Australian Sports

Cricket

Cricket is Australia's most popular summer sport. You play Cricket with 2 teams, 11 players on each side. You can bat, bowl wicket keep or field. They're 3 types of cricket matches - Twenty20, One Day International (ODI) and Test matches. When you're bowling you have to try to get the batter out, when you're fielding and wicket keeping you also have to try to get the batter out. When you're batting you have to try to get as much runs as you can. You win when you either get more runs than the other team or bowl the other team out

SIR DONALD BRADMAN

Sir Donald Bradman was the best batter ever. His highest score is 334 not out. He is Cricket's most influential player. His batting average was 99.94. He scored 29 centuries, 12 double centuries and 2 triple centuries! He was a right hand batsman and he bowled right hand leg spin. Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94 has become one of cricket's most famous, iconic statistics. No other player who has played more than 20 Test match innings has finished with a Test average of more than 61 Bradman scored centuries at a rate better than one every three innings—in 80 Test innings, Bradman scored 29 centuries. There is even a statue of Bradman in Adelaide, South Australia.

SHANE WARNE

Shane Warne is the king of spin bowling. He has the second most wickets ever. He got 100 wickets in his first 23 games! Altogether he has 708 wickets. Warne played his first International Test match in 1992 against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). Warne bowls right hand leg spin. Thats when you flick your wristsright to left and spin it left. People call him the king of spin bowling. Shane Warne bats right handed, he bats around 7, 8 or 9. His highest score ever is 99 runs. Warne is also a brilliant slip fielder. He is currently seventh on the list of most catches as a fielder in test cricket.