Waugh yet another honour.

Steve Waugh continues to dominate in the cricket headlines but this time it was from the privacy of his own home,as he was awarded yet another honour from the queen on her magical birthday.

The award was not only for his services to Australian cricket, but also in recognition of his charity work for the Udayan orphanage in India.

Now Australia's most capped Test cricketer (160 Tests), and the scorer of most Test centuries for the country with 30, the award is the latest in a string of achievements as his career moves into its latter stages.

With Waugh at the helm of austrlian cricket, and proving their dominance in both the one day arena and also test matches, he continues to rise the level of which Australian cricket is played and portrayed for all as being one of the greatest leaders for this country.

Few players have a feel for the game's past in the manner that Waugh does, and his honour today is a reflection of the role he has played in ensuring the flame is carried from that past to the future not only on the field but in the maintenance of the game's traditions.

He is joined on the Honours List this year by former West Indian international Sir Garfield Sobers, who had strong links with Australia in the 1960s while he played for South Australia in the Sheffield Shield competition, and who was also made an Officer of the Order of Australia.

Former internationals Norman O'Neill and Peter Philpott were joined by administrators David Richards, the former chief executive of the International Cricket Council, and John Mitchell, in receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia.

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