Best cricket player of Australian cricket team: Mark Taylor

Mark Taylor is a quite popular name in the dimension of Australian cricket player. He played as an opening batsman for the Australian cricket team from 1988-99 and captained the team for a good five years from 1994-1999 wherein he played a highly influential and effective role and contributed to the team’s progress largely in the test innings arcade. Having a strong grasp over his position as an opening batsman, his effective performance as a captain and as a slip fielder made everyone perceive him as a deserved all rounder.

In his first England tour in 1989, Mark Taylor made 839 test runs while for majority of the 104 test matches that he was a part of with a score of 7,252 runs at a average of 43.29 batting, inclusive of 40 fifties and 19 centuries. Being a superb slip that he was, Taylor exhibited a firm grounding with his world record of 157 catches in a test series! Taylor proved to such a progressive leader for the Australian team that he was considered to be one of the best captains that the team ever had.

In 1997, Taylor made an outstanding century at Edgbaston and the next year, he performed an unbeaten feat of 334 runs at Peshawar. Even though he was in a good form, yet six months later, Taylor retired and is now a commentator for the Nine Network. He frequently appears on The Cricket Show with Simon O’Donnell.

 

Famous Australian cricket player: Ian Healy

Ian Healey was a pertinent base for the Australian cricket team. He was an outstanding wicket-keeper and with his beneficial right-hand middle-order batting style, he was able to make his successful entry into the arena of International cricket in 1988 after being a part of only 6 first-class matches.

Healey made four first-class centuries in the test matches and proved to be quite an asset for his team with his ODI innings wherein he made of score of 83.8 runs per 100 balls at an average of 21. He also captained his team during eight ODIs when Mark Taylor was injured. He entered the cricket arcade as a surprise selection in late 1988 but once he was settled, he proved his worth in the Test innings. In 1989 whilst the tour of England, he took 14 catches even though his batting averaged at 17.16. Australia regained the Ashes with its win of 4-0 and over the next seven Test innings against Pakistan, New Zealand and Sri Lanka in the season of 1989-90, Healey held 23 catches and hit a recorded top score of 48 runs! It was during the tour of England when Healy made his first maiden Test century.

In 1998, Healey managed to set a world record of 355 dismissals which broke Rod Marsh’s record. It was this determined player’s 104^th Test and he ended the innings with 395 dismissals in total over a total of 119 Tests.

Healy was an asset for the Australian cricket team: a realization that emerged when the Australian Cricket Board chose him as the Wicketkeeper of the 20^th Century. Not to forget that he was also given the honor of being the Wisden Cricket of the Year in 1994 and taking into account his post-retirement, he is now a cricket commentator and works as a news presenter for Channel Nine in Brisbane, and also coaches the Somerville House cricket team! Healy was inducted into the prestigious Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2008.

Top five test openers of Australia

Australia test squad consists of strong aggressive and determined opening players who find it extremely easy to score single or more than single centuries per match. Fearsome,powerful and equiped with dangerous techniques ,Mathew Hayden cutted, hooket and drived ball at and through the off side in every match. He is on number one rank with 8625 runs in 103 test matches. On second is Justin Langer with 7696 runs in 106 test matches. Langer was seen as a grafter, a fighter and a stroke-playing maestro, scoring up more Test hundreds than most of famous players of the world. Langer is followed up by Michael Slater A combative and wholehearted cricketer, whohas played many vital innings for Australia always opening with his destructive range of stoke shots. He scored about 5312 runs in 74 matches. Rank fourth holder is none other than Mark Taylor as he scored 7525 runs in 104 matches. Mark Taylor an opening maestro, equipping such sharp tactical gameplay via which Australia toppled almosteach and every team.

Top Ten Fielders in International Test Cricket

Test Cricket is a variant of Cricket which is based on figures. Test Cricket requires a lot of passion as the matches are conducted over a period of 5 days, which can prove to be very taxing if the interest in the game is not present.

Test Cricket is the longest sport in its kind and it can get very boring for the audience, but this is the form of cricket which helps in finding out the player’s ability in the sport.

The many aspects of cricket are batting, bowling and fielding, fielding being the most important, as it doesn’t only mean catching hold of the ball, but also requires the fielder to be alert all the time and on their toes.

International Test Cricket was earlier slated to be played only among nations, but this aspect was also recently changed by the International Cricket Council.

Top Ten Catchers/Fielders in International Test Cricket are:

1. Rahul Dravid
2. Mark Waugh
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Stephen Fleming
5. Brian Lara
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Mark Taylor
8. Allan Border
9. Mahela Jayawardene
10. Matthew Hayden