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Monday, August 29, 2011

Test Cricket

Test Cricket is one of the three main sport forms of cricket. The first official Test match was held between England and Australia on 15th of March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Australia won the match. Since then the process of Test matches is so on with the players playing with red ball and wearing white dresses. Test match involves four innings which are played between two teams of 11 players each in a time spam of usually five days.

A Test match to celebrate 100 years of Test cricket was held in Melbourne from 12 to 17 March 1977. In this match, Australia won by 45 runs against England, the same margin as the first Test match in 1877.

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