Test Match is a

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first published in 1955 by John Waddington Limited in the United Kingdom and John Sands Pty. Ltd. in Australia. 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." The original game depends entirely by chance, and is similar in principle to pencil cricket. A three-dimensional version was released by

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in the 1977. This involved rolling a ball-bearing down a plastic gully attached to a plastic bowler. According to Jackson, this is "the greatest cricket board game of all time."

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*{{bgg, 18657, ''Test Match'' Board games introduced in 1955 Cricket culture Sports board games