Tour of England v Pakistan 2010           Captain: Ricky Ponting

85th Test tour

Tenth Test-playing tour by the Australians against Pakistan.

(June - July 2010)

Including matches at home, Australia was unbeaten in Tests through the 2009-10 season, achieving seven wins from the eight Tests,  and winning all three seriesthey contested. They had turned around the poor results from 2008-09 and looked forward to this tour optimistically.

Other Australian Tours

Previous Tour

New Zealand 2009-10

Next Tour

India 2010-11

Next tour playing Pakistan

 2014-15

Members of the Test tour party (14  +  3)

Opening batsmen  Simon Katich, Shane Watson

Middle-order batsmen: Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Usman Khawaja, Marcus North

Wicket-keepers  Tim Paine(replacement for Brad Haddin)

All-rounder:  Steve Smith

Spin bowlers  Nathan Hauritz replaced by Steve O’Keefe  

Fast bowlers : Doug Bollinger, Mitchell Johnson, Ben Hilfenhaus (covered by Clint McKay), Peter George (replacement for Ryan Harris)

  State representation

 Sheffield Shield teams

NSW   New South Wales (6)

Qld  Queensland (3)

SA   South Australia (0)

Tas   Tasmania (3)

Vic  Victoria  (0)

WA  Western Australia (2)

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

   (27 February 1980) :

 29 yrs  3 months

Test Appearances made before the tour

Ponting 144,  Clarke 60,  Hussey 50,  Katich 50,  Johnson 34,  Watson 18,  Hauritz 15,  North 15,  Hilfenhaus 9,  Bollinger 8,  Harris 2,  McKay 1,  George 0,  Khawaja 0,  O’Keefe 0,  Paine 0,  Smith 0.

Tour officials

Selectors

Andrew Hilditch (chairman),  David Boon,  Jamie Cox,  Merv Hughes.

Selection

Limited-overs team announced:  24 May

Unavailable :  Phillip Hughes needed surgery for dislocated left shoulder;  Peter Siddle (back)

Tour Party announced:   21 June 2010.

Not selected:  Brett Lee,  Andrew McDonald,  Adam Voges.

Withdrawn:  Brad Haddin - he dropped out of the limited overs squad with an elbow injury on 5 June and could not recover in time for the Test tour, withdrawing in favour of Tim Paine the day after his selection.

Mitchell Johnson withdrew from the one-day internationals squad on 10 June and 19 year-old Josh Hazlewood was added to the squad.

Travel

The limited overs team arrived in Ireland on c 14 June.

The Test specialists left Australia on Tuesday c 30 June

On-tour selection panel

Reinforcements  (3)

Steve O’Keefe replaced Nathan Hauritz who went back to Australia after the first ODI with a foot injury. Shaun Tait replaced Hauritz in the one-day international squad.

Peter George was named on 5 July toreplace Ryan Harris who returned home early for an operation on his right knee injured in the one-day series

Clint McKay joined the tour squad on 18 July as cover for Ben Hilfenhaus who hurt his left shoulder fielding in the first Test. McKay was part of the limited-overs squad and had since then been playing for Yorkshire.

Josh Hazlewood, Steve O’Keefe and Shaun Tait were added to the original one-day internationals squad to play England, while Doug Bollinger, James Hopes and Steve O’Keefe were added to the T20 squad against Pakistan in place of Ryan Harris, Dan Christian (calf injury) and Nathan Hauritz respectively.

Fixtures/Results

† not first-class

⊕(T20)Twenty 20 international

§  one-day international (NatWest Series).

Time spent in England before First Test:

    43 days

(28 May   - 10 July)

Test appearances on tour

2  -   Bollinger,  Clarke,  Hilfenhaus,  M Hussey,  Johnson,  Katich,  North,  Paine,  Ponting,  Smith,  Watson

0  -   George,  Harris,  Hauritz,  Khawaja,  McKay,  O’Keefe.

Match appearances

T  Test match

o  one-day international 

x other match 

⊕ T/20 international

∙  played for opposition

 W won  L lost  D drawn   N no result   A abandoned   u unknown result

Highlights

∙   

Tour Summary

Return to Australia

Time away from Australia

  x days 

 (June - July 2010)

Finances

Postscript

Team Changes