On This Day: 146 years of Test cricket, a historic match was played between these two teams

New Delhi: Cricket is a game whose popularity is spread all over the world. For the first time this game started in England. After this, with the changing times, many changes took place in cricket as well. With its historical heritage, there are three official formats played in modern day cricket. Test, ODI and T20. Although the names T10 and The 100 continue to be used in different ways, but the matter of which is the oldest format is different. Test cricket, played for five days with the red ball, started on this day, March 15, 1877.

The first Test match in cricket history was played between England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from 15 to 19 March. It is not that the cricket match was not played earlier but officially the Melbourne match played in 1877 was given Test status and from this day it is considered to be the beginning of this long format.

Australia won the first test

In the first Test match played in the history of cricket, Australia cricket won by defeating England. Although the day when this match was played was not fixed but the first Test match played between the two teams lasted for a total of five days. In the match, the Australian team came out to bat first and scored a big score of 245 runs in the first innings. In the first innings for Australia, Charles Bannerman played an excellent century innings of 165 runs.

Apart from Bannerman, no other batsman could leave his shine for the Kangaroo team. In this way, Bannerman also became the first batsman in the history of Test cricket to score a century.

England all out within 200

In response to Australia’s 245 in the first innings, the entire England team was bundled out for just 196 runs. Harry Japp scored the highest innings of 63 runs for England in batting. Apart from this, Harry Charlwood contributed 36 and Alan Hill contributed 35 runs.

On the other hand, talking about bowling, Billy Midwinter had performed a blistering game for Australia and he took a total of 5 wickets in the innings. Apart from this, two wickets came in the account of Tom Garrett.

Australia won the match

Australia’s team got a lead of 49 runs in the first innings. However, his batting in the second innings was nothing special and the entire score was reduced to 104 runs. In this way, the England team got a target of 154 runs to win, but in front of Australia’s sharp bowling, England once again faltered and the whole team was all out by making 108, due to which Australia’s team won the match by 45 runs. took.

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