Sir Donald George Bradman,nicknamed "The Don",was an Australian international cricketer,widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. His cricketing successes have been claimed by Shane Warne,among others,to make Bradman the "greatest sportsperson" in history. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is considered by some to be the greatest achievement by any sportsman in any major sport.
Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer,Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995,and is regarded as one of the country's greatest batsmen.
Mohammad Yousuf PP SI is a Pakistani cricket coach and former cricketer and captain,who played all three formats. Prior to his conversion to Islam,Yousuf was one of the few Christians to play for the Pakistan national cricket team. Yousuf scored 1,788 runs in 2006 which is a world record for most runs scored in a year in tests at an average of almost 100. He was a part of the Pakistan squad which finished as runners-up at the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
John Geoffrey Wright is a former international cricketer who represented –and captained –New Zealand. He made his international debut in 1978 against England.
Christopher Lance Cairns is a former New Zealand cricketer and former ODI captain,who played for the New Zealand cricket team as an all-rounder. Cairns finished his Test career with a batting average of 33.53 and a bowling average of 29.40. In 2000,he was named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year. He has appeared in ICC Cricket World Cup tournaments on 4 occasions in 1992,1996,1999 and 2003. He is regarded as one of the greatest allrounders of the game. Cairns was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy,the first time the country won an ICC trophy,and he had a major role in the final with 102 not out,and scored the winning run.
Douglas Robert Jardine was an English cricketer who played 22 Test matches for England,captaining the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934. A right-handed batsman,he is best known for captaining the English team during their successful 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia. During that series,England employed "Bodyline" tactics against the Australian batsmen,headed by Donald Bradman,wherein bowlers pitched the ball short on the line of leg stump to rise towards the bodies of the batsmen in a manner that some contemporary players and critics viewed as intimidatory and physically dangerous. As captain,Jardine was the person responsible for the implementation of Bodyline.
Scott Bernardo Styris is a New Zealand cricket commentator and former cricketer,who played all formats of the game. An allrounder,Styris played as an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. Styris was a member of the New Zealand team that won the 2000 ICC KnockOut Trophy.
Sidney George Barnes was an Australian cricketer and cricket writer,who played 13 Test matches between 1938 and 1948. Able to open the innings or bat down the order,Barnes was regarded as one of Australia's finest batsmen in the period immediately following World War II. He helped create an enduring record when scoring 234 in the second Test against England at Sydney in December 1946;exactly the same score as his captain,Don Bradman,in the process setting a world-record 405-run fifth wicket partnership. Barnes averaged 63.05 over 19 innings in a career that,like those of most of his contemporaries,was interrupted by World War II.
William Alfred Brown,was an Australian cricketer who played 22 Test matches between 1934 and 1948,captaining his country in one Test. A right-handed opening batsman,his partnership with Jack Fingleton in the 1930s is regarded as one of the finest in Australian Test history. After the interruption of World War II,Brown was a member of the team dubbed "The Invincibles",who toured England in 1948 without defeat under the leadership of Don Bradman. In a match in November 1947,Brown was the unwitting victim of the first instance of "Mankading".
Stanley Joseph McCabe was an Australian cricketer who played 39 Test matches for Australia from 1930 to 1938. A short,stocky right-hander,McCabe was described by Wisden as "one of Australia's greatest and most enterprising batsmen" and by his captain Don Bradman as one of the great batsmen of the game. He was never dropped from the Australian Test team and was known for his footwork,mastery of fast bowling and the hook shot against the Bodyline strategy. He also regularly bowled medium-pace and often opened the bowling at a time when Australia lacked fast bowlers,using an off cutter. He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1935.
Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor is a former New Zealand international cricketer and former captain of the New Zealand national team. Batting predominantly at number four,when he announced his retirement from international cricket at the end of 2021,he was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand in Test and One Day International cricket. Taylor was a key member of the New Zealand team that won the 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship,where he scored the winning boundary in the final. He was also a part of the New Zealand squads to finish as runners-up in two Cricket World Cup finals in 2015 and 2019.
Alan Falconer Kippax was a cricketer for New South Wales (NSW) and Australia. Regarded as one of the great stylists of Australian cricket during the era between the two World Wars,Kippax overcame a late start to Test cricket to become a regular in the Australian team between the 1928–29 and 1932–33 seasons. A middle-order batsman,he toured England twice,and at domestic level was a prolific scorer and a highly considered leader of NSW for eight years. To an extent,his Test figures did not correspond with his great success for NSW and he is best remembered for a performance in domestic cricket—a world record last wicket partnership,set during a Sheffield Shield match in 1928–29. His career was curtailed by the controversial Bodyline tactics employed by England on their 1932–33 tour of Australia;Kippax wrote a book denouncing the tactics after the series concluded.
Donald Tallon was an Australian cricketer who played 21 Test matches as a wicket-keeper between 1946 and 1953. He was widely regarded by his contemporaries as Australia's finest ever wicket-keeper and one of the best in Test history,with an understated style,an ability to anticipate the flight,length and spin of the ball and an efficient stumping technique. Tallon toured England as part of Don Bradman's Invincibles of 1948 and was recognised as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1949 for his performances during that season. During his Test career,Tallon made 58 dismissals comprising 50 catches and 8 stumpings.
Charles George Macartney was an Australian cricketer who played in 35 Test matches between 1907 and 1926. He was known as "The Governor-General" in reference to his authoritative batting style and his flamboyant strokeplay,which drew comparisons with his close friend and role model Victor Trumper,regarded as one of the most elegant batsmen in cricketing history. Sir Donald Bradman—generally regarded as the greatest batsman in history—cited Macartney's dynamic batting as an inspiration in his cricket career.
Archibald Jackson,occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson,was an Australian international cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy,he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17. In 1929,aged 19,Jackson made his Test debut against England,scoring 164 runs in the first innings to become the youngest player to score a Test century.
The England cricket team toured Pakistan from October to December 2005. England were looking to maintain the form that had taken them to second place in the ICC Test Championship,and to victory in the 2005 Ashes series at home to Australia,but they suffered a sharp reversal of fortune,losing the Test series 2–0 to Pakistan. Pakistan also won the one day series by 3–2. This would be England's last tour of Pakistan until 2022.
The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 2004 season to play a three-match Test series against England. The series was won 3–0 by England,the first time they had won a Test series between the two teams since 1997. During the tour New Zealand also played in the NatWest Series,which was a triangular One Day International tournament featuring the West Indies and England.
The Pakistan cricket team toured New Zealand in November and December 2009 for a three-match Test series.
In cricket,a players' batting average is the total number of runs they have scored divided by the number of times they have been out,usually given to two decimal places. Since the number of runs a player scores and how often they get out are primarily measures of their own playing ability,and largely independent of their teammates,batting average is a good metric for an individual player's skill as a batter. The number is also simple to interpret intuitively. If all the batter's innings were completed,this is the average number of runs they score per innings. If they did not complete all their innings,this number is an estimate of the unknown average number of runs they score per innings.
The New Zealand cricket team toured Australia in November and December 2019 to play three Test matches. The Test series was played for the Trans-Tasman Trophy and formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. The first Test was a day/night match at the Perth Stadium. Cricket Australia confirmed the fixtures for the tour in May 2019. New Zealand returned to Australia in March 2020 to play three One Day International (ODI) matches for the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy.
