test match, rugby

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Rugby Ball

rugby

game that originated (1823), according to tradition, on the playing fields of Rugby, England. It is related to both soccer and American football. The game is said to have started when a Rugby School student named William Webb Ellis playing soccer picked up the ball and ran downfield with it instead of kicking it. Other English schools and universities adopted the style in the mid-19th cent....
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頭版刊登了英格蘭板球隊隊長邁克﹒沃恩的照片。沃恩在英格蘭與南非的對抗賽（Test match）中敗陣後宣佈辭去隊長一職。各報章均描述沃恩在記者會上一度情緒激動，沃恩同時表示希望繼續為英格蘭板球隊效力。




test match
n.

A match in cricket or Rugby played by all-star teams from different countries.

Meaning #1: an international championship match
Synonyms: match game, matched game

test match　テストマッチ ((クリケット・ラグビーの国際試合)).

A test match in football is a match played at the end of a season between a team that has done badly in a higher league and one that has done well in a lower league of the same football league system. The winner of the test match plays in the higher league the following year, and the loser in the lower league.