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===Test debut during WSC=== In 1977, the breakaway professional competition [[World Series Cricket]] (WSC) signed many players who were then banned from first-class and Test cricket, thus leaving many vacancies in the [[Australian cricket team|Australian team]].<ref name=Wisden/><ref>Christison, p. 17.</ref> Border started the 1978β79 season with his maiden first-class century, 135 against [[Western Warriors|Western Australia]] at [[WACA Ground|Perth]], and followed up with 114 against [[Victorian Bushrangers|Victoria]] at the SCG.<ref name="c19">Christison, p. 19.</ref> After Australia lost the first two Tests in the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1978-79|Ashes series]], Border was selected for his Test debut at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|MCG]]. Making a nervous start, he took more than half an hour to score three runs.<ref name="c19" /> He made 29 and was [[run out]] for a duck in the second innings while attempting a single.<ref>Christison, p. 20.</ref> In the following Test at Sydney, he was in a "lonely class of his own" by top-scoring in both innings with 60 not out and 45 not out as Australia lost the match and the Ashes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152183.html |title=''Wisden, 1980 edition'': 4th Test Australia v England, match report |publisher=Content-aus.cricinfo.com |access-date=16 August 2013 |archive-date=7 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707194631/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152183.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He used his feet to the spinners as his teammates struggled to cope with the turn.<ref name="c21">Christison, p. 21.</ref> However, after scores of 11 and 1 in the Fifth Test at [[Adelaide Oval|Adelaide]] he was dropped for the Sixth Test.<ref name=Wisden/><ref name="c21" /> This was the only test he missed in his entire career; he played in all of Australia's next 153 tests. Recalled for the First Test against [[Pakistani cricket team|Pakistan]] at the MCG, Border batted at No. 3 and hit his maiden Test century as Australia reached 3/305, chasing 382 for victory. Border's dismissal for 105 triggered a major collapse of seven wickets for five runs as the other batsmen were unable to cope with the [[swing bowling|swing]] of [[Sarfraz Nawaz]]. Australia lost by 71 runs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153029.html |title=''Wisden, 1980 edition'': 1st Test Australia v Pakistan |publisher=Content-aus.cricinfo.com |access-date=16 August 2013 |archive-date=8 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120708163710/http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/153029.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Border made 85 and 66 not out as Australia squared the series with a victory in Perth.<ref>Christison, pp. 22β23.</ref> In his second Test series, he had topped the batting aggregates and averages with 276 runs at 92.00.<ref name="testlist" />
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