Sentence examples for test crowd from inspiring English sources

The stadium opened in June 1999 and its first major event was an international rugby union match on 26 June 1999, when Wales beat South Africa in a friendly by 29 19 before a test crowd of 29,000.

The Millennium Stadium was first used for a major event on 26 June 1999, when Wales played South Africa in a rugby union friendly match before a test crowd of 29,000.

Five tries, an impressive display at the scrum and a flawless line-out in front of a record summer Test crowd was just what Cotter wanted to see after last week's nervy 16-12 win in Turin.

So slowly did England score that all momentum was ceded to Australia in front of their world record Test crowd of 91,092.

Today saw a new world record Test crowd of 91,092 and the reason they are turning out in those numbers is not because it is a close series, as it was between Australia and West Indies in 1961 when the previous record was set, but because cricket is back on the map here in Australia.

"England are not used to playing in front of the sort of low Test crowds they might encounter in the Middle East," Newell says.

Test crowds in England and Australia remain strong but even in Kallis's home country South Africa, where Test matches have traditionally held a strong draw for the cricket-loving public, there has been a fall in attendances.

Last autumn, as the debate sounded about falling Test crowds in many parts of the world, a colleague said it would not be long before spectators in some venues would be paid to watch Test cricket, so ensuring a more appealing backdrop for the TV cameras.

The two test crowds adopted different experimental material.

It's more than window dressing, and Staples delivers an upbeat performance, punctuated with slightly testing crowd banter.

But one museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, is testing crowd-sourcing on a limited scale with a program called uCurate — by the Clark's account, the first program of its kind.