Australian Cricket Hall of Fame

The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame is a part of the Australian Gallery of Sport and Olympic Museum in the National Sports Museum at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.^[1] This hall of fame commemorates the greatest Australian cricketers of all time, as the "selection philosophy for the hall of fame focuses on the players' status as sporting legends in addition to their outstanding statistical records."^[1] Inductees must be retired from international cricket for at least five years.^[1] The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame was an idea conceived by the Melbourne Cricket Club to honour Australia's legendary cricketers. It was opened on 6 December 1996 by the then Prime Minister, John Howard.^[2]

The hall of fame opened with ten inaugural members, ranging from Fred Spofforth, a pace bowler who retired from Test cricket in 1887, to Dennis Lillee who played his last Test match in 1984. As of February 2018, the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame comprises 49 members.^[1] All twelve members of the Australian Cricket Board Team of the Century are included, six of them amongst the inaugural members.^[3] The vast majority are men; Belinda Clark was the first woman admitted to the hall when she was inducted in 2014 (three years after she was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame).^[4][5] Clarke and Karen Rolton are the only two female Test captains to have been admitted, along with twenty-one of her male counterparts.^[6][7] Betty Wilson and Rolton became the second and third woman to enter the hall of fame when they were inducted in 2017 and 2018 respectively.^[8][9]

As of 2018, the selection committee comprises the Melbourne Cricket Club chairman, Peter King, former Australian Test captains, Bill Lawry and Mark Taylor, former Test batsman Paul Sheahan, the Chief Executive of Cricket Australia, James Sutherland, the Chief Executive of the Australian Cricketers' Association, Alistair Nicholson, and media representatives Gideon Haigh (writer for The Australian) and Ben Horne (writer for The Daily Telegraph).^[1] New members are inducted at the annual Allan Border Medal night.^[8]

Members of the Hall of Fame

Key

Australian Cricket Hall of Fame members and their Test cricket statistics

Name	Image	Inducted[1]	Career	Mat	Batting					Bowling						Fielding		Ref(s)
					Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Balls	Mdn	Runs	Wkts	Best	Avg	Ca	St
Jack Blackham ^		1996	1877–1894	35	62	11	800	74	15.68	–	–	–	–	–	–	37	24	[11]
Fred Spofforth $		1996	1877–1887	18	29	6	217	50	9.43	4,185	416	1,731	94	7/44	18.41	11	–	[12]
Victor Trumper $		1996	1899–1912	48	89	8	3,163	214*	39.04	546	20	317	8	3/60	39.62	31	–	[13]
Clarrie Grimmett $		1996	1925–1936	37	50	10	557	50	13.92	14,513	736	5,231	216	7/40	24.21	17	–	[14]
Bill Ponsford		1996	1924–1934	29	48	4	2,122	266	48.22	–	–	–	–	–	–	21	–	[15]
Don Bradman ^$		1996	1928–1948	52	80	10	6,996	334	99.94	160	3	72	2	1/8	36.00	32	–	[16]
Bill O'Reilly $		1996	1932–1946	27	39	7	410	56*	12.81	10,024	585	3,254	144	7/54	22.59	7	–	[17]
Keith Miller $		1996	1946–1956	55	87	7	2,958	147	36.97	10,461	337	3,906	170	7/60	22.97	38	–	[18]
Ray Lindwall ^$		1996	1946–1960	61	84	13	1,502	118	21.15	13,650	419	5,251	228	7/38	23.03	26	–	[19]
Dennis Lillee $		1996	1971–1984	70	90	24	905	73*	13.71	18,467	652	8,493	355	7/83	23.92	23	–	[20]
Warwick Armstrong ^		2000	1902–1921	50	84	10	2,863	159*	38.68	8,022	407	2,923	87	6/35	33.59	44	–	[21]
Neil Harvey ^$	–	2000	1948–1963	79	137	10	6,149	205	48.41	414	23	120	3	1/8	40.00	64	–	[22]
Allan Border ^$		2000	1978–1994	156	265	44	11,174	205	50.56	4,009	197	1,525	39	7/46	39.10	156	–	[23]
Bill Woodfull ^		2001	1926–1934	35	54	4	2,300	161	46.00	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	[24]
Arthur Morris ^$		2001	1946–1955	46	79	3	3,533	206	46.48	111	1	50	2	1/5	25.00	15	–	[25]
Greg Chappell ^$	–	2002	1970–1984	87	151	19	7,110	247*	53.86	5,327	208	1,913	47	5/61	40.70	122	–	[26]
Stan McCabe		2002	1930–1938	39	62	5	2,748	232	48.21	3,746	127	1,543	36	4/13	42.86	41	–	[27]
Ian Chappell ^$		2003	1964–1980	75	136	10	5,345	196	42.42	2,873	87	1,316	20	2/21	65.80	105	–	[28]
Lindsay Hassett ^		2003	1938–1953	43	69	3	3,073	198*	46.56	111	2	78	–	–	–	30	–	[29]
Hugh Trumble ^		2004	1890–1904	32	57	14	851	70	19.79	8,099	452	3,072	141	8/65	21.78	45	–	[30]
Alan Davidson $		2004	1953–1963	44	61	7	1,328	80	24.59	11,587	431	3,819	186	7/93	20.53	42	–	[31]
Clem Hill ^		2005	1896–1912	49	89	2	3,412	191	39.21	–	–	–	–	–	–	33	–	[32]
Rod Marsh $	–	2005	1970–1984	96	150	13	3,633	132	26.51	72	1	54	–	–	–	343	12	[33]
Bob Simpson ^$		2006	1957–1978	62	111	7	4,869	311	46.81	6,881	253	3,001	71	5/57	42.27	110	–	[34]
Monty Noble ^		2006	1898–1909	42	73	7	1,997	133	30.25	7,159	361	3,025	121	7/17	25.00	26	–	[35]
Charlie Macartney		2007	1907–1926	35	55	4	2,131	170	41.78	3,561	177	1,240	45	7/58	27.55	17	–	[36]
Richie Benaud ^$		2007	1952–1964	63	97	7	2,201	122	24.45	19,108	805	6,704	248	7/72	27.03	65	–	[37]
George Giffen ^		2008	1881–1896	31	53	0	1,238	161	23.35	6,391	434	2,791	103	7/117	27.09	24	–	[38]
Ian Healy		2008	1988–1999	119	182	23	4,356	161*	27.39	–	–	–	–	–	–	366	29	[39]
Steve Waugh ^$		2009	1985–2004	168	260	46	10,927	200	51.06	7,805	332	3,445	92	5/28	37.44	112	–	[40]
Bill Lawry ^	–	2010	1961–1971	67	123	12	5,234	210	47.15	14	1	6	0	0/0	–	30	–	[41]
Graham McKenzie	–	2010	1961–1971	60	89	12	945	76	12.27	17,681	547	7,328	246	8/71	29.78	34	–	[42]
Mark Taylor ^		2011	1989–1999	104	186	13	7,525	334*	43.49	42	1	26	1	1/11	26.00	157	–	[43]
Doug Walters	–	2011	1965–1981	74	125	14	5,357	250	48.26	3,295	79	1,425	49	5/66	29.08	43	–	[44]
Shane Warne		2012	1992–2007	145	199	17	3,154	99	17.32	40,705	1,761	17,995	708	8/71	25.41	125	–	[45]
Glenn McGrath $		2013	1993–2007	124	138	51	641	61	7.36	29,248	1,471	12,186	563	8/24	21.64	38	–	[46]
Charles Turner		2013	1887–1895	17	35	4	323	29	11.53	5,179	457	1,670	101	7/43	16.53	8	–	[47]
Belinda Clark ^$	–	2014	1991–2005	15	25	5	919	136	45.95	78	5	28	1	1/10	28.00	4	–	[48]
Mark Waugh		2014	1991–2002	128	209	17	8,029	153*	41.81	4,853	171	2,429	59	5/40	41.16	181	–	[49]
Jack Ryder ^		2015	1920–1929	20	32	5	1,394	201*	51.62	1,897	71	743	17	2/20	43.70	17	–	[50]
Adam Gilchrist ^$		2015	1999–2008	96	137	20	5,570	204*	47.60	–	–	–	–	–	–	379	37	[51]
Wally Grout	–	2016	1957–1966	51	67	8	890	74	15.08	–	–	–	–	–	–	163	24	[52]
Jeff Thomson	–	2016	1972–1985	51	73	20	679	49	12.81	10,535	300	5,601	200	6/46	28.00	20	–	[53]
David Boon		2017	1984–1996	107	190	20	7,422	200	43.65	36	3	14	0	0/0	–	99	–	[54]
Matthew Hayden		2017	1994–2009	103	184	14	8,625	380	50.73	54	0	40	0	0/7	128.00	128	–	[55]
Betty Wilson $		2017	1948–1958	11	16	1	862	127	57.46	2,885	172	803	68	7/7	11.80	10	–	[56]
Norm O'Neill		2018	1958–1965	42	69	8	2,779	181	45.55	1,392	48	667	17	4/41	39.23	21	–	[57]
Ricky Ponting ^$		2018	1995–2012	168	287	29	13,378	257	51.85	587	24	276	5	1/0	55.20	196	–	[58]
Karen Rolton ^$		2018	1995–2009	14	22	4	1,002	209*	55.66	1,104	79	327	14	2/6	23.35	9	–	[59]

References

External links

• List of inductees