Almanac Teams: Players who debuted in Brisbane

 

For the current Australia v India Test Series, I am basing a Test XI on players that made their Test debut at the ground.

One Team of Australians and One team of visitors.

Then, after the Test series at some stage, I will look at teams based in overseas countries.

The team is a blend of best players in the XI with some that also had a great debut.

I will give a little description on why I chose that player.

I look forward to all correspondence.

 

This team is based on debuts at either the Exhibition Ground or the Gabba.

Highlights of the teams are:

• There are 61 Australians and 40 Visitors to debut at Brisbane.
• Brisbane has generally hosted the First Test of the summer for most of the last 40 years, hence a high number of recent debuts.
• Two Australians and 1 Visitor scored 100 on debut in Brisbane.
• Four Australians took five wickets on debut and one Visitor has.
• Nine Queenslanders have debuted at the Gabba in Tom Veivers, Peter Allan, David Ogilvie, John Maclean, Carl Rackemann, Kepler Wessels, Michael Kasprowicz, Scott Muller, and Mitchell Johnson

Australia XI

Bruce Laird
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman cpt
David Boon
Norm O’Neill
Doug Walters
Adam Gilchrist vc
Mitchell Johnson
Rodney Hogg
Josh Hazlewood
Bill Johnston
12^th Damien Martyn

 

Others are listed below but the ones that were unlucky to miss out on the starting XI, based on their Test debuts and careers, are Wayne Clark, Michael Hussey, Bert Ironmonger, Jack Iverson, Rodney Marsh, James Pattinson, Peter Toohey, David Warner and Kepler Wessels.

 

Visiting XI

Brian Luckhurst – England
Adrian Barath – West Indies
Colin Cowdrey – England cpt
Graeme Pollock – South Africa vc
Craig McMillan – New Zealand
Abdul Razzaq – Pakistan
Ian Smith – New Zealand
Washington Sundar – India
Michael Holding – West Indies
Javagal Srinath – India
Ken Shuttleworth – England

12^th Bryan Young New Zealand

 

Australia XI

 

Bruce Laird v West Indies 1979
92 & 75
21 Tests, 1341 Runs, Average 35.28, Highest Score 92

Laird toured England for the Ashes in 1975  and inaugural cricket World Cup but did play in any match. Laird was part of World Series Cricket and scored a hundred against West Indies in his second Supertest and against World XI in his third Supertest. The hard decision was opening batsman, while Morris was a guaranteed starter for his Test record Laird got in as opener ahead of Wessels who got a hundred but Laird had two great innings against quality attack, Boon who debuted in the middle order, and Hussey who debuted as an opener but was better middle order batsman.

 

Arthur Morris v England 1946
2
46 Tests, 3533 Runs, Average 46.48, Highest Score 206, 2 Wickets at 25, Best Bowling 1/5

While Morris’ debut was not a big score, he is recognised as one of Australia’s best opening batsmen. Morris came of age in the 1948 Invincibles tour with a 182 in the 4^th Test in a 301 partnership with Don Bradman when chasing 404 for victory. In the next Test, Morris made 196 runs and was at the other end when Bradman was bowled for 0.

 

Don Bradman v England 1928
18 & 1
52 Tests, 6996 Runs, Average 99.94, Highest Score 334, 2 Wickets at 36, Best Bowling 1/8

Both of Bradman’s wickets were at Adelaide. They were West Indies wicketkeeper Ivan Barrow lbw for 27 and Wally Hammond in the Bodyline series, bowled for 85. Bradman has had the second most amount of biographies of all Australians after Ned Kelly.

 

David Boon v West Indies 1984
11 & 51
107 Tests, 7422 Runs,  Average 43.65, Highest Score 200

Boon was Man of the Match in the 1987 Cricket World Cup against England where he made 75.

 

Norm O’Neill v England 1958
34 & 71no
42 Tests, 2779 Runs, Average 45.55, Highest Score 181, 17 Wickets at 39.23, Best Bowling 4/41

O’Neill was one of the first batsman post-Bradman to be labelled ‘the next Bradman’. O’Neill scored three of his six hundreds in Pakistan & India in 1959-60.

 

Doug Walters v England 1965
155
74 Tests, 5357 Runs, Average 48.26, Highest Score 250, 49 Wickets at 29.08, Best Bowling 5/66

Walters got hundreds in his first two Tests. In 1968/69 against West Indies, he made 699 at 116.50, including four hundreds with best of 242. When Walters toured West Indies 1973, he made 497 runs at 71 with 2 hundreds. Walters averaged 85 against the West Indies.

 

Adam Gilchrist  v Pakistan 1999
81 & 5 catches 1 stumping
96 Tests, 5670 Runs, Average 47.6, Highest Score 204, 379 catches, 37 stumpings

Gilchrist is the first player to hit 100 Test Sixes. Gilchrist never missed a Test from his debut. In his second Test he made a match winning 149no in a 238-run partnership with Justin Langer. Gilchrist was also Man of the Match in 2007 World Cup Final with 149 runs from 104 balls.

Mitchell Johnson v Sri Lanka 2007
DNB and 2/49 & 2/42
73 Tests, 2065 Runs, Average 22.20, Highest Score 123no, 313 Wickets at 28.40, Best Bowling 8/61

Johnson has twice won Sir Garfield Sobers ‘cricketer of the year’, winning in 2009 and 2014. Johnson’s best series was 2013-14 Ashes taking 37 wickets at 13.97.

 

Rodney Hogg v England 1978
36 & 16 and 6/74 & 1/35
38 Tests, 439 Runs, Average 9.75, Highest Score 52, 123 Wickets at 28.47, Best Bowling 6/74

Hogg’s first Tests series was 1978/79 Ashes where he took 41 wickets at 12.85 in the six test series.

 

Josh Hazlewood v India 2014
32no and 5/68 & 2/74
71 Tests, 510 Runs, Average 11.86, Highest Score 39, 278 Wickets at 24.58, Highest Score 6/67

Hazlewood was the first cricketer to take five wickets in a day/night Test. Hazlewood is also the cricketer to make a diamond duck in a partnership of over 50. This was in 54 run partnership with Marcus Stoinis in New Zealand.

Bill Johnston v India 1947
DNB & 2/17 & 1/11
40 Tests, 273 Runs, Average 11.37, Highest Score 29, 160 Wickets at 23.91, Best Bowling 6/44

Johnston was left arm medium pacer and bowled left arm slow. Johnston once batted Australia to victory in a 38 last wicket partnership with Doug Ring.

 

12^th Damien Martyn v West Indies 1992
36 & 15
67 Tests, 4406 Runs, Average 46.37, Highest Score 165, 2 Wickets at 84, Best Bowling 1/0

Martyn was the first captain of Australia A and was Man of the Series in Australia’s 2004 win in India.

 

Others

Bert Ironmonger v England 1928
4 & 0 and 2/72 & 2/85
14 Tests, 42 Runs, Average 2.62, Highest Score 12, 74 Wickets at 17.97, Best Bowling 7/23

Ironmonger was the oldest cricketer at 46 to make his Test debut and second oldest ever Test cricketer at 50.8.

 

Jack Nitschke v South Africa 1931
6
2 Tests, 53 Runs, Average 26.50, Highest Score 47

 

Ernest Bromley v England 1933
26 & 7 and 0/19
2 Tests, 38 Runs, Average 9.50, Highest Score 26, 0 Wickets

Len Darling v England 1933
17 & 39
12 Tests, 474 Runs, Average 27.88, Highest Score 85, 0 Wickets

 

Hammy Love v England 1933
5 & 3 and 3 catches
1 Test, 8 Runs, Average 4, 3 Catches

Love played in Brisbane after Bert Oldfield was forced to miss after copping a bouncer to the head from Harold Larwood.

 

Jack Badcock v England 1936
8 & 0
7 Tests, 160 Runs, Average 14.54, Highest Score 118

Badcock is a Tasmanian Test cricketer who was forced to move to South Australia in 1934 to get an opportunity to play for Australia.

 

Ray Robinson v England 1936
2 & 3
1 Test, 5 Runs, Average 2.50

 

Morris Sievers v England 1936
8 & 5 and 0/42 & 3/29
3 Tests, 67 Runs, Average 13.40, Highest Score 25no, 9 Wickets at 17.88, Best Bowling 5/21

 

Frank Ward v England 1936
0 & 1 and 2/138 & 6/102
4 Tests, 36 Runs, Average 6, Highest Score 18, 11 Wickets at 52.18, Best Bowling 6/102

 

George Tribe v England 1946
1
3 Tests, 35 Runs, Average 17.50, Highest Score 25no, 2 Wickets at 165, Best Bowling 2/48

Tribe played 66 Games for Footscray from 1940-46.

 

Jack Iverson v England 1950
1no & 4/43
5 Tests, 3 Runs, Average 0.75, 21 Wickets at 15.23, Best Bowling 6/27

Iverson was a leg spinner who debuted at the age 35, having played cricket for just four years. All of Iverson’s five Tests were against England in 1950/51. Iverson was known for his unusual bent finger grip. So unusual was the grip then when he bowled his Test & State captain Lindsay Hassett, he would not allow Iverson to bowl to other state batsman or have them field in First slip.

 

Gil Langley v West Indies 1951
0, 6 catches and 1 stumping
26 Tests, 374 Runs, Average 14.96, Highest Score 53, 83 catches and 15 stumpings

Langley played four games for Essendon as well as 163 for Sturt where he captained and won a Best & Fairest. Langley was an MP in South Australia from 1977-79.

 

Les Favell v England 1954
23
19 Tests, 757 Runs, Average 27.03, Highest Score 101

 

Alan Connolly v South Africa 1963
1no and 1/46 & 0/2
29 Tests, 260 Runs, Average 10.40, Highest Score 37, 102 Wickets at 29.22, Best Bowling 6/47

 

Tom Veivers v South Africa 1963
14 & 1/48
21 Tests, 813 Runs, Average 31.26, Highest Score 88, 33 Wickets at 41.66, Best Bowling 4/68

Veivers was an MP in Queensland from1983-86.

 

Peter Allan v England 1965
2/58 & 0/25
1 Test, 2 Wickets at 41.50

 

Eric Freeman v India 1968
18 & 8 and 3/56 & 0/29
11 Tests, 345 Runs, Average 19.16, Highest Score 76, 34 Wickets at 33.16, Best Bowling 4/52

Freeman was the first batsman in Test history to get off the mark in his Test career with a six.

 

Terry Jenner v England 1970
0 & 2 and 1/86 & 1/9
9 Tests, 208 Runs, Average 23.11, Highest Score 74, 24 Wickets at 31.20, Best Bowling 5/90

Jenner is best known as the spin coach for Shane Warne.

 

Rodney Marsh v England 1970
9 & 14 and 4 catches
96 Tests, 3633 Runs, Average 26.51, Highest Score 132, 343 Catches, 12 Stumpings

Marsh was the first Australian wicketkeeper to make a century. Marsh holds the record with Dennis Lillee for most dismissals (c Marsh b Lillee) with 95.

 

Alan Thompson v England 1970
0 & 4no and 1/136 & 0/20
4 Tests, 22 Runs, Average 22, Highest Score 12no, 12 Wickets at 54.50, Best Bowling 3/79

 

Wally Edwards v England 1974
4 & 5
3 Tests, 68 Runs, Average 11.33, Highest Score 30

Edwards was chairman of Cricket Australia from 2011-15.

 

Wayne Clark v India 1977
4 Runs and 4/46 & 4/101
10 Tests, 98 Runs, Average 5.76, Highest Score 33, 44 Wickets at 28.75, Best Bowling 4/46

 

Paul Hibbert v India 1977
13 & 2
1 Test, 15 Runs, Average 7.50

 

Tony Mann v India 1977
19 & 29 and 3/12 & 0/52
4 Tests, 189 Runs, Average 23.62, Highest Score 105, 4 Wickets at 79, Best Bowling 3/12

Mann was only the second ever night watchmen to make a hundred.

 

David Ogilvie v India 1977
5 & 46
5 Tests, 178 runs,  Average 17.80, Highest Score 47

 

Steve Rixon v India 1977
9 & 6 and 5 catches
13 Tests, 394 Runs, Average 18.76, Highest Score 54, 42 catches and 5 stumpings.

Rixon has coached New Zealand and also NSW and Surrey.

 

Peter Toohey v India 1977
82 & 57
15 Tests, 893 Runs, Average 31.89, Highest Score 122

Toohey scored 122 & 97 in the West Indies but in the following Test he was hit by an Andy Roberts bouncer and from then on, he struggled for form.

 

John Maclean v England 1978
33no & 15 and 6 catches
4 Tests, 79 Runs, Average 11.28, Highest Score 33no, 18 catches

 

Geoff Lawson v New Zealand 1980
16 and 1/39 & 2/26
46 Tests, 894 Runs, Average 15.96, Highest Score 74, 180 Wickets at 30.56, Best Bowling 8/112

Lawson has coached Pakistan along with NSW.

 

Carl Rackemann v England 1982
DNB and 2/61 & 0/35
12 Tests, 53 Runs, Average 5.30, Highest Score 15no, 39 Wickets at 29.15, Best Bowling 6/86

 

Kepler Wessels v England 1982
162 & 46

Wessels played 24 Tests for Australia and 16 for South Africa – 40 Tests, 2788 Runs, Average 41, Highest Score 179

Wessels played for Australia from 1982-1985 and South Africa 1992-94 where he was the first Test captain when South Africa was welcomed back.

 

Bob Holland v West Indies 1984
6 & 0 and 2/97
11 Tests, 35 Runs, Average 3.18 Highest Score 10, 34 Wickets at 39.76, Best Bowling 6/54.

Holland was 38 when he made his Test debut and in his Third Test against the West Indies, he took 6/54 and 10 wickets for the Test. His next Test would be at Lords in 1985 where he bowled Australia to victory with 5/68.

 

Chris Matthews v England 1986
11 & 0 and 3/95 & 0/11
3 Tests, 54 Runs, Average 10.80, Highest Score 32, 6 Wickets at 52.16, Best Bowling 3/95

 

Michael Veletta v New Zealand 1987
4
8 Tests, 207 Runs, Average 18.81, Highest Score 39

 

Matthew Elliott v West Indies 1996
0 & 21
21 Tests, 1172 Runs, Average 33.48, Highest Score 199

Elliott’s son is a current opening bowler for Victoria.

 

Michael Kasprowicz v West Indies 1996
6 and 0/60 & 0/29
38 Tests, 445 Runs, Average 10.59, Highest Score 25, 113 Wickets at 32.88, Best Bowling 7/36

Kasprowicz shared a 59-run partnership with Brett Lee in the heartbreaking loss at Edgbaston in 2005. Less than 12 months later, Kasprowicz and Lee would share a 19-run 9^th wicket partnership to steer Australia to victory in Johannesburg.

 

Scott Muller v Pakistan 1999
6no and 2/72 & 1/55
2 Tests, 6 Runs, 7 Wickets at 36.85, Best Bowling 3.68

 

Nathan Bracken v India 2003
6no and 1/90 & 2/12
5 Tests, 70 Runs, Average 17.50, Highest Score 37, 12 Wickets at 42.08, Best Bowling 4/48

 

Michael Hussey v West Indies 2005
1 & 29
79 Tests, 6235 Runs, Average 51.52, Highest Score 195, 7 Wickets at 43.71, Best Bowling 1/0

Hussey played his debut Test as an opening batsman due to an injury to Justin Langer.

 

Xavier Doherty v England 2010
16 and 2/41 & 0/107
4 Tests, 51 Runs, Average 12.75, Highest Score 18, 7 Wickets at 78.28, Best Bowling 3/131

 

James Pattinson v New Zealand 2011
12 and 1/64 & 5/27
21 Tests, 417 Runs, Average 26.06, Highest Score 47no, 81 Wickets at 26.33, Best Bowling 5/27

Pattinson older brother Darren played 1 Test for England.

 

Mitchell Starc v New Zealand 2011
32no and 2/90 & 0/33
90 Tests, 2131 Runs, Average 20.49, Highest Score 99, 361 Wickets at 27.85, Best Bowling 6/50

Starc’s Highest Score is 99 at Mohali where he was out caught behind.

 

David Warner v New Zealand 2011
3 & 12no and 0/5
112 Tests, 8786 Runs, Average 44.59, Highest Score 335no, 4 Wickets at 67.25, Best Bowling 2/45

Warner’s best bowling was in Bridgetown in 2012 where he bowled 10 overs and got the Number 3 Kirk Edwards out caught & bowled.

 

Rob Quiney v South Africa 2012
9 & 0/10 & 0/3
2 Tests, 9 Runs, Average 3, Highest Score 9, 0 Wickets

 

George Bailey v England 2013
3 & 34
5 Tests, 183 Runs, Average 26.14, Highest Score 53

Bailey is now Chairman of Selectors.

 

Cameron Bancroft v England 2017
5 & 82no
10 Tests, 446 Runs, Average 26.23, Highest Score 82no

 

Kurtis Patterson v Sri Lanka 2019
30
2 Tests, 144 Runs, Average 144, Highest Score 114no

 

Jhye Richardson v Sri Lanka 2019
1 & 3/26 & 2/19
3 Tests, 18 Runs, Average 6, Highest Score 9, 11 Wickets at 22.09, Best Bowling 5/42

 

Alex Carey v England 2021
12 & 9 and 8 catches
33 Tests, 1396 Runs, Average 31.72, Highest Score 111, 126 catches, 13 stumpings including one off Cameron Green in 2023 Ashes.

 

Visiting XI

Brian Luckhurst – England 1970
74 & 20no
21 Tests, 1298 Runs, Average 36.05, Highest Score 131, 1 Wicket at 32, Best Bowling 1/9

Luckhurst’s Test wicket was Gundappa Viswanath stumped.

 

Adrian Barath – West Indies 2009
15 & 104
15 Tests, 657 Runs, Average 23.46, Highest Score 104

Barath was the youngest West Indian to score a Test century.

 

 

Colin Cowdrey – England 1954
40 & 10
114 Tests, 7624 Runs, Average 44.06, Highest Score 182

Cowdrey had not played a Test for 3 years when he required as a backup batsman at the age of 41 in the 1974-75 Ashes in Australia. Cowdrey’s wife Lady Ann Herries trained the 1998 Caulfield Cup winner Taufan’s Melody.

 

Graeme Pollock – South Africa 1963
25
23 Tests, 2256 Runs, Average 60.97, Highest Score 274, 4 Wickets at 51.00, Best Bowling 2/50

Pollock has the third best ever batting Average of any player that has played 20 Tests after Don Bradman and Adam Voges. Pollock’s last Test was at the age of 26 in 1970 when South Africa was barred for international cricket. Pollock though still played until 1987 against the Rebel tours.

 

Craig McMillan – New Zealand 1997
54 & 0
55 Tests, 3116 Runs, Average 38.46, Highest Score 142, 28 Wickets at 44.89, Best Bowling 3/48

McMillan at one stage held the fastest one-day century for New Zealand with 67 balls.

 

Abdul Razzaq – Pakistan 1999
11 & 2 and 0/66
46 Tests,1946 Runs, Average 28.61, Highest Score 134, 100 Wickets at 36.94, Best Bowling 5/35

In the 2000 tri-nation one day series between Australia, India, and Pakistan in Australia, Razzaq was the player of the series.

 

Ian Smith – New Zealand 1980
7 & 7
63 Tests, 1815 Runs, Average 25.56, Highest Score 173, 168 Catches, 8 Stumpings

Smith holds the equal record for most catches in an innings with 7.

 

Washington Sundar – India 2020
62 & 22 and 3/89 & 1/80
7 Tests, 387 Runs, Average 48.37, Highest Score 96no, 24 Wickets at 23.91, Best Bowling 7/59

Sundar was left stranded on 96no when India lost their last 3 wickets for 0 Runs in 5 Balls.

 

Michael Holding – West Indies 1975
34 & 19 and 0/81 & 0/46
60 Tests, 910 Runs, Average 13.78, Highest Score 73, 249 Wickets at 23.68, Best Bowling 8/92

Holding had one of the great nicknames in cricket, ‘Whispering Death’.

 

Javagal Srinath – India 1991
21 & 12no and 3/59 & 0/16
67 Tests, 1009 Runs , Average 14.21, Highest Score 76, 236 Wickets at 30.49, Best Bowling 8/86

Srinath is currently an ICC Referee.

 

Ken Shuttleworth – England 1970
7 and 0/81 & 5/47
5 Tests, 46 Runs, Average 7.66, Highest Score 21, 12 Wickets at 35.58, Best Bowling 5/47

Shuttleworth opened the bowling with John Snow in the first ever one-day match.

 

12^th Bryan Young New Zealand 1993
38 & 53
35 Tests, 2034 Runs, Average 31.78, Highest Score 267

Young played mainly as an opening batsman at Test level but did debut three years prior in one-day cricket as a middle order batsman and wicketkeeper.

 

Others

 Tommy Mitchell – England 1933
0 and 2/49 & 1/11
5 Tests, 20 Runs, Average 5, Highest Score 9, 8 Wickets at 62.25, Best Bowling 2/49

 

Keith Andrew – England 1954
6 & 5
2 Tests, 29 Runs, Average 9.66, Average 15, Catches 1

 

Alan Smith – England 1962
21
6 Tests, 118 Runs, Average 29.50, Highest Score 69no

 

Phil DeFreitas – England 1986
40no and 2/32 & 3/62
44 Tests, 934 Runs, Average 14.82, Highest Score 88, 140 Wickets at 33.57, Best Bowling 7/70

DeFreitas is the only bowler to take a five-wicket haul against all 18 counties.

 

Jack Richards – England 1986
0 and 3 catches & 1 stumping
8 Tests, 285 Runs, Average 21.92, Highest Score 133, 20 catches and 1 stumping.

Richards made a hundred in his second Test in Perth.

 

Hemu Adhikari – India 1947
8 & 13
21 Tests, 872 Runs, Average 31.14, Highest Score 114no, 3 Wickets at 27.33, Best Bowling 3/68

 

Jenni Irani – India 1947
0 & 2no and 1 catch & 1 stumping.
2 Tests, 3 Runs, Average 3, 2 catches, 1 stumpings

 

Gogumal Kisenchand – India 1947
1 & 0
5 Tests, 89 Runs, Average 8.90, Highest Score 44

 

Khandu Ragnekar – India 1947
1 & 0
3 Tests, 33 Runs, Average 5.50, Highest Score 18

 

Thangarasu Natarajan – India 2021
1no and 3/78 & 0/40
1 Test, 1 Runs, 3 Wickets at 39.66, Best Bowling 3/78

 

John Bracewell – New Zealand 1980
0 and 1/51 & 0/12
41 Tests, 1001 Runs, Average 20.42, Highest Score 110, 102 Wickets at 35.81, Best Bowling 6/32

Bracewell batting at Number 10 shared a 124-run last wicket partnership with Stephen Boock where Bracewell made 83no.

 

Vaughan Brown – New Zealand 1985
36no and 1/17 & 0/96
2 Tests, 51 Runs, Average 25.50, Highest Score 36no, 1 Wicket at 176, Best Bowling 1/17

Brown’s sole wicket was the innings where Richard Hadlee took 9/52. Brown’s wicket was Geoff Lawson caught Richard Hadlee.

 

Saleem Elahi – Pakistan 1995
11 & 2
13 Tests, 436 Runs, Average 18.95, Highest Score 72

Saleem had two brothers play Tests for Pakistan, Manzoor Elahi (6 Tests) and Zahoor Elahi (2 Tests).

 

Anton Murray – South Africa 1952
18 & 11 and 0/63 & 0/13
10 Tests, 289 Runs, Average 22.23, Highest Score 109, 18 Wickets at 39.44, Best Bowling 4/169

 

Denis Lindsay – South Africa 1963
17
19 Tests, 1130 Runs, Average 37.66, Highest Score 182, 57 catches & 2 stumpings.

Though he debuts as a batsman, Lindsay would later become South Africa’s wicketkeeper; Lindsay also stood in 7 Tests as an ICC referee.

 

Joe Partridge – South Africa 1963
3no and 0/87 & 1/50
11 Tests, 73 Runs, Average 10.42, Highest Score 13no, 44 Wickets at 31.20, Best Bowling 7/91

 

David Pithey – South Africa 1963
18 and 0/85
8 Tests, 138 Runs, Average 12.54, Highest Score 55, 12 Wickets at 48.08 Best Bowling 6/58

 

Kelly Seymour – South Africa 1963
10 and 0/39
7 Tests, 84 Runs, Average 12, Highest Score 36, 9 Wickets at 65.33, Best Bowling 3/80

 

Peter Van de Merwe- South Africa 1963
17
15 Tests, 533 Runs, Average 25.38, Highest Score 76, 1 Wicket at 22, Best Bowling 1/6

Van der Merwe captained South Africa between 1965 & 67 and was Chairman of Selectors in the 1980s and ICC Referee in the 1990s.

 

Rory Kleinveldt  – South Africa 2012
17no  and 0/97
4 Tests, 27 Runs, Average 9, Highest Score 17no, 10 Wickets at 42.20, Best Bowling 3/65

 

Dammika Ranatunga – Sri Lanka 1989
40
2 Tests, 87 Runs, Average 29, Highest Score 45

Dammika is the older brother of former captain Arjuna (93 Tests) and Nishantha (2 Tests). Younger brother Arjuna was his Test captain.

 

Gamini Wickremasinghe – Sri Lanka 1989
2 and 3 catches
3 Tests, 17 Runs, Average 8.50, Highest Score 13no, 9 catches and 1 stumping.

 

Roy Marshall – West Indies 1951
28 & 30
4 Tests, 143 Runs, Average 20.42, Highest Score 30

 

Peter Lashley – West Indies 1960
19 & 0
4 Tests, 159 Runs, Average 22.71, Highest Score 49, 1 Wicket at 1, Best Bowling 1/1

Lashley’s wicket was Geoff Boycott caught for 14.

 

Cammie Smith – West Indies 1960
7 & 6
5 Tests, 222 Runs, Average 24.66, Highest Score 55

Smith was an ICC referee in 42 Tests from 1993 to 2001.

 

Marlon Black – West Indies 2000
0 & 2 and 4/83
6 Tests, 21 Runs, Average 2.62, Highest Score 6, 12 Wickets at 49.75, Best Bowling 4.83

 

Ravi Rampaul – West Indies 2009
1no & 0 and 1/110
18 Tests, 335 Runs, Average 14.56, Highest Score 40no, 49 Wickets at 34.79, Best Bowling 4/48

 

Kevin Sinclair – West Indies 2024
50 & 14no and 1/53
2 Tests, 69 Runs, Average 23, Highest Score 50, 4 Wickets at 51, Best Bowling 2/73

 

 

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