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Australia national cricket team

national sports team

11 dated entries naming Australia national cricket team, drawn from 9 separate years between 1882 CE and 2023 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Australia cricket team, Australian cricket team, Australian men's national cricket team, Australian national cricket team in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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19th century

  • 1882August 29 – The Australian cricket team historically defeats England at The Oval for the first time on English soil, a humiliation for the English and the origin for The Ashes test series.source
  • 188229 August – The Australian cricket team beats England for the first time in a test match at The Oval in London. A mock obituary appears in the next day's Sporting Times, mourning "the death of English cricket", which leads to the creation of The Ashes.source
  • 188330 January – England defeats Australia 2–1 in the 1882–83 Test cricket series, reclaiming "The Ashes" of English cricket.source

20th century

  • 1921March 1 – The Australia national cricket team, led by Warwick Armstrong, becomes the first to complete a whitewash of the touring England team in The Ashes, something that will not be repeated for 86 years.source
  • 194819 March – The Australian cricket team stops by in Ceylon, en route to England during their 1948 tour of England, where they played a one-day single-innings match—not limited overs—against the Ceylon national team at the Colombo Oval.source
  • 1948May 15 – Australian cricket team in England in 1948: The touring Australians set an all-time first-class record, by scoring 721 runs in a day against Essex.source
  • 1967The Australian cricket team, captained by Bob Simpson toured South Africa in 1966–67, losing the Test series 3–1source
  • 199617 March – Sri Lanka wins the 1996 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia by 7 wickets, making this Sri Lanka's first ever World Cup victory.source

21st century

  • 2015March 29 – Australia wins the 2015 Cricket World Cup.source
  • 2021October 17–November 14 – The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup is held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and is won by Australia.source
  • 2023October 5 – November 19 – The 2023 Cricket World Cup is held in India, with Australia defeating India in the final.source

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