The Ultimate 10 in Test Cricket

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Cricket, the ‘wonder sport’, is one of the fastest evolving games in the world today. It’s custodians, namely the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), set the laws for this ever evolving sport which has the support of close to 3 billion fans all over the world. Today, it is played in various formats ranging from Test format, One Day International (ODI), Twenty20 (T20), Inter or domestic, Indoor format, and the Kwik format.

Of these, Test format is the longest form of the game played between Test playing teams. The ICC has conferred the ‘Test Status’ upon a cricket playing country or a group of playing countries. The teams not conferred with the test status are allowed to play only a shortened version of this sport.

Today, there are 10 Test playing teams of which a majority is individual nation. The 10 Test playing teams eligible to play test cricket are:

· England: This team comprises of players from England and the Wales.
· South Africa.
· Australia.
· New Zealand.
· India: Before India’s partition of 1947, the Indian team comprised of players also from the now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
· West Indies: This team comprises of players from the Caribbean nations and its dependencies.
· Pakistan: Prior to Bangladesh’s independence in 1971, the Pakistan team consisted of some Bangladesh players too.
· Zimbabwe: This team was suspended from playing Test cricket between the 10th of June 2004 and the 6th of January 2005 and has been currently suspended since 18th January 2006.
· Srilanka.
· Bangladesh.

Kenya, a probable candidate for Test status in 2003, has the likelihood of being replaced by Ireland in the near future.

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Source by Maira Sarfraz