02-04-Dec-Jan1979 - Weston Creek Cricket Club

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odd reference was confined to sporting magazines. English
daily newspapers frowned upon the usage of the
word especially where it was used as a noun instead of
its proper role as an adjective. It would never have
done for readers of The Times!.
In 1894 C.P.Moody, a South Australian journalist,
published an analysis of English vs Australian matches
and outlined criteria for those matches "which by common
consent were aptly styled as Test Matches". He proposed
that the teams should have to be accepted as
representing their country, that each side should have
the same number of players (eleven), and that the contest
should be scheduled over a few days. The first
encounter to satisfy his criteria was the match at the
M.C.G. in March 1877 which was then designated as the
First Test Match between Australia and England. Moody
compiled a list of 38 such contests and of these England
had won 20 Australia 12 and six had been drawn.
Moody's proposals were eventually accepted in both
countries and later the usage was extended to other
sports particularly rugby.
Thus it was an Australian who can be given the ere
dit for starting a fine tradition.
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