Australia has won the cricket world cup many times. They have won the ICC Cricket world cup consecutively for the past 2 years 2004 and 2008. 2008 is their most recent cricket world cup victory which they accomplished under the captaincy of Ricky Ponting.
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Australia has no official national game. Cricket is Australia's "unofficial" national game. Although Rugby and Australian Rules football are popularly followed, no football code has achieved national dominance.
Japan national sport is Sumo WrestlingAustralia national sport is Cricket, although this is not official. Australia has no official national sport.
Yes. Cricket is Australia's unofficial national sport. However, other sports are rapidly becoming more popular.
Because Australia is a British colony and cricket is Britain's national sport.
soccer/football
Football is the highest watched and voted their national sport
Zimbabwe's national sport is soccer.
Australia does not have a national sport, but they do commonly play Association football (soccer), Australian Football, Basketball, Cricket, Golf, Rugby, Swimming, and Tennis.
Cricket
Australia was set up by the English and until the 1960s the culture of Australia was strongly English in its texture. It follows that Cricket naturally became a popular sport here as did rugby.