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Note: The oldest debutant, James Southerton, was also the first Test cricketer to die (on 16 June 1880). Miran Bakhsh was known as Miran Bux during his playing career. Source: [ 5 ]
He is the only male Test cricketer to live beyond 100 years of age. Gordon became the oldest-ever Test cricketer on 23 March 2011, when he surpassed New Zealander Eric Tindill, who died on 1 August 2010, at age 99. [1]
He toured Australia in 1876–77 with James Lillywhite's team, and played for England against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in what is retrospectively recognised as the first-ever Test match. He was 49 years and 119 days old when the match began, and remains the oldest Test debutant. In domestic cricket, Southerton was mostly ...
Francis Alexander MacKinnon, The 35th MacKinnon of MacKinnon DL (9 April 1848 – 27 February 1947) was the longest-lived Test cricketer until being surpassed by Eric Tindill of New Zealand on 8 November 2009. MacKinnon, who was 98 years, 324 days old when he died, was the oldest-ever first-class cricketer at that time. [1]
Australia's Charles Bannerman was the first cricketer to score a century on Test debut, in the first Test match.. For a cricketer to score a century (100 runs or more) on his Test match debut is considered a notable achievement, [1] and as of 30 January 2025 it has been accomplished 118 times by 116 players with Australian batter Josh Inglis the most recent player to make the list with a ...
Nathaniel Frampton Davis Thomson (29 May 1839 – 2 September 1896) was an Australian cricketer who played in the first two Tests ever played, in 1877.. When Australia won the toss on 15 March 1877 and elected to bat, Nat Thomson came out with Australia's No. 1 batsman Charles Bannerman to form the first-ever Test batting partnership.
Bert Ironmonger (pictured here in his 40s) is the oldest Australian cricketer to play in a Test match and was the second-oldest to make his debut for Australia. [ 184 ] [ 185 ] At 49 years and 119 days, James Southerton of England, playing in the very first Test match in March 1877, is the oldest player to make his debut in Test cricket.
Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket , with a total of 8,032 runs. [ 3 ]