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Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva hit 74 to help his team fight back from a perilous position and reach tea at 178-8 on Day 1 of the first test against England. With the tourists struggling on ...
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 ...
2021–2023. 2023–2025. 2025–2027. The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is the international championship of Test cricket. It is a league competition run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), with its inaugural season starting in 2019. [ 1][ 2] In line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle ...
Notes: 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).
June 2, 2023 at 1:05 PM. England cricket team hit the deck running in their first test of the summer with a brilliant performance on the opening day of their four-day test match against Ireland ...
Test Cricket is the longest format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the “ultimate test” of a cricketer’s skill, endurance, and temperament. It is a format of international cricket where two teams in white clothing, each representing a country, compete over a match ...
Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan and vice-captain Saud Shakeel approached centuries as they guided the home team to 256-4 on the second day of the first test against Bangladesh on ...
The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The series have varied in length, consisting of between one and seven Test matches, but since 1998 have been consistently five matches. It is the sport's most celebrated rivalry and dates back to 1882. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It is generally played biennially, alternating between the ...