dates the first use
Rowland Bowen’s scholarly work Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development Throughout the World (1970) dates the first use of “test” in the context of international cricket to 1861 62, when a privately raised side of Englishmen, sponsored by the catering firm Spiers Pond, undertook a tour of Australia. Bowen wrote that it was a tour “of singular importance, ...
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