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Lillywhite's team proved itself stronger than The Australasian had suggested, and went on to win the match. On the first day, Australia won the toss but was tied down completely by the English bowlers. Billy Midwinter top-scored with 31 as Australia struggled slowly to 122 in 112.1 four-ball overs. Australia struck back immediately, however ...
Two matches against a combined Australian XI were later classified as the first official Test matches. The first match was won by Australia, by 45 runs and the second by England. After reciprocal tours established a pattern of international cricket, The Ashes was established as a competition during the Australian tour of England in 1882.
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).
Jack Blackham (Aus) took the first catch by a wicket-keeper in Test cricket. Jack Blackham (Aus) made the first stumping in Test cricket. Alfred Shaw (Eng) was the first Englishman to have taken a five-wicket haul in Test cricket. Australia is the first team to have won a Test match and remain the only country to win their inaugural Test match.
[5] [6] England was a founding member of the ICC, having played the first Test match against Australia in March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. [7] 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]
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 ...
New Zealand cricket secured their first test match victory over India cricket, in India, since 1988 when they earned an eight-wicket win in the first test in Bengaluru.. Having dismissed India for ...
In its first fifty years of international cricket, India was one of the weaker teams, winning only 35 of the first 196 Test matches it played. The team, however, gained strength in the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Gavaskar, Viswanath, Kapil Dev, and the Indian spin quartet. India won its first World Cup in 1983, under the ...