Australia national cricket team | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

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00:02:57 1 History
00:03:06 1.1 Early history
00:04:46 1.2 Golden Age
00:06:56 1.3 Cricket between the wars
00:07:58 1.4 The Bradman era
00:11:33 1.5 Cricket after World War II
00:14:41 1.6 1970s and onward
00:20:40 1.6.1 2018 ball-tampering controversy
00:22:35 1.6.2 Paine era
00:22:55 2 International grounds
00:23:09 3 Team colours
00:25:41 4 Players
00:26:44 5 Coaching staff
00:26:47 6 Test match records
00:27:14 6.1 Team
00:27:24 6.2 Appearances
00:29:40 6.3 Batting
00:29:56 6.4 Bowling
00:31:57 6.5 Fielding and wicketkeeping
00:33:15 7 One Day International records
00:33:47 7.1 Team
00:34:01 7.2 Appearances
00:35:16 7.3 Batting
00:35:33 7.4 Bowling
00:36:28 7.5 Fielding and wicketkeeping
00:36:54 8 Tournament history
00:37:28 8.1 ICC World Cup
00:37:42 8.2 ICC World Twenty20
00:37:51 8.3 ICC Champions Trophy
00:38:01 8.4 Commonwealth Games
00:38:11 8.5 Honours
00:38:20 9 Under the Southern Cross I Stand
00:38:46 10 See also
00:40:14 11 References



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The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877. 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 and the first T20I, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season, winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League.
The national team has played 814 Test matches, winning 383, losing 220, drawing 209 and tying 2. Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage. As of  November 2018, Australia is ranked fifth in the ICC Test Championship on 102 rating points.The Australian cricket team has played 917 ODI matches, winning 557, losing 317, tying 9 and with 34 ending in a no-result. They are currently placed fifth in the ICC ODI Championship, though have been ranked first for 141 of 185 months since its introduction in 2002. Australia have made a record seven World Cup final appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record five times in total; 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. Australia is the first team to appear in four consecutive World Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), surpassing the old record of three consecutive World Cup appearances by the West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983) and the first team to win 3 consecutive World Cups (1999, 2003 and 2007). It is also the second team to win a World Cup (2015) on home soil, after India (2011).
The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until 19 March at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets. Australia have also won the ICC Champions Trophy twice – in 2006 and in 2009 – making them the first and the only team to become back to back winners in the Champions Trophy tournaments. Additionally, the team made the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, in which they lost to England. As of July 2018, Australia has played 106 Twenty20 International matches, winning 56, losing 47, tying 2 and with 1 ending in a no-result.