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List of Australia One Day International cricket records
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One Day International (ODI) cricket is one of three forms of cricket played at international level.[1] Unlike Test cricket, ODIs consist of one innings per team and is played over the course of single day. Each innings is limited to a maximum of 50 overs, although previously this has been 55 or 60 overs.[2] Matches are played by the twelve teams representing full member nations of the International Cricket Council (ICC), each of which have permanent ODI status, as well as the eight Associate members of the ICC that currently have temporary ODI status.[3][4] Australia played in the inaugural ODI match against England on 5 January 1971 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[5] They have played a total of 975 matches, second only to India who have played 1,020.[6] As of December 2022[update], Australia is the most third-most successful team in ODI cricket with an overall winning percentage of 63.39, behind the ACC Asia XI on 66.66 percent and South Africa on 63.41.[6]
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Top order batsman and former captain Ricky Ponting holds several Australian ODI cricket records. Playing between 1995 and 2012, he scored 13,589 runs, making him the only Australian player to score 10,000 ODI runs.[7] He has scored a record 82 half-centuries and 29 centuries.[8][9] As a slip fielder, Ponting has also taken the most catches for Australia with 159.[10] Captaining his side from 2002 until his retirement in 2012, Ponting holds the ODI record for the most matches played as captain with 230[lower-alpha 1] and the record for the most matches played for Australia with 374.[11][12]
Fast bowlers Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee share the record for the most ODI wickets taken for Australia with 380.[13] McGrath also holds the record for the best figures taken by an Australian in an ODI match with 7/15 while Lee holds the Australian ODI record for the most five-wicket hauls with nine.[14][15] Adam Gilchrist is Australia's most successful wicket-keeper having taken 470 dismissals and holds the ODI record for the most catches taken as a wicket-keeper with 417.[lower-alpha 2][16][17] Gilchrist also holds the Australian record for playing 97 consecutive ODI matches between 1997 and 2001.[18]