Talk:Test cricket
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"regard Australia as stronger team (in their most recent two series, Australia beat South Africa 3-0 in Australia and 2-1 in South Africa) and the changeover the result of the inadequacies of the ranking system."
I thought SA was ranked higher than Aus because Aus refused to play series against certain countries. [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/2622021.stm)
Test cricket playing nations
Is it worth keeping the note about Zimbabwe's suspension from Tests? It was useful when they weren't playing, but now that the suspension has ended I'm not sure it serves any useful purpose. I will remove it if there are no objections. --Ngb 01:25, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I just changed the wording of that Zimbabwe suspension note. It does indeed say "suspend" on the ICC/ZCU announcement, but it seems to refer to the Tests themselves, and not Zimbabwe or the Zimbabwean team. Not as in "Tim was suspended from school," but as in "the trial was suspended for a week." http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2004/JUN/166521_ZIM_10JUN2004.html 4th paragraph. Um, that said, I just saw your message about removing the note, Ngb, and actually I haven o objection to that. --bad_leprechaun 11:08 pm, 10 Jan 2005 (EST)
- We should keep the info about the suspension somewhere (History of test cricket?) as it's interesting info, jguk 14:15, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- There's already a section about it in History of cricket which I've just clarified with the exact dates of the suspension, and tried to make more encyclopaedic. Does that suffice? --Ngb 15:04, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I think so - good stuff:) jguk 19:29, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Capitalisation
Why is "Test" capitalised, as far as I can see, in every instance here? I have never seen that done for any other sport, is it a proper noun somehow?--Dmcdevit 23:48, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It is treated as a proper noun in cricket usage, at least. It is standard among cricket writers, magazines, and newspapers that "Test" is capitalised. I can't recall ever seeing it in lower case, except on some dubious web pages. I'm not sure why it should be capitalised, but established usage is that it is. - dmmaus 00:35, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I'll take your word for it, I only noticed it and became concerned when I saw some of the subpages had (what I thought might be) the wrong naming convention. --Dmcdevit 01:13, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
We had a discussion on this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket. I was the only one supporting "test" over "Test". The outcome is that WikiProject Cricket's standard is to capitalise the first T in Test, jguk 06:48, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)