The final-day heroics of wicketkeeper Matt Prior denied the Black Caps a rare Test series win over England after the hosts had controlled the third Test in Auckland.
The old master entrusted his young promoters with a cache of his photographs, old catalogs and some rare test tiles.
At a mile and a half, it represents a rare test of stamina, and will also be the third Classic contested by some in just five weeks.
If it goes through, the tax will make Mexico a rare test case of a national soda tax directed at a severe obesity problem.
A rare test victory in Australia was sandwiched by triumphs over lowly Zimbabwe, and there was a new sense of confidence in a team captained by Ross Taylor.
Cook's captaincy record before heading to Australia was impressive after he led England to a rare Test series success in India immediately after taking over the leadership 15 months ago.
His 11 for 180, which gave New Zealand a victory over South Africa in 2004, and his efforts in a rare test triumph over Australia in Hobart in 2012 are two of his fondest memories.
The highly unusual trial, in a district court in Luton, a town with a large Muslim population 30 miles north of London, was seen by the defendants' supporters as a rare test of Britain's liberal free speech laws.
C1 Rare Test for Spitzer The trial of Theodore C. Sihpol III, a 37-year-old former broker with Bank of America, will be a rare test for the office of the New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, whose previous cases involving Wall Street abuses have typically ended in out-of-court settlements.
But finding a place in the West Indies attack of the late 70s and early 80s – Holding, Roberts, Croft, Garner and eventually Marshall – was nigh-on impossible, and he banjaxed what little chance he had by first throwing a brick at a heckler on a rare Test appearance and then joining the rebels in South Africa.
