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Test Status is a status that is conferred upon a country by the ICC, the International Cricket Council. Countries that do not have Test Status can only officially play a shortened version of Cricket. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... It has been suggested that Test status be merged into this article or section. ... ICC may stand for: ICC Bank, Ireland Indianapolis Childrens Choir Integration Competency Center Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan International Chamber of Commerce International Color Consortium The International Control Commission, which oversaw the 1954 Geneva Accords ending the First Indochina War The International Convention Centre, Birmingham, England... Cricket is a team sport played between two groups of eleven players each. ...
The cricketing countries that have test status are (in alphabetical order): Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. In 2004, Zimbabwe was temporarily removed from the test-playing fraternity due to the loss of many of its top players who fled due to the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born February 21, 1924) has been the head of government in Zimbabwe, first as Prime Minister and later as first executive President, since 1980. ...
In 2003, the ICC announced its intention to confer test status upon Kenya in the near future. 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Test matches are played between national representative teams which have Teststatus, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Similarly, a series of "Test matches" played in Australia between Australia and a World XI in 1971/72 are not considered to have Teststatus, nor are the Supertests organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise and played between Australia and Rest of the World teams from 1977 to 1979.
Teststatus is conferred upon a country by the International Cricket Council.
TestStatus is a status that is conferred upon a country by the ICC, the International Cricket Council.
The cricketing countries that have teststatus are (in alphabetical order): Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe.
In 2004, Zimbabwe were temporarily removed from the test-playing fraternity due to the loss of many of its top players who fled due to the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe.