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	Test cricket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Test matches are a subset of first-class cricket.
		Test status is conferred upon a country by the International Cricket Council.
		Zimbabwe's Test matches were temporarily suspended from 10 June 2004, to 6 January 2005, and from 18 January 2006, to 2007, although they retained their official status as a Test-playing nation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_cricket (1758 words)

	Test match (football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A test match in football is a match played at the end of a season between a team that has done badly in a higher league and one that has done well in a lower league of the same football league system.
		When the Football League was first expanded to two divisions in 1893, test matches were employed to decide relegation and promotion between them, but the practice was scrapped in favour of automatic relegation and promotion in 1899.
		Test matches are also used in rugby union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Test_match_(football) (445 words)

	Test Cricket - An Explanation of Test Match Cricket
		Test match cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and regarded by players and serious cricket fans as the ultimate test of playing ability as compared to one-day international cricket.
		The first test match was played between England and Australia in 1877, with the creation of the famous "Ashes" trophy in 1882 after Australia easily beat the Marylebone Cricket Club team, which was not a Test match, interestingly enough.
		The highest individual test innings was completed on 13 April 2004, when Brian Lara of the West Indies scored 400 not out against England in Antigua, surpassing the previous record of 380 runs made by Matthew Hayden from Australia in a match against Zimbabwe in October 2003.
	www.abcofcricket.com /cfb1/cfb5/cfb5.htm (668 words)

	The significance of the new Test Match Cricket international ranking system \| Samizdata.net
		But Test Match cricket is such an unwieldy game that a Test Match "world cup" would either last for ever, or else change the nature of Test Match Cricket so profoundly as to make the event meaningless.
		Test Matches, by their nature, come in clutches of five day games, called "series", which resemble months-long military campaigns, not one-off decisive battles.
		Thus, for example, if the horribly weakened Zimbabwe side loses the second match in their three match series in England just as they lost their first game, as is altogether likely, the third and final game, even though it won't affect the matter of who wins the series, will still count for something.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/003565.html (1869 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport Tribune
		It is a publicity exercise and even if Indian football standards are not all that great there will at least be a realisation that the game is still the biggest crowd puller in the country, cricket or no cricket.
		The return match was scheduled to be held in Calcutta during Dushera festival.
		The AFC took a serious view of Mohun Bagan’s forfeiture of the match and barred the club from participating in the Asian Club Championship for a period of one year.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000311/spr-trib.htm (2942 words)

	Telegraph \| Sport \| Women' Test Match: Taylor's century pays dividends
		Taylor played wonderfully well for her second Test century as England established a first-innings lead of 181.
		And the 27-year-old Berkshire batsman was only 12 short of equalling Betty Snowball's record for the highest Test score by an England player - made against New Zealand at Christchurch in 1934-35 - when she was dismissed for 177.
		Greenway, an 18-year-old left-hander, batted with maturity as she recorded her maiden Test fifty albeit against a largely toothless attack.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /sport/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/sport/2003/08/10/scwoma10.xml (383 words)

	Caribbean s Brian Lara West Indies team captain defends the last test match in Antigua Caribbean cricket alive and ...
		Michael Vaughan’s side is looking to become the first English team to win a Test series in the Caribbean in 36 years and the captain is under no illusions about the enormity of the task that lies ahead.
		In this series the champion left-hander’s personal form has matched that of the West Indies team as a whole, and with his men trailing 0-3 in the series many feel he should step aside.
		“I have another Test match to focus on,” he said, “so the time for assessing my position of captain is not now,” he told Saturday’s media conference before returning to the dressing room where he wept openly.
	www.caribzones.com /testmatchnews.html (1391 words)

	Melbourne Cricket Ground
		Access on match days is generally unrestricted and visitors are encouraged to attend action-packed MCG football or cricket while in Melbourne.
		Davis Cup challenge round matches were held at the Warehouseman's Ground (now the Albert Ground), the first matches of their type in the southern hemisphere.
		The Bledisloe Cup rugby union test match between Australia and New Zealand was staged before an Australian rugby record crowd of 90,119.
	users.california.com /~csuppes/Soccer/Australia/Melbourne (2459 words)

	RL1908 - Rugby League Football History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One Test match, in 1909, was taken to Wentworth Park on the western fringe of the Sydney CBD.
		First grade rugby league matches have continued to be played on the SCG sporadically since the 1987 Grand Final, with the most recent being a South Sydney v St George Illawarra match in 2005.
		During the 1990s Test matches, particularly against the smaller nations, were taken to regional NSW and Queensland, along with Melbourne.
	www.rl1908.com /Tests/grounds.htm (1044 words)

	Darwin, an unlikely Test venue
		Darwin was chosen to host this week's match to help Australia fulfil their commitment to the ICC's world Test championship, which decrees that all 10 Test-playing nations must play each other home and away within a five-year period.
		Because the ground was not up to Test match standard, a temporary pitch, weighing 36 tonnes, was grown in Melbourne then shipped north and dropped into place by a giant crane.
		Australia's team has entered into the irreverent spirit of the match by bringing their families with them, taking their children on visits to crocodile farms and nature sanctuaries.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2003/jul/17darwin.htm (407 words)

	All Blacks v Fiji test match: Wellington 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Please also note that tickets for the test match are very competitively priced and that the proceeds from the match will go to the Fiji Rugby Union to assist the development of Pacific Island rugby.
		The Wellington XV’s match preparations were hindered by the late withdrawal of several players due to injury and this showed in the first half, going to the break trailing 17-0.
		Wellington Rugby Football Union season ticket holders will be rewarded for their support of local rugby by receiving a limited period of preferential rights to purchase tickets for the All Blacks match against Fiji at WestpacTrust Stadium on 29 June at 7:00pm.
	www.wrfu.co.nz /wrfu_2001/doormouse/wrfu_news/archive_template.php?news_doc_name=../wrfu_news/wgw_080602093940phpmUqaSJ.html (1912 words)

	Rugby League. (from FOOTBALL) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Originally called the Northern Rugby Football Union (popularly Northern Union), it was formed when 22 clubs from Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire left the Rugby Football Union over the question of compensation for loss of wages sustained by players while participating in games.
		Rugby's distinctive features are (1) that players may use their hands and catch, throw, or run with the ball in addition to maneuvering it with their feet, as in football (soccer), and (2) the use of the scrum, or scrummage, which is a method of...
		Football is a game in which two teams of 11 players each try to move a ball, by running with it or passing it, across the other team's goal.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-232601 (828 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport Tribune
		The third and final Test between Australia and India at Sydney was Mark Waugh’s 100th Test match.
		Boycott who made his Test debut against Australia at Trent Bridge in the 1964 series took 17 years 28 days to play his 100th Test match against the same country at Lord’s in the 1981 series.
		Pakistan’s Javed Miandad is the first player in Test cricket to score a century on his debut as well as in his 100th Test match.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2000/20000115/spr-trib.htm (3919 words)

	England v Zimbabwe - 2nd Test - Match Preview
		Most famous among these must be the two great football sides, Newcastle United, whose massive St. James' Park stadium dominates the skyline of the region's largest city, and their great rivals Sunderland.
		Indeed, some of the strongest club leagues in the country operate there, but solely because of the fact that until the granting of first-class status to Durham in 1992, this beautiful part of the world, of which I am proud to call myself a native, was largely ignored by the game's professional establishment.
		The beginning of their first Test Match this coming Thursday, will be a proud moment for this proudest of peoples.
	www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/news030603/news030603.htm (943 words)

	ABC Sport - Cricket - McGrath's big day finally arrives
		McGrath, Test cricket's fourth all-time leading wicket-taker with 454 victims, is the number 11 "bunny" batsman in the crack Australian team and before today he had accumulated 477 runs in 101 Tests at an average of just 6.53.
		But it took the 34-year-old fast bowler until his 102nd Test and 11 years to claim his first-ever Test half-century and he did it against New Zealand in the first Test at the Gabba in Brisbane.
		Gillespie was only five runs off his highest Test score at stumps on 43 with Australia batting on at 564 for nine off 147 overs and occupying the crease for more than 10 hours.
	www.abc.net.au /sport/content/200411/s1247982.htm (754 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Anti-hooligan measures in place for fifth Test
		And after unruly behaviour during the first Test at Edgbaston earlier this year, Yorkshire police are determined to guard against a repeat.
		We have seen this in the wearing of football stripes, the football banners in the crowd and the organised chanting.
		Previous Headingley Tests have been marred by violence, including a pig's head being paraded on the Western Terrace during the visit of Pakistan in 1992, as also the incident where reserve wicketkeeper Tim Zoehrer was punched as he got onto the Australian bus during the 1993 Ashes series.
	www.indiaabroad.com /sports/1998/aug/05f.htm (320 words)

	Game Set And Match II
		After your team instructions have been entered, a little bit of play is animated (the players are represented as little blocks) and then it's back to the team-orders screen again.
		Erm, I think that two of the enclosed are absolutely brillo (namely Super Hang On and Match Day 2) and are worth getting the compilation for on their own.
		So, basically, if you've already got Super Hang On and Match Day 2 then you might feel a bit of a plonker for shelling out on this; however, if you haven't then it's worth a look (the game, not your plonker).
	www.ysrnry.co.uk /articles/gamesetandmatchii.htm (1073 words)

	Umpires for India-Pakistan series named -DAWN - Sport; 24 February, 2005
		Bucknor's first Test match in the middle was the Fourth Test between West Indies and India in Kingston, Jamaica in April 1989.
		The match referee for the India v Pakistan series will be Chris Broad from the Elite Panel of ICC Referees while Alan Hurst will referee the matches between South Africa and Zimbabwe.
		Billy Doctrove from Dominica who, like Bucknor, is also a qualified football referee will stand in his first Test match since two neutral officials became mandatory in the first Test of the South Africa v Zimbabwe series in March.
	www.dawn.com /2005/02/24/spt3.htm (310 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Euro 2004 \| France 2-1 England
		Zidane, Patrick Vieira and Robert Pires produced the fluid football so typical of the French, to whom the first real goalscoring opportunity fell when David Trezeguet headed over from Vieira's precision cross.
		King, who was starting his first match for England, looked impressive and the anonymity of Henry in the first half owed much to the Spurs centre-half's concentration at the back.
		It was also the first time England have failed to convert a regulation time penalty kick in a European Championship finals match.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/football/euro_2004/3787491.stm (1105 words)

	Test Match
		May 14: Bangladesh's players have a further chance to impress against a second string Sussex in a three-day match at Hove on Sunday.
		May 14: Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is confident his team will defeat the West Indies in the Test and one-day series even without frontline paceman Shoaib Akhtar.
		NEW DELHI: Former Australian test captain Steve Waugh plans to build a “cricket city” on the outskirts of the eastern Indian city of Calcutta where he already is helping...
	archive.wn.com /2005/05/15/1400/testmatch (387 words)

	Caribbean cricket ezine Brian Lara cricket world record in Antigua cricket test match exciting cricket Test Match news ...
		The matches at the Beausejour Stadium in Gros Islet followed the double wash-out in Trinidad and Tobago and the abandonment of the Grenada match due to water-logged outfields.
		The pitch at Kensington is the same which was used for the third Test when England humbled Brian Lara’s West Indies team in three days between April 1 and 3.
		Applewhaite said that after the Test match he gave the pitch a two-week rest before resuming preparations.
	www.caribzones.com /onedaybds040504.html (462 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 387 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After a brief search, I discovered that the 22 players who took the field in the inaugural Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) between March 15 and 19, 1877, included one Barnsby Beauchamp Cooper, who was born in "Dacca, India" on, curiously enough, March 15, 1844.
		While Bangladesh's Test status has been the subject of much sarcasm, BB Cooper's story shows that the link between Test match cricket and Bangladesh is about as ancient as it can get.
		With this thought in mind, I would like to propose that the trophy for the rubber in Test match cricket between Australia and Bangladesh should be named after BB Cooper.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/06/30/d50630040533.htm (533 words)

	VFRU set sight on West Oceania test matches
		According to the President of Vanuatu Football Rugby Union, David Saul, preparations are underway to have a team ready by then.
		"These test matches are organised by the Federation Oceania Rugby Union (FORU) to help strengthen rugby in the region and prepare new rugby nations before the Oceania Rugby World Cup qualifying rounds next year," said David Saul.
		However last Tuesday's match had to be annulled and rescheduled to a later date.
	www.news.vu /en/sports/rugby/vfru-set-sight-on-west-oc.shtml (316 words)

	The Boxing Day Test - Australia
		In the One Day Match, the teams wear bright coloured uniforms (known as pyjamas) and play is for a set number of overs over 1 day (and sometimes into the evening).
		There are those who say that Test Match Cricket is probably the most boring thing to watch on this earth — including watching grass grow and paint dry (but then those same people also point out that grass grows and paint dries faster than the average Test Match).
		The Cricketing nations of the world, however, know that the Test Match is the ultimate sporting game of strategy and skill.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art20734.asp (612 words)

	BBC - Test Match Special - How to listen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There are six different ways cricket fans can tune into Test Match Special.
		Test Match Special is also available on digital radio.
		When Test Match Special is broadcasting you can listen via this website.
	www.bbc.co.uk /tms/listen.shtml (284 words)

	BBC SPORT \| TEST MATCH SPECIAL \| Who won the quiz?
		You are in: You are in: TV & Radio: Test Match Special
		The winners of the TMS quiz for the third Test in India were Gareth Morris, from Prestwich in Manchester, and Gary Pocklington from Reigate.
		The prize was The Benson & Hedges yearbook.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/tv_and_radio/test_match_special/1394425.stm (132 words)

	Gnus of the World: Third Test: Match drawn
		Actually, those who find it boring are now in a minority, it seems (especially those who think football is more interesting than cricket - more on that here - apparently cricket shirts are outselling football shirts).
		Owing to incapacity, it is unlikely she will ever attend another Ashes match, but at least she'll be able to say she was there and saw the England captain make a century.
		But this was not a favourable pitch and, as the day wore on, he began to look tired and even ill. Vaughan and Tresco piled on the runs - 137 of them, in fact, until Tresco attempted to sweep and just nicked the ball on the way round into the keeper's gloves.
	gnusoftheworld.blogspot.com /2005/08/third-test-match-drawn.html (2733 words)

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