• The Victory Tests were a series of cricket matches played in England from 19 May to 22 August 1945, between a combined Australian Services XI and an English...
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    Test was played between England and Australia in March 1877; since then there have been over 2,000 Tests played by 13 teams. The frequency of Tests has...
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    Keith Miller (category Australia Test cricketers)
    Australian servicemen, known as the Victory Tests. Australian cricket administrators did not accredit the three-day matches as Tests. England was close to full...
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    The Ashes (redirect from Ashes Cricket Test)
    Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests. A draw in the final Test gave England victory in an...
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    Laboratory in Teddington to perform tests to develop the penetration bomb. In May 1941, the Air Staff rejected both the Victory Bomber and the bomb, observing...
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    The Epic Victory was the second experimental jet designed by Epic Aircraft, a company that was based in Bend, Oregon. Epic Aircraft declared bankruptcy...
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    Ricky Ponting (category Australia Test cricket captains)
    missed the remaining three Tests against the West Indies, the three Tests on the tour to South Africa, both series victories to Australia. Many "experts"...
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  • history of Test cricket to have secured 100 victories by an innings. Most matches: 188 Tests – James Anderson Longest-serving captain: 64 Tests – Joe Root...
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  • Melbourne Victory Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Melbourne, Victoria. Competing in the country's premier men's competition...
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    Len Hutton (category England Test cricketers)
    administered and governed English cricket did not trust him. In 23 Tests as captain, he won eight Tests and lost four with the others drawn. Worn out by the mental...
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    five "Victory Tests" against England. The series was tied two-all with one draw. The "Victory Tests" have not, however, been granted full Test status...
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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally discovered on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean...
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  • Infinite hosted closed beta tests for the global version between the announcement and its release, allowing selected registrants to test out the game mechanics...
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    Including salvo tests counted as a single test. Detonations include zero-yield detonations in safety tests and failed full yield tests, but not those in...
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    Joe Root (category England Test cricket captains)
    England's highest run-scorer in Tests and second-highest run-scorer in ODIs. He holds the record for both most Test (35) and most ODI (16) centuries...
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  • for two Tests and by winning both secured their first overseas Test series victory. As of 22 September 2024, Bangladesh has played 145 Tests, winning...
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    Retrieved 27 March 2016. "Test # 1:England Women in Australia, 1934/35, 1st Test". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 April 2007. "The Victory Tests of 1945". ABC Radio...
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  • of matches between England and Australian servicemen, known as the Victory Tests, to celebrate the end of hostilities. However, Australian cricket administrators...
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  • in England in 1945, including a series of "Victory Tests" between England and Australia. Alone among the Test cricket nations, India managed to stage an...
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  • won the Test series 1–0 after the first two Tests finished in draws. It was England's first Test victory against Pakistan in Pakistan since they toured...
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    first-class matches, including four Tests. India also participated in an ODI tri-series with Australia and Zimbabwe. The Test series was drawn 1–1, and India...
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    Lindsay Hassett (category Australia Test cricket captains)
    that played the "Victory Tests" in England during the months immediately following Victory in Europe Day. Hassett was the only capped Test player in the...
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    magnitude of nuclear tests, particularly tests of new thermonuclear weapons (hydrogen bombs), and the resulting nuclear fallout. A test ban was also seen...
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    was at some time the leading run scorer in Tests † – denotes that the player is active in Tests List of Test cricket records List of players who have scored...
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  • his first-class debut for an England team in the third of the 1945 Victory Tests against the Australian Services XI, sharing a partnership of 55 with...
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    fast bowler during the Victory Tests, a series of friendly games between England and Australia in 1945. He made his official Test debut against New Zealand...
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  • against a single team in Tests and became the second batsman, to score 5,000 international runs against a single team. With this victory, Australia became the...
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    USNS Range Sentinel for downrange tracking of ballistic missile tests. Four Victory ships became fleet ballistic missile cargo ships transporting torpedoes...
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    The fifth Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval saw England win by an innings and 579 runs, the largest victory by an innings in Test cricket history...
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    end of the war, with Lord's hosting one of the Victory Tests (though the matches did not actually have Test status) between the Australian Services cricket...
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