This occurred against, Australia are the only team in the history of the, Australia went undefeated at the World Cup for a record 34 consecutive matches.

"There is a lot of cricket on the horizon across all three forms of the game including an ICC T20 World Cup, home Test summer against India, One-Day matches and a tour of South Africa. Greg Chappell was reinstated as captain.

Winning the Ashes in 1989, the Australians got a roll on beating Pakistan, Sri Lanka and then followed it up with another Ashes win on home soil in 1991. Players need to accrue 12 upgrade points to earn a contract, with Tests worth five points, ODIs two points and T20s one point for men, and Tests worth four points and ODIs and T20s two each for women.

In May 1977, Kerry Packer announced he was organising a breakaway competition – World Series Cricket (WSC) – after the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) refused to accept Channel Nine's bid to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches in 1976. This led to six leading players (the so-called "Big Six") walking out on the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England, with Australia fielding what was generally considered a second-rate side.

In this match, Fred Spofforth took 7/44 in the game's fourth innings to save the match by preventing England from making their 85-run target. The next best performance is by South Africa at 37%. Hohns says the players included in the list gives selectors a strong basis of variety going into a busy season. He is generally considered one of Australia's greatest sporting heroes. On 12 January 2019, Australia won the first ODI against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground by 34 runs, to record their 1,000th win in international cricket.[20]. [39][40] After 1-0 a loss to Pakistan in a two match Test series against Pakistan in the UAE and suffered defeat to India at home in a four match Test series, they found success against Sri Lanka, winning the two Test match series 2–0. These players were handed three-year suspensions by the Australian Cricket Board which greatly weakened the player pool for the national sides, as most were either current representative players or on the verge of gaining honours. Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is in second position with 32 centuries from 260 innings. MORE: Australian star Steve Smith 'strange' and a 'genius', Ben Stokes says, “As Mitch Marsh and Matthew Wade have proven there are always plenty of opportunities for those who have missed out to be reselected by performing consistently at domestic level; and importantly to make the most of any opportunity that comes there way at international level,” national selector Trevor Hohns said. Australia is the most successful Test team in cricketing history. [79] The official lyrics are as follows, though when it is sung by the players, the word ’little’ in the last line is instead replaced by ’bloody’ or an expletive. After being defeated by Pakistan in.

The sponsor's (currently Alinta for home matches and Qantas for away matches) logo is displayed on the right side of the chest while the Cricket Australia emblem is displayed on the left.

In 2015, Australia won the World Cup, losing just one game for the tournament. This has been achieved twice; from October 1999 to February 2001 and from December 2005 to January 2008.

In One Day International (ODI) cricket and Twenty20 International cricket, the team wears uniforms usually coloured green and gold, the national colours of Australia.

The underarm bowling incident of 1981 occurred when, in an ODI against New Zealand, Greg Chappell instructed his brother Trevor to bowl an underarm delivery to New Zealand batsman Brian McKechnie, with New Zealand needing a six to tie off the last ball.