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So a test match is 2 innings. Each innings a team bats and bowls. The goal of the bowling team is to get 10 batter's wickets(or outs).

So team A bats then team B bats for the first innings. Then that happens again in the second innings. Both scores each team makes in each innings is added to see who wins.

The length is because their is no limit to the amount of balls a team can face. A team can bat all day and then come back the next day and keep batting as long as they didn't lose 10 wickets. Wickets are rare in cricket so it takes days to go through each team's batters. There is a 5 day limit on test matches and if a team hasn't won when the time runs out it is a draw.

There is limited overs cricket. They have a maximum number of balls a team can face and just one innings(one turn a bat per team). These games are resolved within a day.

That was more a stupid rule. Longest fingernails is as fair as a boundary count.

The bowling team in the fourth innings wins by runs and the batting team winnings by wickets. So if England had score 2 more runs they would have won by 1 wicket. Basically whatever you are defending runs or wickets is what you win by.

5 days. New Zealand given no chance for 4 of those days. And then won it on the last.

Early Edition.

How to explain this. Ummm. Remember in the Mr Bean movie when he sneezes on Whistler's Mother and then rubs the painting with an ink soaked handkerchief spreading ink everywhere and then uses paint remover to remove the ink resulting in destroying the painted head of Whistler's Mother and Mr Bean uses a ball point pen to drew the head back on? This was more incompetent.