Brian Charles Lara,is a Trinidadian former international cricketer,widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records,including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket,with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994,which is the only quintuple-hundred in first-class cricket history. As captain,Lara led the West Indies team to win the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy,the first time the team won any major ICC trophy since winning the 1979 Cricket World Cup.
The Australia men's national cricket team represents Australia in men's international cricket. As the joint oldest team in Test cricket history,playing in the first ever Test match in 1877,the team also plays One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket,participating in both the first ODI,against England in the 1970–71 season and the first T20I,against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,winning both games. The team draws its players from teams playing in the Australian domestic competitions –the Sheffield Shield,the Australian domestic limited-overs cricket tournament and the Big Bash League. Australia are the current ICC World Test Championship and ICC Cricket World Cup champions. They are regarded as one of the most successful cricket teams in the history of Cricket
Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional,he later became an amateur and was appointed captain of England. Primarily a middle-order batsman,Wisden Cricketers' Almanack described him in his obituary as one of the four best batsmen in the history of cricket. He was considered to be the best English batsman of the 1930s by commentators and those with whom he played;they also said that he was one of the best slip fielders ever. Hammond was an effective fast-medium pace bowler and contemporaries believed that if he had been less reluctant to bowl,he could have achieved even more with the ball than he did.
The WACA Ground is a sports stadium in Perth,Western Australia. The stadium's name derives from the initials of its owners and operators,the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA).
Women's Test cricket is the longest format of women's cricket and is the female equivalent to men's Test cricket. Matches comprise four-innings and are held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations. The rules governing the format differ little from those for the men's game,with differences generally being technicalities surrounding umpiring and field size.
Arthur Robert Morris was an Australian cricketer who played 46 Test matches between 1946 and 1955. An opener,Morris is regarded as one of Australia's greatest left-handed batsmen. He is best known for his key role in Don Bradman's Invincibles side,which made an undefeated tour of England in 1948. He was the leading scorer in the Tests on the tour,with three centuries. His efforts in the Fourth Test at Headingley helped Australia to reach a world record victory target of 404 on the final day. Morris was named in the Australian Cricket Board's Team of the Century in 2000 and was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 2001.
In cricket,the batting order is the sequence in which batters play through their team's innings,there always being two batters taking part at any one time. All eleven players in a team are required to bat if the innings is completed.
Kevin Douglas Walters is a former Australian cricketer. He was known as an attacking batsman,a useful part-time bowler,and also as a typical ocker.
Adam Charles Voges is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the Australian national team at Test,One Day International (ODI),and Twenty20 International (T20I) level,and also captained Western Australia and Perth Scorchers in domestic cricket. Voges' Test match batting average of 61.87 is third among batsmen that have played a minimum of 20 innings behind Don Bradman and Harry Brook,who has played exactly 20 innings as of 31 July 2023. Voges was included in the 2016 ICC Test Match Team of the Year.
Enid Bakewell played for the English women's cricket team in 12 Tests between 1968 and 1979,and in 23 one-day international matches. A right-handed batter and slow left-arm orthodox bowler,on her figures she has a strong claim to be regarded as the best all-rounder that the English women's game has produced. In Tests she scored 1,078 runs at an average of 59.88,with 4 centuries,as well as taking 50 wickets at an average of 16.62. In what proved to be her final Test,she scored 68 and 112* and took 10 for 75 against West Indies at Edgbaston in 1979. Her final WODI appearance was in the final of the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup.
The England cricket team toured West Indies from 1 March to 5 May 2004 as part of the 2003–04 West Indian cricket season. The tour included four Tests and seven One Day Internationals.
Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international cricketer and former captain of the Australian national team in all three formats of the game. He is widely regarded as the best Test batsman of the modern era,as well as one of the greatest in the history of the sport. Smith was a member of the Australian teams that won the 2015 and 2023 Cricket World Cup,the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup,and the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final.
Keith Miller was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team,which toured England in 1948 and went undefeated in its 34 matches. This unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned the Australians the sobriquet "The Invincibles". Miller was an all-rounder:a right-arm opening fast bowler and a right-handed middle-order batsman. With Ray Lindwall,he formed Australia's first-choice opening attack,a combination regarded as one of the best of all time. Miller was also a skillful slip fielder,regarded by his captain as the best in the world.
Don Bradman toured England in 1948 with an Australian cricket team that went undefeated in their 34 tour matches,including the five Ashes Tests. Bradman was the captain,one of three selectors,and overall a dominant figure of what was regarded as one of the finest teams of all time,earning the sobriquet The Invincibles.
