'Cherokee', the old test piece for a player's executive powers, dazzles with Brown's improvisation.
If Balmaceda had failed it, he would've been given the old test.
It passes the five-year-old test: hand one to a five-year-old and watch.
The targets were set on the basis of the old test, however, so "the regulatory targets should be changed to reflect the new test", Mr Archer insists.
The 32-year-old quit Test rugby after the 2007 World Cup but returned to the fold to help Wales win the Grand Slam.
It produced much more accurate results than the old TST test.
Even Daniel Vettori, who had such a stranglehold over England for much of the Old Trafford Test, could not build pressure against Pietersen and Ambrose, not helped by the slow surface and failing to record a maiden.
And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
Then I did it in my second Test match at Edgbaston and someone wrote into dear old Brian Johnston on Test Match Special and he let the cat out of the bag.
The 42-year-old failed the test at Belmont Park and was taken off all three of his scheduled mounts.
But the 37-year-old former Australian Test batsman will miss the start of next season because of his commitments to the Indian Premier League.
Butt's hunch to try the medium pace of Umar Amin was rewarded when more swing found the edge of Marcus North's bat to give the 20-year-old a maiden Test wicket.
Ayers's father, BBC producer Rowan Ayers, created the BBC Two music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, which gave a host of underground acts TV exposure while it aired between 1971 - 1987.
Singles such as Teenage Kicks, Jimmy Jimmy and My Perfect Cousin soared up the charts and the band made numerous appearances on shows such as Top Of The Pops and The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Only a century in a Sheffield Shield match last week secured the 35-year-old's test spot after a run of poor form in the longer form of the game and the lefthander responded with only his third 50-plus Test score since his 134 against Pakistan in January.
The 38-year-old has played 99 Test matches and wants to reach 100 before retiring.
Kamran Akmal will replace the 24-year-old for the third Test, which starts at The Oval on Wednesday.
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"I'm fitter than ever and stronger than ever, " said the 29-year-old, whose last Test appearance was in 2007.
My own memory of Wes Hall is, as an 11-year-old seeing my first Test match, at the Bourda Oval in Georgetown in 1965.
The 27-year-old last played a Test in 2007, but was barred from international cricket when he joined the unsanctioned Indian Cricket League (ICL).
Two players who both should have been dismissed in the previous Test at Old Trafford but who guided England to victory, this time were both dismissed without scoring.
He snaffled a further five wickets in the third Test at Old Trafford and you began to wonder why he was ever a doubt for the England team.
It was a good tactic by Bangladesh, but there was nothing in this pitch for Swann and I'm sure he will come back well in the second Test at Old Trafford, which starts on Friday.
Skipper Daniel Vettori looked weary from the rigours of another series defeat, no doubt reflecting on the previous Test at Old Trafford, when having been 229 ahead with nine second innings wickets intact, his team were bowled out for 114 and lost by six wickets.
But the emergence of 21-year-old Lawes, who made his first Test start in the victory in Sydney, and 23-year-old Attwood, who started all three midweek games on tour, have hastened his demise.
The 40-year-old represented West Indies at Test level but had been part of England's coaching team since 2007.
The 27-year-old will start his second Test alongside experienced pair Williams and Jonathan Thomas in the back row.
The old foundations have stood the test of time and still give generously.
The 33-year-old reached 10, 000 Test runs with a modest 27 for the hosts.
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