Australian Sports by HightB

This legend of cricket finished with a career test average of 99.94, accumulated between 1928 and 1948.

Patty Mills and Matthew Dellavedova are among the Australian players who have played for this West Coast Conference school as part of a pipeline of players developed by coach Randy Bennett.

Two Australians have been named to Major League Baseball All-Star teams. One is a relief pitcher added as a late addition to the 2013 American League team, the other a Brewers catcher who made the NL squad in 1999. Name either player.

This forward/midfielder became the first player to score a Men’s World Cup goal for Australia, doing so in 2006, and he currently holds the all-time Socceroo record for career national team goals scored.

In 1983, Australia II became the first non-U.S. winner of the America’s Cup, rallying from a 3-1 deficit to defeat Liberty, which was captained by this famous American skipper, who would regain the cup four years later.

This tennis star became the first woman of the Open Era to win a yearly Grand Slam, doing so in 1970. In 1971, she would lose an all-Australian Wimbledon final to Evonne Goolagong.

The final day of the 1996 Masters saw Greg Norman lose a six-shot lead over this eventual winner, who would hold a five-stroke lead over runner-up Norman by the end of the day en route to his 3rd green jacket.

This swimmer holds the Australian record for Olympic gold medals with 5, including 3 earned during the 2000 Sydney games, including his role as the anchor leg swimmer in the 4 x 100 relay.

Geopolitical tensions reached a head in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, which was marred by the “Blood in the Water” water polo match between these two nations.

This former member of the West Coast Eagles and Melbourne Demons joined the NFL in 1995 and was named to two Pro Bowl squads as a punter with the San Diego Chargers, as well as ushering in an era of Australian-style punters into the NFL.

Although born in New Zealand, this horse gained fame for his victories in the 1930 Melbourne Cup and a win in Tijuana’s Agua Caliente Handicap in 1932, although he mysteriously died in California days later. He was also the subject of a 1983 Australian feature film and he is memorialized in multiple Australian museums.

Captained by Luke Hodge, and coached by Alastair Clarkson the brown and gold-clad Hawks of this side have won the past two Australian Football League Grand Finals and a total of 12 titles since 1961. Interestingly, their theme song is to the tune of “The Yankee Doodle Boy”.