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The longest Test match in Australia was the Fifth Test between Australia and England in Melbourne in 1929, which lasted for eight playing days. Australia won by five wickets in front of an eighth-day crowd of 20,000. [5] [6] [7]
The duration of Tests, currently limited to five days, has varied through Test history, ranging from three days to timeless matches. [3] [4] The earliest match now recognised as a Test was played between England and Australia in March 1877; [5] since then there have been over 2,000 Tests played by 13 teams. The frequency of Tests has steadily ...
In 2005, Australia played a match scheduled for six days against a World XI, which the ICC sanctioned as an official Test match, though the match reached a conclusion on the fourth day. In October 2017, the ICC approved a request for a four-day Test match, between South Africa and Zimbabwe , which started on 26 December 2017 and ended on the ...
Bob Massie (pictured) holds the Australian record for the best bowling figures in a Test match with 16/137 taken in the second Test of the 1972 Ashes series. [124] A bowler's bowling figures in a match is the sum of the wickets taken and the runs conceded over both innings. No bowler in the history of Test cricket has taken all 20 wickets in a ...
Nowadays all men's Test matches are scheduled over five days. In the past some Tests were 'timeless', that is, they were scheduled to be played to their conclusion regardless of how long that took. The longest Test on record was between South Africa and England in Durban, South Africa. The game started on 3 March 1939 and play continued on the ...
As of December 2024, they have played more Test matches than any other team, and of their 1083 games, have won 400, drawn 355 and lost 328. [8] With 36.9 per cent of matches won, England are the third most successful team in the history of Test cricket, behind Australia on 47.8 per cent and South Africa on 38.9 per cent. [8]
Although the first Test series played between England and Australia was in the 1876–77 season, [5] [6] the Ashes originated from the solitary Test which the two nations contested in 1882. [7] England lost the match, played at The Oval, and a mock obituary was posted in The Sporting Times, declaring the death of English cricket. It stated that ...
The first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australia pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", [2] who dismissed three England batters with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent Test hat-trick was taken by Noman Ali in January 2025.