Cricket Team Records: Pakistan vs Australia (Test-ODI-T20)

Cricket Team Records: Pakistan vs Australia (Test Match Records)

Australian cricket team played their first test match in the 77^th year of the 18^th century and was against the English squad. Pakistan cricket team however began its test cricketing career really late and made its debut in October 1952. The two teams played their first match in 1956 and Australia won the series by 1-0.

• The Australian cricket team is famously known as the “Aussies” which is primarily derived from their nationality.
• The Pakistani cricket team is known as the “Unpredictables” which is evident enough from their varying performances.
• AH.Kardar,  a popular cricket player of Pakistan cricket team captained the first test match for the Pakistani cricket team and on the other hand IWG Johnson captained for the Aussies.
• The first encounter between the two teams was in Karachi at the Asghar Ali Shah stadium.(Umpires : Daud Khan and Idrees Baig).
• From the Pakistani cricket squad Zaheer Abbas, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Majid Khan, Inzamam ul Haq, Ijaz Ahmed have been the most eminent players in context of match winning bowling and batting performances where as from the Australian 11, SK Warne, The Waugh brothers, Alan Border and MJ Slater have been the key performers.
• In all the two teams have played 57 test matches.
• Of which 28 have been won by the Australian cricket team and only 12 were won by the Unpredictables.
• The victories can be summarized as Australian cricket team: 49.12% and Pakistan cricket team: 21.05%, apart from the draws.
• Highest test score by Pakistan cricket team in an innings was 624 runs where as the highest total from the Aussies were 617.
• MA Taylor was the top scorer who played a comprehensive innings of 334 runs not out and from the Pakistani side Saleem Malik scored 237 runs. However in aggregate Javed Miandad was the high scorer with 1700+ runs.
• Sarfaraz Nawaz has the highest number of wickets in an innings i.e. 9. Whereas the highest number of wickets are taken BY SK Warne 90 in aggregate.
• Best keeper of the two sides has been RW Marsh who resulted in 68 dismissals.
• Sarfaraz Nawaz’s 9 wickets were a record since no one had taken 9 wickets in an innings; however the record was broken by the Indian Spinner Anil Kumble who took 10 wickets against the Pakistani cricket team.
• The last test match played between the two sides was in 2010 (July 21-24) at Leeds.

In june of 1975, Australian cricket team for the first time encountered Pakistani cricket team on the grounds of Headingley. It was a 60-over match.

• WE Alley and TW Spencer were the umpires of the first ever ODI played between the Australian players and the Pakistani players.
• On the fields of Headingley, Leeds, the first ODI happened between these two cricket teams.
• The Pakistani cricket team, also famously known as the “Unpredictable” was being captained by Asif Iqbal in the First ODI against the Aussies where as IM Chappell was captaining the Australian cricket team at that time.
• Famous Pakistani cricket players like Wasim Akram, Shahid Afridi, Javed Miandad, Inzamam –ul- Haq and Mohammad Yousaf are seen to be the eminent players in the ODIs encountered with the Australian cricket team. Where as from the Aussies, RT Pontng, SR Waugh, DM Jones, GD McGarth and B Lee as always have been performing spectacularly against the Pakistani players in the ODIs.
• Up till today, 86 ODIs have been played between these two cricket teams out of which one was a tie. 52 ODIs have been won by Australia and 32 by the Unpredictable’s.
• Australia won the first ODI Played against the Pakistani cricket team by a margin of 73 runs in the year 1975.
• The highest ODI total record has been made by the Australian players against the Pakistani cricket team which was a score of 337 in at the cost of 7 wickets. This ODI was in year 2000 played on the grounds of Sydney.
• The individual highest score in the ODIs between the Australian cricket team and Pakistani cricket team has been made by an Aussie player, ML Hayden. He scored 146 on 30th August 2002 on the fields of Nairobai.
• Wasim Akram, the famous Pakistani cricket player has the record of holding most number of wickets against the Aussies in the ODIs where as Shahid Afridi who’s also a Pakistani player, has the best bowling figures against the Australian cricket team.
• Coming towards the wicket keeping records, AC Gilchrist has the most number of dismissals (44) record against the Pakistani cricket team.
• Up to date, the last ODI played between these two cricket teams was at Colombo on 19^th March 2011 in which Pakistani players were the winners.

Australia and Pakistan both started off with the icc world t20 cup in the year 2007, the year in which the icc world twenty20 was inaugurated. The two teams met for the first time in the first icc twenty20 cup in the 18^th match of the tournament.

• Shoaib Malik was the caption of the Pakistani Cricket team in the First T20 match played against Australian cricket team which was being captained by Ricky Ponting.
• In group F, Pakistan played its first t20 match against the Australian cricket team.
• Mark benson and Nigel Llong were the umpires in the first T20 match between Australia and Pakistan.
• On the grounds of Johannesburg, Pakistani cricket team played against the Australian team at the wanderer’s stadium.
• Pakistan won its first T20 match against the Aussies by 6 wickets. Pakistani popular batsman Misba ul haq was the man of the match.
• A total of seven T20 matches have been played between the two teams up till today.
• Misbah ul haq, Umar akmal and Slaman butt have been eminent players in the t20 matches. Shahid afridi also performed marvelously in a couple of matches. On the bowling side, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir and Mohammad Amir showed splendid performance and took several important wickets.
• DA Warner, DJ Hussey and MEK Hussey have been batting very well from the Australian team. Where as on the bowling side, average performance has been observed from all the famous bowlers of the Australian team including SR Clark, SW Tait and DP Nannes.
• Pakistan has won four t20 matches against the Australian cricket team where as Australian cricket team has defeated Pakistani team thrice.
• Score of 197 has been the highest T20 score up to date made by the Australian team against the Pakistani cricket team in the semi-finals of the icc t20 world cup 2010.
• The highest individual T20 score so far has been made by Kamran Akmal of the Pakistani Cricket team.
• Mohammad Amir took the most number of wickets i.e 12 in T20 matches against the Australian cricket team where as the best bowling figures were of Umar Gul, SW Tait and Shahid Afridi.
• Coming to the wicket keeping figures, Pakistani cricket team member, Kamran Akmal has a record of maximum number of dismissals in the t20 internationals.
• The last up to date T20 match played between Australian and Pakistani cricket team was at Birmingham on the fields of Edgbaston.

Greatest cricket player of West Indies cricket team: Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, more popularly known as Viv is quite a recognized figure in the list of former West Indies cricketers. His fearless demeanor and determined performance earned him a lot of fame. At the same time, he enjoyed the intimidating aura he possessed against bowlers from the opposition team! Richards’s skill of taking good-length balls through midwickets from outside off-stumps is still known to be his trademark.

Born on 7^th March, 1952, Richards was nominated amongst one of the top Cricketers of the Century back in 2000 and in 2002, he was also elected as one of the best ODI batsman alongside the honor of being the third greatest Test batsman of all time.

It was in 1974 in a Test match when Richards market his debit by giving in a challenging score followed with a victorious 192 in the second test match of the same series. He scored 8,540 runs in a total of 121 Test innings averaging 50.23 and included 24 centuries. During the World Series Cricket held during 1977-79, he also scored an impressive 5 centuries. Having made a score from only 56 balls during the 1986 tour against England, Richards won the title of ‘Scorer of the Fastest-Ever Test Century’. His achievement in the Cricket World Cup of 1975 was quite a memorable experience which followed with any superb feat in the following World Cup of 1979 wherein Richards made a century in the final.

Throughout his career, 1976 turned out to be the finest year as he was able to score 1,719 runs at an average of 90! Additionally, he made 7 centuries during the 11 Tests he was a part of. Richards savored the honor of captaining the West Indian team from 1984 to 1991, leading in 50 Test innings. He was the only West Indian captain who never lost any Test series. He played his entire career without any helmet on and was always ready to strike back!

Today, we affiliate hiss name with the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: a cricket stadium in North Sound and has been named after him.

Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Peter Jeffrey Dujon

Peter Jeffrey Dujon , a retired player of the West Indian cricket team, is a renowned wicketkeeper of the team during the 1980s when he dominated the field with his overwhelming presence behind the vase. Not just this, we was a superb and challenging batsman of the lower-order.

It was in 1974 that Peter Jeffrey Dujon made his first-class debut from where he went on to 200 first-class matches for West Indies cricket team and Jamaica. His superb career lasted over a good 19 years during which he scored around 10,000 runs averaging near 40 runs per innings. This was considered to be an outstanding graph scale when taken into comparison with other renowned wicket-keepers of the time. Not just this, he also bagged 447 catches along with 22 stumpings. Dujon was in fact one of the five cricketers in 1989 having been honored with the prestigious Wisden Cricketers of the Year.

Upon his retirement in 1992, he has been employed as an assistant coach for the West Indies national team of his company contributing to the development of all emerging cricketers of his native Jamaica. He was a spectacular sight to watch on the field and his determined playing aura made his presence on the base even more influential.

Popular cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Michael Holding

Michael Holding, a former cricketer of the West Indian cricket team, was one of the fastest bowlers ever who played Test cricket. Due to his swift yet silent bowling style, he was nicknamed by the umpires as ‘Whispering Death’. With a height of 6 ft 3½ in, Holding bowled in a flawless manner that produced quite a massive amount of bounce and zip off the field.

Holding made his greatest over in Test history in 1981 in Bridgetown where poor Geoff Boycott, an English batsman was clean bowled only after the first five balls as he was juggling to avoid being hit by the swiftly thrown ball. It was a spectacular sight and earned Holding much appraise by the crowd. In his Test career, he has the record for the maximum number of sixes in any Test career for any cricketer. With 36 sixes in his entire Test career, he is placed at 32 in all-time list even today as a remarkable feat, a quarter of his Test runs consisted of sixes by large.

At present, Michael Holding is regarded as one the most respected and honorable cricket commentators in the world, being a member of the Sky Sport cricket commentary team, Holding is a broadcaster as well.

Greatest cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Malcolm Marshall

Malcolm Marshall was one of the finest fast bowlers that the West Indies cricket team had in his history of Test cricket. No wonder his average of Test bowling is 20.94 which is assuredly the best for anyone having taken at least 200 or more wickets. Not just this, Marshall was recognized as a batsman of the lower-order who was not easy to dismiss, this being proved with his 10 Test fifties and first-class seven centuries.

Marshall passed away in 1999 due to cancer but is still remembered as the greatest fast bowler of the time. He first made his International debut by winning 37 wickets in all the first-class innings, an accomplishment that won him his share in the following World Cup team.  The first light of prominence fell on Marshall in 1980 when he performed a strikingly competitive match in the third Test at Old Trafford. A superb season of 1982 called upon Marshall in his best form and he proved it by winning 134 wickets under 16 each and also gave his career best hit of 8-71 playing against Worcestershire.

In 1984, Marshall had emerged as the most optimum bowlers existing in the world and held his best performances for England. Through the 2^nd innings, he finished with 7-53 even though he had a broken thumb that time, he single handedly batted through the game to contribute to his team’s winning profoundly. His Best Test performance in Test innings was seen in 1988 at Old Trafford with 7-22 while he sealed the series with a total of 35 wickets at 12.65.

This gem passed away at the age of 41 due to cancer while the entire world of cricket grieved over his tragic early demise.

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