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The five-match series was a part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship, [3] the venues being Edgbaston, Lord's, Headingley, Old Trafford and The Oval. [ 4 ] The result was a 2–2 draw, with Australia retaining the Ashes (having won in 2021–22 ).
Australia's score of 60 in the first innings from 18.3 overs (or 111 balls, and taking just 93 minutes) is the quickest – in terms of balls faced – a team has been bowled out in the first innings of a Test match. Australia scored more runs from extras (14) than their highest-scoring batsman (Mitchell Johnson with 13). This was the first ...
However, since Test matches are a form of first-class cricket, a player's first-class statistics will include their Test match statistics – but not vice versa. Nowadays records are also maintained for List A and Twenty20 limited over matches. These matches are normally limited over games played domestically at the national level by leading ...
However, in the early days of Test cricket, matches were played for three or four days. England hosted Ireland at Lord's on 1st June 2023 for a four-day test. [23] There were also frequent six-day tests until the 1970s. [24] Four-day Test matches were last played in 1973, between New Zealand and Pakistan. [25]
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 ...
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
This happened in a Test between England and Zimbabwe in 1996. [6] England needed 205 to win the match in their fourth innings, off 37 overs, but finished the day 204/6. With three runs required off the last ball, Nick Knight was run out going for the third, thus making it the first time in Test history that a match had finished drawn with ...