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Bru
Lv 6
Bru asked in SportsCricket · 7 years ago

There are countries who have been playing Test Match cricket before 1877.?

The year England and Australia played the first official test match.

1 USA vs Canada 1844

2 Argentina vs Uruguay 1866

3 China vs Hong Kong 1868

Why aren't these five countries put forward and given Test Match status; USA, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay and China.

The ICC never existed and therefore they are perfectly entitled to put forward there rights to play Test Match Cricket on an International basis.

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  • 7 years ago

    Many countries played cricket before 1877, however very little information is available about these matches, even the scorecards and names of the players is long lost and forgotten. Since they were played at a time when bowling the ball underarm was still the norm and teams sometimes were comprised of more than 20 players they have no relevance to Test cricket.

    The only reason the 1844 match is considered an 'international' match is that some clever marketing person decided to put up some posters advertising it as USA vs Canada to get people to come to the match and pay to get in, actually the players were chosen from at most 2 or 3 club teams from New York and Toronto, hardly what one would call representative of a national team in any way.

  • Bru
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    I have found some countries were playing cricket but not at representative level and even then not Internationally.

    The first test match in 1877 wasn't representative of the whole country both Australia and England similar to

    Canada - Toronto CC

    USA - New York CC

    Argentina - Beuno Aires CC

    Uruguay - Montevideo CC

    China - Shanghai CC

    They played by the rules, underarm bowling was outlawed in 1981 February the 1st. It was still legal.I just would like to know if you have more information about these other teams that played international cricket.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    no bcci to motivate them or support them

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