* Graeme Fowler, cricketer, former England batsman, cricket coach and occasional pundit on BBC Radio's Test Match Special

That same year Lara amassed 688 runs in the three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three centuries, and one fifty – including the double century and a century in the first and second innings of the 3rd Test Match at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, equating to 42 % of the team's runs in that series.

After school, Harry took a gap year, during which he spent time in Australia, working ( as his father had done in his youth ) on a cattle station and participating in the Young England vs Young Australia Polo Test Match.

During the 1981 Ashes, Botham set a record of six sixes in a single Ashes Test Match at Old Trafford.

It was during this tour that the first Test Match was played.

On his return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border's Australian team in a practice game and then went on to make his Test debut at R. Premadasa Stadium in the Second Test Match of the series.

His cricket and general knowledge were called upon in his role as a regular team captain on BBC Radio 4's quiz show Trivia Test Match with Tim Rice and Brian Johnston which ran from 1986 to 1993.

Perhaps the most famous Colemanball is that of Brian Johnston announcing that " The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey " on a BBC Radio Test Match Special, although this may be apocryphal.

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

His 14 Test Match wins as captain, was a record until it was bettered by Sourav Ganguly.

Since 2002, the ICC has two panels of umpires: namely the Elite Panel of Umpires ( two of which are, in theory, appointed to each Test Match ) and the larger International Panel of Umpires.

This system is currently being used only in Test Match cricket.

* Test Match Special, a United Kingdom radio programme providing live commentary on cricket matches

The 1876-77 season was notable for a match between a combined XI from New South Wales and Victoria and the touring Englishmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which was later recognised as the first Test Match.

Throughout his film career Howard insisted that all of his contracts held a clause excusing him from work whenever a cricket Test Match was being played.

The song “ Soul Limbo ”, featuring marimba by Terry Manning, was a big hit ( later used by the BBC as their theme for cricket coverage on both TV and, latterly, radio's “ Test Match Special ”), as was their version of “ Hang ' em High ”.

* Test Match Special ( 1957 – present ): Live cricket coverage.

* June 24 – Test Match Cricket is broadcast for the first time by the BBC, with coverage of the second test of The Ashes series between England and Australia, live from Lord's Cricket Ground.

He sparked a controversy in early 2008 for his comments on the contentious Sydney Test Match: " Millions of Indians want to know if it referee Mike Procter's verdict against Harbhajan Singh was a ' white man ' taking the ' white man's ' word against that of the ' brown man '.

Within his first year in the national side, he made a great impact guiding Sri Lanka to their maiden Test Match away victory against New Zealand at Napier, taking 5-47 & 5-43 and scoring 33 & 36 and being nominated Man of the Match.

This occurred in his 97th Test Match, which at the time was a record for the most number of Tests before scoring a maiden century ( since overtaken by Anil Kumble ).

Snow started his First Class Cricket and Test Match career as a fast-medium seam bowler, but when he was not chosen for the 1965-66 Ashes tour of Australia he played club cricket in South Africa and re-modelled his bowling action.

Special Agents candidates also have to pass a Physical Fitness Test ( PFT ), which includes a 300-meter run, one-minute sit-ups, maximum push-ups, and a run.

* A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators, NIST Special Publication 800-22.

* 5 Live Sports Extra's famous Test Match Special

Amos is an enthusiast of cricket and talked about her love of the game with Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special during the lunch break of the first day of the England v New Zealand test at Old Trafford in May 2008.

Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio.

He was interviewed by Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special during the South Africa series, giving an interview on his love of cricket.

* Test Match Special BBC Radio 4.

The centre ’ s only opening window is in the broadcasting box used by Test Match Special.

Thorpe made his debut as a summariser for BBC Radio's Test Match Special programme during the first Test of India's 2007 tour of England.

He is currently a member of BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special commentary team.

Trueman was an expert summariser for the BBC's Test Match Special radio cricket commentaries for many years, and his catch phrase, " I don't know what's going off out there ", summed up his dismay that modern cricketers lacked his knowledge of tactics.

Trueman was nevertheless respected for his unsurpassed knowledge of the mechanics of fast bowling, and many feel he should have been used as a bowling coach for England's under-achieving teams of the 1980s and 1990s, a point once emphasised by his fellow-summariser Trevor Bailey on Test Match Special.

But, after his Test Match Special colleague Brian Johnston had nicknamed him " Sir Frederick ", there were those who thought he had really been knighted and many, particularly in his native county, who could not understand why he had not.

* Fred Trueman on Test Match Special

The " birdsong " test transmissions became a famous landmark of British radio and attracted many newspaper articles and comment prior to the station's launch, including one live comment during BBC Radio 4's Test Match Special when commentator Brian Johnston referred to listening to the birdsong, much to the fury of BBC management who were fearful of Classic FM's impending launch.

During the mission, the STS-8 crew deployed the Indian National Satellite ( INSAT-1B ); operated the Canadian-built RMS with the Payload Flight Test Article ( PFTA ); operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System ( CFES ) with live cell samples ; conducted medical measurements to understand biophysiological effects of space flight ; and activated four " Getaway Special " canisters.

Tufnell makes occasional appearances as a summariser on BBC Radio's Test Match Special, first appearing in 2008.

He is best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra where he has established a reputation as a commentator with an accent, vocabulary and syntax that was quintessentially Old Etonian in both style and substance.

Blofeld continued as a print journalist until 1972 when he joined the Test Match Special team.