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India inch closer to World Test Championship Final with 2nd Test win again
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The World Test Championship has seen two years of intense competition in the longest format, and the second Test in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy characterised the ebb and flow that has been present throughout, with both sides wrestling for control of the match before Rohit Sharma's men triumph
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New Zealand pacer Blair Tickner set to make Test debut against England
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New Zealand Test skipper Tim Southee regards the longest format as the pinnacle of the game and talked about the team selection in the match beginning on Thursday
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Bangladesh pacer Rubel Hossain says goodbye to Test cricket
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Taking to Facebook he announce his retirement and wrote that he want to give youngsters a chance to represent Bangladesh hence, took the decision to retire from the longest format of the game.
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On this day in 1938, England recorded the biggest win by innings in Test h
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
This win is among one of the best victories of England in the longest format of the game, with players like Leonard Hutton, skipper Wally Hammond, Maurice Leyland contributing with the bat and Bill Bowes and Ken Farnes delivering excellent performances with the ball.
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Graeme Smith praises Team India for "taking Test cricket seriously"
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
He also believes that the longest format of the game could shrink to five or six nations in future
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Sunil Gavaskar turns 73: A look at astonishing records of cricket legend '
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
He played many historic innings for Indian cricket from 1971 to 1987. Gavaskar holds various records batting records in the longest format of the game
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Wasim Jaffer opines that Rishabh Pant should open for India in T20Is
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Though an outstanding Test cricketer, Pant has not been able to replicate his success in the longest format in T20Is
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Nottingham Test between Eng, NZ is second-highest scoring match in longest
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
A whooping 1,675 runs were scored during the match. It is still 49-runs short of becoming the highest-scoring Test match ever, as the fourth Test between England and Australia in 1948 Ashes saw both teams scoring a combined total of 1,723 runs, a record which has not been unbeaten.
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Second Test between Eng, NZ saw most runs being scored via boundaries in h
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
A total of 1,675 runs were scored in the match out of which 1,044 were scored via fours and sixes
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Virender Sehwag feels Test cricket is ultimate form of game
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 27 (ANI): After dominating Test cricket for over a decade, former India opening batter Virender Sehwag said that the longest format is the ultimate form of the game.
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Mushfiqur Rahim becomes Bangladesh's leading run-scorer in test cricket
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 18 (ANI): Mushfiqur Rahim on Wednesday became the first-ever Bangladeshi batter to score 5,000 runs in test cricket and also, the highest run-scorer for his side in the longest format of the game.
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Ashwin goes past Kapil Dev, becomes India's second-highest wicket-taker in
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Mohali (Punjab) [India], March 6 (ANI): Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday went past Kapil Dev's tally of 434 Test wickets to become India's second-highest wicket-taker in the longest format of the game.
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