The first official match was held on 15 March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between England and Australia. The match was won by the then emerging Australian team by defeating the old British men by 45 runs. At the same time, the special thing of the match was that there was no set deadline for it. Both teams had to play two innings, no matter how many days it took.
In this Test match held in Melbourne, James Lillywhite was captained for England. At the same time, the Australian team was captained by Dave Gregory. In this match, Australia won the toss and batted first and opener Charles Bannerman played a brilliant 165-run innings and became the first batsman in the world to score a century in Test cricket.
In the first innings, no batsman other than Bannerman could score more than 20 runs for Australia. Australia scored 245 runs in the first innings. In response, the England team was dismissed for only 196 runs. For England, opener Harry Joop scored 63 runs, Harry Charlwood 36 runs, Alan Hill scored 35 runs.
Australia's second innings was very bad, the whole team was reduced to only 104 runs. Only Tom Harron could score the maximum 20 runs. England got a target of 154 runs to win in the second innings, but the England team could not achieve this target and was dismissed for 108 in the second innings and Australia won this historic Test match by 45 runs.
The result of this match was released on the fourth day. At that time rest day was kept for one day. In this way, the result of the match came in favor of Australia on March 19, after Rest Day on 18 March.
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