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Cricket in Australia

Cricket is the most popular summer sport in Australia at international, domestic and local levels. It is regarded as the national summer sport, and widely played across the country, especially from the months of September to April. The peak administrative body for both professional and amateur cricket is Cricket Australia. The 2017–18 National Cricket Census showed 1,558,821 Australians engaged in cricket competitions or programs – an increase of 9% from the previous year. 30% of cricket's participants are now female, and 6 in every 10 new participants are female, one of the highest year-on-year participation growth figures. In terms of attendance figures, more than 2.3 million people attended the cricket during the 2017–18 summer, surpassing the record of 1.8 million set in 2016–17.[1]

Cricket in Australia
The MCG hosting the 2015 Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and New Zealand
CountryAustralia
Governing bodyCricket Australia
National team(s)Australia
First playedDecember 1803, Sydney
Registered players1,558,821[1]
National competitions
Club competitions
International competitions
Audience records
Single matchTest (overall): 350,524 – Australia v England, 3rd Test 1936/37, Melbourne Cricket Ground

Test (day): 91,092 – Australia v England, Day 1 (26 December), 4th test 2013/14, Melbourne Cricket Ground

ODI: 93,013 – Australia v New Zealand, 29 March 2015, 2015 Cricket World Cup Final, Melbourne Cricket Ground

Separately, official audience data shows that 93.6% of Australians watched at least some cricket on TV in 2010–11 calendar year.[2]

History edit

1803–1939 edit

 
Cricket at the MCG in 1864
 
Tom Wills was Australia's greatest cricketer in the era before Test cricket.

Cricket has been played in Australia for over 210 years. The first recorded cricket match in Australia took place in Sydney in December 1803 and a report in the Sydney Gazette on 8 January 1804 suggested that cricket was already well established in the infant colony. Intercolonial cricket in Australia started with a visit by cricketers from Victoria to Tasmania in February 1851.[3] The match was played in Launceston on 11–12 February with Tasmania winning by 3 wickets.[4]

The first tour by an English team to Australia was in 1861–62, organised by the catering firm of Spiers and Pond as a private enterprise. A further tour followed in 1863–64, led by George Parr and was even more successful than the last.[5]

In 1868, a team consisting of Aboriginal cricketers became the first Australian team to tour England. The team played 47 matches, winning 14, drawing 19 and losing 14. The heavy workload and inclement weather took its toll with King Cole contracting a fatal case of tuberculosis during the tour.[6]

Further tours by English teams took place in 1873–74 (featuring the most notable cricketer of the age W. G. Grace) and 1876–77.[5] The 1876–77 season was notable for a match between a combined XI from New South Wales and Victoria and the touring Englishmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground played on 15–19 March. This match, later to be recognised as the first Test match, was won by Australia by 45 runs thanks mainly to an unbeaten 165 by Charles Bannerman. The result of this match was seen by Australians and Englishmen as a reflection of the rising standard of Australian cricket.[7]

 
Billy Murdoch, who captained the Australia team during the first Ashes test in 1882

The rising standards of Australian cricket was further established during the first representative tour of England in 1878. A return visit in 1878–79 is best remembered for a riot and by the time Australia visited England in 1880, playing the first Test in England at The Oval, a system of international tours was well established.[5] A famous victory on the 1882 tour of England resulted in the placement of a satirical obituary in an English newspaper, The Sporting Times. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.[8] The Sheffield Shield, the premier first-class cricket competition in Australia, was established in 1892 by the Australasian Cricket Council, the first attempt at a national cricket board.[3]

The era from the mid-1890s to World War I has been described as Australian cricket's golden age. This era saw the emergence of players such as Monty Noble, Clem Hill and in particular Victor Trumper, who was idolised by the Australian public.[9] World War I led to the suspension of both international and Sheffield Shield cricket and the enlistment of many cricketers in the AIF.[3] After the war, a team consisting of cricketers enlisted in the AIF toured the United Kingdom.[5]

International cricket recommenced with a tour by a weakened England team in 1920–21. The strong Australian team, led by Armstrong and with a bowling attack spearheaded by Gregory and Ted McDonald won the series 5–0, the first time this was achieved in an Ashes series.[3] Don Bradman, born in Cootamundra and raised in Bowral was 20 when he made his Test debut in the first Test of the 1928–29 series against England.[10] He would hold the records for the highest individual Test innings and the most centuries in Test cricket and when he retired in 1948 he had the highest Test batting average, the last a record he still holds. He scored 117 first class centuries, still the only Australian to score a century of centuries and was knighted for services to cricket.[10]

 
Bodyline bowling in Brisbane, 1932

The Bodyline controversy began when Bradman toured England with the Australian team in 1930. Bradman scored heavily, 974 runs at an average of 139.14 including a then world record 334 at Leeds, two other double centuries and another single.[5] Watching these displays of batting was Douglas Jardine, playing for Surrey. Following discussions with other observers such as Percy Fender and George Duckworth, he developed a tactic to limit the prodigious run scoring of Bradman and the others.[11] The tactic, originally called fast leg theory and later called bodyline involved fast short pitched bowling directed at the batsman's body and a packed leg side field. Appointed captain of England for the 1932–33 series in Australia, Jardine was able to put these theories into practice. Combined with bowlers of the speed and accuracy of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, the tactic required batsmen to risk injury in order to protect their wicket. In the third Test in Adelaide, Larwood struck Australian captain Bill Woodfull above the heart and fractured wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull.[12]

In December 1934, the Australian women's team played the English women in the first women's Test match at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground. Despite a 7 wicket haul to Anne Palmer in the first innings, the English women were too strong and won by 9 wickets.[13]

1945–1969 edit

Once again, war brought a stop to Shield and Test cricket as Australia mobilised for World War II. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe in 1945, an Australian Services XI played a series of Victory Tests in England. The team was captained by Lindsay Hassett and it saw the emergence of the charismatic all-rounder Keith Miller. The series was drawn 2–2.[14] After the retirement of Bradman in 1948, Hassett, Miller and all-rounder Ray Lindwall formed the nucleus of the Australian team. They were later joined by leg spinning all-rounder, Richie Benaud and batsman Neil Harvey.

By the 1958–59 series, Benaud was captain of the Australian side and managed to recover the Ashes. The 1960–61 series at home against the West Indies was widely regarded as one of the most memorable. A commitment by Benaud and his West Indian counterpart Frank Worrell to entertaining cricket revived lagging interest in the sport.[15] The gripping series, including the first tied Test, saw Australia win 2–1 and become the inaugural holders of the newly commissioned Frank Worrell Trophy. The West Indian team was held in such affection that a ticker-tape parade in their honour prior to their departure from Australia attracted a crowd of 300,000 Melburnians to wish them farewell.[16]

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was an ongoing controversy regarding illegal bowling actions. A number of bowlers, Australian and international were accused of throwing or "chucking" over this period including the South Australian pair of Alan Hitchcox and Peter Trethewey and New South Welshman, Gordon Rorke.[3] The controversy reached a high point when Ian Meckiff was recalled to the Australian team for the first Test of the 1963–64 series against South Africa. Called on to bowl his first over, he was no-balled 4 times by umpire Colin Egar for throwing before being removed from the attack by his skipper, Benaud. As a consequence, Meckiff retired from all levels of cricket after the match and Egar received death threats from persons aggrieved at his call.[17]

1970–present edit

The 1970s saw players and administrators once again come into conflict. Poor scheduling saw Australia visit South Africa immediately after a tour to India in 1969–70. This would be the last tour to South Africa prior to the application of international sporting sanctions designed to oppose the policy of apartheid. The tired Australians came across a very strong South African team in conditions vastly different from the subcontinent, and were subsequently beaten 4–0. A request by the Australian Cricket Board for the players to play a further match in South Africa was met with resistance by the players, led by the captain, Bill Lawry.[18] During the following home series against England, Lawry was sacked as captain and replaced by the South Australian batsman, Ian Chappell. Lawry remains the only Australian captain to be sacked in the middle of a Test series.[18]

Greg Chappell, Ian's younger brother, succeeded him as captain in 1975–76 and led the Australian team in the Centenary Test in Melbourne in March 1977. A celebration of 100 years of Test cricket, Australia won the Test by 45 runs, the precise result of the corresponding game 100 years earlier.[19]

While Australian cricket celebrated, the Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer was making plans to wrest away the television rights for Australian cricket. During the 1977 Ashes tour, the cricket world became aware that Packer had signed 35 of the world's top cricketers for a series of matches, including 18 Australians, 13 of whom were part of the tour party.[20] World Series Cricket, as the breakaway group was known split Australian cricket in two for nearly three years. Former Australian captain, Bob Simpson was recalled from retirement to lead an inexperienced team in a home series against India in 1977–78, won 3–2 and then a tour to the West Indies, marred by an ugly riot.[3] For the 1978–79 Ashes series, he was replaced by the young Victorian, Graham Yallop. The subsequent thrashing, a 5–1 victory for England, and the success of World Series Cricket forced the Australian Cricket Board to concede on Packer's terms.[3]

The settlement between the ACB and WSC led to the introduction of a series of innovations including night cricket, coloured clothing and an annual limited overs tri-series called the World Series Cup. It also signalled the return of the champion cricketers Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh. Their retirement at the end of the 1983–84 season was quickly followed by a series of tours to South Africa by a rebel Australian team in breach of the sporting sanctions imposed on the apartheid regime. The combined effect was to leave Australian cricket at its nadir under reluctant captain, Allan Border, losing Test series at home (2–1) and away (1–0) to New Zealand in 1985–86.[21]

 
Adam Gilchrist celebrating scoring a century against the World XI in the second ICC Super Series 2005 match at Telstra Dome (7 October 2005)

The long road back for Australian cricket started in India in 1986–87. Border, along with Bob Simpson in a new role as coach, set out to identify a group of players that a team could form around.[22] These players showed some of the steel necessary in the famous tied Test at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Returning to the subcontinent for the World Cup in 1987, Australia surprised the cricket world by defeating England at Eden Gardens in Kolkata to win the tournament with a disciplined brand of cricket.[23] By the 1989 Ashes tour, the development of players such as Steve Waugh and David Boon and the discovery of Mark Taylor and Ian Healy had reaped rewards. The 4–0 drubbing of England was the first time since 1934 that Australia had recovered the Ashes away from home and marked the resurgence of Australia as a cricketing power.[24] Australia would hold the Ashes for the next 16 years.[25]

The most successful leg-spinbowler in the history of the game, Shane Warne, made his debut in 1991–92 in the third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He had an undistinguished Test debut, taking 1/150 off 45 overs, and recording figures of 1/228 in his first Test series. From this modest beginning, Warne dominated Australian cricket for 15 years, taking 708 wickets at an average of 25.41.[26] When the fast medium bowler, Glenn McGrath was first selected in the Australian team for the Perth test against New Zealand in 1993–94, the core of a highly successful bowling attack was formed. In 1994–95, under new captain Taylor, the Australians defeated the then dominant West Indies in the Caribbean to recover the Frank Worrell Trophy for the first time since 1978 and staked a claim to be considered the best team in the world.[27]

Following a disappointing World Cup at home in 1992, Australia then entered a run of extraordinarily successful World Cup campaigns; runners up to Sri Lanka in 1996 in the subcontinent, fighting back after early setbacks to win in England in 1999 and unbeaten on their way to another victory in South Africa.[28] The change in captain from Taylor to Steve Waugh made little difference in the success of the Australian team. Waugh made a slightly rocky start to his term as captain, drawing 2–2 with the West Indies in the Caribbean and losing to Sri Lanka 1–0 away. A victory in the Australian team's first ever Test match against Zimbabwe was the start of an unparalleled 16 Test winning streak. The streak was finally ended in 2001 in Kolkata with a remarkable victory by India after being asked to follow-on. For Waugh, India would remain unconquered territory.[29]

 
MCG during an ODI match between Australia and India in 2004

Australia's success was not without its detractors. Accusations of racism were made against the Australian team, one incident leading to a suspension for Darren Lehmann in 2003.[30] Contacts between Warne and batsman Mark Waugh and illegal bookmakers, at first kept under cover by the ACB, were later revealed by the Australian press, sparking accusations of hypocrisy given Australian cricket's earlier attitude toward match fixing allegations.[31] Warne would later be suspended from all forms of cricket for 12 months after testing positive to banned diuretics hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride.[31] The brand of cricket played by the Australian team was praised for its spirit and aggressiveness but critics charged that this aggressive approach led to ugly sledging incidents such as the confrontation between McGrath and West Indian batsman, Ramnaresh Sarwan at the Antigua Recreation Ground in 2003.[32] Tasmanian batsman Ricky Ponting would admit to an alcohol problem after incidents in India and in Sydney.[33]

A rehabilitated Ponting would succeed Waugh as captain in 2004. While injured for most of the 2004–05 series against India, his team under acting captain Adam Gilchrist defeated India in India, the first Australian series win in India since Bill Lawry's team in 1969–70. A 2–1 defeat in the 2005 Ashes series in England was quickly avenged at home with a 5–0 thrashing of England in 2006–07. The whitewash was the first in an Ashes series since Warwick Armstrong's team in 1920–21.[34] Following the series, the successful bowling combination of McGrath and Warne retired from Test cricket, with a record that was hard to match. Australia won the 2007 Cricket World Cup under Ricky Ponting in the Caribbean and were unbeaten through the tournament. Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden scored the most runs in the tournament. The finals happened to be Glenn McGrath's last match and he was also the highest wicket taker of the tournament and the player of the tournament.

The 2015 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. Fourteen teams played 49 matches in 14 venues, with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Australia defeated New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their fifth ICC Cricket World Cup in front of a record crowd of 93,013. The winning captain Michael Clarke, retired from ODIs with immediate effect after the final match.[35]

Australia also hosted the 2022 T20 World Cup from 16 October to 13 November. In total, 45 games where played across the nation, located in all capital cities except Canberra, as well as Geelong.[36] Australia played 5 games, winning 3, losing 1 against New Zealand and having 1 abandoned. The country finished 3rd in their group, missing out on the semi-finals.[37]

International cricket edit

 
The 3rd test of the 2006–07 Ashes series, December 2006

The Australian national team is one of the most successful teams in international cricket. Along with England, Australia was recognised as one of the founder nations of the Imperial Cricket Conference, later the International Cricket Council. Australia generally plays a test series against a visiting team, and a one-day series between two other teams at home each summer, and tours overseas for the remainder of the year

Test cricket edit

On 15 March 1877, an Australian representative team played England in what would later be recognised as the first Test match. They are the most successful Test cricketing nation, with a higher percentage of won matches than any other nation.[38]

In Test cricket, the Australian team compete for various trophies and championships. The ICC Test Championship is an international competition run by the ICC for the 10 teams that play Test cricket. The competition is notional in the sense that it is simply a ranking scheme overlaid on all international matches that are otherwise played as part of regular Test cricket with no other consideration whatsoever.[39]

The most famous among all these trophies is The Ashes, which was played for the first time in 1882 between Australia and England. Other bilateral trophies have generally been named after the great players from the two competing nations.

Name of the trophy Opponent First played
ICC Test Championship All Test teams 2003
The Ashes   England 1882
Border–Gavaskar Trophy[40]   India 1996
Frank Worrell Trophy[41]   West Indies 1960–61
Trans-Tasman Trophy[42]   New Zealand 1985–86
Benaud-Qadir Trophy[43]   Pakistan 2021–2022
Southern Cross Trophy[44]   Zimbabwe 1999–2000
Warne–Muralidaran Trophy[45]   Sri Lanka 2007–08

Test cricket controversy edit

In late September 2021, Cricket Australia announced it would postpone its men's test match against Afghanistan indefinitely to prompt Afghanistan to rethink their approach to women's sports after media outlets reported that Taliban rulers would not allow women to play cricket. The match against the Afghan men's team was originally scheduled for Nov. 27 in Hobart.[46]

One Day Internationals edit

The Australian team took part in the first one day international on 5 January 1971, once again also against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Since then, the team has maintained a good record in one day internationals, winning six Cricket World Cups, more than any other national team.

Following the end of World Series Cricket, from 1979 to 1980 the Australian season featured a triangular series of one day internationals, featuring the Australian team and two touring teams. The first incarnation of this tournament was called the World Series Cup and included night cricket, coloured uniforms and a white ball. In 1994–95, the tournament included an Australia A cricket team, due to the perceived weakness of the invited Zimbabwe team. For the 1996–97 season, the World Series Cup was replaced by a series of tournaments named after a major sponsor, including the Carlton & United Series, the VB Series and the Commonwealth Bank Series. The successor series followed a similar format.

Australia and New Zealand co-hosted the 1992 Cricket World Cup, and the 2015 Cricket World Cup. In 1992, for the first time, the tournament featured the innovations already common in Australian one-day matches such as night cricket and coloured clothing. The tournament featured nine nations, expanded to include a South African team recently admitted back into world cricket. Australia despite starting firm favourites,[47] performed poorly, failing to make the semi – final stage. Pakistan defeated England in the final in front of 87,182 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[48]

The 2015 Cricket World Cup was the 11th Cricket World Cup, jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015. Fourteen teams played 49 matches in 14 venues, with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.[49] The final match of the tournament took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between co-hosts New Zealand and Australia in front of a record crowd of 93,013.[35]

 
Australia vs New Zealand playing a one-day game at Bellerive Oval in Hobart, one of Australia's smaller international cricket grounds

Women's cricket edit

There are currently 290,566 female participants in cricket. The Australia national women's cricket team competes internationally and has won the Women's Cricket World Cup 5 times, more than any other team.[50] As in men's cricket, Australia and England were the first two women's Test nations, playing in the inaugural women's Test in Brisbane in 1934. Australia compete with England for the Women's Ashes, a cricket bat symbolically burned prior to the 1998 test series. The Australian team also compete in the Rose Bowl series, a series of one-day internationals against New Zealand.

Domestic cricket edit

 
 
Western Australia
 
South Australia
 
Tasmania
 
New South Wales
 
Victoria
 
Queensland
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Team home grounds

On a domestic level, each of the six states has a cricket team which competes in two separate competitions over summer:

Moreover, eight city-based franchises compete in the domestic Twenty20 competition known as Big Bash League. The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash in 2011.

Local club cricket is also popular, as well as social cricket which includes variations such as backyard and beach cricket.

First Class cricket edit

The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first-class cricket competition in Australia. It was established in 1892 using a bequest of £150 provided by Lord Sheffield for the improvement of Australian cricket and was originally named the Sheffield Shield in recognition. When established, the competition included the colonies (later states) of New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Queensland was admitted to the Shield competition for the 1926–27 season, Western Australia in 1947–48 and Tasmania in 1977–78.

In 1999, the Australian Cricket Board (now Cricket Australia) announced a 4-year sponsorship deal which included renaming the Sheffield Shield to the Pura Milk Cup, then to the Pura Cup the following season. As of the 2008–09 season, the title has reverted to its original name.

At the end of the 2006–07 season, all participating teams have won at least one Sheffield Shield/Pura Cup, with New South Wales the most successful state with 44 wins and Tasmania winning their first in 2006–07.

One Day cricket edit

The Marsh One Day Cup is the domestic List A cricket (limited overs cricket) competition in Australia. It was established in 1969–70 and featured the state teams and a team from New Zealand. Originally a knock-out tournament, the format and name has changed several times since inception depending on the naming rights sponsor.

New Zealand withdrew from the competition after the 1974–75 season. The Canberra Comets, a team from the Australian Capital Territory were included for three seasons from 1997 to 1998 to 1999–2000. At the end of the 2006–07 season, Western Australia has been the most successful state with 11 wins while South Australia and Tasmania have won two each.

In 2013, the format changed and all matches were held in Sydney at various grounds. It was broadcast live on GEM. The whole competition was held in the month of October, prior to the Sheffield Shield.

Twenty20 cricket edit

The KFC Big Bash League or BBL, in short, is the Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament, which was established in 2011. The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, and features eight city-based franchises, instead of the six state-based teams which had competed before. Each state's capital city features one team, with Sydney and Melbourne featuring two.

BBL matches are played in Australia during the summer in the months of December and January. It is now placed ninth in the list of most attended sports leagues in the world with respect to average crowd per match (2015–16 season).[51][52]

Women's cricket edit

 
Women's test cricket in 1935

The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894. Lily's obituary, from her death a few years later in 1897, states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies.[53] Following this, the Victoria Women's Cricket Association was founded in 1905 and the Australian Women's Cricket Association in 1931. The current competition is run by the Women's National Cricket League.

The first domestic women's cricket competition in Australia was the Australian Women's Cricket Championships, an annual two-week tournament established in 1930–31. The championships were replaced by the Women's National Cricket League in 1996–97. Victoria and New South Wales have been the most successful teams.

In 2007, the Australian Women's Twenty20 Cup was introduced, also featuring state representative teams. In 2015, it was replaced by the Women's Big Bash League, which features eight franchise teams.

Club Cricket edit

Club cricket is popular and the first step for players looking to be selected for their state and national teams. Each state association has a peak club cricket championship variously known as 'district' or 'grade' cricket:

International grounds edit

Nineteen different grounds in Australia have been used for international cricket (Tests, ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals). Five were only used once, during the 1992 World Cup, while three (all in Tasmania) only hosted games during 1980s World Series Cups. The main six used are:

Stadium name Capacity City State First used Opponent
Melbourne Cricket Ground 100,024 Melbourne Victoria 15 March 1877   England
Sydney Cricket Ground 48,000 Sydney New South Wales 17 February 1882   England
Adelaide Oval 53,583 Adelaide South Australia 12 December 1884   England
The Gabba 42,000 Brisbane Queensland 27 November 1931   South Africa
Perth Stadium 60,000 Perth Western Australia 28 January 2018   England
Bellerive Oval 19,500 Hobart Tasmania 16 December 1989   Sri Lanka

Other grounds which have been used for Test cricket are:

Stadium name Capacity City State First used Opponent
Brisbane Exhibition Ground 25,490 Brisbane Queensland 30 November 1928   England
WACA Ground 20,000 Perth Western Australia 11 December 1970   England
Marrara Oval 14,000 Darwin Northern Territory 18 July 2003   Bangladesh
Cazaly's Stadium 13,500 Cairns Queensland 25 July 2003   Bangladesh

Grounds which have been used for One Day Internationals only are:

Stadium name Capacity City State First used Team 1 Team 2
TCA Ground 8,000 Hobart Tasmania 10 January 1985   Sri Lanka   West Indies
NTCA Ground 10,000 Launceston Tasmania 2 February 1986   New Zealand   India
Devonport Oval 14,000 Devonport Tasmania 3 February 1987   England   West Indies
Harrup Park 10,000 Mackay Queensland 28 February 1992   India   Sri Lanka
Eastern Oval NA Ballarat Victoria 9 March 1992   England   Sri Lanka
Manuka Oval 12,000[54] Canberra Australian Capital Territory 10 March 1992   South Africa   Zimbabwe
Berri Oval NA Berri South Australia 13 March 1992   Sri Lanka   West Indies
Lavington Sports Ground 20,000 Albury New South Wales 18 March 1992   England   Zimbabwe
Docklands Stadium 53,359 Melbourne Victoria 16 August 2000   Australia   South Africa

Grounds in Australia which have been used exclusively for the Twenty20 Internationals:

Stadium name Capacity City State First used Team 1 Team 2
Stadium Australia 82,500 Sydney New South Wales 1 February 2012   Australia   India
Kardinia Park 27,000 Geelong Victoria 19 February 2017   Australia   Sri Lanka

In Australian culture edit

 
Beach cricket being played at Cottesloe Beach in Perth

In 2007, The Age reported that a survey by Sweeney Sports had found that 59% of the Australian public have an interest in cricket, second to none.[55] Cricket is often known as Australia's national sport due to its equal popularity in all parts of the country. Cricket is also a mass participation sport in Australia: a census conducted on behalf of Cricket Australia found that in the 2003–04 season there were 471,329 participants in Australian cricket programmes and competitions, including 47,780 female participants.[56]

 
A game of French cricket in progress in Jervis Bay, Australia

In 2015–16, a record 1,300,000 Australians played formal, organised cricket during the year, an increase of nine percent over the previous year, making cricket Australia's biggest participant sport.[57]

The position of Australian Test cricket captain is regarded as one of the most important roles in Australian sport. It is often said that in Australia the office of Test captain is second in stature behind the office of Prime Minister.[58][59][60] Reflecting this community perception, three Australian cricket captains have been named as Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day Council; Allan Border in 1989, Mark Taylor in 1999 and Steve Waugh in 2004.[61] In addition, Steve Waugh has been nominated as an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia, as was Don Bradman prior to his death in 2001.[62]

Cricket plays an important role in Australia's national identity, in particular its relationship towards the United Kingdom. The national team has been said to represent "de facto Australian foreign policy" particularly with respect to relations with Asian subcontinent nations.[63]

Audience edit

Official audience data shows that 93.6% of Australians watched at least some cricket on TV in 2010–11 calendar year.[2]

Australia's victory over New Zealand in the 2015 Cricket World Cup Final was the most-watched sports match ever in Australia, peaking at 4.218 million viewers nationally. The second innings of the match, which saw Australia winning the match with seven wickets to spare, averaged 2.404 million in the five capital cities and 3.285 million nationally. A further 522,000 watched Australia's innings on pay-TV channel Fox Sports 3, while 492,000 watched the first session.[64]

3.196 million viewers peaked in for the 2015 Cricket World Cup semi-final between Australia and India, which was broadcast on the Nine Network.[65]

The first ever Day/Night test match between Australia and New Zealand attracted nearly 3.1 million viewers across the country during the first two days of the match at Adelaide Oval. The third and eventually the final day of the match, attracted a peak national audience of 3.19 million.[65][66]

An audience of 2.306 million viewers watched the Australia v England Twenty20 match in 2007. It still remains the most watched Twenty20 match in Australia on TV.[64]

BBL games are currently broadcast in Australia by the free-to-air Seven Network and Fox Sports. In 2013, Ten paid $100 million for BBL rights over five years, marking the channel's first foray into elite cricket coverage.[67] Network Ten had previously covered the Big Bash League.

BBL coverage has become a regular feature of Australian summers and attracted an average audience of more than 943,000 people nationally in 2015–16 season, including a peak audience of 2.4 million viewers for the final between the Melbourne Stars and Sydney Thunder.[68]

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Cricket is the most popular summer sport in Australia at international domestic and local levels It is regarded as the national summer sport and widely played across the country especially from the months of September to April The peak administrative body for both professional and amateur cricket is Cricket Australia The 2017 18 National Cricket Census showed 1 558 821 Australians engaged in cricket competitions or programs an increase of 9 from the previous year 30 of cricket s participants are now female and 6 in every 10 new participants are female one of the highest year on year participation growth figures In terms of attendance figures more than 2 3 million people attended the cricket during the 2017 18 summer surpassing the record of 1 8 million set in 2016 17 1 Cricket in AustraliaThe MCG hosting the 2015 Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and New ZealandCountryAustraliaGoverning bodyCricket AustraliaNational team s AustraliaFirst playedDecember 1803 SydneyRegistered 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1970 present 2 International cricket 2 1 Test cricket 2 2 Test cricket controversy 2 3 One Day Internationals 2 4 Women s cricket 3 Domestic cricket 3 1 First Class cricket 3 2 One Day cricket 3 3 Twenty20 cricket 3 4 Women s cricket 3 5 Club Cricket 4 International grounds 5 In Australian culture 5 1 Audience 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksHistory editMain article History of Australian cricket 1803 1939 edit nbsp Cricket at the MCG in 1864 nbsp Tom Wills was Australia s greatest cricketer in the era before Test cricket Cricket has been played in Australia for over 210 years The first recorded cricket match in Australia took place in Sydney in December 1803 and a report in the Sydney Gazette on 8 January 1804 suggested that cricket was already well established in the infant colony Intercolonial cricket in Australia started with a visit by cricketers from Victoria to Tasmania in February 1851 3 The match was played in Launceston on 11 12 February with Tasmania winning by 3 wickets 4 The first tour by an English team to Australia was in 1861 62 organised by the catering firm of Spiers and Pond as a private enterprise A further tour followed in 1863 64 led by George Parr and was even more successful than the last 5 In 1868 a team consisting of Aboriginal cricketers became the first Australian team to tour England The team played 47 matches winning 14 drawing 19 and losing 14 The heavy workload and inclement weather took its toll with King Cole contracting a fatal case of tuberculosis during the tour 6 Further tours by English teams took place in 1873 74 featuring the most notable cricketer of the age W G Grace and 1876 77 5 The 1876 77 season was notable for a match between a combined XI from New South Wales and Victoria and the touring Englishmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground played on 15 19 March This match later to be recognised as the first Test match was won by Australia by 45 runs thanks mainly to an unbeaten 165 by Charles Bannerman The result of this match was seen by Australians and Englishmen as a reflection of the rising standard of Australian cricket 7 nbsp Billy Murdoch who captained the Australia team during the first Ashes test in 1882The rising standards of Australian cricket was further established during the first representative tour of England in 1878 A return visit in 1878 79 is best remembered for a riot and by the time Australia visited England in 1880 playing the first Test in England at The Oval a system of international tours was well established 5 A famous victory on the 1882 tour of England resulted in the placement of a satirical obituary in an English newspaper The Sporting Times The obituary stated that English cricket had died and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia The English media then dubbed the next English tour to Australia 1882 83 as the quest to regain The Ashes 8 The Sheffield Shield the premier first class cricket competition in Australia was established in 1892 by the Australasian Cricket Council the first attempt at a national cricket board 3 The era from the mid 1890s to World War I has been described as Australian cricket s golden age This era saw the emergence of players such as Monty Noble Clem Hill and in particular Victor Trumper who was idolised by the Australian public 9 World War I led to the suspension of both international and Sheffield Shield cricket and the enlistment of many cricketers in the AIF 3 After the war a team consisting of cricketers enlisted in the AIF toured the United Kingdom 5 International cricket recommenced with a tour by a weakened England team in 1920 21 The strong Australian team led by Armstrong and with a bowling attack spearheaded by Gregory and Ted McDonald won the series 5 0 the first time this was achieved in an Ashes series 3 Don Bradman born in Cootamundra and raised in Bowral was 20 when he made his Test debut in the first Test of the 1928 29 series against England 10 He would hold the records for the highest individual Test innings and the most centuries in Test cricket and when he retired in 1948 he had the highest Test batting average the last a record he still holds He scored 117 first class centuries still the only Australian to score a century of centuries and was knighted for services to cricket 10 nbsp Bodyline bowling in Brisbane 1932The Bodyline controversy began when Bradman toured England with the Australian team in 1930 Bradman scored heavily 974 runs at an average of 139 14 including a then world record 334 at Leeds two other double centuries and another single 5 Watching these displays of batting was Douglas Jardine playing for Surrey Following discussions with other observers such as Percy Fender and George Duckworth he developed a tactic to limit the prodigious run scoring of Bradman and the others 11 The tactic originally called fast leg theory and later called bodyline involved fast short pitched bowling directed at the batsman s body and a packed leg side field Appointed captain of England for the 1932 33 series in Australia Jardine was able to put these theories into practice Combined with bowlers of the speed and accuracy of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce the tactic required batsmen to risk injury in order to protect their wicket In the third Test in Adelaide Larwood struck Australian captain Bill Woodfull above the heart and fractured wicket keeper Bert Oldfield s skull 12 In December 1934 the Australian women s team played the English women in the first women s Test match at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground Despite a 7 wicket haul to Anne Palmer in the first innings the English women were too strong and won by 9 wickets 13 1945 1969 edit Once again war brought a stop to Shield and Test cricket as Australia mobilised for World War II Immediately after the end of the war in Europe in 1945 an Australian Services XI played a series of Victory Tests in England The team was captained by Lindsay Hassett and it saw the emergence of the charismatic all rounder Keith Miller The series was drawn 2 2 14 After the retirement of Bradman in 1948 Hassett Miller and all rounder Ray Lindwall formed the nucleus of the Australian team They were later joined by leg spinning all rounder Richie Benaud and batsman Neil Harvey By the 1958 59 series Benaud was captain of the Australian side and managed to recover the Ashes The 1960 61 series at home against the West Indies was widely regarded as one of the most memorable A commitment by Benaud and his West Indian counterpart Frank Worrell to entertaining cricket revived lagging interest in the sport 15 The gripping series including the first tied Test saw Australia win 2 1 and become the inaugural holders of the newly commissioned Frank Worrell Trophy The West Indian team was held in such affection that a ticker tape parade in their honour prior to their departure from Australia attracted a crowd of 300 000 Melburnians to wish them farewell 16 In the late 1950s and early 1960s there was an ongoing controversy regarding illegal bowling actions A number of bowlers Australian and international were accused of throwing or chucking over this period including the South Australian pair of Alan Hitchcox and Peter Trethewey and New South Welshman Gordon Rorke 3 The controversy reached a high point when Ian Meckiff was recalled to the Australian team for the first Test of the 1963 64 series against South Africa Called on to bowl his first over he was no balled 4 times by umpire Colin Egar for throwing before being removed from the attack by his skipper Benaud As a consequence Meckiff retired from all levels of cricket after the match and Egar received death threats from persons aggrieved at his call 17 1970 present edit The 1970s saw players and administrators once again come into conflict Poor scheduling saw Australia visit South Africa immediately after a tour to India in 1969 70 This would be the last tour to South Africa prior to the application of international sporting sanctions designed to oppose the policy of apartheid The tired Australians came across a very strong South African team in conditions vastly different from the subcontinent and were subsequently beaten 4 0 A request by the Australian Cricket Board for the players to play a further match in South Africa was met with resistance by the players led by the captain Bill Lawry 18 During the following home series against England Lawry was sacked as captain and replaced by the South Australian batsman Ian Chappell Lawry remains the only Australian captain to be sacked in the middle of a Test series 18 Greg Chappell Ian s younger brother succeeded him as captain in 1975 76 and led the Australian team in the Centenary Test in Melbourne in March 1977 A celebration of 100 years of Test cricket Australia won the Test by 45 runs the precise result of the corresponding game 100 years earlier 19 While Australian cricket celebrated the Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer was making plans to wrest away the television rights for Australian cricket During the 1977 Ashes tour the cricket world became aware that Packer had signed 35 of the world s top cricketers for a series of matches including 18 Australians 13 of whom were part of the tour party 20 World Series Cricket as the breakaway group was known split Australian cricket in two for nearly three years Former Australian captain Bob Simpson was recalled from retirement to lead an inexperienced team in a home series against India in 1977 78 won 3 2 and then a tour to the West Indies marred by an ugly riot 3 For the 1978 79 Ashes series he was replaced by the young Victorian Graham Yallop The subsequent thrashing a 5 1 victory for England and the success of World Series Cricket forced the Australian Cricket Board to concede on Packer s terms 3 The settlement between the ACB and WSC led to the introduction of a series of innovations including night cricket coloured clothing and an annual limited overs tri series called the World Series Cup It also signalled the return of the champion cricketers Greg Chappell Dennis Lillee and Rod Marsh Their retirement at the end of the 1983 84 season was quickly followed by a series of tours to South Africa by a rebel Australian team in breach of the sporting sanctions imposed on the apartheid regime The combined effect was to leave Australian cricket at its nadir under reluctant captain Allan Border losing Test series at home 2 1 and away 1 0 to New Zealand in 1985 86 21 nbsp Adam Gilchrist celebrating scoring a century against the World XI in the second ICC Super Series 2005 match at Telstra Dome 7 October 2005 The long road back for Australian cricket started in India in 1986 87 Border along with Bob Simpson in a new role as coach set out to identify a group of players that a team could form around 22 These players showed some of the steel necessary in the famous tied Test at the M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai Returning to the subcontinent for the World Cup in 1987 Australia surprised the cricket world by defeating England at Eden Gardens in Kolkata to win the tournament with a disciplined brand of cricket 23 By the 1989 Ashes tour the development of players such as Steve Waugh and David Boon and the discovery of Mark Taylor and Ian Healy had reaped rewards The 4 0 drubbing of England was the first time since 1934 that Australia had recovered the Ashes away from home and marked the resurgence of Australia as a cricketing power 24 Australia would hold the Ashes for the next 16 years 25 The most successful leg spinbowler in the history of the game Shane Warne made his debut in 1991 92 in the third Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground He had an undistinguished Test debut taking 1 150 off 45 overs and recording figures of 1 228 in his first Test series From this modest beginning Warne dominated Australian cricket for 15 years taking 708 wickets at an average of 25 41 26 When the fast medium bowler Glenn McGrath was first selected in the Australian team for the Perth test against New Zealand in 1993 94 the core of a highly successful bowling attack was formed In 1994 95 under new captain Taylor the Australians defeated the then dominant West Indies in the Caribbean to recover the Frank Worrell Trophy for the first time since 1978 and staked a claim to be considered the best team in the world 27 Following a disappointing World Cup at home in 1992 Australia then entered a run of extraordinarily successful World Cup campaigns runners up to Sri Lanka in 1996 in the subcontinent fighting back after early setbacks to win in England in 1999 and unbeaten on their way to another victory in South Africa 28 The change in captain from Taylor to Steve Waugh made little difference in the success of the Australian team Waugh made a slightly rocky start to his term as captain drawing 2 2 with the West Indies in the Caribbean and losing to Sri Lanka 1 0 away A victory in the Australian team s first ever Test match against Zimbabwe was the start of an unparalleled 16 Test winning streak The streak was finally ended in 2001 in Kolkata with a remarkable victory by India after being asked to follow on For Waugh India would remain unconquered territory 29 nbsp MCG during an ODI match between Australia and India in 2004Australia s success was not without its detractors Accusations of racism were made against the Australian team one incident leading to a suspension for Darren Lehmann in 2003 30 Contacts between Warne and batsman Mark Waugh and illegal bookmakers at first kept under cover by the ACB were later revealed by the Australian press sparking accusations of hypocrisy given Australian cricket s earlier attitude toward match fixing allegations 31 Warne would later be suspended from all forms of cricket for 12 months after testing positive to banned diuretics hydrochlorothiazide and amiloride 31 The brand of cricket played by the Australian team was praised for its spirit and aggressiveness but critics charged that this aggressive approach led to ugly sledging incidents such as the confrontation between McGrath and West Indian batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan at the Antigua Recreation Ground in 2003 32 Tasmanian batsman Ricky Ponting would admit to an alcohol problem after incidents in India and in Sydney 33 A rehabilitated Ponting would succeed Waugh as captain in 2004 While injured for most of the 2004 05 series against India his team under acting captain Adam Gilchrist defeated India in India the first Australian series win in India since Bill Lawry s team in 1969 70 A 2 1 defeat in the 2005 Ashes series in England was quickly avenged at home with a 5 0 thrashing of England in 2006 07 The whitewash was the first in an Ashes series since Warwick Armstrong s team in 1920 21 34 Following the series the successful bowling combination of McGrath and Warne retired from Test cricket with a record that was hard to match Australia won the 2007 Cricket World Cup under Ricky Ponting in the Caribbean and were unbeaten through the tournament Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden scored the most runs in the tournament The finals happened to be Glenn McGrath s last match and he was also the highest wicket taker of the tournament and the player of the tournament The 2015 Cricket World Cup was jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015 Fourteen teams played 49 matches in 14 venues with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Hobart Melbourne Perth and Sydney Australia defeated New Zealand by 7 wickets to win their fifth ICC Cricket World Cup in front of a record crowd of 93 013 The winning captain Michael Clarke retired from ODIs with immediate effect after the final match 35 Australia also hosted the 2022 T20 World Cup from 16 October to 13 November In total 45 games where played across the nation located in all capital cities except Canberra as well as Geelong 36 Australia played 5 games winning 3 losing 1 against New Zealand and having 1 abandoned The country finished 3rd in their group missing out on the semi finals 37 International cricket edit nbsp The 3rd test of the 2006 07 Ashes series December 2006The Australian national team is one of the most successful teams in international cricket Along with England Australia was recognised as one of the founder nations of the Imperial Cricket Conference later the International Cricket Council Australia generally plays a test series against a visiting team and a one day series between two other teams at home each summer and tours overseas for the remainder of the year Test cricket edit On 15 March 1877 an Australian representative team played England in what would later be recognised as the first Test match They are the most successful Test cricketing nation with a higher percentage of won matches than any other nation 38 In Test cricket the Australian team compete for various trophies and championships The ICC Test Championship is an international competition run by the ICC for the 10 teams that play Test cricket The competition is notional in the sense that it is simply a ranking scheme overlaid on all international matches that are otherwise played as part of regular Test cricket with no other consideration whatsoever 39 The most famous among all these trophies is The Ashes which was played for the first time in 1882 between Australia and England Other bilateral trophies have generally been named after the great players from the two competing nations Name of the trophy Opponent First playedICC Test Championship All Test teams 2003The Ashes nbsp England 1882Border Gavaskar Trophy 40 nbsp India 1996Frank Worrell Trophy 41 nbsp West Indies 1960 61Trans Tasman Trophy 42 nbsp New Zealand 1985 86Benaud Qadir Trophy 43 nbsp Pakistan 2021 2022Southern Cross Trophy 44 nbsp Zimbabwe 1999 2000Warne Muralidaran Trophy 45 nbsp Sri Lanka 2007 08Test cricket controversy edit In late September 2021 Cricket Australia announced it would postpone its men s test match against Afghanistan indefinitely to prompt Afghanistan to rethink their approach to women s sports after media outlets reported that Taliban rulers would not allow women to play cricket The match against the Afghan men s team was originally scheduled for Nov 27 in Hobart 46 One Day Internationals edit The Australian team took part in the first one day international on 5 January 1971 once again also against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground Since then the team has maintained a good record in one day internationals winning six Cricket World Cups more than any other national team Following the end of World Series Cricket from 1979 to 1980 the Australian season featured a triangular series of one day internationals featuring the Australian team and two touring teams The first incarnation of this tournament was called the World Series Cup and included night cricket coloured uniforms and a white ball In 1994 95 the tournament included an Australia A cricket team due to the perceived weakness of the invited Zimbabwe team For the 1996 97 season the World Series Cup was replaced by a series of tournaments named after a major sponsor including the Carlton amp United Series the VB Series and the Commonwealth Bank Series The successor series followed a similar format Australia and New Zealand co hosted the 1992 Cricket World Cup and the 2015 Cricket World Cup In 1992 for the first time the tournament featured the innovations already common in Australian one day matches such as night cricket and coloured clothing The tournament featured nine nations expanded to include a South African team recently admitted back into world cricket Australia despite starting firm favourites 47 performed poorly failing to make the semi final stage Pakistan defeated England in the final in front of 87 182 spectators at the Melbourne Cricket Ground 48 The 2015 Cricket World Cup was the 11th Cricket World Cup jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand from 14 February to 29 March 2015 Fourteen teams played 49 matches in 14 venues with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Hobart Melbourne Perth and Sydney 49 The final match of the tournament took place at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between co hosts New Zealand and Australia in front of a record crowd of 93 013 35 nbsp Australia vs New Zealand playing a one day game at Bellerive Oval in Hobart one of Australia s smaller international cricket groundsWomen s cricket edit Main article Women s cricket in Australia There are currently 290 566 female participants in cricket The Australia national women s cricket team competes internationally and has won the Women s Cricket World Cup 5 times more than any other team 50 As in men s cricket Australia and England were the first two women s Test nations playing in the inaugural women s Test in Brisbane in 1934 Australia compete with England for the Women s Ashes a cricket bat symbolically burned prior to the 1998 test series The Australian team also compete in the Rose Bowl series a series of one day internationals against New Zealand Domestic cricket edit nbsp nbsp Western Australia nbsp South Australia nbsp Tasmania nbsp New South Wales nbsp Victoria nbsp Queenslandclass notpageimage Team home grounds On a domestic level each of the six states has a cricket team which competes in two separate competitions over summer A four day first class competition known as the Sheffield Shield A one day competition known as the Marsh One Day CupMoreover eight city based franchises compete in the domestic Twenty20 competition known as Big Bash League The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash in 2011 Local club cricket is also popular as well as social cricket which includes variations such as backyard and beach cricket First Class cricket edit Main articles Sheffield Shield and First first class cricket match in Australia The Sheffield Shield is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia It was established in 1892 using a bequest of 150 provided by Lord Sheffield for the improvement of Australian cricket and was originally named the Sheffield Shield in recognition When established the competition included the colonies later states of New South Wales South Australia and Victoria Queensland was admitted to the Shield competition for the 1926 27 season Western Australia in 1947 48 and Tasmania in 1977 78 In 1999 the Australian Cricket Board now Cricket Australia announced a 4 year sponsorship deal which included renaming the Sheffield Shield to the Pura Milk Cup then to the Pura Cup the following season As of the 2008 09 season the title has reverted to its original name At the end of the 2006 07 season all participating teams have won at least one Sheffield Shield Pura Cup with New South Wales the most successful state with 44 wins and Tasmania winning their first in 2006 07 One Day cricket edit Main article Marsh One Day Cup The Marsh One Day Cup is the domestic List A cricket limited overs cricket competition in Australia It was established in 1969 70 and featured the state teams and a team from New Zealand Originally a knock out tournament the format and name has changed several times since inception depending on the naming rights sponsor New Zealand withdrew from the competition after the 1974 75 season The Canberra Comets a team from the Australian Capital Territory were included for three seasons from 1997 to 1998 to 1999 2000 At the end of the 2006 07 season Western Australia has been the most successful state with 11 wins while South Australia and Tasmania have won two each In 2013 the format changed and all matches were held in Sydney at various grounds It was broadcast live on GEM The whole competition was held in the month of October prior to the Sheffield Shield Twenty20 cricket edit Main article Big Bash League The KFC Big Bash League or BBL in short is the Australian domestic Twenty20 cricket tournament which was established in 2011 The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash and features eight city based franchises instead of the six state based teams which had competed before Each state s capital city features one team with Sydney and Melbourne featuring two BBL matches are played in Australia during the summer in the months of December and January It is now placed ninth in the list of most attended sports leagues in the world with respect to average crowd per match 2015 16 season 51 52 Women s cricket edit nbsp Women s test cricket in 1935Main article Women s cricket in Australia The founding mother of women s cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian Lily Poulett Harris who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894 Lily s obituary from her death a few years later in 1897 states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies 53 Following this the Victoria Women s Cricket Association was founded in 1905 and the Australian Women s Cricket Association in 1931 The current competition is run by the Women s National Cricket League The first domestic women s cricket competition in Australia was the Australian Women s Cricket Championships an annual two week tournament established in 1930 31 The championships were replaced by the Women s National Cricket League in 1996 97 Victoria and New South Wales have been the most successful teams In 2007 the Australian Women s Twenty20 Cup was introduced also featuring state representative teams In 2015 it was replaced by the Women s Big Bash League which features eight franchise teams Club Cricket edit See also Grade cricket Club cricket is popular and the first step for players looking to be selected for their state and national teams Each state association has a peak club cricket championship variously known as district or grade cricket Victorian Premier Cricket Sydney Grade Cricket South Australian Grade Cricket League Queensland Premier Cricket Western Australian Grade Cricket Tasmanian Grade CricketInternational grounds editMain article List of cricket grounds in Australia Nineteen different grounds in Australia have been used for international cricket Tests ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals Five were only used once during the 1992 World Cup while three all in Tasmania only hosted games during 1980s World Series Cups The main six used are Stadium name Capacity City State First used OpponentMelbourne Cricket Ground 100 024 Melbourne Victoria 15 March 1877 nbsp EnglandSydney Cricket Ground 48 000 Sydney New South Wales 17 February 1882 nbsp EnglandAdelaide Oval 53 583 Adelaide South Australia 12 December 1884 nbsp EnglandThe Gabba 42 000 Brisbane Queensland 27 November 1931 nbsp South AfricaPerth Stadium 60 000 Perth Western Australia 28 January 2018 nbsp EnglandBellerive Oval 19 500 Hobart Tasmania 16 December 1989 nbsp Sri LankaOther grounds which have been used for Test cricket are Stadium name Capacity City State First used OpponentBrisbane Exhibition Ground 25 490 Brisbane Queensland 30 November 1928 nbsp EnglandWACA Ground 20 000 Perth Western Australia 11 December 1970 nbsp EnglandMarrara Oval 14 000 Darwin Northern Territory 18 July 2003 nbsp BangladeshCazaly s Stadium 13 500 Cairns Queensland 25 July 2003 nbsp BangladeshGrounds which have been used for One Day Internationals only are Stadium name Capacity City State First used Team 1 Team 2TCA Ground 8 000 Hobart Tasmania 10 January 1985 nbsp Sri Lanka nbsp West IndiesNTCA Ground 10 000 Launceston Tasmania 2 February 1986 nbsp New Zealand nbsp IndiaDevonport Oval 14 000 Devonport Tasmania 3 February 1987 nbsp England nbsp West IndiesHarrup Park 10 000 Mackay Queensland 28 February 1992 nbsp India nbsp Sri LankaEastern Oval NA Ballarat Victoria 9 March 1992 nbsp England nbsp Sri LankaManuka Oval 12 000 54 Canberra Australian Capital Territory 10 March 1992 nbsp South Africa nbsp ZimbabweBerri Oval NA Berri South Australia 13 March 1992 nbsp Sri Lanka nbsp West IndiesLavington Sports Ground 20 000 Albury New South Wales 18 March 1992 nbsp England nbsp ZimbabweDocklands Stadium 53 359 Melbourne Victoria 16 August 2000 nbsp Australia nbsp South AfricaGrounds in Australia which have been used exclusively for the Twenty20 Internationals Stadium name Capacity City State First used Team 1 Team 2Stadium Australia 82 500 Sydney New South Wales 1 February 2012 nbsp Australia nbsp IndiaKardinia Park 27 000 Geelong Victoria 19 February 2017 nbsp Australia nbsp Sri LankaIn Australian culture edit nbsp Beach cricket being played at Cottesloe Beach in PerthIn 2007 The Age reported that a survey by Sweeney Sports had found that 59 of the Australian public have an interest in cricket second to none 55 Cricket is often known as Australia s national sport due to its equal popularity in all parts of the country Cricket is also a mass participation sport in Australia a census conducted on behalf of Cricket Australia found that in the 2003 04 season there were 471 329 participants in Australian cricket programmes and competitions including 47 780 female participants 56 nbsp A game of French cricket in progress in Jervis Bay AustraliaIn 2015 16 a record 1 300 000 Australians played formal organised cricket during the year an increase of nine percent over the previous year making cricket Australia s biggest participant sport 57 The position of Australian Test cricket captain is regarded as one of the most important roles in Australian sport It is often said that in Australia the office of Test captain is second in stature behind the office of Prime Minister 58 59 60 Reflecting this community perception three Australian cricket captains have been named as Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day Council Allan Border in 1989 Mark Taylor in 1999 and Steve Waugh in 2004 61 In addition Steve Waugh has been nominated as an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia as was Don Bradman prior to his death in 2001 62 Cricket plays an important role in Australia s national identity in particular its relationship towards the United Kingdom The national team has been said to represent de facto Australian foreign policy particularly with respect to relations with Asian subcontinent nations 63 Audience edit Official audience data shows that 93 6 of Australians watched at least some cricket on TV in 2010 11 calendar year 2 Australia s victory over New Zealand in the 2015 Cricket World Cup Final was the most watched sports match ever in Australia peaking at 4 218 million viewers nationally The second innings of the match which saw Australia winning the match with seven wickets to spare averaged 2 404 million in the five capital cities and 3 285 million nationally A further 522 000 watched Australia s innings on pay TV channel Fox Sports 3 while 492 000 watched the first session 64 3 196 million viewers peaked in for the 2015 Cricket World Cup semi final between Australia and India which was broadcast on the Nine Network 65 The first ever Day Night test match between Australia and New Zealand attracted nearly 3 1 million viewers across the country during the first two days of the match at Adelaide Oval The third and eventually the final day of the match attracted a peak national audience of 3 19 million 65 66 An audience of 2 306 million viewers watched the Australia v England Twenty20 match in 2007 It still remains the most watched Twenty20 match in Australia on TV 64 BBL games are currently broadcast in Australia by the free to air Seven Network and Fox Sports In 2013 Ten paid 100 million for BBL rights over five years marking the channel s first foray into elite cricket coverage 67 Network Ten had previously covered the Big Bash League BBL coverage has become a regular feature of Australian summers and attracted an average audience of more than 943 000 people nationally in 2015 16 season including a peak audience of 2 4 million viewers for the final between the 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