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In this quiz<\/a>, you have to name every player to open the batting for Australia in Test cricket in the 21st century.<\/p>\n Historically, the position of Test opener for Australia has not always been stable. The current men’s team continues to have an issue, with an Ashes series on the horizon, and no real clarity on which two players will open the batting, having tried numerous options over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n Try more: Match the Test cricketer to their birthplace<\/a><\/p>\n In this quiz, you have to name every player that has opened the batting for Australia in the 21st century, across the men’s and women’s teams. There are 45 players in all.<\/p>\n Also try: The ultimate quiz on umpires in cricket<\/a><\/p>\n One player on this list has opened over 200 times for Australia this century, across 13 years between 2011 and 2024. Two others, a long-time pairing, have done so on over 100 occasions. Only one woman has opened the batting in Tests more than 10 times (largely down to the limited number of matches scheduled).<\/p>\n You have nine minutes’ time to name these players. Good luck! <\/p>\n Quiz! How well do you know the Sharmas of international cricket?<\/a><\/p>\n Last updated on August 19, 2025.<\/p>\n Name every Australia Test opener in the 21st century <\/p>\n Please refresh the page if the quiz does not load properly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Wisden for all cricket updates, including live scores<\/a>, match stats, quizzes<\/a> and more. Stay up to date with the latest cricket news<\/a>, player updates, team standings,<\/a> match highlights, video analysis<\/a> and live match odds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this quiz, you have to name every player to open the batting for Australia in Test cricket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-79760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}