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Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

Timeline of Events

1877

3.15.1877

The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.

1930

7.11.1930

Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.

1933

4.1.1933

English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand.

1936

12.7.1936

Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

1938

8.23.1938

English cricketer Len Hutton sets a world record for the highest individual Test innings of 364, during a Test match against Australia.

1948

2.7.1948

Neil Harvey becomes the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.

7.25.1948

The Australian cricket team sets a world record for the highest successful run-chase in Test cricket history in the Fourth Test against England.

1957

12.23.1957

Ian Craig of Australia becomes the youngest Test cricket captain in history.

2006

1.29.2006

India's Irfan Pathan becomes the first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match.

2009

3.3.2009

The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by gunmen while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.