Editing Steve Waugh (section)

===World record of 16 consecutive Test victories===
The 1999–2000 Test season, his first as captain in a home series, saw further change as Gilchrist ousted Healy from the wicket-keeper's position.<ref name="k299"/> With Gilchrist averaging over 50,{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}} the team went on to claim a clean-sweep of both Test series, 3–0 against Pakistan and India respectively.<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2003|pp=300–302}}</ref> Waugh had a lean stretch during the Pakistan series, scoring 58 runs at 14.50,<ref name="testlist"/> but his team won by margins of ten wickets, four wickets and an innings respectively.<ref name="auslist"/> Waugh returned to form in the First Test against India at the Adelaide Oval, scoring 150 in the first innings. Waugh only passed fifty once more in the series to end with 276 runs at 55.20.<ref name="testlist"/> Australia won all three Tests by comfortable margins of 285 runs, 180 runs and an innings respectively.<ref name="auslist"/>

After losing their first match, his team proceeded to win the season's triangular ODI tournament without further defeat. They then toured New Zealand and won the ODI series 5–1, losing their final match, which ended a world record of 14 consecutive ODI victories.<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2003|p=303}}</ref> They then swept the Tests against New Zealand 3–0 in early 2000,<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2003|p=304}}</ref> taking the Tests by 62 runs, six wickets and six wickets respectively.<ref name="testlist"/> Waugh led the way in the Second Test at the [[Basin Reserve]] in [[Wellington]] with an unbeaten 151 but otherwise did not pass 20, totalling 214 runs at 53.50.<ref name="testlist"/> His men had won all nine of their Tests during the southern hemisphere summer.<ref name="auslist"/>

His team continued their winning streak with an undefeated home season in 2000–01 when the West Indies were white-washed 5–0. The first two Tests were won by an innings,<ref name="testlist"/> and the Second Test at the [[WACA Ground|WACA]] brought a twelfth consecutive Test victory, surpassing the record held by the 1980s West Indies team led by [[Clive Lloyd]].<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2003|pp=310–311}}</ref> Waugh missed the Third Test with injury and Gilchrist led the team in his absence and kept the winning streak alive.{{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}<ref name="testlist"/> Waugh returned for the last two Tests and scored centuries in the first innings of both Tests with 121* and 103 respectively,<ref name="testlist"/> which Australia won by 352 runs and six wickets respectively.<ref name="auslist"/> Waugh compiled 349 runs at 69.80.<ref name="testlist"/>

Waugh then led the Australians undefeated in the triangular ODI tournament against the West Indies and Zimbabwe, despite employing a rotation system which saw the team often understrength with players rested.<ref>{{harvnb|Knight|2003|p=312}}</ref>