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The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which started on 1 August 2019. [1] [2] It is the premier championship for Test cricket. It is in line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three ...
In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13] In taking 10–53 in the second innings he became the first bowler to capture ten wickets in a Test match innings, and his analysis remains the best ...
The record stood for nine years, until it was broken by England's Geoffrey Boycott in the 1982 series against India. [4] [5] Boycott remained the top scorer in the format until Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar surpassed his tally two years later in 1983.
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The second ICC World Test Championship started on 4 August 2021 with the Pataudi Trophy series [2] and finished with Australia lifting the trophy after defeating India in the final in June 2023. The third ICC World Test Championship started on 16 June 2023 with the 2023 Ashes series and will conclude with the final in England in the summer of 2025.
His total of 51 centuries in Test matches is a world record for highest number of centuries by a batsman and his 49 centuries in ODI matches are the second highest number of centuries after Virat Kohli. [4] [5] He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against Bangladesh in March 2012. [3]
[5] Lara scored a Test century for the first time in his fifth Test match in 1993 against Australia. [6] His score of 277 in that match is the fourth-highest maiden century in Test history. [7] The 375 he made against England in 1994 was the highest individual Test score for nine years, until Matthew Hayden surpassed it in 2003. [8]
Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings.