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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Test Cricket
| Why was South Africa excluded from playing Test cricket between 1969 and 1991? | Test Cricket (ozzz2002) |
Apartheid policy.. South Africa was barred from all sports (including Olympics) and many countries also imposed trade sanctions against them.
| Who, in 86 test matches, took more than 5 wickets per game (on average), had a nickname of Paddles, and was handy with the bat as well? | Legends of Test Cricket (Buguru) |
Richard Hadlee . Hadlee's finest performance was against Australia in November 1985. He took 15 wickets in the match, including nine in the first innings.
| Who won the very first toss of the coin in a Test Match? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
Australia. D.W. Gregory of Australia tossed the coin and J.Lillywhite of England called incorrectly. Gregory opted to bat first.
| Who won the match when Dickie Bird stood in his first test match, or was it a draw? | Cricket Test Matches (crispyspiders) |
England. England beat New Zealand by an innings and 1 run! New Zealand 276 & 142, England 419 (NZ batted first).
| Who were the only test nation not to draw a test match? | Test Cricket 2004 (burtfro) |
Pakistan. Pakistan played 7, won 2 and lost 5.
| Who were the first twins to play Test cricket together? | Test Cricket (ozzz2002) |
Steve and Mark Waugh. The Waughs played their 100th Test match together early in 2002. Merv and Kim Hughes are not related, Ian Chappell is the older brother of Greg and South African administrator Graeme Pollock is Shaun's uncle.
| Who were England's opposition when Dickie Bird stood in his first test match? | Cricket Test Matches (crispyspiders) |
New Zealand. The match was against New Zealand at Headingley, Leeds in July 1973.
| Who was the top test run scorer in 2004? | Test Cricket 2004 (burtfro) |
Justin Langer. Langer scored 1481 runs at an average of 54.85 including a best of 215.
| Who was the top run scorer during 2001? | Test Cricket 2001 (crispyspiders) |
Matthew Hayden. Hayden scored 1391 runs from the 14 matches he played, scored at an impressive average of 63.22. Lara (1151), Tendulkar (1003) and Gibbs (1124) couldn't match the performance of the Australian.
| Who was the only country not to draw a test match during 2001? | Test Cricket 2001 (crispyspiders) |
Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka played 13, winning 8 and losing 5 of their test matches.
| Who was the only batsman Shane Warne dismissed in his debut match? | Test Cricket's 400 Wickets Club (KennyM33) |
Ravi Shastri. Shastri made 206, while Warne finished with a return of 1/150. Tendulkar also made 148 not out in the Indian innings. The match ended as a draw.
| Who was the oldest of the bowlers of the West Indies pace attack of the 1980s? | Bowlers in Test Cricket (040053) |
Andy Roberts. Roberts was seven years older than Marshall.
| Who was the first wicket-keeper to make 50 stumpings in Test Cricket? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Bert Oldfield. Bert Oldfield played in 54 Tests for Australia during the 1920's and 30's, and took 78 catches, with 52 stumpings. That figure for stumpings is unheard of in 'modern' cricket, but then, Oldfield did have bowlers such as O'Reilly, Grimmett and Fleetwood-Smith to keep to.
| Who was the first test batsman to reach the milestone of 11000 test runs? | History of Test Cricket (040053) |
Allan Border. Border achieved this feat in 1994 against South Africa. He went on to score 11174 runs in his test career. Steve Waugh, Sunil Gavaskar and Sir Garfield Sobers all made less than 11000 test runs.
| Who was the first player, under the age of 20, to score a Test hundred? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Archie Jackson. Archie Jackson scored 164 vs England at the age of 19 years and 152 days, in 1928-29. Tragically, it was to be his only Test century, as illness overtook him and he died in 1932.
| Who was the first player, over the age of 50, to appear in a Test? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
W.G.Grace. W.G. Grace was captain of England at the age of 50 years and 320 days, on the last day of his last Test, vs Australia in 1899.
| Who was the first player to take ten wicket haul in a Test? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
F. R. Spofforth. Frederick Robert Spofforth of Australia claimed match figures of 6 for 48 and 7 for 62 against England in the only Test played at the MCG in 1879.
| Who was the first player to take five wickets in a Test innings? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
W. E. Midwinter. William Evans Midwinter of Australia took 5 wickets for 78 runs against England in the first ever Test Match at the MCG.
| Who was the first player to score in excess of 350 in a Test innings? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Sir Leonard Hutton. In 1938, Hutton knocked up 364 against a hapless Australian team, which included one D.G. Bradman, who had previously held the record highest score with 334.
| Who was the first player to score a Test triple century? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
A. Sandham. Andrew Sandham scored 325 runs for England against the West Indies in the 4th Test of 1929-30 at Kingston, Jamaica. He was bowled by Griffith on 5th April 1930 (the 3rd day of the macth). He was 151* at the end of the first day and 309* at the end of the second day. Three months later Sir Donald George Bradman of Australia scored 334 runs against England at Headingley, Leeds, in the Third Test of 1930. In the course of doing so he scored 309 runs in a day's play.
| Who was the first player to score a Test double century? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
W. L. Murdoch. William Lloyd Murdoch of Australia scored 211 runs against England at Kennington Oval, London, in the Third Test of 1884.
| Who was the first player to score a Test century? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
C. Bannerman. Charles Bannerman of Australia scored 165 runs against England before retiring hurt in the first ever Test Match.
| Who was the first player to score a century in both innings of a Test Match? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
W. Bardsley. Warren Bardsley of Australia scored 136 and 130 in the fifth Test of 1909 at Kennington Oval, London.
| Who was the first player to be dismissed for a pair (0 runs in both innings of a Test)? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
G. F. Grace. George Frederick Grace of England, brother of the great W.G.Grace, obtained this title in his one and only Test at Kennington Oval, London in 1880. Two weeks later he died at the age of 30 due to complications with a cold.
| Who was the first player to bat in a helmet in a Test Match? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Dennis Amiss. Dennis Amiss first wore a helmet in the Oval test vs West Indies in 1976. Even though Greig and Brearley also played in that series, Amiss was the first one to start what has become a very sensible innovation.
| Who was the first player dismissed for a duck (0 runs)? | Test Cricket Firsts (TroutSeekers) |
E. J. Gregory. Edward James Gregory of Australia was the first player to be dismissed without scoring a run in the first ever Test against England at the MCG in 1877.
| Who was the first fielder (excluding wicket-keepers) to take 100 catches in Test Cricket? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Walter Hammond. Walter Hammond was one of the greatest cricketers of all-time, and tends to be overlooked in the 'modern age'. He played 85 Tests, and took 110 catches, as well as scoring 7249 runs at 58.45, and taking 83 wickets at 37.40. All this in a career that stretched from 1927-47, and was interrupted by World War II.
| Who was the first cricketer to complete the treble of 1000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in both Tests and One Day Internationals? | Test Cricket (hallat) |
Carl Hooper. Botham missed out by only catching 36 catches in ODI's. Akram caught only 44 catches in Tests and 88 catches in ODI's. Waugh only took 92 wickets in Tests.
| Who was the first captain of the Bangladeshi Test team? | Test Cricket (ozzz2002) |
Naimur Rahman Durjoy. Bedi was a one-time captain of India, Mahanama was a Sri Lankan batsman, and Procter played for South Africa.
| Who was the first bowler to take 300 Test wickets? | Test Cricket Firsts (Dalgleish) |
Fred Trueman. Trueman began his Test career vs India in 1952, and took his 300th wicket (Neil Hawke) against Australia in 1964, on his way to an eventual total of 307. This record stood until 1975-76, when Lance Gibbs broke it.
| Who was the first bowler to take 10 wickets in an innings and what was year and which team was it against? | History of Test Cricket (040053) |
Jim Laker, 1956, Australia. When Jim Laker took 10 wickets in Australia's innings in 1956, the test match was played at Old Trafford, Manchester. He went on to take 19 wickets in the match. Tony Lock was the only other English bowler to take a wicket in this match.
 Frequently Asked Questions about Test Cricket
- Who is the only cricket player to hit a quadruple century in Test cricket? ( goto )
- What is the highest partnership for English batsmen in test cricket? ( goto )
- Who started playing test cricket at the age of fourteen? ( goto )
- Why are international cricket matches called 'Test' matches? ( goto )
- Who was the batsman to score the first run in the Test Cricket history?
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- Who made the highest score in Test Cricket up to the end of 1900? ( goto )
- Which test playing cricket country won its first test in 2002 at its 43rd go? ( goto )
- Which female Test Cricket player has taken the most catches? ( goto )
- Which player has taken more than 100 catches in Test Cricket? ( goto )
- Which cricketer holds first place in batting averages in Test cricket? ( goto )
- What year did Keith Miller retire from Test cricket? ( goto )
- Who was the first cricket player to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a single test? ( goto )
- Who has the highest Test cricket batting average while playing for Australia? ( goto )
- Who were the one-eyed Norwegian, the Greek and the Chinaman to play Test Cricket? ( goto )
- Which player's record did Courtney Walsh overhaul for the maximum ducks in Test Cricket? ( goto )
- Who are the only father and son ever to have played in the same cricket Test Match? ( goto )
- In cricket, who holds the record for the number of runs scored in Test matches in a complete year? ( goto )
- What is the name of the trophy awarded to the winner of the England-New Zealand cricket test series? ( goto )
- In which region did the current holder of the
world record Test cricket score grow up? ( goto )
- Who is the only English cricket captain of the 20th century to have won 10 test matches in a row? ( goto )
- Which three batsmen have scored hundreds batting at number ten in Test Match cricket? ( goto )
- Which bowler has dismissed maximum number of betsman on individual score of zero in cricket test match? ( goto )
- Which current Australian Test player was rejected
by the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide
because "we are only interested in players capable
of playing first class cricket"? ( goto )
- What unusual thing happened for the first time in the history of Test Cricket when Australian batsman Bill Brown got out in the test between India and Australia at Sydney in 1947-48? ( goto )
- In what percentage of matches has a test cricket team which has been sent in to bat again, after the opposition enforced the follow-on rule, gone on to win the test match? ( goto )
- In which cricket stadium kapil dev got 432nd wicket in test macth record and broke the richard hardlee's record ? ( goto )
- Australian cricket captain Bill Lawry hit 84 runs against England in the second innings of the first Test at Brisbane in 1970-71. What was unusual about this knock? ( goto )
- Three people who have served as coaches of non-test playing nations in the World Cup were involved as players in the 1983 World Cup Cricket, who are they? ( goto )
- January 6 has seen the last day of Test Cricket for several Australian players in the past twenty years, including Steve Waugh yesterday. In that period, which other Australians retired? ( goto )
- Re: #27068, I think I did not help by misspelling the word 'century', so...In test match cricket, what is the record lowest score for an innings in which a batsman has scored a century? ( goto )
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