171 Facts About Mark Waugh

Mark Edward Waugh was born on 2 June 1965 and is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer, who represented Australia in Test matches from early 1991 to late 2002, after previously making his One Day International debut in 1988.

Mark Waugh is younger than his twin brother Steve by a few minutes.

Mark Waugh was previously a national selector, holding that position until August 2018.

Mark Waugh was primarily a right-handed batsman who batted in the No 4 position in Test matches.

Mark Waugh was a handy medium pace bowler, but changed to an off-spin bowler after back injuries restricted him.

Mark Waugh is regarded as one of the best slip fielders ever to play cricket and held the world record for most Test catches by a non-wicketkeeper until Rahul Dravid broke it in 2009.

Mark Waugh began as an all-rounder in the Australian ODI team, but he later focussed on batting and progressed to opening the batting, where he excelled and became Australia's leading one day runscorer.

Mark Waugh became the leading Australian run-scorer and century maker in ODIs during the 1999 tournament as well.

Mark Waugh is regarded as one of the most elegant and gifted stroke makers to ever play the game and his stylish strokeplay was likened to that of Stan McCabe, Alan Kippax, Victor Trumper, Charlie Macartney and Greg Chappell.

Mark Waugh's facile grace led to accusations that he was a "lazy" batsman who was vulnerable to soft dismissals.

Mark Waugh is the younger fraternal twin brother of Steve Mark Waugh, with whom he played for most of his career and under his captaincy.

Mark Waugh's father was a bank official and his mother was a teacher within the New South Wales Department of Education.

Mark Waugh was about to join Eastern Suburbs in the New South Wales Rugby League, but had to give up his career due to family reasons.

Mark Waugh's eldest brother Dion Bourne was an opening batsman who played for Bankstown in Sydney Grade Cricket and remains the leading runscorer in the club's history.

When Mark Waugh was 16, he grew around one foot in one year.

Mark Waugh was named as the player of the series after scoring two centuries.

Mark Waugh scored 123 in the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.

Mark Waugh did not contemplate going to university; both he and his brother became sports equipment salesmen.

Mark Waugh made his maiden First XI century during the season, scoring 108 against Mosman.

Mark Waugh struggled at first, but recovered to score six centuries for the season.

Mark Waugh eventually finished the season with 1460 runs and 75 wickets, breaking the club runscoring record by more than 200 runs.

Mark Waugh scored 177 against Petersham in just five hours and was selected for the state Second XI.

Waugh and Mark Taylor opened on debut against Tasmania at Hobart's TCA Ground.

Mark Waugh scored 28 in the second innings, but the drawn match was more notable for an incident on the third morning, when the new opening pair overslept on Taylor's 21st birthday.

Mark Waugh took his first catch, that of Roger Woolley on debut.

Mark Waugh fell on tough times, being dismissed for a duck and four by Test bowler Merv Hughes in the next match against Victoria and then 17 and a run out for another duck against the touring New Zealand.

However, for the final four matches of the season, Mark Waugh was recalled to the team as a front-line fast bowler and middle order batsman.

Mark Waugh's bowling was characterised by his liberal use of short-pitched bowling.

Batting at No 7, Mark Waugh was involved in a century stand with Greg Dyer to help avoid the follow on with 41.

Mark Waugh made only 24 in the second innings as the home team hung on for a draw to secure the Shield.

Mark Waugh had scored 167 runs at 15.18 and took 11 wickets at 32.00 for the season.

At this stage of his career, Mark Waugh lived in the shadow of his brother Steve, who was promoted to the Australian team at the age of 20.

In mid-1988, Mark Waugh was signed to replace Australian captain Allan Border for a six-week stint as the overseas professional at Essex County Cricket Club in England, after just one full season of Sheffield Shield.

Border had to leave before the end of the season because of the Australian tour of Pakistan and had recommended Mark Waugh, who arrived with high expectations.

Mark Waugh played in three First-class matches, scoring 178 runs at 44.50.

Mark Waugh's performances were enough to prompt Essex officials to invite him to return for the 1989 season.

Mark Waugh accepted, subject to him not being selected for the 1989 Ashes tour of England with the national side.

Simpson, now the Australia coach, criticised Mark Waugh, believing that he was not fully exploiting his talent.

Mark Waugh scored only one half-century in the remainder of the First-class season, ending the season with 727 First-class runs at 40.39.

In 1989, Mark Waugh returned to Essex for his first full season as the overseas professional.

Mark Waugh began slowly with a 77 against Derbyshire being his only score beyond 50 in his first six innings.

Mark Waugh then scored 112 not out against Glamorgan in a one-dayer, but had another lean run in the County Championship, failing to pass 30 in nine consecutive innings.

Mark Waugh returned to form with 110 against Middlesex, before scoring an unbeaten century against Australia in a tour match.

Mark Waugh scored 100 from 165 deliveries, while Steve reached his century in 101 balls for Australia.

Mark Waugh took 31 catches in 24 matches and took 14 wickets at 29.62.

Mark Waugh made 41 from 58 balls before his team lost after conceding the winning runs from the last ball of the match.

Mark Waugh then struck 42 and took three wickets against Sri Lanka, but was overlooked for the Test against New Zealand.

New South Wales was then sent in at the Sydney Cricket Ground and Mark Waugh struck 137 from 185 runs on the first day, including a six from Peter Sleep that narrowly missed the clock tower.

Mark Waugh returned to state duty and New South Wales needed to beat Tasmania in their last match to qualify for the final.

Mark Waugh scored an unbeaten 78 in the second innings as his team won the title.

Mark Waugh ended the Sheffield Shield as the top-scorer, with 967 runs at 80.85, prompting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to select him as its Player of the Year.

Mark Waugh scored an ODI and a Test century in matches at Edgbaston.

Mark Waugh started poorly, with a duck and 18 against Queensland and not taking a wicket.

Mark Waugh then faced the touring West Indies, Waugh was dismissed for nine in the first innings.

Mark Waugh then scored 69 and 39 against Western Australia.

Mark Waugh was overlooked for Test selection, but was selected in the ODI squad for the start of the triangular tournament against the West Indies and Pakistan.

Two days later against the West Indies in Sydney, Mark Waugh took his first ODI catch when he caught Gordon Greenidge from Peter Taylor.

Mark Waugh batted for the first time, partnering his brother during a run chase, scoring 18 from 19 balls.

Mark Waugh made 32 in the next match against the West Indies, and again Steve was run out while they were batting together.

Mark Waugh was omitted for the next three ODIs but returned to make 12 against Pakistan before scoring 42 from 53 in the final round-robin match against the West Indies.

Mark Waugh was omitted for the first final, which Australia won by two runs, before replacing Simon O'Donnell in the second match.

Mark Waugh took two catches in the second match and scored 22 and five as Australia lost both to concede the series.

Mark Waugh ended his first international series with 131 runs at 21.83.

At the start of the season, the Australian selectors wanted Mark Waugh to tighten up before he could be selected for Tests.

Mark Waugh 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.

Mark Waugh was widely lauded for the style and elegance of his innings.

Mark Waugh ended the day at 116 not out and was bowled early on the second morning for 138 by paceman Devon Malcolm to end a 171-run stand with Matthews.

Mark Waugh's innings had taken only 188 deliveries and featured heavy scoring through leg-side flicks.

Mark Waugh made 23 in the second innings and took his first Test catch, Mike Atherton, caught from the bowling of Bruce Reid.

Mark Waugh's performances saw him selected for the early 1991 tour of the West Indies, to play in five Tests and five ODIs against the world's most powerful team.

The ODI series resumed and after consecutive matches without passing 20, Mark Waugh played a large part in victory in the fourth match that gave Australia the series win.

Mark Waugh ended the series with 156 runs at 31.20 and eight wickets at 18.25.

The Test series resumed and Mark Waugh scored 71 in the second Test as Australia lost by ten wickets.

Mark Waugh top-scored with 64 in the first innings of another rain-affected draw, before taking his first Test wicket, Curtly Ambrose.

Mark Waugh admitted that he was pleased that the weather prevented him from having to spend more time facing the West Indian pacemen.

Mark Waugh's bowling included short-pitched bowling, reasoning that the Australians were going to be bounced anyway.

Mark Waugh reached his century in 133 minutes and was unbeaten at the end of the innings with 11 fours and three sixes.

Mark Waugh ended the Test series with 367 runs at 61.17, the best among the Australians, in addition to taking eight wickets at 22.83.

Mark Waugh was dropped from the ODI team in the early part of the season, then omitted from the Test team in favour of Tom Moody for the fifth Test against India in Perth.

Mark Waugh was part of the team that failed to make the semi-finals of the 1992 World Cup, but did not play the entire tournament due to his poor form.

Mark Waugh's best effort was an unbeaten 66 from 39 balls against Zimbabwe at Bellerive Oval.

Mark Waugh scored 60 and 57 in the first two matches to help set up an Australian victory, then scored his maiden ODI century, 108 in Hamilton.

Mark Waugh was looking for his century during an over by Phil Tufnell.

The first ball was a half-volley and Mark Waugh hit it straight from the middle of the bat.

Later in the over, another leg side ball hit his pads, rolled between his legs and onto the stumps, meaning that Mark Waugh missed out on his century.

Later in the year, Mark Waugh claimed that Pakistan captain Saleem Malik had offered him money to perform poorly during a match on the tour of Pakistan.

Mark Waugh's performances were beyond reproach: he scored three half-centuries in the Tests and an ODI century during the match in question.

Mark Waugh's old sparring partner Tufnell was bowling defensive to a packed leg side field.

Mark Waugh attempted a reverse sweep for the first time in his career, attempting to collect runs in the sparsely patrolled off side, but only managed to hit the ball onto his stumps and was bowled for 15.

Australia went on to win the Test and Mark Waugh contributed 71 and 29 in another win in Melbourne.

Mark Waugh was run out in a mix-up with his brother while looking for the single that would have given Steve his century.

Mark Waugh took his first Test wicket as a spin bowler, that of Inzamam-ul-Haq.

Mark Waugh scored 88 in the second Test win in Hobart and the teams moved to Sydney, where Australia sought a clean sweep.

Mark Waugh had a poor Test record on his home ground, having accumulated only 126 runs in seven innings at the ground.

Mark Waugh was given out caught behind, although the ball only flicked his pad.

Australia won by an innings and Mark Waugh then scored 61 in another innings victory in the second Test in Melbourne.

Mark Waugh was batting when off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was repeatedly no-balled for throwing by Darrell Hair, before being bowled by the spinner.

Mark Waugh scored 71 in the third Test and ended with 255 runs at 63.75 in a series clean sweep.

Later in the tournament, Mark Waugh returned to the opening position after the omission of Michael Slater, a position he retained until his retirement.

Mark Waugh ended the summer with 357 runs at 35.70 and took six wickets.

Mark Waugh was one of the leading players at the 1996 Cricket World Cup in the Indian subcontinent.

Mark Waugh combined in a 207-run partnership with his brother, the first double-century stand in World Cup history.

Mark Waugh followed this up with 126 from 135 balls against India in Bombay, frequently hitting through cover and midwicket.

Mark Waugh then dismissed Sachin Tendulkar for 90 when he looked likely to win the game for India.

Mark Waugh was named Man of the Match on both occasions.

Mark Waugh made an unbeaten 76 against Zimbabwe in a nine-wicket win in Nagpur.

The Australians then lost a one-off Test against Delhi at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, with Mark Waugh scoring 26 and 23.

The fifth Test in Perth marked the 44th time that the Waugh brothers had played together in Tests, surpassing the world record set by Ian and Greg Chappell in the 1970s.

Mark Waugh had scored 1059 ODI runs in the 1996 calendar year.

Mark Waugh made 26 in the opening Test, which Australia won by an innings.

Mark Waugh proceeded to England for his second Ashes tour in 1997 and gained attention upon his arrival for questioning the hunger and toughness of the home team.

Mark Waugh scored 131 runs at 43.66 as Australia lost all three ODIs, with a top-score of 95 in the final match at The Oval.

Mark Waugh made only 209 runs at 20.90 for the series, with only one half-century.

Mark Waugh hit two centuries in the tour matches, including one against Middlesex at Lord's.

The scrutiny increased after Mark Waugh failed to pass 20 in the first Test against New Zealand in Brisbane and dropped a catch.

Mark Waugh made a turnaround in the second Test in Perth, taking a horizontal airborne catch of Chris Cairns at full stretch.

Mark Waugh proceeded to score 86, including a lofted drive from Daniel Vettori onto the roof of the Lillee-Marsh Stand.

Australia went on to win the match and Mark Waugh made 81 in the third Test and ended the series with 196 runs at 39.20, enough to save his position in the team.

Mark Waugh scored 100 in the New Year's Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground to set up an Australian victory.

Mark Waugh 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.

Mark Waugh continued to resist on the following day and brought up his century.

Mark Waugh took satisfaction in the fact that his century was responsible for saving the Test.

Mark Waugh finished the series with 279 runs at 69.75.

Mark Waugh finished the series as Australia's leading runscorer with 320 runs at 35.55, and took seven wickets at 25.43.

The new combination got off to a poor start, with Mark Waugh run out for three in a mix-up in the first final, but the pair went on to become Australia's long term opening pair.

Mark Waugh had previously been more aggressive while Taylor was his partner, but with the naturally aggressive Gilchrist as his partner, Mark Waugh tended to anchor the innings.

Mark 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 lost the first two Tests in India, with Mark Waugh scoring 66 in the first innings in the first Test in Chennai but otherwise failing to pass 20.

Mark Waugh was 58 at stumps on the second day before being taken ill and requiring overnight injections.

Mark Waugh claimed that he could not recall much of the innings and was batting on "automatic pilot".

Mark Waugh was the only Australian to aggregate more than 200 runs for the series, finishing with 280 runs at 70.00.

Mark Waugh was a part of the limited overs team that won a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, losing the final to South Africa.

Mark Waugh's tour was disrupted by an appearance at a judicial hearing to give evidence relating to allegations of match-fixing he made against Saleem Malik.

Mark Waugh was booed when he went out to bat in the first innings and, apparently rattled by the hostile reception, he batted scratchily for 36 minutes before being dismissed for seven.

Mark Waugh regarded it as the most difficult day of his career.

Mark Waugh took three catches in England's second innings as Australia won the match to retain the Ashes.

Mark Waugh scored 36 and 43 in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which saw him pass 1,000 Test runs for the calendar year.

Mark Waugh started 1999 as he did the previous year, with a century in the New Year's Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Mark Waugh became the fifth Australian to take 100 Test catches when he caught Nasser Hussain in the first innings from the bowling of Colin Miller.

Australia won the Test and Mark Waugh ended the series with 393 runs at 56.14, placing him second in the batting averages.

Taylor retired after the Australian summer and Mark Waugh's brother became the Test captain and the first assignment was a tour of the Caribbean.

Mark Waugh then made 217 runs at 31.00 in the ODIs, Australia's second highest runscorer, before the team headed to England for the 1999 World Cup.

Mark Waugh started the tournament with a Man of the Match 67 against Scotland in Worcester as Australia unconvincingly won by four wickets in its first match.

Mark Waugh then scored two and 41 as Australia lost to New Zealand and Pakistan respectively, leaving them needing to avoid defeat in all of their remaining matches to win the World Cup.

Mark Waugh scored only 33 and three as Australia defeated Bangladesh and the West Indies to progress to the Super Six phase.

Mark Waugh then scored 104 from 120 balls against Zimbabwe at Lord's in another victory.

Mark Waugh was then run out for five in the final Super Six match against South Africa.

Mark Waugh was 37 not out when Darren Lehmann struck the winning runs.

Mark Waugh finished the tournament with 375 runs at 41.67, making him Australia's second highest runscorer for the tournament.

Mark Waugh continued to perform in the ODIs, with 174 runs at 34.80, but his Test troubles continued with 29 runs at 7.25.

Australia proceeded to Zimbabwe, where Mark Waugh scored 90 in a ten-wicket win.

Mark Waugh then scored 106 from 97 balls in the first ODI before scoring 54* in the second match.

Mark Waugh made only one and 25 in an interstate match following the Test but was retained for the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Mark Waugh managed a survivalist 41 in the first innings and an unbeaten 51 against the backdrop of a supportive crowd.

Mark Waugh was then on a hat-trick in the second innings as Australia won the Test.

Mark Waugh was retained and made his 100th Test appearance in the 2000 New Year's Test in Sydney, where he scored 32 in his only innings.

Mark 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.

Mark Waugh was tipped to win the Allan Border Medal due to his prolific runscoring that year.

Mark Waugh scored 70 and 57 in the third Test in Chennai to finish with 149 runs at 29.80 in a difficult series.

Mark Waugh continued his fine ODI form with another century, an unbeaten 133 against India in the second ODI, but was forced to return home after his finger was fractured by a Javagal Srinath delivery.

Mark Waugh broke Mark Taylor's world record of 157 Test catches.

Mark Waugh retired from international cricket in late 2002 after being omitted for the upcoming Test series against England in favour of Darren Lehmann.

Mark Waugh retired as Australia's highest run scorer and century maker in ODI cricket, with these records having since been broken by Ricky Ponting.

Mark Waugh took a record 181 catches in Test matches, the second highest for a non-wicketkeeper.

Mark Waugh primarily fielded in the second slip position whilst a fast bowler was operating.

In 1993, Mark Waugh was a member of the Australian team competing in the Hong Kong Sixes; one of the Indian team was Test all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar.

Mark Waugh received legal advice to seek further clarification of the scope of the investigation.

Mark Waugh was approached in Colombo by an Indian named "John", a bookmaker who asked him for general pitch and weather information as well as insider team information.

Mark Waugh says he rejected the bribe and went on to score 121* from 134 deliveries in the match.

Mark Waugh was previously a commentator on Network Ten for the Big Bash as well as a national selector.

Mark Waugh scored 38 international centuries - 20 in Test matches and 18 in ODIs.