Stats: Australia's 900 ODIs in numbers

A consistent rain during the 2nd innings spoiled Australia’s milestone match as their Champions Trophy game against Bangladesh ended in a washout as only 16 overs of Australian innings could be bowled where 20 overs were required for a result.

Chasing an 183-run target, Australia were very much towards winning the game as they were 81/1 after 16 overs, 42 runs ahead of the par score but the rain didn’t allow the play to continue for 4 more overs. As a result, the 900th One-day International game of Australia ended without a result.

Australia, who were lucky to have escaped with one point against New Zealand, were robbed off the same against Bangladesh. By featuring against the Asian side, they became the 2nd team after India to play 900 ODI matches. India played their 900th ODI last year and have featured in 908 matches in this format so far.

Australia’s milestone matches in ODI cricket:

Australia are easily the most successful team in this format as they currently have 554 wins; the most number of ODI wins for any team. India and Pakistan are tied at 2nd with 460 wins each in ODI cricket.

ODI record of each team:

Australia has played against 18 teams in the ODI format including the ICC World XI in 2005 Super Series. Against each of the 18 teams, Australia has a positive record as they have won more games against each opposition than the number of games they have lost. Their happy hunting team in this format is New Zealand as they won 90 matches in the 136 against them and lost only 39.

Australia’s record against each team:

Australia has a better record when they lost the toss as their win-loss ratio after losing the toss is 1.904 while their win-loss ratio in ODIs on winning the toss is 1.757.

Their record while batting first is slightly better compared to batting second as their win-loss ratio is 1.794 while chasing, a bit less than that (1.856) while defending.

Australia’s win-loss record:

Talking about the individual records, Ricky Ponting is the only player who has scored over 10,000 runs in ODIs for Australia. He has scored 13,589 runs including 29 centuries while playing for Australia in this format. Shane Watson’s unbeaten 185 against Bangladesh in 2011 at Dhaka is the highest individual score recorded for Australia so far in the ODI format:

Highest run-getters for Australia in ODIs:

5 players have taken over 200 wickets in this format while playing for Australia with only Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath taking over 300 wickets. Both the right-arm pacemen have taken exactly 380 wickets for Australia in this format. McGrath actually has 381 wickets in his ODI career but one wicket came while playing for World XI against the Asia XI in Tsunami Appeal game in 2005.

Highest wicket-takers for Australia in ODIs:

(Stats as on 5th June 2017)