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First ball bowled in Test cricket |
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By England's Alfred Shaw against Australia from
Eastern end at Melbourne in March 1877. |
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First run registered
in Test cricket |
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By Australia's Charles Bannerman from the second ball
of Alfred Shaw's first over (above). |
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First boundary hit
recorded in Test cricket |
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By Australia's Tom Horan against England at
Melbourne in March 1877. |
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First wicket
captured in Test Cricket |
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By England's Allen Hill when he clean bowled Nat
Thompson (Australia) at Melbourne in 1876-77. Hill had bowled the
fourth over in Test Cricket. |
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First catch held in
Test Cricket |
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By England's Allen Hill who caught Australian batsman,
Tom Horan at third man in the inaugural Test at Melbourne in March 1877. |
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First cricketer to
die |
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England's James Southerton remains the oldest debutant
in Test matches (49 years, 119 days) and was the first |
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Test cricketer to die. |
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First batsman to
post a fifty in each innings |
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England's George Ulyett (52 & 63) against
Australia in Test cricket's second match at Melbourne in March/April
1877. |
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First Test fifty By
a wicketkeeper |
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England's Edmund Tylecote registered 66 against
Australia at Sydney in January 1883. |
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First batsman to hit
eight successive scoring strokes for four |
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Australia's Tom Kelly against England during his
innings of 35 against England at Melbourne in March/April 1877. |
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First batsman to
register a century |
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Australia's Charles Bannerman 165 retired hurt
against England at Melbourne in 1876-77. |
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First batsman to
post a century on his Test debut in two countries |
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Australia's Henry Graham
made 107 against England at Lord's in July 1893 and 105 against England at
Sydney in February 1895. |
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First batsman to
post a ninety |
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Australia's Alexander Bannerman was the first to post a Test ninety - 94
against England in the first innings of the third Test at Sydney in 1882-83. |
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First batsman to
record a century and a fifty in the same Test |
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England's George Ulyett -
149 & 64 against Australia in the 1881-82 Melbourne Test. |
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First five-wicket
haul |
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Australia's William Midwinter 5 for 78 against England at Melbourne
in 1876-77. |
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First instance of a
ten wickets in a Test match |
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Australia's Frederick Spofforth - 6 for 48 and 7
for 62 against England at Melbourne in 1878-79. |
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First hat-trick in a
Test match |
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Australia's Frederick Spofforth accomplished the first Test match
hat-trick when he dismissed Vemon Royle, Francis MacKinnon and Tom Emmett in
the first innings. |
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First stumping in
Test Cricket |
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Australia's Jack Blackham stumped England's Alfred Shaw for 2 in
the second innings of the inaugural Test match at Melbourne in March 1877. |
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First instance of
three brothers playing in the same Test |
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William Gilbert Grace, Edward Mils
Grace and George Frederick Grace played for Australia against England at The
Oval in September 1880. |
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First Test captain
to post a century |
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Australia's Billy Murdoch registered an unbeaten 153 in the
second innings against England at The Oval in September 1880 - his first in
first-class cricket and he accomplished the feat in his first match in that
role. |
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First century
partnership in Test cricket |
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England's pair W.G.Grace and Alfred Lucas shared
the first century partnership in Test cricket - 120 for the second wicket
against Australia at The Oval in 1880. |
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First to complete
100 Test wickets |
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England's Johnny Briggs, playing in his 25th Test, was the
first to reach this landmark in the fourth Test against Australia at Sydney in
February 1895 when he dismissed Arthur Jarvis. |
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First declaration in
Test Cricket |
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England's Andrew Stoddart declared the second innings at 234 for
8 wickets. The match was drawn. |
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First Test match
play on Sunday |
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India's first official home Test (vs. England) in December
1933 and the only one to be staged on the Gymkhana Ground, Bombay. |
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First instance of
five penalty runs being awarded in a Test |
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To West Indies (first innings)
against Australia at Adelaide in December 2000, when the ball hit a helmet
lying on the ground behind Australia's wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist.
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First bowler to be
'no balled' for throwing |
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Australia's Ernest Jones - called By umpire
J.Phillips in the pre-lunch session on the third day against England at
Melbourne in January 1898. |
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First six in a Test
match (Without overthrows) |
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By Australia's Joe Darling vs. England at Adelaide in
January 1898. To be a six in those early days the ball had to be hit right out
of the ground and not merely over the boundary. |
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First time an extra
day was added to a Test match |
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After the third day had been washed out, but
rain prevented play on that one too at Lancaster Park, Christchurch in New
Zealand vs. England Test in March 1947.
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First century before
lunch |
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England's Kumar Ranjitsinhji became the first to post a century before
lunch in a Test match - on the third morning, he took his overnight score of 41
to 154 - against Australia at Old Trafford, Manchester in July 1896. |
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First left-hander to
post a hundred in a Test match |
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Australia's Joe Darling became the first
left-hander to register a Test century in a Test match - against England at
Sydney Cricket Ground in December1897. |
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First to complete
the Test career double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets |
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Australia's George Giffen
accomplished the double in his 30th and penultimate match - at Old Trafford,
Manchester in July 1896. Interestingly, all his appearances were against
England. |
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First batsman to
carry his bat through a completed innings |
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South Africa's Bernard Tancred - 26
not out from a team total of 47 against England at Newlands, Cape Town in March
1889.
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First left-hander to
post a century for South Africa |
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Dave Nourse (111) against Australia at Old
Wanderers, Johannesburg in November 1921. He remains the oldest player (42
years 294 days) to register a maiden Test hundred.
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First instance of
brothers registering centuries in each innings of the same Test |
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Ian Chappell
(145 and 121) and Greg Chappell (247 not out and 133) against New Zealand at
Wellington in March 1974.
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First player to post
centuries in each innings of his first Test as Captain |
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Greg Chappell (123 and
109 not out) against West Indies at Brisbane in November/December 1975. |
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First son to emulate
his father by scoring a century in his first Test |
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Surinder Amarnath (124)
against New Zealand at Auckland in January 1976. His father Lala Amarnath had
recorded 118 against England at Bombay (Gymkhana) in December 1933. |
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First instance of
twins playing in the same Test match |
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Australia's Steve Waugh and Mark Waugh
against West Indies at Port of Spain in April 1991. |
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First instance of a
player recording centuries on his first Test appearance against his first three |
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opponents: |
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Andrew Strauss (England). He posted 112 againt New Zealand at Lord's
in May 2004; 137 against West Indies at Lord's in July 2004 and 126 against
South Africa at Port Elizabeth in December 2004. |
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First instance of a
team being awarded a Test match |
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Pakistan vs. England at The Oval in 2006. On
the fourth day of the Test, the umpires deemed that the condition of the ball
had been changed and awarded five penalty runs under Law 42.3 (d). After tea,
the Umpires and English batsmen took the field, but the Pakistan team remained
in their dressing room in protest. The umpires finally awarded the game to
England under Law 22.3(a) - the first ever forfeited game in 1814 Tests and 129
years. |
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First batsman to
wear a protective helmet in a Test |
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England's Dennis Amiss against West Indies
at The Oval in 1976. |
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First bowler to
claim eight wickets in a Test innings and finish on the losing side was George |
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Lohmann |
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8 for 58 for England against Australia in the 1891-92 Sydney Test. |
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First bowler to
accomplish a hat-trick and finish on the losing side |
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Johnny Briggs ended
Australia's second innings with a hat-trick, dismissing Walter Giffen, John
Blackham and Sydney Callaway. |
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