Today at Lords,London,which is called the Mecca of cricket, the 2000th test match in the history of the game will be played. when the first test match was played in 1877 against Australia and England at MCG nobody would have thought it would be this much difficult for test cricket to survive. No other forms of the game were invented then.

Wiki page of Test Cricket. Do have a look http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket

Talk about cricket on the modern day ,first name that comes up will be sachin Tendulkar, who already has 51 test tons and 48 odi tons waiting for his 100th international century

Sofar in Test Cricket 3450 hundreds were made. And Tendulkar has the most 51

61175- The number of wickets taken by bowlers in Test cricket. (not sure runouts were included in that list). And the Champ Lankan Spinner Muralitharan tops the wicket takers list with 800wickets

7554 - The number of batsmen who were out for a duck in test cricket sofar. The great west indian fast bowler Courtney Walsh holds the record here with 43 ducks in 185 innings with 60 not outs also, followed by Glenn Mcgrath 35 in 138 innings

1959659- The total number of runs scored by all batsmen (also includes extras) i think , sofar in the history of the game. And its none other than the Great Sachin Tendulkar who has the most number of runs in test cricket sofar,who has 14,692 runs in 177 test matches at an amazing average of 56.95.

Looking back at the history of the game, after the first test match in 1877 ,it took 31 years to complete 100 test matches when England Played Australia at SCG in 1908 it took 90 years to complete the first thousand test matches,but the amazing fact is it just took 27 years to complete the next thousand. Credit goes to the ICC. Remember it took 31 years to complete first 100 test matches.

Lets quickly look back at the history of the game.. 1st Test match: England v Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, March 15-19, 1877 (Timeless Test) Result: Australia win by 45 runs Match details: - Charles Bannerman of Australia scores first ever Test match hundred with 165 in their first innings. - William Midwinter of Australia takes first ever Test match five-for with 5-78 in Englands first innings.

100th Test match: England v Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground, Feb 21-27, 1908 (Timeless Test) Result: Australia win by 49 runs Match details: - Sydney Barnes of England takes 7-60 during Australias first innings. - George Gunn of England scores 122 in their first innings. - Victor Trumper scores 166 as Australia overturns a first-innings deficit of 144 to win the Test. - Jack Saunders of Australia takes 5-82 in Englands second innings.