Test Match (board game)

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| image_caption = Cover of the 1955 John Sands edition

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| publisher = John Waddington Limited
John Sands Pty. Ltd.

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Test Match is a cricket-themed board game first published in 1955 by John Waddington Limited in the United Kingdom and John Sands Pty. Ltd. in Australia.{{cite web|title=2003/102/9 Board game with packaging, cricket, "Test Match", cardboard / metal, John Sands Pty Ltd, Australia, [1955]|url=http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=11789|publisher=Powerhouse Museum|accessdate=5 November 2015}}

Russell Jackson notes that "you pulled on a couple of cardboard tabs to randomly generate a type of delivery before your batting opponent did the same on the other end of the board, but if you were a genuinely competitive player, the reliance on luck over skill would eventually start to grate."{{cite news|last1=Jackson|first1=Russell|title=The Joy of Six: Cricket board games and video games|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/10/the-joy-of-six-cricket-board-games-and-video-games|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=The Guardian|date=9 December 2013}}

The original game depends entirely by chance, and is similar in principle to pencil cricket.

A three-dimensional version was released by Crown and Andrews in the 1977. This involved rolling a ball-bearing down a plastic gully attached to a plastic bowler.{{cite news|last1=Hogg|first1=Nicholas|title=Dear West Indies cricket|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/795533.html|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=ESPN Cricinfo|date=4 November 2014}} According to Jackson, this is "the greatest cricket board game of all time."