Possible Clues:

• Dress rehearsal
• Rehearsal
• Test
• First Test will give you an indication how good the player is at clear out
• Shakedown cruise
• Preliminary test
• Test car from foreign capital to take off
• Experiment starts in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 — go!
• Experiment that pays lawyers to make it?
• Hearing what batsman might get in practice