Sentence examples for of test matches from inspiring English sources

"He has had a tough couple of Test matches, but he was our form batter going into the Napier Test two months ago.

So much for the suggestion that the appeal of Test matches is on the wane.

If you see the cricket fraternity, the nations, they have a calendar of 12 months in which they play a lot of Test matches and ODIs.

And yet, we match every other Test-playing nation when it comes to the number of Test matches and ODI cricket.

With Darren Gough ruling himself at the end of the summer because of fatigue, England's pace attack is likely to consist of Matthew Hoggard and Jimmy Ormond, who have played only a handful of Test matches between them.

"There are an unprecedented number of Test matches being played over the next few weeks and we have the opportunity to appoint a number of up-and-coming referees," said John Jeffrey, chairman of the IRB's referees' selection committee.

"If a good proportion of test match results are affected by something as arbitrary as the toss, there needs to be a case for abandoning tradition once more".

England was originally supposed to play Zimbabwe, but when they were stripped of test match status in January, 2006 Sri Lanka was asked to step in.

That all three realistic aspirants batted was at least something, but a total of 212 for 7 declared from 78 overs did not represent batting riches for a team so desperately short of Test match runs.

His average is hugely inflated by runs against the minnows of test match cricket and I just don't trust him to stave off the australian barrage over the winter, both verbal and well aimed bouncers.

100 The career record number of Test-match sixes struck by Adam Gilchrist, the Australia wicketkeeper-batsman, who retired in 2008.