Australia national cricket team record by opponent

Australia 5th Time World Champions

The Australia national cricket team represents Australia in international cricket and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status.^[1] Australia is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.^[2] The team also plays One Day International cricket and Twenty20 International, participating in both the first ODI, against England in the 1970–71 season^[3] and the first Twenty20 International, against New Zealand in the 2004–05 season,^[4] winning both games.

Australia is the most successful Test team in cricketing history. It has won more than 350 Test matches at a rate of almost 47%. As of January 2016, Australia have played 786 Test matches; they have won 370 matches, lost 208 matches, and 206 matches were drawn and 2 tieds as well.^[5]

Australia is also the most successful ODI team in the history as well, where they have achieved an unbreakable record in ODI history. As of February 2016, Australia have played 868 ODI matches, winning 537 matches and losing 291; they also tied 9 matches, whilst 31 had no result.^[6] They have won Cricket World Cup in record of 5 times, more than any other nation, in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015, and also runner-up in 1975 and 1996.

Though Australia is brilliant in Test and ODI arena, they showed poor performances in Twenty20 Internationals. As of February 2016, Australia have played 81 T20I matches and won 40 of them; 38 were lost and 2 tied and 1 no result match as well. The winning percentage is only 51.25. ^[7] During 5 ICC World Twenty20 tournaments, Australia's best performance came during 2010, where they lost the final to England, became runner-up.

As of January 2016, Australia have faced all nine teams in Test cricket, with their most frequent opponent being The Ashes rivals, England; playing 341 matches against them.^[8] Due to more matches against England, they have registered more wins against England, but the best winning percentage of 100.00 against Bangladesh, where won all 4 tests.^[8] In ODI matches, Australia have played against 18 teams; they have played against England most frequently, with a winning percentage of 60.90 in 136 matches.^[9] Within usual major ODI nations, Australia have defeated New Zealand on 86 occasions, which is their best record in ODIs.^[9] The team have competed against 10 countries in T20Is, and have played 14 matches against South Africa. Out of that, Australia have defeated South Africa in 9 occasions each.^[10]

Key

M – Number of matches played W – Number of matches won L – Number of matches lost T – Number of matches tied D – Number of matches ended in a draw NR – Number of matches ended with no result

Tie+W – Number of matches tied and then won in a tiebreaker such as a bowl-out or Super Over Tie+L – Number of matches tied and then lost in a tiebreaker such as a bowl-out or Super Over Win% – Percentage of games won to those played[n 1] Loss% – Percentage of games lost to those played[n 1] Draw% – Percentage of games drawn to those played[n 1] First – Year of the first match played by Pakistan against the country Last – Year of the last match played by Pakistan against the country

Test cricket

Statistics are correct as of 9 January 2016

Matches played (by country)

Team	Opponent	1st Test	Last Test	Matches	Won	Lost	Drawn	Tied	% Won
Australia	England	March 1877	August 2015	341	140	108	93	0	41.05
	South Africa	October 1902	March 2014	91	50	21	20	0	54.95
	West Indies	December 1930	January 2016	116	58	32	25	1	50.00
	New Zealand	March 1946	November 2015	55	29	8	18	0	52.72
	India	November 1947	January 2015	90	40	24	25	1	44.44
	Pakistan	October 1956	November 2014	59	28	14	17	0	47.45
	Sri Lanka	April 1983	January 2013	26	17	1	8	0	65.38
	Zimbabwe	October 1999	October 2003	3	3	0	0	0	100.00
	Bangladesh	July 2003	July 2003	4	4	0	0	0	100.00
	ICC World XI	October 2005		1	1	0	0	0	100.00
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 9 January 2016.

One Day International

Statistics are correct as of 15 January 2016

Matches played (by country)

Team	Opponent	1st ODI	Last ODI	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	% Won
Australia	England	5 January 1971	13 September 2015	136	80	51	2	3	60.90
	New Zealand	30 March 1974		127	86	35	0	6	71.07
	Pakistan	7 June 1975	20 March 2015	93	58	31	1	3	65.00
	Sri Lanka	11 June 1975	8 March 2015	91	56	31	0	4	64.36
	West Indies	14 June 1975	10 February 2013	135	70	59	3	3	54.16
	Canada	16 June 1979	16 March 2011	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
	India	6 December 1980	23 January 2016	120	70	40	0	10	63.63
	Zimbabwe	9 June 1983	31 August 2014	30	27	2	0	1	93.10
	Bangladesh	30 April 1990	21 February 2015	19	18	1	0	0	94.73
	South Africa	26 February 1992	23 November 2014	88	46	39	3	0	53.97
	Kenya	23 February 1996	13 March 2011	5	5	0	0	0	100.00
	Scotland	16 May 1999	14 March 2015	5	5	0	0	0	100.00
	Netherlands	20 February 2003	18 March 2007	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
	Namibia	27 February 2003		1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	United States	13 September 2004		1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	ICC World XI	5 October 2005	9 October 2005	3	3	0	0	0	100.00
	Ireland	13 April 2007	27 August 2015	4	3	0	0	1	100.00
	Afghanistan	25 August 2012	4 March 2015	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 15 January 2016.

Twenty20 International

Statistics are correct as of 31 January 2016

Matches played (by country)

Team	Opponent	1st T20I	Last T20I	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	% Won
Australia	Bangladesh	16 September 2007	1 April 2014	3	3	0	0	0	100.00
	England	13 June 2005	31 August 2015	13	7	5	0	1	58.33
	India	22 September 2007	31 January 2016	12	4	8	0	0	33.33
	Ireland	19 September 2012		1	1	0	0	0	100.00
	New Zealand	17 February 2005	28 February 2010	5	4	0	1	0	90.00
	Pakistan	18 September 2007	5 October 2014	13	5	7	1	0	42.30
	South Africa	9 January 2006	9 November 2014	14	9	5	0	0	64.28
	Sri Lanka	20 September 2007	28 January 2013	8	2	6	0	0	25.00
	West Indies	20 June 2008	28 March 2014	11	5	6	0	0	45.45
	Zimbabwe	12 September 2007		1	0	1	0	0	0.00
	Source: Cricinfo. Last updated: 2 February 2016.

Notes

1. Games that did not have a result are not taken into consideration while calculating the result percentage. Ties are counted as half a win.

References

1. "ICC Members Countries". International Cricket Council (ICC). Retrieved 14 April 2013.
2. "1st Test: Australia v England at Melbourne, Mar 15–19, 1877 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
3. "Only ODI: Australia v England at Melbourne, Jan 5, 1971 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
4. "Only T20I: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 17, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
5. "Records / Test matches / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
6. "Records / One-Day Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
7. "Records / Twenty20 Internationals / Team records / Results summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
8. "Records / Australia / Test matches / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
9. "Records / Sri Lanka / One-Day Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
10. "Records / Australia / Twenty20 Internationals / Result summary". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2013.