The tour saw Pakistan become the seventh Test-playing nation, although they lost the five-match series 2-1.
Australia's crushing of South Africa in the home-and-away series last season is proof for many as to which Test nation is really the leader.
Pakistan, the last Test nation to adopt central contracts, has studied models from Australia, India and South Africa.
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So is the debacle in England the beginning of the end of India's domination as the top Test playing nation?
The visitors went into the match knowing that victory would see them unseat India as the world's number one Test nation after their resounding win in the first Test, and received a pre-match boost when Smith was passed fit to play despite a finger injury.
The EU test results will be fed into the 27-nation bloc's rapid alert system for food safety.
England are the only leading Test nation with no involvement in this year's tournament.
In June and July we are the only Test-playing nation playing cricket.
This township of about 40, 000 people is serving as something of a test case as communities across the nation grapple with the prospect of arming school-security guards after 20 elementary schoolchildren were shot dead in Connecticut.
Brasil reports that the country will receive 50 test laptops from OLPC, making it the first nation to have actual, live, working models.
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That is the policy established by Gov. Jim Hunt in North Carolina, where test scores made the biggest gains in the nation last year.
Aside from the West Indies, who tend to play international matches from March to May, England are the only Northern Hemisphere Test nation.
However, Ponting questioned the validity of a seven-match series with every other major Test-playing nation in South Africa preparing at altitude for the two-week tournament.
That gave him the opportunity to test out some of the social programs on which he embarked for the nation before he got to Washington, D.
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It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.
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It's a great irony that the nation that has produced more high-quality Test spinners than any other, India, only gets half the benefit of this change the recalibrated umpiring parameters, but not the actual system itself thanks to its opposition to the use of DRS. In fact, Indian cricket officials are even able to block the DRS from being used in multi-team tournaments in which India is involved.
Niyazov attached such importance to his own epic account of the Turkmen nation that questions on the text appeared in the national driving test.
The overhaul of the test is aimed at focusing less on the practicalities of daily living in Britain and more on the nation's culture and past.
The issue of Soviet-American relations is in essence a test of the overall worth of the United States as a nation among nations.
On education, the Bloomberg administration was among the nation's forerunners in changing the culture of public schools and testing new ideas to raise test scores and student achievement in the mayor's first two terms with then-Chancellor Joel Klein.
This has become, in the eyes of the Japanese defense establishment, a test of American support for their nation.
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Mississippi Gulf Coast has beautiful beaches, the nation's largest shipbuilder, a giant NASA rocket test complex, a huge oil refinery, air force and naval bases and a dozen casinos.
But in 1963 the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibited any nuclear explosion that sent radioactivity over a nation's borders.
The case, the first of its kind from a new EU nation, is seen as a test case regarding how most recent EU states are affected by EU rules.
Top of his mind, though, is this week's Lloyds TSB Tri-Series in Aberdeen against Ireland and New Zealand, one which the hosts are viewing as an opportunity to pick up their first-ever victory over a Test playing nation.
But the home side will go into the final two games in positive mood after piling up their highest limited overs total against a Test-playing nation.
Japanese officials hope the achievement, in a test conducted off Japan's central Pacific coast, will win their resource-poor nation a measure of energy independence.
Mohammad Ashraful (29) and Kayes then put on 68 for the second wicket as Bangladesh went on to record their highest-ever one-day total against a Test playing nation.
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