Test cricket

The Test cricket is a form of match of international Cricket. The tests can last up to five days. Each team has two sleeves with the beater and two handles with the throw.

Course of a match

A toss allows the captain of the team which gains it to choose if it is its team or the opposing team which must beat in first.

A sleeve is finished when ten beaters of a team were eliminated. It is also possible, for the captain, to stop playing before these ten eliminations. It is said that the sleeve is declared .

The two teams play each one their first sleeve. If the first then marked at least 200 runs moreover than the opposing team, it has possibility of calling upon the follow one : this option makes it possible to force the opposing team to beat in first in the second handle. If there is no follow one , the two teams beat in the same order as at the time of the first sleeve.

The match stops when a team was declared gaining or at the end of the five days limit. The referees can temporarily suspend a test because of the bad weather or a bad visibility. This does not change anything at the completion date match.

Profit of a match

The profit of a match is granted to a nation if it meets its conditions:

  • It marked (in one or two handles) more runs that the opposing team in her two handles.
  • the two handles of the opposing team were both finished (by the elimination of the beaters or a declaration).

This second condition makes it possible to include/understand the interest for a team not to finish her sleeve or to require the follow one : when a big number of runs was marked, it is necessary to preserve time of play to twice eliminate the opposing team before the five days end from play.

In all the other cases (with less of the abandonment of one of the two teams), the match is known as Draw (tie). In the event of perfect equality in term of runs at the end of the two handles of the two teams, the match is a tie . This situation arrived only twice in the history of the cricket test.

Nations entitled to practice the test cricket

Ten nations are currently authorized, by the International Cricket Council, to practice the test cricket. By chronological order:

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