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Test Cricket is a format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the "ultimate test" of a cricketer's skill, endurance, and temperament, it is a format of international cricket where two teams in white clothing, each representing a country, compete over a match that can last ...
Note: If the qualification is removed, the record Test batting average is Australian Kurtis Patterson's 144.00; Patterson made scores of 30 and 114 not out in his only two Test innings. [40] A very few one-Test wonders have never been dismissed, leaving them without a defined Test batting average.
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
2009. Australian cricket team in South Africa in 2008–09, the 3-Test series is won by Australia 2–1.; Marcus North 117 on debut vs South Africa at Johannesburg. [20]Phillip Hughes scores a century in both innings vs South Africa at Durban.
The fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval saw England win by an innings and 579 runs, the largest victory by an innings in Test cricket history. The largest victory for India, which is the 12th largest, is their win against West Indies in the first Test of the 2018–19 tour at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium , where the ...
Between 1960 and 1974 the England cricket team represented England, Scotland and Wales in Test cricket. [a] During that time England played 147 Test matches, resulting in 45 victories, 77 draws and 25 defeats. [3] Their win to loss ratio of 1.80 was the best in Test cricket during this period. [4]
The final of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship, a Test cricket match, was played from 7 to 11 June 2023 at The Oval, London, between Australia and India. [1] Australia won the match by 209 runs to win the second edition of the ICC World Test Championship. This marked Australia's maiden win of the Championship.
List of bowlers who have taken 300 or more wickets in Test cricket; List of centuries in women's Test cricket; List of centuries scored on Test cricket debut; List of cricketers who have played 100 Tests; List of cricketers who have scored a double century and a century in the same Test match; List of cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls ...