ඕස්ට්‍රේලියා ජාතික ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායම

ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු ජාතික ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායම, ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් තරඟවලදී ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු රට නියෝජනය කරයි. එය ටෙස්ට් ක්‍රිකට් ඉතිහාසයේ ඒකාබද්ධ පැරණිතම කණ්ඩායම වන අතර 1877 දී පළමු ටෙස්ට් තරඟයට ක්‍රීඩා කර ඇත. කණ්ඩායම එක්දින ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් සහ විස්සයි20 ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩා කරයි, 1970-71 තරග වාරයේ එංගලන්තයට එරෙහිව පළමු එක්දින තරඟ දෙකටම සහභාගී විය. සහ පළමු විස්සයි20 ජාත්‍යන්තරය, 2004-05 වාරයේ නවසීලන්තයට එරෙහිවයි, තරග දෙකම දිනමින්. කණ්ඩායම ඔස්ට්‍රේලියානු දේශීය තරඟ සඳහා ක්‍රීඩා කරන කණ්ඩායම් - ෂෙෆීල්ඩ් පළිහ, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු දේශීය සීමිත ඕවර ක්‍රිකට් තරඟාවලිය සහ බිග් බෑෂ් ලීගය වෙතින් තම ක්‍රීඩකයින් ලබා ගනී.

ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව

ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු ක්‍රිකට් ලාංඡනය
පුද්ගලයෝ
නායකයා
පුහුණුකරු
ඉතිහාසය
ටෙස්ට් තත්ත්වය අත්පත්කරගත්තේ	1877
ටෙස්ට් තරග
පළමුවන ටෙස්ට් තරගය	එංගලන්තයට එරෙහිව මෙල්බර්න්හීදී 1877 මාර්තු 15-19
එක්-දින ජාත්‍යන්තර
පළමුවන එදිජා	එංගලන්තයට එරෙහිව මෙල්බර්න්හීදී 1971 ජනවාරි 05
වි20 ජාතළුන්තර
පළමුවන වි20ජා	නවසීලන්තයට එරෙහිව ඕක්ලන්ඩ්හීදී 2005 පෙබරවාරි 17
1වන නිල ඇඳුම 2වන නිල ඇඳුම 3වන කට්ටලය

The national team has played 803 Test matches, winning 378, losing 216, drawing 207 and 2. Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage. 7 සැප්තැම්බර් 2017 වන විට^[update], Australia is ranked fifth in the on 97 rating points.

The Australian cricket team has played 906 ODI matches, winning 555, losing 308, 9 and with 34 ending in . They currently placed third the , having done so for 130 of 161 months since its introduction in 2002. Australia have made a record seven final appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record five times in total; , , , and . 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 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 (2011).

The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until 19 March at the where beat them by 4 wickets. Australia have also won the 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. The team has also played 93 Twenty20 Internationals, winning 47, losing 43, 2 and with 1 ending in making the final of the , which they eventually lost to England.

ඉතිහාසය

The Australian cricket team participated in the at the in 1877, defeating an by 45 runs, with making the first Test century, a score of 165 . Test cricket, which only occurred between Australia and England at the time, was limited by the long distance between the two countries, which would take several months by sea. Despite Australia's much smaller population, the team was very competitive in early games, producing stars such as , , , , , and . Most cricketers at the time were either from or , with the notable exception of , the star .

A highlight of Australia's early history was the 1882 Test match against at . In this match took 7/44 in the game's fourth innings to save the match by preventing England from making their 85-run target. After this match , a major newspaper in London at the time, printed a mock obituary in which the death of English cricket was proclaimed and the announcement made that "the body was cremated and the ashes taken to Australia." This was the start of the famous Ashes series in which Australia and England play a Test match series to decide the holder of the Ashes. To this day, the contest is one of the fiercest rivalries in sport.

The so-called 'Golden Age' of Australian Test cricket occurred around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, with the team under the captaincy of , and winning eight of ten tours. It is considered to have lasted from the 1897–98 English tour of Australia and the 1910–11 South African tour of Australia. Outstanding batsmen such as , , , , and , brilliant all-rounders including , , and and excellent bowlers including , , , , and , all helped Australia to become the dominant cricketing nation for most of this period.

became one of Australia's first sporting heroes, and was widely considered Australia's greatest batsman before and one of the most popular 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 average of 39.04. His early death in 1915 at the age of 37 from kidney disease caused national mourning. The , in its obituary for him, called him Australia's greatest batsman: "Of all the great Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general consent the best and most brilliant."

The years leading up to the start of World War I were marred by between the players, led by Clem Hill, Victor Trumper and , the , led by , who was attempting to gain more control of tours from the players. This led to six leading players (the so-called "Big Six") walking out on the in England, with Australia fielding what was generally considered a second-rate side. This was the last series before the war, and no more cricket was played by Australia for eight years, with being killed in during the war.

Test cricket resumed in the 1920/21 season in Australia with a , by losing all five Tests to Australia, captained by the "Big Ship" . Several players from before the war, including Warwick Armstrong, , , and the wicket-keeper , were instrumental in the team's success, as well as new players , , , the spinner and the so-called "twin destroyers" and . The team continued its success on the , winning three out of the five Tests in 's last series. The side was, on the whole, inconsistent in the latter half of the 1920s, losing its first home Ashes series since the 1911–12 season in 1928–29.

The heralded a new age of success for the Australian team. The team, led by – the "Great Un-bowlable" – featured legends of the game including , , and the young pair of and . Bradman was the outstanding batsman of the series, scoring a record 974 runs, including one century, two double centuries and one , a massive score of 334 at Leeds which including 309 runs in a day. Jackson died of tuberculosis at the age of 24 three years later, after playing eight Tests. The team was widely considered unstoppable, winning nine of its next ten Tests.

The 1932–33 England tour of Australia is considered one of the most infamous episodes of cricket, due to the England team's use of , where captain instructed his bowlers and to bowl fast, short-pitched deliveries aimed at the bodies of the Australian batsmen. The tactic, although effective, was widely considered by Australian crowds as vicious and unsporting. Injuries to , who was struck over the heart, and , who received a fractured skull (although from a non-Bodyline ball), exacerbated the situation, almost causing a full-scale riot from the 50 000 fans at the for the Third Test. The conflict almost escalated into a diplomatic incident between the two countries, as leading Australian political figures, including the , , protested to their English counterparts. The series ended in a 4–1 win for England but the Bodyline tactics used were banned the year after.

The Australian team put the result of this series behind them, winning their next tour of England in 1934. The team was led by on his final tour, and was notably dominated by Ponsford and Bradman, who twice put on partnerships of over 380 runs, with Bradman once again scoring a triple-century at Leeds. The bowling was dominated by the pair of and , who took 53 wickets between them, with O'Reilly twice taking seven-wicket hauls.

Sir is widely considered the greatest batsman of all time. He dominated the sport from 1930 until his retirement in 1948, setting new records for the highest score in a Test innings (334 vs England at in 1930), the most number of runs (6996), the most number of (29), the most number of double centuries and the highest Test and batting averages. His record for the highest Test batting average – 99.94 – has never been beaten. It is almost 40 runs per innings above the next highest average. He would have finished with an average of over 100 runs per innings if he had not been dismissed for a in his last Test. He was in 1949 for services to cricket. He is generally considered one of Australia's greatest sporting heroes.

Test cricket was again , with the last Test series in 1938 made notable by scoring a world record 364 for England, with conceding 298 runs in England's world record total of 7–903. , a notable young batsman who played two Tests before the war, was killed in the war.

The team continued its success after the end of the , with the first Test (also Australia's first against ) being played in the 1945–46 season against New Zealand. Australia was by far the most successful team of the 1940s, being undefeated throughout the decade, winning two Ashes series against England and its first Test series against . The team capitalised on its ageing stars Bradman, , Bill Brown and while new talent, including , , , , and the pair of and , who all made their debut in the latter half of the 1940s, and were to form the basis of the team for a good part of the next decade. The gained the moniker The Invincibles, after going through the tour without losing a single game. Of 31 first-class games played during the tour, they won 23 and drew 8, including winning the five-match Test series 4–0, with one draw. The tour was particularly notable for the of the series, in which Australia won by seven wickets chasing a target of 404, setting a new record for the highest in Test cricket, with and Bradman both scoring centuries, as well as for the final Test in the series, Bradman's last, where he finished with a duck in his last innings after needing only four runs to secure a career average of 100.

Australia was less successful in the 1950s, losing three consecutive Ashes series to England, including a horrendous , where the 'spin twins' and destroyed Australia, taking 61 wickets between them, including Laker taking 19 wickets in the game (a first-class record) at , a game dubbed Laker's Match.

However, the team rebounded to win five consecutive series in the latter half of the 1950s, first under the leadership of , then and . The was notable for the in the first game at , which was the first in Test cricket. Australia ended up winning the series 2–1 after a hard fought series that was praised for its excellent standards and sense of fair play. Stand-out players in that series as well as through the early part of the 1960s were , who took a then-record number of wickets as a , and who also captained Australia in 28 Tests, including 24 without defeat; , who became the first player to take 10 wickets and make 100 runs in the same game in the first Test, and was also a notable fast-bowler; , who also later captained Australia for two different periods of time; , the first-choice opening batsman for most of the 1950s and early '60s; , who made 181 in the Tied Test; , towards the end of his long career; and , an excellent who died at the age of 41.

The was played in March 1977 at the to celebrate 100 years since the first Test was played. Australia won the match by 45 runs, an identical result to the first Test match.

In May 1977 announced he was organising a breakaway competition – (WSC) – after the (ACB) refused to accept 's bid to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches in 1976. Packer secretly signed leading international cricketers to his competition, including 28 Australians. Almost all of the Australian Test team at the time were signed to WSC – notable exceptions including , , and – and the Australian selectors were forced to pick what was generally considered a third-rate team from players in the . Former player , who had retired 10 years previously after a conflict with the board, was recalled at the age of 41 to captain Australia against India. was named deputy in a team that included seven debutants. Australia managed to win the series 3–2, mainly thanks to the batting of Simpson, who scored 539 runs, including two centuries; and the bowling of , who took 28 wickets. Australia lost the next series 3-1 against the West Indies, which was fielding a full strength team, and also lost the 5–1, the team's worst Ashes result in Australia. was named as captain for the Ashes, with Kim Hughes taking over for the 1979–80 tour of India. took 41 wickets in his debut series, an Australian record. WSC players returned to the team for the 1979–80 season after a settlement between the ACB and Kerry Packer. was reinstated as captain.

The occurred when, in an against , Greg Chappell instructed his brother to bowl an to New Zealand batsman , with New Zealand needing a to tie off the last ball. The aftermath of the incident soured political relations between Australia and New Zealand, with several leading political and cricketing figures calling it "unsportsmanlike" and "".

Australia continued its success up until the early 1980s, built around the Chappell brothers, , and . The 1980s was a period of relative mediocrity after the turmoil caused by the and the subsequent retirement of several key players. The rebel tours were funded by the to compete against its national side, which had been banned—along with many other sports, including Olympic athletes—from competing internationally, due to the South African government's racist apartheid policies. Some of Australia's best players were poached: Graham Yallop, , , Rodney Hogg, Kim Hughes, , , and amongst others. 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.

Under the captaincy of and the new fielding standards put in place by new coach Bob Simpson, the team was restructured and gradually rebuilt their cricketing stocks. Some of the rebel players returned to the national side after serving their suspensions, including , Carl Rackemann and Terry Alderman. During these lean years, it was the batsmen Border, , , the young Steve Waugh and the bowling feats of Alderman, , , and to a lesser extent, who kept the Australian side afloat.

With the emergence of players such as , , , , and in the late 1980s, Australia was on the way back from the doldrums. Winning , the Australians got a roll on beating , and then followed it up with another Ashes win on home soil . The Australians went on and had their chances but ended up losing the series. However, they bounced back and beat the Indians in their next Test series. With the retirement of the champion but defensive, Allan Border, a new era of attacking cricket had begun under the leadership of firstly Mark Taylor and then .

The 1990s and early 21st century were arguably Australia's most successful period, unbeaten in all Ashes series played bar the famous and achieving a hat-trick of . This success has been attributed to the restructuring of the team and system by Border, successive aggressive captains, and the effectiveness of several key players, most notably , Shane Warne, , , , , and . Following the 2006/07 Ashes series which Australia won 5 nil, Australia slipped in the rankings after the retirements of key players. In the 2013/14 Ashes series, Australia again defeated England 5 nil, and climbed back to 3rd on the ICC International Test Rankings. In February & March 2014 Australia beat the number 1 team in the world, South Africa, 2–1, and were re-ranked number 1 in the world. In 2015, Australia won the , losing just one game for the tournament.  2017 වන විට^[update], Australia is ranked fifth in the , third in the and seventh in the .

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