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 in his hands and a machine gun slung across his chest. Behind him and to the left is an East German border marker. Near the top rim is a semicircular inscription: () “For Exemplary Border Service”. The reverse of the medal displays the Coat of Arms of the GDR. This version of the medal is not numbered on the reverse. This medal was worn on the left upper chest suspended from a woven 21mm wide pentagonal shaped 46 x 35mm ribbon. The Ribbon was initially dark green later changed to lighter green shade with two perpendicular 1 mm wide red