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The Australian cricket group is the national cricket group of Australia and the current ICC World Cup champions. It is the joint most established group in Test cricket, having played in the first Test coordinate in 1877.[3] The group additionally plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, partaking in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season[4] and the initial Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,[5] winning both recreations. The group draws its players from groups playing in the Australian local rivalries – the Sheffield Shield, the Australian household restricted overs cricket competition and the Big Bash League. 

The Australian group has played 773 Test matches, winning 362, losing 205, drawing 204 and tying two.[6] Australia is positioned the most obvious group in general in Test cricket regarding general wins, win-misfortune proportion and wins rate. As at 10 January 2015, Australia is positioned second in the ICC Test Championship on 118 rating focuses, 6 focuses behind South Africa.[7] 

Australia has played 856 ODI matches, winning 529, losing 287, tying nine and with 31 consummation in no-result.[8] They have driven the ICC ODI Championship since its commencement for everything except a time of 48 days in 2007. Australia have made a record seven World Cup last appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record five times altogether; 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. Australia is the first group to show up in four sequential World Cup finals (1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), surpassing the old record of three continuous World Cup appearances by West Indies (1975, 1979 and 1983) and the first group to win 3 successive world glasses (1999, 2003 and 2007). 

The group was undefeated in 34 back to back World Cup matches until 19 March at the 2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets.[9] Australia have additionally won the ICC Champions Trophy twice – in 2006 and in 2009 – making them the first and the main group to wind up consecutive champs in the Champions Trophy competitions. The group has additionally played 39 Twenty20 Internationals,[10] making the last of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, which they lost to England. 

Early history 

The Australian cricket group partook in the first Test match at the MCG in 1877, overcoming an English group by 45 runs, with Charles Bannerman making the first Test century, a score of 165 resigned damage. Test cricket, which just happened in the middle of Australia and England at the time, was constrained by the long separation between the two nations, which would take a while via ocean. In spite of Australia's much littler populace, the group was exceptionally aggressive in right on time diversions, creating stars, for example, Jack Blackham, Billy Murdoch, Fred "The Demon" Spofforth, George Bonnor, Percy McDonnell, George Giffen and Charles "The Terror" Turner. Most cricketers at the time were either from New South Wales or Victoria, with the remarkable exemption of George Giffen, the star South Australian all-rounder. 

A highlight of Australia's initial history was the 1882 Test match against England at The Oval. In this match Fred Spofforth took 7/44 in the amusement's fourth innings to spare the match by keeping England from making their 85-run target. After this match The Sporting Times, a significant daily paper in London at the time, printed a counterfeit tribute in which the passing of English cricket was announced and the declaration made that "the body was cremated and the slag taken to Australia." This was the begin of the celebrated Ashes arrangement in which Australia and England play a Test match arrangement to choose the holder of the Ashes. Right up 'til the present time, the challenge is one of the fiercest competitions in game. 

Brilliant Age 

The purported 'Brilliant Age' of Australian test cricket happened around the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century, with the group under the captaincy of Joe Darling, Monty Noble and Clem Hill winning eight of ten visits it took an interest in the middle of the 1897–98 English voyage through Australia and the 1910–11 South African voyage through Australia. Extraordinary batsman, for example, Joe Darling, Clem Hill, Reggie Duff, Syd Gregory, Warren Bardsley and Victor Trumper, splendid all-rounders including Monty Noble, George Giffen, Harry Trott and Warwick Armstrong and magnificent bowlers including Ernie Jones, Hugh Trumble, Tibby Cotter, Bill Howell, Jack Saunders and Bill Whitty, all helped Australia to turn into the predominant cricketing country for a large portion of this period. 

Victor Trumper turned into one of Australia's first brandishing saints, and was generally viewed as Australia's most prominent batsman before Bradman and a standout amongst the most mainstream players. He played a record (at the time) number of tests at 49, and scored 3163 (another record) runs at a high for the time normal of 39.04. His initial passing in 1915 at 37 years old from kidney illness created national grieving. The Wisden Cricketers' Almanac, in its tribute for him, called him Australia's most noteworthy batsman: "Of all the immense Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general assent the best and most brilliant."[11] 

The years paving the way to the begin of World War I were defaced by clash between the players, drove by Clem Hill, Victor Trumper and Frank Laver, the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket (framed in 1905), drove by Peter McAlister, who were endeavoring to increase more control of visits from the players. This prompted six driving players (the alleged "Huge Six") leaving the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England, with Australia fielding what was for the most part considered a worthless side. This was the last arrangement before the war, and no more cricket was played by Australia for a long time, with Tibby Cotter being killed in Palestine amid the war. 

Cricket between the wars 

Test cricket continued in the 1920/21 season in Australia with a visiting English group, captained by Johnny Douglas losing every one of the five Tests to Australia, captained by the "Huge Ship" Warwick Armstrong. A few players from before the war, including Warwick Armstrong, Charlie Macartney, Charles Kelleway, Warren Bardsley and the wicket-manager Sammy Carter, were instrumental in the group's prosperity, and also new players Herbie Collins, Jack Ryder, Bert Oldfield, the spinner Arthur Mailey and the alleged "twin destroyers" Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald. The group proceeded with its prosperity on the 1921 Tour of England, winning three out of the five Tests in Warwick Armstrong's last arrangement. The side was overall conflicting in the last 50% of the 1920s, losing its first home Ashes arrangement since the 1911–12 season in 1928–29. 

Cricket after World War II 

The group proceeded with its prosperity after the end of the Second World War, with the first Test (additionally Australia's first against New Zealand) being played in the 1945–46 season against New Zealand. Australia was by a wide margin the best group of the 1940s, being undefeated as the decade progressed, winning two Ashes arrangement against England and its first Test arrangement against India. The group exploited its maturing stars Bradman, Sid Barnes, Bill Brown and Lindsay Hassett while new ability, including Ian Johnson, Don Tallon, Arthur Morris, Neil Harvey, Bill Johnston and the quick knocking down some pins pair of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, who all made their presentation in the last a large portion of the 1940s, and were to structure the premise of the group for a decent piece of the following decade. The group that Don Bradman prompted England in 1948 picked up the moniker The Invincibles, in the wake of experiencing the visit without losing a solitary diversion. Of 31 top of the line diversions played amid the visit, they won 23 and drew 8, including winning the five match Test arrangement 4–0, with one draw. The visit was especially eminent for the Fourth Test of the arrangement, in which Australia won by seven wickets pursuing a focus of 404, setting another record for the most noteworthy runchase in Test cricket, with Arthur Morris and Bradman both scoring hundreds of years, and additionally for the last Test in the arrangement, Bradman's last, where he completed with a duck in his last innings in the wake of requiring just four hurries to secure a vocation normal of 100. 

Australia was less fruitful in the 1950s, losing three back to back Ashes arrangement to England, including a terrible 1956 Tour of England, where the 'twist twins' Laker and Lock obliterated Australia, taking 61 wickets between them, including Laker taking 19 wickets in the amusement (a top of the line record) at Leeds, a diversion named Laker's Match. 

Be that as it may, the group bounced back to win five continuous arrangement in the last a large portion of the 1950s, first under the administration of Ian Johnson, then Ian Craig and Richie Benaud. The arrangement against the West Indies in the 1960–61 season was prominent for the Tied Test in the first diversion at The Gabba, which was the first in Test cricket. Australia wound up winning the arrangement 2–1 after a hard battled arrangement that was lauded for its brilliant measures and feeling of reasonable play. Emerge players in that arrangement and additionally through the early piece of the 1960s were Richie Benaud, who took a then-record number of wickets as a leg-spinner, and who likewise captained Australia in 28 Tests, including 24 without annihilation; Alan Davidson, who turned into the first player to take 10 wickets and make 100 runs in the same diversion in the first Test, and was likewise a remarkable quick bowler; Bob Simpson, who additionally later captained Australia for two separate times of time; Colin McDonald, the first-decision opening batsman for the majority of the 1950s and mid '60s; Norm O'Neill, who made 181 in the Tied Test; Neil Harvey, towards the end of his long vocation; and Wally Grout, a brilliant wicket-attendant who kicked the bucket at 41 years old. 

Group hues 

For Test coordinates, the group wears Cricket Whites, with a discretionary sweater or sweater-vest with a green and gold V-neck for utilization in frosty climate. The support's (presently Commonwealth Bank for Home Test matches and Victoria Bitter for Away Test matches) logo is shown on the right half of the midsection w