Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It is generally considered the ultimate test of playing ability in the sport.

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Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It is generally considered the ultimate test of playing ability in the sport.

The name "Test" may have arisen from the idea that the matches are a "test of strength and competency" between the sides involved. It seems to have been used first to describe an English team that toured Australia in 1861–62, although those matches are not considered Test matches today. The first officially recognised test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), where Australia won by 45 runs. England won the second ever match (also at the MCG) by four wickets, thus drawing the series 1–1. This was not the first ever international cricket match however, which was played between Canada and the United States, on 24 and 25 of September 1844.

Test status

Test matches are a subset of first-class cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams which have "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). , ten national teams have been given Test status, the most recent being Bangladesh in 2000.

A list of matches defined as Tests was first drawn up by Australian Clarence Moody in the 1890s. Representative matches played by simultaneous England touring sides of 1891–92 (in Australia and South Africa) and 1929-30 (in the West Indies and New Zealand) are deemed to have Test status.