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The Bicentennial Test was a single Test cricket match played between Australia and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground in celebration of the bicentenary of permanent colonial settlement in Australia. The match took place from 29 January to 2 February 1988 and was drawn. It did not count as part of The Ashes series, in the same way as the Centenary Tests in 1977 and 1980 also were excluded from the Ashes lists. The match was played in the middle of an England tour to New Zealand, where the team later played three Test matches, all of them also drawn. Previously the same winter, the England team had toured Pakistan, and Australia had hosted Tests and One Day Internationals against New Zealand and Sri Lanka (the single Test against Sri Lanka came after the Bicentennial Test, but all other matches were before it). ==The teams== Sydney's reputation for favouring spin bowling led both sides to pick two specialist spin bowlers and to favour medium-pace or fast-medium bowling over out-and-out speed. England were captained by Mike Gatting, fresh from his finger-wagging confrontation with umpire Shakoor Rana, and lacked several of the big name players of recent years, such as Graham Gooch, David Gower, Allan Lamb, and Ian Botham. The team was, in batting order: * Chris Broad * Martyn Moxon * Tim Robinson * Mike Gatting (captain) * Bill Athey * David Capel * John Emburey * Bruce French (wicketkeeper) * Neil Foster * Eddie Hemmings * Graham Dilley. Australia were captained by Allan Border. The team, in batting order, was: * Geoff Marsh * David Boon * Dean Jones * Allan Border (captain) * Mike Veletta * Steve Waugh * Peter Sleep * Greg Dyer (wicketkeeper) * Peter Taylor * Tony Dodemaide * Craig McDermott. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bicentennial Test」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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