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Definition of Test match
1. Noun. An international championship match.
Definition of Test match
1. Noun. (cricket) A five-day first class match between sides representing the official Test nations. ¹
2. Noun. (rugby union) An international match between the teams of two nations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Test Match
Literary usage of Test match
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Second Eleven Competition, 1963 Provisional test match Dates. 1964 The following
arc the dates provisionally arranged for the first day of cadi five-day ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the third test match, at Leeds, England was deprived of the services of Hayward
and Blythe through illness, and an accident to Jessop during the match ..."
3. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"His first-wicket partnership with Rhodes in the fourth match at Melbourne amounted
to 323 runs—the greatest first-wicket partnership for a test match—and ..."
4. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1902)
"HOI-KIN*. first appear- auce in representative cricket iu the fourth test match
at Sydney last February. He scored 43 in the first innings, ..."
5. Cricket by Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, William Gilbert Grace, Richard Arthur Henry Mitchell, Frederick Gale, Andrew Lang (1898)
"Up to the end of the first test match Stoddart's eleven had a blaze of triumph in
... The Australians in the first test match played the bowlers who had ..."
6. The History of Yorkshire County Cricket: 1833-1903 by Robert Stratten Holmes (1904)
"As an outcome of this movement Yorkshire was honoured with the second test match
played in 1899, Leeds being the scene of action. The match was not finished ..."
7. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1898)
"... record for the mother country, his total of 175 beating as it does the 173
scored by Mr. Stoddart in the second test match at Melbourne three years ago. ..."
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