Editing Mark Waugh (section)

===Final series===
Maintaining his place in the Test team, Waugh toured South Africa in early 2002. Although he passed 15 in each of his innings, he managed only one half-century in his 169 runs at 33.8. In an attempt to regain form, he had a brief stint with Essex in the English County Championship. In the subsequent three-Test series against Pakistan, played on neutral grounds in Sri Lanka and the [[United Arab Emirates]] due to security reasons, he made only 80 runs at 20. Waugh retired from international cricket in late 2002 after being omitted for the upcoming Test series against England in favour of [[Darren Lehmann]].{{cn|date=November 2024}}

Waugh retired as Australia's highest run scorer and century maker (18) in ODI cricket, with these records having since been broken by [[Ricky Ponting]]. His world record of 181 Test catches was broken by India's Rahul Dravid in 2009.<ref name=":0" />

[[Image:Mark Waugh Graph.png|right|thumb|350px|Mark Waugh's Test career batting performance graph.]]