How to Use test match in a Sentence

test match

noun
  • As is so often said by the players and coaches, a test match is called a test match for a reason.
    — John Pye, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Cheika will now try To’omua, who has started only four of 50 test matches at flyhalf.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • With the help of some professional and amateur golfers, Castro did some test matches.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The Oval does sell out for England test matches against other nations and for Surrey's short-format games.
    — ABC News, 4 May 2026
  • Ballistics tests matched the weapon to a projectile recovered at the murder scene, the DA's office said.
    — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018
  • Sunny goes to watch the second test match between Sri Lanka and England—a game that will end up quelling his disquiet.
    — Carey Baraka, The Atlantic, 28 July 2022
  • West Indies had lost seven of its eight test matches in the World Test Championship but has now moved off the bottom of the points table.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • The third match will be played at Kingston on Monday and will be followed by three Twenty20 internationals and two test matches.
    — ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • Pakistan has never won a test series in Australia in 13 attempts, and in those years, Pakistan has only won four test matches total.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Pakistan has never won a test series in Australia in 13 attempts, and in those years, Pakistan has only won four test matches total.
    — Tim Chan, Variety, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Cricket, which has also been hit by match-fixing, had another major betting company's logo appear on the boundary ropes in an Australian test match.
    — Dennis Passa, Fox News, 23 May 2018
  • All of them learned to play in the dusty outskirts of Peshawar, the home in exile of Afghan cricket, and are now preparing to step into the limelight of a five-day test match for the first time.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2018
  • Bancroft and Smith had already admitted to the premeditated cheating over the weekend following the test match against South Africa, which Australia lost.
    — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Marsch said Bombito played 32 minutes in a test match against USL League 1 side Charlotte Independence on Sunday.
    — Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • But Taijul's breakthrough, dismissing Sajid for 28, ended a 54-run partnership, marked his 18th five-wicket haul in test matches and hastened the result.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Afghanistan will host Ireland in the northern Indian city of Dehradun for three Twenty20 and five one-day internationals before a five-day test match — only the second for both countries since their admission to cricket’s elite.
    — Rizwan Ali, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • In September, the All Blacks suffered their biggest ever loss in a test match, losing 43-10 against South Africa in Wellington, New Zealand.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026

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