ist test match of cricket history

Ist ever test match  Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground on May 15 1877, England - captained by James Lillywhite - lost by 45 runs.

It was not the first time an England side had toured Australia but in November 1876, when Lillywhite's team set off for the southern hemisphere, it was the first to visit as a business venture rather than following an invitation.

England's association with MCC would not start until 27 years later, when the first England team to tour under the MCC banner was the 1904-1905 tourists to Australia led by captain Sir Pelham Warner.

Lillywhite, a slow left arm bowler who played county cricket for Sussex, had toured Australia on six occasions and was given the captaincy for the inaugural Test match.

history of ashes series

The Ashes is the name of the Test cricket series that is played between England and Australia. It is played biennially, alternately in England and Australia. In a typical ‘Ashes’ series, there are five Test matches, two innings per match. The matches are played as per the regular rules for international Test-match cricket. Looking back into the history of the ‘The Ashes’, one of the oldest international contests in cricket, one finds that it dates back to the year 1882, the year when Australia gave England its first home defeat.

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The two teams of 11 players play a four-innings match, which nowadays lasts up to five days. It is generally considered the most complete examination of teams' playing ability and endurance.[1][2][3] The origin of the nameTest stems from the long, gruelling match being a "test" of the relative strength of the two sides.[4]