The 2001 tour of India saw Australia's 16 Test winning streak come to an end when India claimed the series 2–1. He was selected for his only ODI season in 1990, scoring 14 in the second final as Australia won the series, and was overlooked of the New Zealand tour in March 1990. anything drifting into his pads is hit beautifully. Tufnell was employing his customary defensive approach of pitching the ball outside the leg stump with a leg side field. [52] Essex were one of the strongest teams in England and Border had scored six centuries that season. [90], The 1997–98 Australian season marked a change in Waugh's ODI career. It was hosted primarily by England, with some games being played in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands. [65], In the first Sheffield Shield match of the season, Waugh scored 172 from 301 balls, his highest First-class score to date. This is a list of statistics for the 1996 Cricket World Cup. It was the summer of 99; the World Cup came back to the home of cricket in England, after 16 years. Waugh was omitted for the first final, which Australia won by two runs, before replacing Simon O'Donnell in the second match. [76] In the following match against Tasmania, Waugh was immediately out for a duck attempting a cut shot, but made 100 not out in the second innings. [139][140] He batted out the entire fifth day for an unbeaten 115 in the third Test at the Adelaide Oval to deny the South Africans a victory and win the series for Australia. [15][16] By the age of six, the twins were playing organised soccer, tennis and cricket. Waugh ended the series with 305 runs at 30.50 and was retained for the tour of New Zealand, where he scored a respectable 206 runs at 41.20 in the abbreviated form of the game including two half-centuries. They were struggling at 3/33 in reply to Tasmania's 117 when Waugh came to the crease and made 198 not out from 390 balls. On the tour of Sri Lanka that followed, Waugh returned to the Test team and scored five and 56 in the first Test but followed it with four consecutive ducks.[3]. [143], Waugh's strong start to the year continued in two brief ODI series in New Zealand and India, in which he scored 374 runs at 41.56 respectively, with three half-centuries. Australia were set 247 for victory and were well placed at 2/117, with Waugh having scored 34 from only 46 deliveries. [70] New South Wales won by an innings to reach the Shield final against Queensland. [90][155][156], Waugh made starts in all four innings of the first two Ashes Tests in Australia in 1998–99, scoring 31, 27*, 36 and 17* as the first two matches were drawn and won respectively. He had a poor Test record on his home ground, having accumulated only 126 runs in seven innings at the ground. [56] He scored only one half-century in the remainder of the First-class season, ending the season with 727 First-class runs at 40.39. [110] Waugh scored 88 in the second Test win in Hobart and the teams moved to Sydney, where Australia sought a clean sweep. He claimed that he could not recall much of the innings and was batting on "automatic pilot". The match was drawn and Waugh experienced his first Test victory when he scored 26 in the fifth Test in Perth as Australia sealed the series 3–0. In January 2001, the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit and the ACB's special investigator Greg Melick requested an interview with Waugh, which his management "presently declined". [176] He then scored an unbeaten 72 in the first Test at Eden Park to set up a victory in a low-scoring game—only one other player passed 20. The twins were billeted with a local family. [21] In their final year, Mark was the captain of the state primary school cricket and tennis teams, both of which won the national championships. [111] Despite the loss, Waugh had compiled 300 runs at 60.00 for the series. Waugh retired as Australia's highest run scorer and century maker (18) in ODI cricket, with these records having since been broken by Ricky Ponting. Waugh, along with his captain Mark Taylor and ACB CEO Malcolm Speed, were summoned to Lahore by PCB CEO Majid Khan to appear before an inquiry led by Justice Malik Mohammed Qayyum. When the allegations were made public by the report in November 2000, Waugh immediately pledged to co-operate with any inquiry. Get Australia Squad ICC World Cup, 1999 Squad details on ESPNcricinfo.com. Waugh took a record 181 catches in Test matches, the second highest for a non-wicketkeeper. Mark and Steve Waugh’s Record Partnership. The Australians progressed to the final as they had won their previous meeting. [2], Waugh was primarily a right-handed batsman who batted in the No. He scored 46 and 18 and took 1/31 and 2/34 against Queensland, before striking and unbeaten 100 against Victoria. 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