What is Test cricket?
[[File:Lord Hawke - Vanity Fair-alt-edit-2-cropped.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Lord Hawke]]: a leading English test cricketer in the early years]] [[File:Australian test cricket team in Brisbane, 1928 (6753271703).jpg|thumb|Australian test cricket team in 1928]] '''Test cricket''' is the longest and oldest type of international [[cricket]]. The first officially recognized Test match took place on 15–19 March 1877 and was played between [[England]] and [[Australia]] at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]], where Australia won by 45 runs.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/239757.html|title=A brief history of cricket|newspaper=Cricinfo|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en}}</ref> The early test matches were played by England against other sides in the [[British Empire]]. First test matches took place in these years: *1889 versus [[South Africa]] *1928 versus [[West Indies]] *1930 versus [[New Zealand]] *1932 versus [[India]] Test matches eventually spread to other countries around the world. Later came [[One Day International|One Day Internationals]] (ODIs) and [[Twenty20 International|Twenty20 internationals]] (T20s). Test matches are a series of 5-day matches. Each team's two innings' scores are added to find the total runs. The team with more runs wins the match if the other team has completed both of their innings, with there being a tie if they have an equal number of runs; otherwise it is a draw. == Follow-on == Follow-on is a rule by which the team batting in second innings can be enforced to bat again just after the end of their first innings. The follow-on can be enforced by the team batted in the first innings only if their first-innings lead is at least 200 runs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://talkofcricket.com/follow-on-in-cricket/|title=What is follow-on in cricket?|website=Talk of Cricket|access-date=2020-07-07|archive-date=2020-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706105637/https://talkofcricket.com/follow-on-in-cricket/|url-status=dead}}</ref> '''Minimum Lead