Test match records

Teamedit

• Australia is the most successful Test team in cricketing history. It has won more than 350 Test matches at a rate of almost 47%. The next best performance is by South Africa at 37%.
• Australia have been involved in the only two Tied Tests played. The first occurred in December 1960, against the West Indies in Brisbane. The second occurred in September 1986, against India in Madras (Chennai).
• Australia's largest victory in a Test match came on 24 February 2002. Australia defeated South Africa by an innings and 360 runs in Johannesburg.
• Australia holds the record for the most consecutive wins with 16. This has been achieved twice; from October 1999 to February 2001 and from December 2005 to January 2008.
• Australia shares the record for the most consecutive series victories winning 9 series from October 2005 to June 2008. This record is shared with England.
• Australia's highest total in a Test match innings was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica against the West Indies in June 1955. Australia posted 758/8 in their first innings, with five players scoring a century.
• Australia's lowest total in a Test match innings was recorded in Birmingham against England in May 1902. Australia were bowled all out for 36.
• Australia are the only team to have lost a Test match after enforcing the follow-on, having been the losing side in all three such matches:
  • The first Test in the 1894–95 Ashes.
  • The third Test of the 1981 Ashes.
  • The second Test in the 2000–01 Border-Gavaskar Trophy series against India.
• Against India in March 2013, Australia became the first team in Test history to declare in their first innings and then lose by an innings.
• In the 2013–14 Ashes series, Australia took all 100 wickets on offer in the 5–0 sweep over England.

Appearancesedit

• Ricky Ponting and Steve Waugh have played in the most Test matches for Australia, both playing in 168 matches.

Battingedit

• Charles Bannerman faced the first ball in Test cricket, scored the first runs in Test cricket and also scored the first Test century.
• Charles Bannerman also scored 67.34% of the Australian first innings total in match 1. This record remains to this day as the highest percentage of a completed innings total that has been scored by a single batsman.
• Ricky Ponting has scored the most runs for Australia in Test cricket with 13,378 runs. Allan Border is second with 11,174 runs in 265 innings a record which was broken by Brian Lara during his innings of 226 against Australia while Steve Waugh has 10,927 in 260 innings.
• Allan Border was the first Australian batsman to pass 10,000 and the first ever batsman to pass 11,000 Test runs.
• Ricky Ponting was the first Australian batsman to pass 12,000 and 13,000 Test runs.
• Matthew Hayden holds the record for the most runs in a single innings by an Australian with 380 in the first Test against Zimbabwe in Perth in October 2003.
• Donald Bradman holds the record for the highest average by an Australian (or any other) cricketer of 99.94 runs per dismissal. Bradman played 52 Tests, scoring 29 centuries and a further 13 fifties.
• Ricky Ponting holds the record for the most centuries by an Australian cricketer with 41. Former Australian captain Steve Waugh is in second position with 32 centuries from 260 innings.
• Allan Border holds the record for the most fifties by an Australian cricketer with 63 in 265 innings.
• Adam Gilchrist holds the record for the fastest century by an Australian.
• Glenn McGrath holds the record for the most ducks by an Australian cricketer with 35 in 138 innings.

Bowlingedit

• Billy Midwinter picked up the first five-wicket haul in a Test innings in match 1.
• Fred Spofforth performed Test cricket's first hat-trick by dismissing Vernon Royle, Francis McKinnon and Tom Emmett in successive balls.
• Fred Spofforth also took the first 10-wicket match haul in Test cricket.citation needed
• Shane Warne holds the record for the most wickets by an Australian cricketer with 708 wickets in 145 Test matches.
• Arthur Mailey holds the record for the best bowling figures in an innings by an Australian cricketer with 9/121 against England in February 1921.
• Bob Massie holds the record for the best bowling figures in a match by an Australian cricketer with 16/137 against England in June 1972. That was also his first Test match for Australia.
• J. J. Ferris holds the record for the best bowling average by an Australian bowler, taking 61 wickets at 12.70 in his career.
• Clarrie Grimmett holds the record for the most wickets in a Test series with 44 against South Africa in 1935–36.

Fielding and wicketkeepingedit

• Ricky Ponting holds the record for the most catches in a career by an Australian fielder with 196 in 168 matches.
• Jack Blackham performed the first stumping in Test cricket in match 1.
• Adam Gilchrist holds the record for the most dismissals in a career by an Australian wicketkeeper with 416 in 96 matches.