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The Australia national cricket team, represents the country of Australia in international cricket. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in thefirst ever Test match in 1877.[8] The team also plays One Day International cricket andTwenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season[9] and the first Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,[10] winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions – theSheffield Shield, the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League.
The national team has played 803 Test matches, winning 378, losing 216, drawing 207 and tying 2.[11] Australia is ranked the number-one team overall in Test cricket in terms of overall wins, win-loss ratio and wins percentage. As of 7 September 2017, Australia is ranked fifth in the ICC Test Championship on 97 rating points.[12]
The Australian cricket team has played 906 ODI matches, winning 555, losing 308, tying 9 and with 34 ending in no-result.[13] They currently placed third the ICC ODI Championship,[14] having done so for 130 of 161 months since its introduction in 2002. Australia have made a record seven World Cup final appearances (1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015) and have won the World Cup a record five times in total; 1987,1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. 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, afterIndia (2011).
The team was undefeated in 34 consecutive World Cup matches until 19 March at the2011 Cricket World Cup where Pakistan beat them by 4 wickets.[15] Australia have also won the ICC Champions Trophy 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 95 Twenty20 Internationals, winning 48, losing 44, tying 2 and with 1 ending in no-result[16] making the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, which they eventually lost to England.
Cricket's players' association president Greg Dyer has declared there must never again be a pay dispute of this year's magnitude and has called on Cricket Australia to review its "behaviours and tactics".
The stoush over pay and benefits midway through the year when the memorandum of understanding expired led to about 200 cricketers being unemployed for a month, as relations between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association all but collapsed. Players voted to scrap the Australia A tour of South Africa, at a time when CA insisted the set-percentage pay model, embraced since 1997, be significantly altered.
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There were even fears this summer's Ashes series could be jeopardised until there was a breakthrough in negotiations, with players, set to pocket $500 million over the next five years, declaring they had won the battle. The new MOU included men and women for the first time.
In his letter to members in the ACA's annual report, to be released on Thursday, Dyer said the players had ensured they remained a "partner" in the sport.
"Throughout, the players and the ACA held true to the principle that the players need to be real partners in the game, rather than mere employees, and the final result was a strong affirmation of that principle," he said.
"All involved from the ACA and all of our players are to be congratulated on a great outcome for cricket. But we must never allow such a process to happen again. At the ACA, we commit to a full review of the MOU process to determine how all this was allowed to occur and how it may be avoided for all future negotiations.
"Further, it is my intention as president of the ACA to continue to ask the questions that challenge the sport to keep getting better. Whether on the field or off, the ACA stands committed to playing an active role in seeking improvement and reform where needed.
"I assume a similar review process is underway at CA, which should include consideration of the behaviours and tactics employed by those involved, both collectively and individually."
It's understood the CA executive has conducted its internal review and this will be presented to the board of directors at next week's annual general meeting in Brisbane.
However, CA has questioned whether the ACA has completed its own review, claiming the ACA went public too often through the pay dispute.
"This [MOU] is truly a historic outcome for women's cricket and, in fact, for women's sport more generally, with remuneration principles now embedded, which can help to deliver a truly professional sport," Dyer said.
"The next challenge for women's cricket is to deepen the ranks of players across the country and to meet the growing interest and demand for participation with strong and well-structured opportunity at the local level."
I assume a similar review process is underway at CA, which should include consideration of the behaviours and tactics employed by those involved, both collectively and individually.- ACA president Greg Dyer
Dyer welcomed the in-principle agreement brokered last weekend by all nations to have a Test championship running within three years but questioned whether enough was being done to ensure Test cricket remained healthy. CA chief James Sutherland has long wanted greater context for Tests and one-day international series leading into the World Cup.
"Where compromise is required, this should be imposed on the shorter formats of the game, with strong preference given to Test and first-class cricket," Dyer said.
"Test cricket certainly remains the priority of all Australian players. It is, of course, the purest form of the game from which the others have evolved. It is self-evident that the shorter forms will not survive the ongoing decline of the longer form, given the playing skills-base required.
"The ICC [which is really just the member nations, of course] must look to produce a Test Championship of the highest quality, with mechanisms in place to lift the quality of all nations. Test cricket should strive to have match fees and overall earnings of players greater than the potential earnings from any other format."
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