The first cricket Test match, between Australia and England, March 15-19, 1877, took place on Melbourne Cricket Ground, in Australia, the home of 102 Test matches since. Australia won the match by 45 runs.
The match was notable for English-born Australian Charles Bannerman scoring 165 of the Australians' 245 runs in the first innings of the game, which, as of 2010, remains the highest percentage of runs (67.35%) scored by a single person in a single Test innings.
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