Team India recently won the T20 World Cup title for the second consecutive time. Within just 24 months, the Indian team became world champion for the second time. Within these 24 months, he also won the Champions Trophy 2025 title. Despite such great achievements, the most memorable achievement of the team during this period was drawing the Test series in England with a new captain and less experienced players.

Also, within these 24 months, they lost 2 Test series at home and the pain of this hurts the Indian fans more than the victory of the T20 World Cup. Why? Because Test cricket is still the toughest, most respected and oldest format of the game. So old that today i.e. on March 15 it completed 149 years.

When and where was the first match played?

Yes, March 15 is the birthday of Test cricket and in 2026, 149 years of the Test format is being completed.

The oldest format in cricket history is special in many ways. Obviously everyone would know between which two teams this match took place. Exactly 149 years ago i.e. on 15 March 1877, the first test match in the history of cricket was played and this was the beginning of international cricket, in which later many teams like India, West Indies, New Zealand joined one by one.

This match was played between Australia and England and was witnessed at the historic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). But what is even more interesting is that when this match was played, it did not have the status of Test cricket.

That means there was no international cricket then. In this match, the English team then named All England had entered and it was facing the combined team of New South Wales and Victoria. However, a few days later it was declared the first Test in cricket history.

Runs, centuries and wickets – who is first?

So who scored the first run in test cricket? Who took the first wicket in this format? Let us now give this information only. The first run of international cricket was scored by Charles Bannermatch, the Australian captain selected for that match.

He opened his account by scoring a run on the very second ball of the match and after that went on creating history. The first half-century and first century also came from his bat in this match itself, where he played an innings of 165 runs. In this way, Charles Bannerman, who played only 3 Test matches in his entire career and scored 239 runs and scored only 1 century, was forever recorded in history.

The first wicket went to Alan Hill, who dismissed Nat Thomson in the second over, that too bowled. In this match, during England's first innings, Billy Midwinter took 5 wickets and became the first bowler in the history of cricket to do so.

The matter did not stop at this and during the second innings of Australia, Alfred Shaw of England took 5 wickets. In the last innings, Tom Kendall wreaked havoc and destroyed England by taking 7 wickets.

Australia started with a win

The condition of the match was something like this - Australia batted first and scored 245 runs. For that, opener and captain Charles Bannerman scored the highest 165 runs and also became the first player to be retired hurt. In response, the England team could score only 196 runs. Then Australia did not do anything special in its second innings and collapsed for just 104 runs. England got the target of only 154 runs but due to Kendall's lethal bowling, England collapsed for 108 runs. In this way Australia won the first match of Test cricket by 46 runs.