Alan Border

Allan Border (AB)

Border in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Allan Robert Border
Born	(1955-07-27) 27 July 1955 (age 62) Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname	AB, Captain Grumpy, Pugsley
Height	5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left arm orthodox
Role	Captain, coach, administrator
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 299)	29 December 1978 v England
Last Test	25 March 1994 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 49)	13 January 1979 v England
Last ODI	8 April 1994 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1980–1996	Queensland
1986–1988	Essex
1976–1980	New South Wales
1977	Gloucestershire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 156 273 385 382 Runs scored 11,174 6,524 27,131 9355 Batting average 50.56 30.62 51.38 31.71 100s/50s 27/63 3/39 70/142 3/62 Top score 205 127* 205 127* Balls bowled 4,009 2,661 9,750 3703 Wickets 39 73 106 90 Bowling average 39.10 28.36 39.25 32.27 5 wickets in innings 2 0 3 0 10 wickets in match 1 n/a 1 n/a Best bowling 7/46 3/20 7/46 3/20 Catches/stumpings 156/– 127/– 379/– 183/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 January 2008

Allan Robert Border AO (born 27 July 1955) is a former Australian international cricketer. A batsman, Border was for many years the captain of the Australian team. His playing nickname was "A.B.". He played 156 Test matches in his career, a record until it was passed by fellow Australian Steve Waugh. Border still retains the world record for the number of consecutive Test appearances of 153 and is second on the list of number of Tests as captain.

He was primarily a left hand batsman, but also had occasional success as a part-time left arm orthodox spinner. Border amassed 11,174 Test runs (a world record until it was passed by Brian Lara in 2005). He hit 27 centuries in his Test career. He retired as Australia's most capped player and leading run-scorer in both Tests and ODIs. His Australian record for Test Match runs stood for 15 years before Ricky Ponting overtook him during the Third Ashes Test against England in July 2009.

Border was one of the 55 inaugural inductees of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Allan Border was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as a "sports legend".

In 2016, Border was a recipient of the Queensland Greats Awards.

Born in Cremorne, a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Border grew up with three brothers in the nearby suburb of Mosman. His father John, from Coonamble in rural New South Wales, was a wool classer and his mother Sheila was the proprietor of a corner store. The family had a spacious backyard for playing games, and Mosman Oval, the home of district cricket and baseball clubs, was across the street. Border attended North Sydney Boys High School, and earned his leaving certificate in 1972.