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The oldest person, and only septuagenarian, to play first-class cricket was Raja Maharaj Singh, aged 72, his sole appearance being for the Bombay Governor's XI against a Commonwealth XI in November 1950. [8]
Eileen May Ash (née Whelan; 30 October 1911 – 3 December 2021) was an English cricketer and supercentenarian who played primarily as a right-arm medium bowler. As Eileen Whelan, she appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1937 and 1948/49. [1] [2] Ash was the longest-lived international cricketer, living to the age of 110 years ...
Gordon played first-class cricket for Transvaal from the 1933–34 season as a right-handed fast bowler and a tail-end right-handed batsman. He made his Test debut against England in December 1938, playing every Test of the five-match series. In the first Test, he took his best Test match figures of 7–162, including 5–103 in the first ...
Indian cricketer [48] Jim Cullivan: 1921–2024: 103: American football player and coach [49] Iris Cummings: 1920–2025: 104: American Olympic swimmer and aviator [50] Ray Cunningham: 1905–2005: 100: American Major League Baseball player [51] Yvonne Curtet: 1920– 104: French Olympic athlete [52] John Daley: 1887–1988: 101: American Major ...
The main part of his cricket career was from 1893 to 1904 when, as one of the greatest batsmen of his time, [1] he played for Cambridge University, Sussex, London County and, in 15 Test matches, for England. Ranjitsinhji was an unorthodox batsman whose fast reactions and individual style were to revolutionise the game.
This is a list of England Test cricketers. A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match ...
The series of "Test matches" played in Australia between Australia and a World XI in 1971–72, and the commercial "Supertests" organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise played between "WSC Australia", "WSC World XI" and "WSC West Indies" from 1977 to 1979, have never been regarded as official Test matches as of 2021.
[19] [20] After featuring in a first-class match against New South Wales, he was chosen to play in the first-ever Test match, played between England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). [21] Southerton was 49 years and 119 days old when he made his Test debut, making him the oldest ever Test debutant. [7]