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 1876
.[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 with an overall winning rate of 47.05%. As of 19 October 2018, Australia have played 814 Test matches; winning 383, lost 220, 209 were drawn and 2 matches were tied.[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 24 June 2018, Australia have played 916 ODI matches, winning 556 matches and losing 317; they also tied 9 matches, whilst 34 had no result.[6] They have won the Cricket World Cup a record 5 times, more than any other nation, in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015, and were also runners-up in 1975 and 1996.
Though Australia is brilliant in Test and ODI arena, they have performed more indifferently in Twenty20 Internationals. As of 8 July 2018, Australia have played 106 T20I matches and won 56 of them. 47 were lost, 2 tied and 1 had no result. The winning percentage is only 54.28.[7] During 5 ICC World Twenty20 tournaments, Australia's best performance came during 2010, where they lost the final to England, became runner-up. England vs Australia in 2019 World cup will going to play on 25 June 2019. England vs Australia scores
As of October 2018, Australia have faced nine of the eleven other teams in Test cricket, with their most frequent opponent being The Ashes rivals, England; playing 346 matches against them.[8] Due to more matches against England, they have registered more wins against England, but the best winning percentage of 100 against Zimbabwe, having won all three Tests.[8] In ODI matches, Australia have played against 18 teams; they have played against England most frequently, with a winning percentage of 56.94 in 147 matches.[9] Against the other nations with Test status, Australia has the best record against Ireland and Afghanistan having never lost in an ODI match against them. They have also never lost an ODI match against a non-Test playing nation.[9] The team have competed against 10 countries in T20Is, and have played 17 matches against South Africa. Out of that, Australia have defeated South Africa on 11 occasions.[10]
Key
Symbol | Meaning |
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Matches | Number of matches played |
Won | Number of matches won |
Lost | Number of matches lost |
Tied | Number of matches tied |
Draw | Number of matches ended in a draw |
No Result | Number of matches ended with no result |
Tie+Win | Number of matches tied and then won in a tiebreaker such as a bowl-out or Super Over |
Tie+Loss | Number of matches tied and then lost in a tiebreaker such as a bowl-out or Super Over |
%Won | Percentage of games won to those played.[11] |
W/L Ratio | Ratio of matches won to matches lost[11] |
First | Year of the first match played by Australia against the country |
Last | Year of the last match played by Australia against the country |
Test cricket
One Day International
Matches played (by country)
Team | Opponent | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | % Won |
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Australia | England | 149 | 84 | 63 | 2 | 56.37 |
New Zealand | 137 | 91 | 39 | 0 | 66.42 | |
Pakistan | 104 | 68 | 32 | 1 | 67.82 | |
Sri Lanka | 97 | 61 | 32 | 0 | 65.59 | |
West Indies | 140 | 74 | 60 | 3 | 55.1 | |
Canada | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
India | 138 | 78 | 50 | 0 | 60.93 | |
Zimbabwe | 30 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 93.10 | |
Bangladesh | 21 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 95 | |
South Africa | 102 | 48 | 50 | 3 | 49.00 | |
Kenya | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Scotland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Namibia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
United States | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
ICC World XI | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Ireland | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Afghanistan | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 4 March 2020. |
Twenty20 International
Matches played (by country)
Team | Opponent | 1st T20I | Last T20I | Matches | Won | Lost | Tied | No result | % Won |
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Australia | |||||||||
New Zealand | 17 February 2005 | 21 February 2018 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 83.33 | |
England | 13 June 2005 | 27 June 2018 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 60.00 | |
South Africa | 9 January 2006 | 9 March 2016 | 17 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 64.70 | |
Zimbabwe | 12 September 2007 | 6 July 2018 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
Bangladesh | 16 September 2007 | 21 March 2016 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
Pakistan | 18 September 2007 | 8 July 2018 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 44.11 | |
Sri Lanka | 20 September 2007 | 22 February 2017 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 38.46 | |
India | 22 September 2007 | 8 December 2020 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 40:00 | |
West Indies | 20 June 2008 | 28 March 2014 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 45.45 | |
Ireland | 19 September 2012 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | ||
Last updated: 8 December 2020.[12] |
Notes
References
- "ICC ve.org/web/20130116023632/http://www.icc-cricket.com/the-icc/icc_members/overview.php". Missing or empty
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(help) - "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 19 October 2018.
- "Records / One-Day Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- "Records / Australia / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
- "Records / Australia / One-Day Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
- Games that did not have a result are not taken into consideration while calculating the result percentage. Ties are counted as half a win.
- "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.