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Mark Anthony Taylor is a former Australian cricketer and currently a Cricket Australia director and Nine Network commentator.
Trevor Martin Chappell is a former Australian cricketer,a member of the South Australian Chappell family which excelled at cricket. He played 3 tests and 20 One Day Internationals for Australia. He won the Sheffield Shield with New South Wales twice,and scored a century for Australia against India in the 1983 World Cup. His career was overshadowed,however,by an incident in 1981 in which he bowled an underarm delivery to New Zealand cricketer Brian McKechnie to stop the batsman from hitting a six.
Kimberley John Hughes is a former cricketer who played for Western Australia,Natal and Australia. He captained Australia in 28 Test matches between 1979 and 1984 before captaining a rebel Australian team in a tour of South Africa,a country which at the time was subject to a sporting boycott opposing apartheid.
The England cricket team represents England and Wales in international cricket. Since 1997,it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB),having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club since 1903. England,as a founding nation,is a Full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test,One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Until the 1990s,Scottish and Irish players also played for England as those countries were not yet ICC members in their own right.
The South Africa national cricket team,also known as the Proteas,represents South Africa in men's international cricket and is administered by Cricket South Africa. South Africa is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC),with Test,One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. Its nickname derives from South Africa's national flower,Protea cynaroides,commonly known as the "King Protea".
Graeme Craig Smith is a South African cricket commentator and former cricketer who played for South Africa in all formats. In 2003,he was appointed captain of the national team,taking over from Shaun Pollock. He held the position of test captain until his retirement in 2014. At 22,he was appointed as South Africa's youngest ever captain. He was the most capped captain ever when he played his 102nd test against England. He is considered as one of the greatest ever test captains of all-time having led South Africa to a record 54 test victories and under his captaincy South Africa was often highlighted as the best travelling team in the world.
Robert Graeme Pollock is a former cricketer for South Africa,Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family,Pollock is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers,and as one of the finest batsmen to have played Test cricket. Despite Pollock's international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa,and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia,the leading cricket nations of the day,he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains fourth best after Sir Donald Bradman's (99.94),Steve Smith's,and Adam Voges's averages.
Graham Neil Yallop is a former Australian international cricketer. Yallop played Test and One Day International cricket for the Australia national cricket team between 1976 and 1984,captaining the side briefly during the World Series Cricket era in the late 1970s. A technically correct left-handed batsman,Yallop played domestically for Victoria,invariably batting near the top of the order and led Victoria to two Sheffield Shield titles. He was the first player to wear a full helmet in a Test match.
Raymond James Bright is a former Australian Test and One Day International cricketer from Victoria. He was a left arm spin bowler and lower order batsman who captained Victoria for a number of seasons. He was also an Australian vice-captain.
John Dyson is a former international cricketer (batsman) who is now a cricket coach,most recently in charge of the West Indies.
The tour by the Australian cricket team in England in 1981 included the 51st Ashes series of Test matches between Australia and England. Despite having been 1–0 down after two Tests,England won the next three Tests to finish 3–1 victors,thus retaining the Ashes.
Nathan Michael Hauritz is a former Australian cricketer who has represented Australia in Tests,One-dayers and Twenty20 Internationals. He is mainly noted for his off spin bowling.
Bruce Yardley was an Australian cricketer who played in 33 Test matches and seven One Day Internationals between 1978 and 1983,taking 126 Test wickets.
Robert George Holland was a New South Wales and Australian cricketer. He was,because of his surname,nicknamed "Dutchy".
Bruce Malcolm Laird is a former Western Australian and Australian cricketer. He was an opening batsmen who played in 21 Test matches and 23 One Day Internationals. He also played 13 "Supertests" in World Series Cricket.
Steven Barry Smith is a former Australian and New South Wales cricketer. He played in three Test matches and 28 One Day Internationals between 1983 and 1985,taking part in tours of Sri Lanka,the West Indies,and India.
Shaun Francis Graf is a former Australian first-class cricketer who played 11 One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Australia in the early 1980s as an all-rounder. He represented Western Australia as well as his native Victoria in the Sheffield Shield and also played county cricket for Hampshire. He was part of Sheffield Shield-winning sides in 1979–80 (Victoria) and 1983–84.
This article is part of a series on the history of Australian cricket;it covers the period from the 1970–71 season until 1985. Notable Australian players during this period include brothers Ian and Greg Chappell,Jeff Thomson,Dennis Lillee,Rod Marsh and Doug Walters.
The Australian cricket team toured Pakistan in February to March 1980 to play a three-match Test series against Pakistan. Pakistan won the test series 1-0.
The Australia cricket team toured South Africa,playing three Test matches and a three-match Twenty20 series against the South African national team from 12 February to 14 March 2014. On 3 March 2014,South African captain Graeme Smith announced that he would retire from international cricket after the third Test. Australia won the Test series 2–1 and the T20 series 2–0. Australian captain Michael Clarke scored 161 not out in the third Test playing with a fractured shoulder.
