | 18 September 2007 | 5 October 2014 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 42.30 | |
South Africa | 9 January 2006 | 9 November 2014 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 64.28 | |
Sri Lanka | 20 September 2007 | 28 January 2013 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 | |
West Indies | 20 June 2008 | 28 March 2014 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 45.45 | |
Zimbabwe | 12 September 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 2 February 2016. |
Notes
References
- ↑ "ICC Members Countries". International Cricket Council (ICC). Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ↑ "1st Test: Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 15–19, 1877 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ↑ "Only ODI: Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ↑ "Only T20I: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ↑ "Records / Test matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Records / One-Day Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- 1 2 "Records / Australia / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- 1 2 "Records / Sri Lanka / One-Day Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
- ↑ "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2013.