As of December 2022,
As of 22 November 2022, Australia have played 975 ODI matches, winning 592 matches and losing 340; they also tied 9 matches, whilst 34 had no result.
The team has played 978 ODI matches, winning 594, losing 341, tying 9 and with 34 ending in a no-result. As of May 2022, Australia is ranked third in the ICC ODI Championship on 107 rating points, though have been ranked first for 141 of 185 months since its introduction in 2002.
Australia has won the tournament five times, India and West Indies twice each, while Pakistan, Sri Lanka and England have won it once each. The best performance by a non-full-member team came when Kenya made the semi-finals of the 2003 tournament.
With the win in the Delhi Test, the Indian team registered its 32nd victory in the longest format against Australia, which is the most against any team for India.
AUSTRALIA V ENGLAND, HEADINGLEY, 1981
The match was effectively over, with England still 227 runs in arrears and a wicket down and a local bookmaker confirmed the dire predicament when they flashed up odds on the scoreboard: with England paying an outrageous 500-1.
Team wins, losses, draws and ties
As of March 2023, Australia has played 851 Test matches resulting in 405 victories, 228 defeats, 216 draws and 2 ties for an overall winning percentage of 47.59, the highest winning percentage of Test playing teams.
In 1997 Australia failed to qualify for the World Cup finals despite being undefeated in the qualifying rounds. After winning the OFC qualifying tournament, Australia had to play Iran over two legs in one week, with the winner progressing to the World Cup finals to be held in France.
They have reached the World Cup Finals six times, in Germany 1974 and 2006, South Africa in 2010, Brazil in 2014, Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. Between 1930 and 1962, Australia did not enter the World Cup. In 1966 and 1970 they did not qualify. In 1974 they made it only to the first round.
World Cup Winners List (Country Wise) As far as country-wise winners are concerned, Australia has won the ICC ODI World Cup trophy five times, which makes them the most successful winning team. West Indies and India follow them in the World Cup winners' cricket ODI. Both these teams have won the trophy twice each.
Australia has placed first at 13 out of the 21 games (compared with England 7 and Canada 1) and has been in the top three for all meets except the first games in 1930. In all but one of the 18 Commonwealth Games held so far (excluding the 1978 Games), the Australian flag bearer has gone on to win a gold medal.
Australia's best ever total medal tally was at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, though Australia won more gold medals in 2004 and 2021. See also the Australia's Winter Olympics medal tally.
As of December 2022, Australia has played 975 ODI matches resulting in 592 victories, 340 defeats, 9 ties and 34 no results for an overall winning percentage of 63.39, the third highest winning percentage of ODI playing teams.
India only team to beat Australia:
But an amazing win in Melbourne in the 3rd Test proved to be the decider then for India. Jasprit Bumrah starred in that match with 9 wickets and was adjudged as the player of the match. In the final match, India managed a draw and thus, won the series.
As of the conclusion of the 2022 England rugby union tour of Australia, the ledger between the two nations stands at 28 wins for England.
Yet Australians have fought in ten wars. Some of these have been in distant lands, others much closer to home. All of them were begun by other nations and involved Australia because of its overseas ties; alliances formed through sentiment, loyalty or simply for reasons of security.
They are the biggest football power in Oceania and usually sweep the qualifying rounds. They have also won the OFC Nations Cup, the continent's equivalent of the European Championship. Australia is a growing world power, both at national team level and in domestic competitions.
Brazil is the only team to have appeared in all 22 tournaments to date, with Germany having participated in 20, Italy in 18, Argentina in 18 and Mexico in 17. To date, eight nations have won the tournament. The inaugural winners in 1930 were Uruguay; the current champions are Argentina.
Australia has won Olympic medals in 35 Olympic Games - go here for a list of Australian medals by Olympics. 962 Australian athletes have won an Olympic medal - go here for a list of Australian medal winners. Australia has won 173 gold medals in the Olympics - in total 306 Australian athletes have won a gold medal.
Has Australia ever won Eurovision? Nope, but we've come close. Dami Im has achieved the most Eurovision success of any Aussie, with her tune Sound of Silence coming in second in 2016 behind Ukraine.
1. Don Bradman: a Test batting average of 99.94, almost 40 runs per innings ahead of anyone else, gives The Don claims to being not just the greatest cricketer of them all, but perhaps the greatest sportsperson.