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

Key for the tables
Symbol Meaning
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)

TeamOpponentMatchesWonLostTied% Won
 Australia England1498463256.37
 New Zealand1379139066.42
 Pakistan1046832167.82
 Sri Lanka976132065.59
 West Indies1407460355.1
 Canada2200100.00
 India1387850060.93
 Zimbabwe30272093.10
 Bangladesh21191095
 South Africa1024850349.00
 Kenya5500100.00
 Scotland5500100.00
 Netherlands2200100.00
 Namibia1100100.00
 United States1100100.00
ICC World XI3300100.00
 Ireland5400100.00
 Afghanistan3300100.00
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 4 March 2020.

Twenty20 International

Matches played (by country)

TeamOpponent1st T20ILast T20IMatchesWonLostTiedNo result% Won
 Australia
 New Zealand17 February 200521 February 20189711083.33
 England13 June 200527 June 201816980160.00
 South Africa9 January 20069 March 2016171160064.70
 Zimbabwe12 September 20076 July 20183210066.66
 Bangladesh16 September 200721 March 201644000100.00
 Pakistan18 September 20078 July 201817791044.11
 Sri Lanka20 September 200722 February 201713580038.46
 India22 September 20078 December 2020208120040:00
 West Indies20 June 200828 March 201411560045.45
 Ireland19 September 201211000100.00
Last updated: 8 December 2020.[12]

Notes

    References

    1. "ICC ve.org/web/20130116023632/http://www.icc-cricket.com/the-icc/icc_members/overview.php". Missing or empty |url= (help)
    2. "1st Test: Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 15–19, 1877 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
    3. "Only ODI: Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
    4. "Only T20I: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
    5. "Records / Test matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
    6. "Records / One-Day Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
    7. "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
    8. "Records / Australia / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 March 2018.
    9. "Records / Australia / One-Day Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
    10. "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
    11. Games that did not have a result are not taken into consideration while calculating the result percentage. Ties are counted as half a win.
    12. "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
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