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Sentence Examples To some, he is blessed by genius and is a worthy holder of the world record number of Test match wickets. Australia hopes to attack England's spirit, which took a battering after the first Test defeat. A similar idea was floated in March this year by Southampton Test MP Alan Whitehead following an energy summit held in the city last year. Lord's was the setting for an historic Test match between two old foes which never seemed likely to go the distance. The Guyanese batsman has so far played 158 Test matches having scored 11,684 runs with 30 centuries. The 39-year-old Guyanese of Indian origin is the eighth highest run-getter in Test cricket with 10,897 runs. I suppose the simplest way of gauging Test allrounders is to deduct the bowling average from the batting average. The tied Test match at Brisbane in 1960 was an incredibly satisfying game of cricket. It feels like the best available foil to the stately majesty of Test matches. For the third visit running, the most notable aspect of an England Test match at Centurion Park was the filthy weather. This was his first Test in over a year, and his 15th at the problematic one-down position. As Warne surely knows, you can't have a serious career as a Test bowler without a hide of tungsten. In Jamaica 10 months ago England lost the first Test of 1986 inside three days. Has any batsman scored an unbeaten century in each innings of a Test match and still finished on the losing side? It was the first time since 1949 that a batsman had scored two centuries against South Africa in a Test match. Didn't help himself with his gobby nonsense at Trent Bridge and is learning that Test cricket is a tough school. The English camp was unhappy with the condition of the pitch at Melbourne for the Second Test match. I'll whisper this in case it is too much of a shot in the dark but I believe West Indies will win at least one Test in England. Australia have chosen the same line-up for the third consecutive Test against New Zealand in the series decider at Auckland tomorrow. The motor fitness of judoists and karateka was evaluated by means of the Leuven Motor Test Battery. Show More Sentences This is common in midland areas and generally means that a Forest Soils Test will be required. Has there ever been a Test match where both wicketkeepers have stumped each other? Is it true that Australia once selected a wicketkeeper for a Test who had never kept wicket before? Has there been an occasion in Test history when all 11 players bowled in the innings, including the wicketkeeper? The recent Bangalore Test will certainly go down as one of the matches remembered for the poor decisions handed out by the neutral umpires. In a previous journalistic incarnation I was dispatched to the inner sanctum of the Test Match Special outside Broadcast Studio. Two months ago and half a world away, England won their fourth successive Test series. They will meet face-to-face before the third and final cricket Test to discuss how best to prevent a boilover between players. Some unknown, unprincipled rascal wins a bunch of tickets for the first Test and promptly sells them on e-bay. He played in one more Test to try to help them get a result and a series win. They made me miss the Mound for the Test match, but at least the Windies won! England recalled fast bowler Chris Silverwood in a 14-man squad for the second cricket Test against Australia at Lord's on Thursday. Nel added that the South African team had a different attack, with different dimensions, for the last Test. It proved the operational concept of a winged, reusable spaceship by successfully completing the Orbital Flight Test Program. If he had such catchers to help him, he might, by now, have taken 600 Test wickets himself. Saints' star Paul Sculthorpe is likely to be pressed into service as an emergency stand-off in next Sunday's First Test. Has anyone ever opened the batting, kept wicket and captained in the same Test? He is standing in his 12th Test match and has umpired 62 one-day internationals. Perhaps Woodward did have an overdependence on English players in the first Test, as critics suggested. Zaheer strained his muscle in the right leg this morning and was ruled out for the rest of the ongoing Test. Show More Sentences The credit for turning this venue into a Test ground goes to a Trinity College old boy, the Late Hon. The ground co-hosted the recent ICC Champions Trophy and Test cricket is a realistic dream. He is the only new cap in the team which plays Bangladesh in the opening Test of a two-Test series at Buffalo Park tomorrow. In the Test matches, we are playing the second-ranked team in the world so that's very difficult in itself. With the defeat in Barbados, the unpredictable Pakistan side squandered the opportunity of winning their first-ever Test series. Two great Test players of the past made quite a scene on a television show last night. He once pushed the 1997 Lions through 100 lung-busting scrums at altitude in preparation for a Test match. Public outcry led to the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 that ended above-ground testing. It has been well said that every Test match morning is Groundhog Day for this England side. One constable slapped a Bengali photographer who refused to obey his orders on the first day of the Rawalpindi Test. Can you give some more details of the innings when Don Bradman made 300 in a day in a Test? Several issues related to the estimation of Test cricket attendances are worthy of note. Is the violent death of a charismatic former Test cricketer and media personality a one-time page three story? The 33-year-old Kaluwitharana, playing his first Test in two years, justified his selection by tearing into the Kiwi attack with 13 boundaries. This summer he scored 99 not out against England in the fourth Test at Headingley. Gould recently completed a 3-year detail to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Live Fire Office. A recent indoor rugby union Test between Australia and South Africa was rated a success by the host union and stadium officials. When the interviewer asked him what was the highest score by an individual in Test cricket, the candidate was stumped. The brief hiatus from Test cricket hasn't added too much zest to his bowling, but it seems to have revitalised Javagal Srinath the batsman. He fell into the trap of flogging the players at training and settling too early on his Test team. Show More Sentences He was a dangerous bowler who could swing the ball both ways and in 21 Test matches took 78 wickets costing 27.13 per wicket. After tasting the Ashes atmosphere at Lord's yesterday I'm more determined that ever to play a home Test for England. So many runs in three days of cricket can't be a good wicket for Test match cricket. It was the most draining day I had ever experienced in Test cricket and I hadn't even had a bowl. Enforcing follow-on was the right decision It has been an eventful Test match so far. A number of their players involved in that encounter may be rested for the first Test against South Africa. In doing the Test Your Pet home tests, you're dabbling in the study of animal behaviour. At the same time, I feel that the bowling attack of the hosts is more suited to Test matches than one-dayers. West Indies won the inaugural Test 13 years ago, but had to rely on some unsportsmanlike tactics to avoid defeat five years ago. The West Indies team in the fifth Test against England at The Oval in 2000 included eight left-handed batsmen. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Child Development, Test and Measurements, and Educational Psychology. The Stade de France offers better playing conditions, a full-sized field and a belter of a Test match. Sydney Roosters utility forward Michael Crocker pressed his claims for Test selection with two of the Kangaroos' six tries tries. Another member of the Lions has criticised tour management for overtraining the squad following the second Test defeat by Australia. A disdainful pull shot over mid-on and mid-wicket is just such a shot and yesterday, en route to his 14th Test century, he played it twice. He said it did not take a lot to adjust his batting to Test cricket from one-dayers. National Car Test mechanics are clamping down on old bangers with more than 60,000 pre-1992 registered cars failing the test this year. Then, he went on to become the first man in Test cricket to hit a quadruple. He had got off to a flyer in the first Test against New Zealand, and then crocked his shoulder. Patel had a baptism of fire on the Test stage in 1996, from which he was never given a chance to recover. Show More Sentences Gough said all of England's players needed to be in form by the start of the Test series in July. The contracts were signed by the players on the opening day of the first Test against West Indies. The same, however, cannot be said about opting to bat in a seamer's paradise in the second Test after winning the toss. The last two Tests of the most recent Ashes series showed why the one-day game can never be Test cricket. The potential of barging freight from Waterside industrial areas to Southampton across the River Test is to be investigated. Imran Khan told them they had to fight like cornered tigers, a rallying cry as famous as anything Test cricket has produced. England will be up against a degree of mental hardness which no other Test country begins to approach. They are as different as rugby union and rugby league, shinty and hurling, Test match and one-day cricket. The Test also marks the return of Brian Lara, who was rested for the one-day series. The start to this tempestuously competitive Test couldn't have been much worse for the home team. New Zealand are third in the Test match standings and there is a message there. But Bradman's brilliance is perhaps best illustrated by one of his rare failures, his final Test innings when he was bowled for a duck. The highlight of the tour was a rare Test match experience for the Caribbean girls. By the time this letter is read the last Test will have probably been decided. And I remember how he once scandalised us all by leaving a Test series in Australia to pursue his lady-love, a famous belly dancer. Australia coasted to victory in the first Test at Lord's but it was fallacious. We'll try and play the way we have tried to play the last two Test matches. The central parts are drained by the rivers Test and Itchen, the western by the Avon, and the eastern by the Hamble and the Meon. He was passed fit to play in the final Test, so it's a stretch to imagine his omission from the ODI squad is injury-related. They shrugged after the second Test was lost by a whimper, then spoke of relief when defeat was staved off in the third. Show More Sentences One of your recent answers talked about batsmen who have scored centuries against all nine possible Test opponents. This Is Only A Test Simulations and tabletop exercises help CSOs practice and plan the best response for worst-case scenarios. The Brisbane pitch is fast and bouncy so I think we may just lose the first Test match. He was dropped from the Test side after that game, and was out of the frame for the rest of the series. It gives them a motivation to become a national cap and an international Test cricketer. It caps a disappointing 12 months for South Africa in which it also lost its grasp of second place in the ICC Test Championship. He was capped after just 12 league games for Arsenal and scored a century on his Test debut. There seems to be a consensus, at least among Anglophile observers, that we are witnessing the greatest Test series in a quarter of a century. He is one of only six players to have scored 3,000 runs and taken 200 wickets in Test matches. The coach agreed that India had conceded the momentum to the hosts by their defeat in the second Test in Lahore. This mystery man is Ashok Gandotra, a left-hand batsman who won two Test caps for India. The Senate's refusal last year to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty may have been a straw in the wind. He also made 981 Test runs and took 64 catches, mostly in his specialist position at leg slip. He is currently a test pilot with the Aircraft Research and Development Test Unit at RAAF Base Edinburgh in South Australia. Movie theaters in Sweden have begun using the Bechdel Test to rate the level of meaningful female presence in movies. Hollywood films have a long-standing tradition of minimalizing women's roles, and a very simple way to demonstrate this is the Bechdel Test. Rather surprisingly, there have been 29 completed innings in Test cricket which included a partnership of 100 or more. Only the purblind could believe that the Test programme has not been grotesquely over-extended. The man was the Kent swing bowler Richard Ellison, brought in for his first Test of the summer. The Test was also a long-due acknowledgement of this region's place as the cradle of black rugby. Show More Sentences Matthew Hayden scored a century in his first Test against three different opponents. It works if only as a glorious distraction from the antiseptic earnestness of life as a modern-day Test player. Another was Reg Sellers, an Anglo-Indian leg-spinner who toured England with the 1964 Australians, playing a Test in the town of his birth, Bombay, on the way home. Both teams will showcase players who are knocking at the door to Test honours or those who have been capped but are on the fringes of their respective Test teams. The third and final Test starts on January 2 and the South Africans will face an uphill struggle to prevent being whitewashed in the series, the source said. Between 1887 and 1902 he stood as umpire in 12 Test matches in Australia. Bichel went to tea on 45 not out with a series of arrow-straight slogs, and brought up his maiden Test fifty straight after tea with a driven single off Banks. With Trescothick out of the Test and probably the series with injury, the young off-spinner should have had no trouble in psyching the English batsmen out. Lost at Seaby Jon Ronson The author of The psychopath Test goes looking for universal truths in odd places. Entering the match with a first-class average of 28, he bettered the mark by one and started his Test tally with a glide through the cordon for a boundary. Chances are we could have squared the series by winning the second Test. Both Mike and Rita are born and bred in the Test Valley area. Even though Pakistan held the whip hand for much of the Lahore Test, India kept staging mini-comebacks throughout the match, and kept the interest alive. The England cricket side celebrate in front of the Barmy Army with a lap of honour around the Sydney Cricket Ground following their victory in the final Test. Cork's nerveless display in the dramatic Second Test means he is almost certain to line-up against the Windies on Thursday, leaving the way clear for Brinkley. Those views were lost overnight when 6ft fences were installed on both sides of a bridge over the River Test to protect the river keeper and his family. Yet, ever since became a Test opener, he has scored a hundred in every series except in New Zealand, a feat not achieved by any of his illustrious colleagues. His Test average since that hundred is 56.37 and he has scored 1,635 runs. It also proved a lesson in patience for a loud and enthusiastic crowd who anticipated a thrilling fourth day but instead watched the Test progress towards a dull stalemate. There were so many spectators examining the wicket during the tea interval that it could have been a Test match at Headingley or a baggage reclaim at Manchester Airport. Show More Sentences Sheridan is a fearsome sight in a dinner suit, never mind a Test jersey. In other parts of the world we are seeing Test matches played under lights and we are the only international ground in England with planning permission to erect them. He sooked when dropped for the third Test of this year's disastrous tour of India for being one of four players who didn't do their homework on how Australia could improve. The system measures whether or not a film passes the Bechdel Test. At the awards ceremony, Chris Cairns dropped a broad hint that he might not be retiring from Test cricket just yet, as had been suggested in the media. Since the two test victories over Bangladesh there's been a something of a brouhaha in cricket circles about the validity of their presence in Test cricket. He was dismissed just one run short of his ninth Test fifty with the score on 215 but he had ensured the team had posted a safe score, though conceding a lead of 58 runs. If bodyline bowling had not been curbed I have no doubt that it would have brought about a cessation of Test cricket and seriously jeopardised the future of the game itself. Meanwhile, Wales coach Steve Hansen has named three uncapped players in his 30-man squad for next month's Test matches against Australia and New Zealand Down Under. If you can wrap your fuzzy patch at least halfway around your little phalange, then you've tested positive for the Twirly Test, and you need to do some manscaping. There's just too much choice between single function and multifunction machines, so this Comparison Test should help you find your way through them. Only last year, he played the innings of his life, taking the West Indians to a sensational triumph against the Englishmen in the Port of Spain Test. In a further twist, Gilchrist is out stumped second ball for four, exposing the tail, and, with five overs left, Australia are momentarily in danger of losing the Test. He has revolutionised Test cricket with his policy of scoring runs fast, yet on a dodgy wicket he is perhaps the most unremovable batsman spawned. As from next year, there will be no domestic coverage of Test cricket, so no opportunity for hungover passers-by to accidentally chance upon such a thriller. He said that scoring a Test ton was the pinnacle of his career. Capped for the first time as an opening bat in Port Elizabeth, De Villiers took over from Tsolekile behind the stumps for the second Test at Kingsmead. This article reports an investigation comparing the empirical performance of a C-Test and a cloze test against the English Placement Test as a criterion measure. Fleming had struggled to pick Lasith Malinga's round-arm deliveries in the first Test at Napier, released from in front of the umpire, after which he had made the request. In real Test matches, teams tend to defend rather than wave the attacker through like a policeman on point duty, which is what happened in the Currie Cup final. Show More Sentences He can take heart from the fact that Australia's three Test captains before him also experienced rough trots before emerging from the mire to score freely again. Unfortunately it also has the most appalling collection of yahoos in English cricket and their drunken antics put Headingley's Test future in some jeopardy. The author of the new book Lost at Sea, The psychopath Test and The Men Who Stare at Goats chooses his favorites. His introduction to Test cricket in 1993 saw him savaged by the Australians and he looked like another devastating county bowler not tough enough for England. Soil samples were also evaluated for pH and other macronutrients by the Arkansas Soil Test Laboratory to ensure that any nutrient deficiencies could be appropriately amended. Who became the first spin bowler in history to take 500 Test wickets? Cullinan was recalled to the South African side for the second Test in Cape Town but withdrew on Tuesday after the United Cricket Board failed to offer him a contract. The Army Test and Evaluation Command will assess the potential for consolidation and collocation of its headquarters and report recommendations in the spring. And if he doesn't play in Melbourne, the 35-year-old pace warhorse certainly won't play in the third Test in Sydney, just days after the Melbourne Test. Currently two neutral umpires officiate in Test matches while one umpire from the home country stands with a neutral umpire in one-day internationals. This suggests that the selectors will look at different players before picking from strength and targeting the second Test against Australia at Hampden. With the Test series fast approaching, Fleming will be hoping for similar hands from the rest of his batsmen to prevent yet another whitewash at the hands of Pakistan. Have the rival captains ever taken each other's wicket in the same Test? If Queensland had deliberately targeted Johnson's suspect temperament ahead of the Test series, as some feared they might, then the tactic worked a treat initially. I cannot report that he is well-focused towards streamlining his electronic folders because he confessed to being unable to complete the Concentration Test for men. I'm more worried about what will happen to the Lions if they don't sort out their chronic problems at the breakdown in time for the first Test at Christchurch. For a full list of batsmen who scored a century on Test debut, click here. With skipper Simon Kellett in good touch and former West Indian Test star Alvin Kallicharan also in the line-up then Dunnington have plenty of batting firepower. They include virtually all the senior seam bowlers, not least Rankin who made his Test debut in the final Ashes duel during the winter. At the 411th Flight Test Squadron, Reilly got two Raptor T-shirts, patches, and a special Raptor light. Show More Sentences If the Associate team defeats the Test nation, then they could be added as the new Test country and granted full membership. In May 2016, the ICC announced that it is contemplating the idea of two tiers in Test match cricket. Today, Test matches are scheduled to be played across five consecutive days. However, in the early days of Test cricket, matches were played for three or four days. Children run past, including the girl from Test Card F who symbolizes the death that has been stalking Sam since the beginning. Veteran lock Matfield admitted boss Heyneke Meyer's side must be wary of Ireland's lineout and driving maul in Saturday's autumn Test in Dublin. The 237 tons prototype Wave Dragon was towed in March 2003 to the first test site at the Danish Wave Energy Test Center in Nissum Bredning fjord. Various camp programs offer preparation for the SAT Reasoning Test as part of a mixture of academic learning with summer fun. A lethally fast bowler in his pomp, only 11 men have taken more than his 222 Test wickets for England. At the beginning day of the 4 month education, problem solving Test was applied as pretest to control and experiment group students. The C-17 MILTS program resolves these issues by providing modern, open architecture Automatic Test Equipment for C-17 avionics maintenance. In conjunction with the delivery, Boeing completed a number of modifications to the Flying Test Bed. But rather than fearing for the future of Test cricket, Hastings thinks the Indian Premier League could be nearing its end. Sutherland believes day-night Test cricket during working weeks presents a new opportunity for bigger crowds and television audiences. The UK Empire Test Pilots' School is operating Gripen as its advanced fast jet platform for test pilots worldwide. Wales conducted their first overseas tour in 1964, playing several games and one Test in South Africa. The Tecumseh Step Test is an easy way for adults of all ages to determine their general levels of aerobic fitness. Each chapter of Holt Biology also includes Standardized Test Prep, embedded quizzes, and editable tests linked to state standards. The Sussex wicketkeeper struggled with his persistent Achilles injury during the first Test at Trent Bridge. A 19-year-old kid making his Test debut had just written his name into Ashes legend and Mrs Agar was still reliving the joy of it. Show More Sentences The EIA Electrical Test Standards successfully completed include Insulation Resistance and Dielectric Strength. Recognized by the DSL Forum, LEA's Independent Test Laboratory stands as France's benchmark for xDSL interoperability testing. Veteran Test batsman Younus Khan and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal were also excluded from the Zimbabwe tour. For their Spot Test, the hopefuls transform a chimney pot into a strawberry container. The Part I track involves a physics refresher summary as well as a mock exam entitled Anatomy Spot Test. The Kelvin Test Socket Contact System is available for any Aries CSP Test Socket. Tenders are invited for Tribometer To Test Friction And Wear Properties Of Materials Under High Pressure-Velocity Conditions. The AzCert Wi-Fi Certification Test Suite for Test Engine-enabled devices is currently available from Azimuth. Welsh firm Multisports are refunding stakes to punters who backed Zimbabwe on their first-innings handicap market for the second Test. A Test of Ethological Isolation among Entomophilous Fungal Species Sharing Common Insect Visitors. Key to the delivery of this singular automation environment is a new Batched Test Scheduler featured in this release. The captain said that after retiring from Test cricket, he wanted to come up in the batting order. He also was the pilot of a unique prototype of a single stage to orbit system, the Roton Rocket Atmospheric Test Vehicle, from Rotary Rocket. I read his book The Psychopath Test a while back and spent quite a lot of the time feeling anxious that I was myself a psychopath. Olinger was the director of the Air and Space Mission Directorate at the Operational Test and Evaluation Center Headquarters at Kirtland. The decision to play an Ashes Test match in Cardiff was warmly welcomed here but drew claims of a Welsh stitch-up from across the border. How many Black English cricketers have played for Test sides in the last decade and how many coach counties? She prepares some yummy mushroom Scotch eggs, then has a go at fly fishing on the River Test. The study used the Triage BNP Test, a rapid, point-of-care diagn ostic tool developed by San Diego-based Biosite Inc. The Trash Test Dummies are an Australian circus performance trio of bin men, circus garbologists if you will. Show More Sentences The main liquid oxidisers are liquid oxygen, nitric acid, nitrogen tetroxide and High Test Peroxide. Eight of the First Article Test firings were supported by artillerymen from the 214th Field Artillery Brigade stationed at Fort Sill, Okla. Content Validity Table Related To Small Test and Decuple Areas of Stanford-Bineh Criterion. The test that can best assess the distractibility associated with DA following an MBI is called the Necker Cube Pattern Control Test. Mayo Clinic has inked a licensing agreement with King-Devick Test for sideline concussion testing. When I took guard in that Test match and looked for the bowler Vanburn Holder I saw him somewhere near the sightscreen. Three times in recent years Inia have won an overseas Test only to lose the next match in the series. Businesses participating in OMA Test Fests ensure that their customers receive higher quality products in shorter time to market cycles. The Flat Dilatometer Test in Soil Investigations, International Conference on in situ Measurement of Soil Properties. Veteran Australian Test centre Ryan Girdler will make his comeback in Sunday's match. Since making his debut in ODI's in 2012, Jos Buttler had to wait until 2014 for his Test debut. Bryan Habana, Duane Vermulen and Willie Le Roux went over in a first Test trouncing in Durban. He tried to bring the Tories to his side by making concessions but failed because he still refused to endorse the Test Act. Sanga is expected to soon become one of the highest scorers in Test cricket. The Test Act of 1673 made it illegal for anyone not receiving communion in the Church of England hold office under the crown. In 1732, Nonconformists in the City of London created an association, the Dissenting Deputies to secure repeal of the Test and Corporation acts. Many of Priestley's political writings supported the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which restricted the rights of Dissenters. In 1787, 1789, and 1790, Dissenters again tried to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. The national cricket team participated in their first Cricket World Cup in 1999, and the following year was granted elite Test cricket status. After the Test and Corporation Acts were repealed in 1828, all the Nonconformists elected to Parliament were Liberals. Show More Sentences The Notions Test was until recently an important tradition in most houses, in which juniors were required to answer questions about notions. He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent. The rivalry between England and Australia gave birth to The Ashes in 1882 and this has remained Test cricket's most famous contest. The third umpire is mandatory under the playing conditions for Test matches and limited overs internationals played between two ICC full members. Since 1882, most Test series between England and Australia have been played for a trophy known as The Ashes. It also appoints the umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches, One Day International and Twenty20 Internationals. All Full Members have a right to send one representative team to play official Test matches. The match, starting on 15 March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground came to be regarded as the inaugural Test match. The combined Australian XI won this Test match by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman of Australia scoring the first Test century. A nine Test triangular tournament involving England, South Africa and Australia was set up. On the same year the West Indies became the fourth nation to be granted Test status and played their first game against England. The 1930 Ashes series saw a young Don Bradman dominate the tour, scoring 974 runs in his seven Test innings. Despite the final Test being 'timeless', the game ended in a draw after 10 days as England had to catch the train to catch the boat home. The decade ended with England drawing the Test series against New Zealand, with every match ending in a draw. After scoring a pair in the first Test against Australia, Botham lost the captaincy due to his poor form, and was replaced by Mike Brearley. If the 1980s were a low point for English Test cricket then the 1990s were only a slight improvement. In the home Test series victory against Pakistan in July and August 2006, several promising new players emerged. The 2009 Ashes series featured the first Test match played in Wales, at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. England struggled to match their Test form in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. Staggered Spondaic Measure of ability to segregate competing Word Test speech signals using spondaic word pairs. Show More Sentences The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series. Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious. After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain. Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy. Brearley surprisingly agreed to be reappointed before the Third Test at Headingley. Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series. Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Justin Langer retired from Test cricket after that series, while Damien Martyn retired during the series. Finally, England won the Fifth Test at The Oval by a margin of 197 runs to regain the Ashes. The First Test at Brisbane ended in a draw, but England won the Second Test, at Adelaide, by an innings and 71 runs. The tourists put those issues behind them to bowl England out for 215 after losing the toss in the First Test at Trent Bridge. Although England won the first Test in Cardiff, Australia won comfortably in the second Test at Lords. Traditionally, Melbourne hosts the Boxing Day Test and Sydney hosts the New Year Test. As of 29 March 2017, Australia is ranked third in the ICC Test Championship on 108 rating points. A highlight of Australia's early history was the 1882 Test match against England at The Oval. The Centenary Test was played in March 1977 at the MCG to celebrate 100 years since the first Test was played. Australia ended winning by 45 runs, an identical result to the first Test match. As of December 2015, Australia is ranked 3rd in Test Cricket and 1st in ODI Cricket. I've had a bit of success in the past going to a part-timer, in the Sydney Test a few years ago Michael Clarke won the game for us there. After lunch Hayden and Langer continued their solid batting, frustrating the England bowlers, with Langer reaching his 22nd Test century. However, international cricket continued to be played as bilateral Test matches over three, four or five days. Show More Sentences The River Test runs along the western border of the city, separating it from the New Forest. Over one hundred Test matches have been played at Lord's, the first in 1884 when England defeated Australia by an innings and 5 runs. Lord's often hosts two Test matches each summer, one match for each visiting team. The history of the team extends back to 1871 when the English rugby team played their first official Test match, losing to Scotland by one goal. He retired from Test rugby after he led England to a Six Nations Grand Slam and World Cup victory in 2003 and has since become the team Manager. Wilkinson scored a record 29th Test drop goal against France in the 2008 Six Nations Championship. His first converted penalty against Scotland on 8 March 2008, took him 3 points past Wales's Neil Jenkins tally of 1090 Test rugby points. Even if Wilkinson's points from Lions Tours were excluded, he has still scored over 70 more Test points for England than Jenkins did for Wales. On Saturday 14 July 1928, when Great Britain met Australia in the second Test on a sea of mud at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The England cricket team, controlled by the England and Wales Cricket Board, is the only national team in the UK with Test status. The first Test was played at Odsal, Bradford, and the third Test at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds. The second Test was played at the old White City Stadium on Friday 3 November 1967, it was the only Test match ever to be played there. Great Britain had won the first Test three weeks earlier at Wembley, and needed to win at Headingley Rugby Stadium, Leeds to retain the Ashes. On Saturday 28 July 1984, the Third Test was held at Carlaw Park, Auckland. It was the first time they had scored over 30 points in a Test match against Great Britain. Bedke, right, assume command of the Air Force Flight Test Center from retiring Maj. On 29 January 1996, France announced that it would accede to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and no longer test nuclear weapons. Larwood was forced by the MCC to either apologise or be removed from the Test side. This would allow Ireland to become a permanent One Day International playing nation and eventually grant them Test status. And despite numerous attempts to beat the Turing Test, it still hasn't been done, except within the most limited of topics. 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