Allan Border occasional success as a part-time left arm orthodox spinner. Border amassed 11,174 Test runs (a world record until it was passed by Brian Lara in 2005). He hit 27 centuries in his Test career. He retired as Australia's most capped player and leading run-scorer in both Tests and ODIs. His Australian record for Test Match runs stood for 15 years before Ricky Ponting overtook him during the Third Ashes Test against England in July 2009. Border was one of the 55 inaugural inductees of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Allan Border
Medal for Exemplary Border Service stripes spaced 1.5 mm from each edge of the ribbon. Berlin sculptor Fritz Schulz also designed this medal. In 1976 the head of the GDR Border Guard () proposed to create a new style of medal since the design on the obverse showed an out of date border policeman with an obsolete machine gun. He suggested that the revised medal be presented on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Border Troops of the GDR. The graphic artist Hans Räde proposed four different designs. Minister of National Defense, Army General Hoffmann, rejected all of these proposals. He felt the