Test match is called so because it is the long format of cricket where the ultimate test of players ability and endurance is tested.
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Linesh Chungath
Test Match Special was created in 1957.
A cricket test match is played for 5 days.
In a test match a bteam can have only two innings.
The first test was played between England and Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar play 1st test match in 1989.
The highest first-innings Test match score which ended up losing a Test match is 586 - by Australia against England in the 1894-95 season. The highest fourth innings Test match score which ended up losing a Test match is 451 - by New Zealand against England in the 2001-02 season.
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Sri Lanka played their first test match in 1982.
Ricky Ponting's highest score in test match is 257.
123 is the average score in a days play in a test match....
Pakistan's first Test match was played in Delhi in October 1952 as a part of five test match series which India won 2-1.
Sunil M. Gavaskar...scored the first ten thousand runs in test match