A top-order batsman, Border was the Australian captain from to , overseeing the development of the Australian team from the tumultuous birth of World Series Cricket to becoming the world's most dominant team in the s. He played Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by Steve Waugh.
Border still holds the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances. His world record 11, Test runs, including 27 centuries, was only passed by the brilliant Brian Lara in The Allan Border medal, named in his honour, is awarded annually to the most outstanding cricketer of the preceding season, and he was one of the 55 inaugural inductees of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Download cover. Availability: Print on demand. In the twenty years since Allan Border retired as Australian cricket captain he's been one of the game's closest and most astute observers. It worked to the extent that Border compiled runs at His bowling figures are the best for a match and second best for an innings by an Australian captain. Previously, he had taken 16 wickets in 99 Tests. Receiving the player of the match award, Border said, "there will be batsmen all around the world shaking their heads in disbelief when they see the result".
Australia's unexpected victory in the Cricket World Cup proved to be a turning point and heralded the start of more prosperous times.
In —88, Australia defeated New Zealand for its first Test series victory in four years. Border hit in the drawn Second Test at Adelaide, his highest Test score which took him past Greg Chappell as Australia's highest run-scorer.
Border's contribution for the five Tests was runs at The process of rebuilding the Australian team was complicated by the unavailability of the players who had gone to South Africa. Furthermore, there was no obvious replacement if Border quit or was dropped as captain. In an attempt to share Border's workload, and guide the rebuilding of the team, the ACB decided to appoint a permanent coach for the team.
Former Australian Captain Bob Simpson was sounded out, and he accompanied the team on the tour of New Zealand as an observer. He accepted the position and his first tour with the team was to India later in the same year. During the First Test of the tour at Madras, Border scored and the match ended in a historic tie, only the second such result in history. The other two Tests were drawn, and Border finished the tour with runs at The —87 Australian season brought another Ashes series, and another series loss.
However, Australia were defeated by an innings in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne and the team had won only two of their last 22 Tests, and none of their last Despite a consolation victory in the Fifth Test dead rubber, Wisden thought that Border, "lacked spark and the ability to inspire a young team much in need of it.
Hard task as he had, he did not look the man to lead the Test team from its troubled run. In April , Australia's prospects were weakened when plans were announced for a team of Australians to tour South Africa, in defiance of the Gleneagles Agreement.
Seven players, originally selected for the Ashes tour, had signed for the Hughes-led "rebel" team and withdrew from the squad. The disloyalty of the players affected Border deeply: journalist Mike Coward described his going into a "depression" and noted that, while he eventually forgave the players involved, he never forgot. Australia continued to struggle during the —86 season, when New Zealand defeated them in a Test series for the first time. Despite Border's unbeaten in the second innings, Australia fell to a heavy defeat in the First Test at Brisbane.
Although they bounced back to win the Second Test, New Zealand took the Third to take a two-one series victory. After a short successful tour of India, Australia faced the West Indies again in the —85 season. After suffering heavy losses in the first two Tests, Hughes burst into tears as he resigned as captain during a press conference. Despite Border's limited captaincy experience and stated indifference to taking the position, he replaced Hughes for the Third Test at Adelaide, which the Australians also lost: it was their sixth consecutive defeat to the West Indies.
The tide turned somewhat when Border led the team to a draw and then a win in the final two Tests, but his own form suffered, and he averaged only Knox, who was present that day, described him as "the finest all-round one-day cricketer of his time, alongside Viv Richards", in spite of the fact that "his reputation is built on stodge and defiance".
Border stood in a baseballer's crouch, bat raised, ready to hop backwards and pull or cut the short ball. The Trinidad innings of were full of twitching jabs at balls aimed into his armpits. As he aged, he became a plainly unattractive batsman to watch, all punch, no grace. Australia hosted Pakistan for a five-Test series in — Border scored and not out in the Second and Third Tests respectively, and averaged just under 86 as Australia won the series comfortably.
It was the end of an era for Australian cricket as Rod Marsh, Dennis Lillee and Greg Chappell retired at the end of the season, leaving the Australian team short on experience. At the time, Lillee and Marsh held the world records for the most Test wickets and wicket-keeping catches respectively, while Chappell was Australia's highest-ever runscorer. Consequently, Border, who was now captain of Queensland, became Australian vice-captain to Kim Hughes for the tour of the West Indies in the northern spring of After failing in the first three Tests of the —83 Ashes series, Border's place in the Australian team was in jeopardy as Australia led the series 2—0.
Australia had lost nine wickets and required 74 runs to win when Jeff Thomson joined Border at the crease. Border then scored pair of s in the Fifth Test to secure a drawn match and Australia regained the Ashes.
His figures were runs at In , Border made his first Ashes tour and scored a half-century in each of the first two Tests. He reached a century in minutes, the slowest Test hundred by an Australian, and remained unbeaten on as Australia lost the match. In the final Test at The Oval, Border scored not out and During this latter sequence, he defied the English bowlers for more than 15 hours to score runs before he was dismissed.
Overall, he totalled at Border's —82 season was mixed. Against Pakistan, he made only 84 runs in three Tests, but against the West Indies, he scored a century and three half-centuries in runs at On the tour of New Zealand, his three Tests brought only 44 runs at After having the winter off, Border returned to Pakistan but was unable to repeat his performances of two years earlier.
He scored runs at On the tour of Pakistan that followed, Border hit not out and in the Third Test at Lahore against spinners of the calibre of Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed to become the first, and so far only batsmen in Test history to pass in both innings of a Test. Quick Search Search. I just received a note from the Sales Rep saying that Allan Border was by far and away the best brand ambassador that they have ever seen. Believe it or not, people travelled from as far as km away to meet him and the line up of cars to get the venue's drive-thru was up to an hour long.
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