Sentence examples for first-ever test from inspiring English sources

Hawaii Chiefs will take on the touring New South Wales Country in two exhibition games, the second a curtain-raiser to a first-ever test match at whopping Aloha Stadium on Saturday July 19 as the USA take on Samoa.

The debutant hits the winning runs and raises his first-ever Test fifty as he does it!

His career began at the top of the order in Pakistan's first-ever Test, in 1952, and none of his countrymen who have followed him to the crease in the 60 years since would claim to have bettered it.

Indeed the name of the former Surrey and Middlesex wicketkeeper Ted Pooley has resounded down the decades as a touchstone for match-rigging: he was left out of the first-ever Test match, between England and Australia, after placing wagers on a separate match he is said to have umpired.

He bowled with little success in the Second Test in Kanpur, taking 1/52 in a spin-dominated match in which Jasu Patel claimed 14 wickets to bowl India to their first-ever Test win over Australia.

It is still the second highest score on Test début by an Australian, only one run fewer than Charles Bannerman's 165 not out in the first-ever Test in 1877.

In the first-ever tests of the potential plus-side of wing flexibility in living insects, researchers strapped a small harness to bumblebees, attached a beaded string to it, and then measured how much weight the insects could lift when flying (see video above).

Despite his inexperience, Carr was called in to lead the side in the fifth Test at Madras (now Chennai) in February 1952, and presided over England's first ever Test defeat to India.

And Mathews was included for his influence in Sri Lanka's first ever Test series victory in England.

It is 135 years since Charles Bannerman scored the first ever Test run, but just 26 years since the millionth.

SpaceX is getting ready for its first ever test flight of the Falcon Heavy, its heavy-duty rocket aimed at propelling large cargo loads into low Earth orbit.