Sentence examples for test will be played from inspiring English sources

A second test will be played next week in Manchester.

The second Test will be played in Cape Town from 2 January, with further matches in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Cooper's timely tunes have attended many of England's most famous victories home and away in recent years, but he has always been banned from both Trent Bridge and Lord's - where the second Test will be played next week.

"In terms of the degree of difficulty, this trip has to be at the top because we have so little time to prepare: the first Test will be played in less than four weeks, and the approach and attitude of the players this week have given us the start we needed".

The India Test will be played at Wormsley Cricket Ground, Buckinghamshire, from 13 to 16 August.

The second Test will be played in Hobart, Tasmania, Ponting's homeland.

Two of the three Tests will be played at Eden Park in Auckland, where the All Blacks have not lost in the professional era.

Under the new calendar the summer tours of the major European countries move from June to the first three weeks of July, apart from the year after a World Cup when only two Tests will be played.

Despite suggestions that he and his new-ball partner Stuart Broad may struggle to last the series, in which five Tests will be played in the space of 42 days, he remains a key part of England's planning for the second Test – and there are suspicions in the England camp that levelling charges may be a cynical attempt by India to distract him from the task at hand.

Writing on Twitter,  former England captain Michael Vaughan said: "Why oh why only a two-Test match series?" The truncated nature of the contest between the Proteas and the Baggy Greens is similar to South Africa's tour of England in 2012, when only three Tests will be played.

Since scoring an unbeaten 100 in a pre-season friendly against Glamorgan, he has racked up scores of 236, 99, 133 and 204 not out, with the last two coming at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge, where two of the three West Indies Tests will be played.