The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is organised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and contested annually between teams from over 150 competing countries,making it the world's largest annual team sporting competition. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis" and the winners are referred to as the world champions. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2023 155 nations entered teams into the competition.
Michael John Clarke is an Australian former cricketer. He was captain of the Australian cricket team in both Test and One Day International (ODI) between 2011 and 2015,leading Australia to victory in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. He also served as captain of the Twenty20 International (T20I) side between 2007 and 2010. With his time representing Australia,Clarke won multiple ICC titles with the team:the 2007 Cricket World Cup,the 2015 Cricket World Cup which he was the winning captain,and the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also,until the end of the 2007 season,Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Katich also played for Lancashire,represented his birth state of Western Australia and played in Indian Premier League for Kings XI Punjab. Katich was also a member of the Australian team that won the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
Simon James Arthur Taufel is an Australian former cricket umpire who was earlier a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards between 2004 and 2008,and is widely regarded as one of the top 10 greatest umpires of all time. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 26 September 2012,after the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 final. He subsequently worked as the ICC's Umpire Performance and Training Manager until October 2015. In 2020 he joined the Channel Seven commentary team as an expert commentator for the 2020/21 test series.
The 2005 Ashes series was that year's edition of the long-standing cricket rivalry between England and Australia. Starting on 21 July 2005,England and Australia played five Tests,with the Ashes held by Australia as the most recent victors. The final result was a 2–1 series win for England,who succeeded in their biennial attempt to win the urn.
Centenary Test refers to two matches of Test cricket played between the English cricket team and the Australian cricket team,the first in 1977 and the second in 1980. These matches were played to mark the 100th anniversaries of the first Test cricket matches played in Australia (1877) and in England (1880) respectively. Neither match was played for The Ashes.
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition in 1907–1909. During its time in Antarctica,the expedition's sledging parties covered around 4,180 kilometres (2,600 mi) of unexplored territory,while its ship,SY Aurora,navigated 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) of unmapped coastline. Scientific activities included meteorological measurements,magnetic observations,an expansive oceanographic program,and the collection of many biological and geological samples,including the discovery of the first meteorite found in Antarctica. The expedition was the first to establish and maintain wireless contact between Antarctica and Australia. Another planned innovation –the use of an aircraft –was thwarted by an accident before the expedition sailed. The plane's fuselage was adapted to form a motorised sledge or "air-tractor",but it proved to be of very limited usefulness.
The 2002 California gubernatorial election was an election that occurred on November 5,2002. Gray Davis,a Democrat and the incumbent governor of California,defeated the Republican challenger Bill Simon by 5% and was re-elected to a second four-year term. Davis would be recalled less than a year into his next term.
Ian Charles Davis is an Australian former cricketer (batsman) who played in 15 Test matches and three One Day Internationals between 1973 and 1977. Davis retired from first-class cricket in 1984,then worked for Dunlop Slazenger until his retirement in 2010.
Stephen James Davis is a former Australian Test cricket match umpire,from South Australia. He was appointed to the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in April 2008.
Charles Allan Davis is a former West Indian cricketer who played in fifteen Test matches between 1968 and 1973. Davis started his first-class cricket career at the age of 17,playing for Trinidad and Tobago. After a good Shell Shield season in 1968 Davis was selected for the West Indies. The highlight of his career was a home series against India,in which he scored 529 runs in four Tests at the average of 132.25. He was also a useful bowler,taking 63 wickets at first-class level. His Test career ended while the West Indies were in transition,and the arrival of newer players accounted for any place for Davis in the side.
Gilles Simon is a French former tennis player. He turned professional in 2002 and won fourteen singles titles on the ATP Tour,and attained a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 6,on 5 January 2009.
The Australian cricket team toured New Zealand in the 1985–86 season to play a three-match Test series and four-match one day series against New Zealand after NZ had toured Australia earlier in the season.
Phar Lap is a 1983 Australian biographical drama film about the racehorse Phar Lap. The film stars Tom Burlinson and was written by David Williamson.
Between October 1966 and March 1967 the Australia national rugby union team –the Wallabies –conducted a world tour on which they played five Tests and thirty-one minor tour matches. Under the captaincy of John Thornett they toured UK,Ireland,France and Canada winning nineteen matches,losing fourteen and drawing three. At one stage they failed to win in four successive matches although in the Test match against England they gave the home side its heaviest defeat in 16 years. The tour marked the climax of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby,buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding abilities of greats of the game like Ken Catchpole,Peter Johnson and Rob Heming. Dick Marks and Peter Crittle also toured and would later become among the most influential administrators of Australian rugby.
Simon Douglas Fry is an Australian former cricket umpire. In April 2020,Fry announced his retirement from elite umpiring.
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 Australian cricket team toured India in the 1986–87 season to play a three-match Test series and a five-match one day international series against India.
The 1992 New Zealand tour rugby to Australia and South Africa was the 28th tour by the All Blacks to Australia,and their 6th tour to South Africa. It was first official visit by the New Zealand team to South Africa since the controversial tour of 1976.
