"Brian Close Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer, the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, captaining them seven times to six wins and one drawn test. Close also captained Yorkshire to four county championship titles – the main domestic trophy in English cricket. He later went on to captain Somerset, where he is widely credited with developing the county into a"
"Women's County Championship instead. Harper is currently the Director of Sport at Sherborne Preparatory School in Dorset. Laura Harper Laura Julyen Harper (born 22 January 1984, Plymouth, Devon, England) is an English international cricketer who played for the England women's cricket team. At the time of her debut, she was the youngest player to have played for England. She made her Test cricket debut against Australia at Shenley in 2001 and last appeared against India in Delhi in 2005. In 6 Test matches she scored 182 runs at 22.75 with a best of 31 and took 11 wickets bowling off"
"Imran Khan, Close once stood his ground when fielding at short leg when a batsman played a pull shot, the ball hit him on the forehead, rebounded and was caught at cover. Khan commented: ""We are not all bullet-headed Yorkshiremen, however, and I don't recommend copying Close."" Close died on 13 September 2015, aged 84. Printed sources Websites Brian Close Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer, the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18"
"Holly Colvin Holly Louise Colvin (born 7 September 1989 in Chichester) is a retired English cricketer and former member of the England women's cricket team. She currently holds the record of being the youngest Test cricketer of either sex to play for England. A right-hand bat and slow left arm bowler, Colvin attended Westbourne House School, West Sussex originally as a batsman and started playing for the 1st XI in year 7 and averaging over 100. After Westbourne House, Colvin followed in the footsteps of England women's captain Clare Connor by playing in the boys' team at Brighton College. Competing"
"John Childs (cricketer) John Henry Childs (born 15 August 1951, in Lipson, Plymouth, Devon) is a former English cricketer who played in two Tests for England in 1988. At the age of 36 years 320 days, Childs became the oldest player since Dick Howorth in 1947 to make his England debut. He was a left-arm spin bowler, and played his domestic cricket for Gloucestershire and Essex. Childs began his professional cricket career with Gloucestershire, staying there for ten seasons. He was released at the end of the 1984 season, and was taken on by Essex for the following season. Cricket"
"Laura Harper Laura Julyen Harper (born 22 January 1984, Plymouth, Devon, England) is an English international cricketer who played for the England women's cricket team. At the time of her debut, she was the youngest player to have played for England. She made her Test cricket debut against Australia at Shenley in 2001 and last appeared against India in Delhi in 2005. In 6 Test matches she scored 182 runs at 22.75 with a best of 31 and took 11 wickets bowling off spin at 35.63 with a best of 5 for 66. She has played 25 One Day Internationals,"
"taken over 1,000 first-class wickets at under 30 apiece. Childs currently runs the Essex Youth Academy in Chelmsford. John Childs took partial retirement in September 2016. John Childs (cricketer) John Henry Childs (born 15 August 1951, in Lipson, Plymouth, Devon) is a former English cricketer who played in two Tests for England in 1988. At the age of 36 years 320 days, Childs became the oldest player since Dick Howorth in 1947 to make his England debut. He was a left-arm spin bowler, and played his domestic cricket for Gloucestershire and Essex. Childs began his professional cricket career with Gloucestershire,"
"Nasim-ul-Ghani Nasim-ul-Ghani (born 14 May 1941, Delhi, British India) is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in 29 Tests and one ODI from 1958 to 1973. At the time of his debut, aged 16 years, he was the world's youngest Test player. He became the first nightwatchman to score a century when he hit 101 against England at Lord's in 1962. This was his only century in Test cricket, and it was also the first century by a Pakistani in England. A slow left-arm bowler, Nasim-ul-Ghani is the youngest person to take five wickets in a Test innings. He was"
"Barney Gibson Barney Peter Gibson (born 31 March 1996) is a former English cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper for Yorkshire. He is the youngest cricketer to play first-class cricket in England making his debut for Yorkshire in April 2011 aged 15 years and 27 days. Gibson was born in Leeds, England and attended Crawshaw School in Pudsey. Before making his first-class debut, he represented Yorkshire County Cricket Club at Under-11, Under-12 and Under-13 levels. He had also played at schoolboy level for Leeds United, whose books he had been on between the ages of eight and twelve, before giving"
"30 May 2006, Walcott became England's youngest ever senior football player aged 17 years and 75 days. In December, he received the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award. On 6 September 2008, he made his first competitive start in a World Cup qualifier against Andorra, and in the following match against Croatia on 10 September he opened his senior international goals tally and became the youngest player in history to score a hat-trick for England. He has represented England at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2012 and has 47 caps, scoring eight goals. Walcott was born to"
"with 9 for 106, in the inaugural Women's World Twenty20 in England in 2009. Colvin gained 10 A* GCSE passes, three As in AS-level exams, and 4 As in her A-levels. In 2009, she started studying natural sciences at Durham University, to which is attached one of England's six University Centres of Cricketing Excellence. Holly Colvin Holly Louise Colvin (born 7 September 1989 in Chichester) is a retired English cricketer and former member of the England women's cricket team. She currently holds the record of being the youngest Test cricketer of either sex to play for England. A right-hand bat"
"Peter Marner Peter Thomas Marner (31 March 1936 – 16 May 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and then Leicestershire. He was rated by Trevor Bailey as the most formidable English batsman without a Test cricket cap. Marner was born in Oldham, Lancashire. An all-rounder, he played for Crompton in the Central Lancashire League aged 15, and made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 1952, aged 16 years and five months, against Sussex at Hove. This made him the youngest person to ever play for Lancashire, beating the record set in 1879 by Johnny Briggs."
"Peter Marner Peter Thomas Marner (31 March 1936 – 16 May 2007) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and then Leicestershire. He was rated by Trevor Bailey as the most formidable English batsman without a Test cricket cap. Marner was born in Oldham, Lancashire. An all-rounder, he played for Crompton in the Central Lancashire League aged 15, and made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 1952, aged 16 years and five months, against Sussex at Hove. This made him the youngest person to ever play for Lancashire, beating the record set in 1879 by Johnny Briggs."
"to become the youngest batsman to score 10000 Test runs beating Sachin Tendulkar’s 11-year-old record. The 31-year-old broke the record on the fourth day of the second Test match against Sri Lanka at Chester Le Street. He became the 12th international cricketer to reach the landmark and the first Englishman. He scored 47 in England’s second innings to help England to a convincing nine wicket victory. In the first innings of the third Test, he scored 85 to help England to 416. He came in down the order for England's second innings after being injured in the field and made"
"Chris Schofield Christopher Paul Schofield (born 6 October 1978) is an English cricketer, who played Tests and Twenty20 Internationals. Schofield is one of the few leg-spinners to play Test cricket for England in twentyfirst century. born 6 October 1978, in Wardle, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, Schofield first came to prominence playing for the England Under-19 team, making his debut for them (as a batsman) at the age of 16 in April 1995. However, his career proper began in 1997, when he appeared on a number of further occasions for the Under-19s, and the following winter played for England in the Under-19s"
"against the touring New Zealand cricket team; in this game, Close became, and to date remains, England's youngest-ever Test player, aged 18 years and 149 days. He came in to bat when the England innings needed quick runs, his instruction from Freddie Brown, the captain, being to ""have a look at a couple and then give it a go"". Close duly played two balls back to the bowler, then hit out for the boundary, only to be caught in the outfield for a score of nought. He had previously taken one wicket for 39 runs during the first New Zealand"
"named in England's Test squad for their tour to Bangladesh. His subsequent debut came in the following tour of India in which he scored a half century. He made his List A debut for Lancashire in the 2017 Royal London One-Day Cup on 28 April 2017 and played a major role in Lancashire's victory Haseeb became the youngest debutant to open for England in a Test match, when he played in the first Test against India at Rajkot on 9 November 2016. On 12 November 2016, day 4 of the first Test, Hameed scored his maiden Test half century, becoming"
"die (on 16 June 1880). Miran Bakhsh was known as Miran Bux during his playing career. The longest-lived first-class cricketer is believed to have been John Manners. ""See also Longest-lived first-class cricketers below."" Source: Note: The Test career of Wilfred Rhodes spanned a record 30 years, 315 days. England's youngest Test cricketer and another Yorkshireman, Brian Close (born 24 February 1931), lies second in this regard. He made his debut against New Zealand in 1949 and was recalled, after an absence of almost nine years, to oppose West Indies in 1976 (his career lasting 26 years, 356 days). Source: This"
"the 1997 Ashes series when Ben and Adam made their Test debuts together, on 7 August 1997. England was losing the six-Test series 2–1 when the Hollioake brothers were selected for the fifth Test, becoming the fifth set of brothers to play for England in the same Test and the third to make a debut together after the Grace and Hearne brothers. Aged 19 years and 269 days, Hollioake was England's youngest Test player since Brian Close in 1949. Losing his place in the team soon after, he toured Sri Lanka that winter with the England A team, scoring two"
"Amjad Khan (cricketer, born 1980) Amjad Khan (born 14 October 1980) is a former England Test cricketer. Born and raised in Denmark, of Pakistani descent, he is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. To date, he is the only person born in Denmark to play Test cricket. Khan, at the age of 17, is the youngest person ever to play for Denmark, the country of his birth. In his first full season at Kent County Cricket Club, in 2002, he claimed 63 wickets. He failed to regain his form for the next two seasons, taking a combined total"
"youngest England debutant ever. He scored his first Test century aged just 20 years and 19 days in 1938 against Don Bradman's touring Australians. Later in the same series he scored a match-saving 76 not out at Lord's; this innings was scored on a rain-affected pitch and greatly impressed Don Bradman. In 1939 he scored 2468 runs for the season, including 120 against the West Indies at Lord's. As with many other sportsmen of his generation he lost some of his best years to the Second World War, during which he served in the army in India. He was posted"
"James Anderson have taken part in an exhibition darts series against each other with Cook leading the series 2–0, winning both 1-Leg shootouts. Timeline: Alastair Cook Alastair Nathan Cook, (born 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club, and formerly for England in all international formats. A former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams, he holds a number of English and international records. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever to play for England, and is one of the most prolific batsmen of the modern era. Cook"
"He was later named in the England Young Lions squad to play a tri-series against South Africa and Namibia as a warm-up for the 2018 Under-19 World Cup. Hamidullah Qadri Hamidullah Qadri (born 5 December 2000) is a cricketer who plays for Derbyshire and represents the England under-19 team. Born in Afghanistan and moving to England with his family at the age of 10, Qadri made his first-class debut for Derbyshire in June 2017, becoming the first player born in 2000 to appear in the County Championship and Derbyshire's youngest ever first-class player. Hamidullah Qadri was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan,"
"halted his chess-playing altogether. Notes Bibliography Murugan Thiruchelvam Murugan Thiruchelvam (born 11 December 1988) is an English chess player. He was England's youngest player ever to gain an international chess rating (2020 at the age of nine). Having just passed his tenth birthday, he played against the then world champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition. Impressed by the strategic understanding of the youngster, Kasparov singled out the game as the best of that day. Murugan is of Sri Lankan descent. Murugan continued to improve rapidly, reaching 2269 Elo on FIDE's published rating list before age twelve. Thereafter, he played"
"Alastair Cook Alastair Nathan Cook, (born 25 December 1984) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex County Cricket Club, and formerly for England in all international formats. A former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams, he holds a number of English and international records. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever to play for England, and is one of the most prolific batsmen of the modern era. Cook is the fifth highest Test run scorer of all time. Cook is England’s most-capped player and has captained the team in an English record"
"Alec Stewart Alec James Stewart OBE (born 8 April 1963) is a former English cricketer, and former captain of the England cricket team, who played Tests and ODIs as a right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman. He is the third most capped English cricketer of all time in Test matches and 3rd most capped in One Day Internationals (ODIs), having played in 133 Tests and 170 ODIs. The younger son of former English Test cricketer Micky Stewart, Stewart was educated at Tiffin School in Kingston upon Thames. He made his debut for Surrey in 1981, earning a reputation as an aggressive opening batsman and"
"Murugan Thiruchelvam Murugan Thiruchelvam (born 11 December 1988) is an English chess player. He was England's youngest player ever to gain an international chess rating (2020 at the age of nine). Having just passed his tenth birthday, he played against the then world champion Garry Kasparov in a simultaneous exhibition. Impressed by the strategic understanding of the youngster, Kasparov singled out the game as the best of that day. Murugan is of Sri Lankan descent. Murugan continued to improve rapidly, reaching 2269 Elo on FIDE's published rating list before age twelve. Thereafter, he played only infrequently and by 2003, had"
"an England Test player, and his own son, Jonathan, played first-class cricket for Oxford University in the 1960s. David Townsend died at age 84 in Norton, County Durham. David Townsend (cricketer, born 1912) David Charles Humphrey Townsend (20 April 1912 – 27 January 1997) was an English cricketer who played in three Tests in 1935. Born in Norton, County Durham, David Townsend was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He was a right-handed batsman, sometimes used as an opener, who holds the record of being the last cricketer to have played Test cricket for England without playing for"
"he played three Youth One Day Internationals against South Africa Under-19s. In September 2017 he was named in England's Test squad for the 2017–18 Ashes series, though he did not end up playing in any of the international matches. In October 2018, he was added to England's Test squad for the series against Sri Lanka. He made his Test debut for England against Sri Lanka on 6 November 2018, scoring 107 in the first innings and getting England to a competitive total. He was the 20th batsman for England to score a century on debut in Tests, the second English"
"by his father when he was a child. Ronnie Irani Ronald Charles ""Ronnie"" Irani (born 26 October 1971) is a former England cricketer who played Tests and ODIs for England. He played only three Tests for England, with decidedly mixed success, but found a niche in One Day Internationals, where he gained much praise for his performances. He spent most of his career at Essex County Cricket Club, latterly as captain, after starting at Lancashire. He is of Irani descent, the Iranis being a community of Persian Zoroastrians who immigrated to India during the British Raj. Irani was a genuine"
"James Harris (cricketer, born 1990) James Alexander Russell Harris (born 16 May 1990) is a Welsh professional cricketer who is on the staff of Middlesex County Cricket Club. Harris is a right arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He was born in Morriston near Swansea in South Wales and played for Glamorgan as a teenager. Harris was the youngest person ever to play for Glamorgan 2nd XI, aged 14 years and 353 days and the youngest person to have played for Wales Minor Counties, when he took 3/48 against the Netherlands. In 2006 he captained England Under-16s team and at"
"Monty Bowden Montague Parker Bowden (better known as Monty Bowden) (1 November 1865 – 19 February 1892) was an English first-class cricketer, a wicket-keeper, who played two Test matches against South Africa in 1888/89. Bowden was born in Stockwell, Surrey, and educated at Dulwich College. Aged 23 years 144 days, he became England's youngest captain on 25 March 1889, when he captained England to victory in the second of his two Tests. Bowden had been deputy to C. Aubrey Smith, but Smith missed the second test through illness. Bowden stayed in South Africa to participate in the Witwatersrand Gold Rush,"
"Gilbert Parkhouse was a Welsh middle order batsman who was sent in to open for Glamorgan in 1950 and made such as success of it that he broke the county record by making seven centuries in a season. The teenage Brian Close was chosen after he took 100 wickets and made 1,000 runs in 1949 and became England's youngest ever player aged 18 years and 149 days. Despite respectable all-round figures Close never reached the heights expected of him in Test cricket, though his tough, uncompromising, captaincy of Yorkshire, Somerset and England would become the stuff of legend. Trevor Bailey's"