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A total of four Roosters players, Shannon Hegarty, Anthony Minichiello, Luke Ricketson and Michael Crocker, were selected to make their Test match débuts for the Australian national team in 2003.
His high standard was again rewarded when he was appointed to stand in his first Test match in October 2003; the match between Bangladesh and England at Dhaka.
Only five players have played test matches for Great Britain as both a back and a forward, they are; Colin Dixon, Frank Gallagher, Laurie Gilfedder, Billy Jarman, and Harry Street.
He made 131 in the Second Test at Perth in its inaugural Test match, and so became the first batsman to make a Test century at the WACA.
Graham Yallop of Australia was the first to wear a protective helmet to a test match on 17 March, 1978, when playing against West Indies at Bridgetown.
It is the location of the Fatullah Osmani Stadium, an international cricket stadium that has hosted its first One Day International and Test match in 2006.In ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, it has hosted the warm up matches of England against Canada & Pakistan.
In 1879/80 Morley toured North America with Richard Daft, and in 1880 he was selected to play in the match that later became known as the first Test match to take place in England, taking 8 for 146, including five wickets in the first innings.
In addition to the regular services on the Harrogate Line occasionally when there is a major event on at Headingley Stadium such as an international cricket test match there is an increased service which runs prior to and after each such game.
Henry Rupert James Charlwood (19 December 1846 in Horsham, Sussex – 6 June 1888 in Scarborough, Yorkshire) played cricket professionally for England in the first two Test matches ever played, which were against Australia in 1877.
John "Jack" Crawford William MacBryan (22 July 1892, Box, Wiltshire – 14 July 1983, Cambridge) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Somerset and made one almost imperceptible appearance in a Test match for England.
Laker was the first player to take all 10 wickets in a Test match innings, ten for 53 in the Australians' second innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford in 1956 (the only other bowler to take all 10 wickets is Anil Kumble of India in 1999).
He was selected for an under-strength England team that toured South Africa in 1888/9 and was selected as a bowler in the second and final Test match, in Cape Town, starting on 25 March 1889.
He went on the South African tour of Australia where he made a rare appearance in a Test Match when he and Jacques Rudolph formed a partnership that rescued a draw for South Africa at Perth.
A right-arm off-break bowler, Katherine played a test match for the English women's cricket team in 1979 against West Indies, scoring 16 in her only innings and, bowling off breaks, took two wickets in the match for 56 runs.
Saggers made his Test match debut in 2003/04, as a replacement for the injured Andrew Flintoff in Dhaka, and also played in two of the three Tests against New Zealand the following summer.
On 28 August 2010, The English tabloid News of the World published a story with additional video of their undercover reporters offering Majeed £150,000 ($232,665) for information on the ongoing 4th Test Match between England and Pakistan.
He umpired one Test match between Australia and Pakistan at Adelaide on 22 December to 27 December 1972, won by Australia by an innings with Ian Chappell scoring 196, Rod Marsh becoming the first Australian wicket-keeper to score a century, and Ashley Mallett taking 8/59 in Pakistan’s second innings.
Another uncle, Leland Hone also played for Ireland in addition to playing one Test match for England.
While he was in charge of the side that won the Second Division championship in 1893-4, Liverpool got relegated from the First Division the following season (with Liverpool losing a test match to Bury 1-0).
The All Blacks should also have played matches in Ireland, including a test match against Ireland on 16 December but they were forced to cancel this section of the tour because of the 1967 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak.
The authoritative publication The Wisden Cricketer summed up the Test match as follows: " it was a terrible game of cricket. It had a small crowd, little meaning and was forgotten quickly."
Steel scored 135 at the Sydney Cricket Ground in a Fourth Test match arranged as an "extra" on that tour, in 1883.
In January 2005, Dar and his colleague Steve Bucknor, received death threats during a Test match between England and South Africa at Centurion.
That, apart from another test match against Portugal later in October, was the only match Marcato played for the next one and half years.
Andrew Samson is the current (2013) statistician for the BBC's live broadcasts of "Test Match Special" when the England cricket team is playing abroad.
Australia later responded in the most effective way possible by pulverising Wales 28–9 in the subsequent test match which included an unprecedented pushover try by Steve Tuynman.
Test match cricket seemed to have passed him by when he went to South Africa as part of the rebel tour led by Graham Gooch in 1982, which also earned him a three-year Test ban.
During the penultimate Test match of his career on Boxing Day 2006, in the fourth Ashes Test against England, Warne took his 700th Test wicket, bowling Andrew Strauss to become the first cricketer ever to reach this milestone.
She scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth women's Test match in 1935, setting a world record for the highest individual innings in women's Test cricket which was not surpassed for over 50 years, until Sandhya Agarwal scored 190 in 1986.
Despite having been retired in 2001, the Brumbrella remains a point of reference for the efficient covering of cricket pitches: Derek Pringle in The Daily Telegraph and Mike Selvey in The Guardian both favourably compared the efficient performance of the groundstaff at Kandy during England's Test match against Sri Lanka in December 2007 to it.
Harry Chidgey (1879–1941), first-class cricketer and Test match umpire
And the 23-year-old St Lucian won his first Test cap in the third Test match at Old Trafford on 7 June.
French’s last Test match was between Australia and New Zealand at Melbourne on 26 December to 30 December 1987, a drawn match with the last Australian batsmen (Craig McDermott and Mike Whitney).
During the late 60's "I'm Backing Britain" campaign, Eddie patriotically decorated his sports shop with a centre piece window display proclaiming "I'm Backing Cowdrey", a reference to the Test Match being contested between England and Australia at the time where the England Captain was Colin Cowdrey, another lifelong friend.
New Zealand lost the series 0-3 against the Great Britain Lions and also lost a test match against Wales.
In Wellington, he opened the bowling in a match that was retrospectively classed as an official Test match.
He played 16 One Day Internationals in the 1980s in Richard Hadlee's team as a wicketkeeper-batsman but he never played in a Test match.
Felix made his debut on 16 July 1949 for South Africa as a lock in the first test match at Newlands Stadium, Cape Town against the touring All Blacks, led by Fred Allen.
Test matches were abolished in 1898 after Burnley and Stoke conspired to deliberately draw their test match 0–0, which resulted in Burnley being promoted and Stoke being saved from relegation.
Laver's last Test match was between Australia and England at The Oval, Kennington, London on 9 August to 11 August 1909, another drawn match with England needing 208 runs with 7 wickets in hand.
First, during the Oval Test match of 1880 between England and Australia, he was out caught for two to a ball he had hit so high that by the time GF Grace had snaffled him, waiting directly underneath it on the boundary, he and his partner had almost completed their third run.
Langley played his last Test match against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in November 1956 and retired from first class cricket a month later after scoring a century for South Australia against New South Wales at the Adelaide Oval.
Walter Hadlee (1915–2006), New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain
In December 2006 he replaced Mark Benson on-field during a Test match in Centurion when Benson was taken to hospital with heart palpitations, making him the first person to umpire in a Test match in his native country since the introduction of the Elite Panel of umpires in 2002.
In the November end of year internationals, he made a further three substitute appearances against Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand; a dramatic encounter in which Ireland were denied an historic first-ever win over the All Blacks in the final minute of the Test match.
She took a career best 5 for 40 in her seventh Test match, against Australia at the Bradman Oval in Bowral in February 2008 and took nine wickets in the match, winning the player of the match award as England retained the Ashes.
Over the next year he was used as first reserve, and in January 2003 played his last Test match – England's fifth Test victory over Australia at Sydney.
Arnold played only one Test match: with Fred Bakewell, he formed an experimental opening partnership for England against New Zealand at Lord's in 1931, following the retirement from Test cricket of Jack Hobbs and injury to Herbert Sutcliffe.
In the 2nd Test match on the 2009–10 tour of Australia, Akmal dropped four catches in the Australian innings, three of those coming from Michael Hussey.
On May 14, 2006 Daisuke Ohata scored the most tries in a test match at Hanazono with a hat trick for Japan against Georgia.
Nallet made his international debut for France on 28 May 2000 in a test match against Romania at Bucharest's Dinamo Stadion.
He toured the West Indies with the England Young Cricketers in 1976 and played in one 'test match' in Trinidad alongside Mike Gatting and David Gower, scoring 41 in the first innings of a game won by England by 22 runs.
On the same video posted by the News of the World, Majeed said that earlier in the year the second Test match between Pakistan and Australia in Sydney had also been fixed.
Harbhajan Singh (excessive appealing): 1 Test Match suspended ban
The inaugural Test match at Hyderabad took place on 16–21 March 1973 against England, and it was left drawn after big scoring England picked up 487 with Dennis Amiss scoring 158.
The second Test match was originally scheduled to take place at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo but was moved to Harare as a cost saving measure.
According to an urban myth, it was during a Test match between the West Indies and England when Michael Holding was about to bowl to Willey, that the radio commentator Brian Johnston said: "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey".
Roger Frogley was the top scoring rider for England, with six points, in the first England versus Australia Test Match at Wimbledon Stadium, Plough Lane, in 1930.
Australia won the series by 30 points but the game was overshadowed by violent incidents in the first quarter of the second test match, including a serious injury sustained by Graham Geraghty.
It was used for the first time in a test match at The Gabba in Brisbane during the 2012 South African tour of Australia.
His last Test match involving Australia was against South Africa at Adelaide on 30 January to 3 February 1998, a drawn match in the visitor’s favour, with captain Mark Taylor dominating the first innings with 169 and Mark Waugh scoring a century in the second innings.
In India's 25th Test match, nearly 20 years after India achieved Test status, he led India to its first ever Test cricket win (and the only victory under his captaincy) in 1951–52 against England cricket team at Madras, winning by an innings and eight runs in a match that began on the day that King George VI died.