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The crowd at Eden Gardens on the first day of the first day/night Test match in India.. Although the idea was birthed in the western Adelaide suburb of Cowandilla in the 1930s, [3] [4] which led to an 11 team Electric Light Cricket competition there in the 1930s, [5] it is believed that the first match played under floodlights in England was on 11 August 1952, between Middlesex County Cricket ...
[citation needed] Live cricket had been broadcast since 1927, but originally it was thought that Test match cricket was too slow for ball-by-ball commentary to work. However, Seymour de Lotbiniere , who was responsible for live sports coverage and who went on to become head of outside broadcasts at the BBC, realised that ball-by-ball commentary ...
It was the first triple hundred in Tests. Sandham was 39 years and 275 days old, and playing his last Test match: he is Test cricket's oldest triple-centurion. He had also scored 50 in the second innings, for a match total of 375 which remained a record until 1974 (GS Chappell, 247* and 133).
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) [4] is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. [5] The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and StatsGuru , a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present.
The result of a match is a "win" when one side scores more runs than the opposing side and all the innings of the team that has fewer runs have been completed. [1] The side scoring more runs has "won" the game, and the side scoring fewer has "lost". If the match ends without all the innings being completed, the result may be a draw or no result.
2: 35.00 Tie+W and Tie+L indicates matches tied and then won or lost in a tiebreaker such as a bowlout or super over. Tied matches indicate matches where a tiebreaker was not played. *The win percentage excludes no results and counts ties (irrespective of a tiebreaker) as half a win. Updated: 23 February 2025 [3]
This was the first such end to a Test match in more than 1,000 Tests. The International Cricket Council (ICC), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) later affirmed that the decision to award the match to England was in accordance with the Laws of Cricket. After the game, an email was leaked showing that Hair had ...