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Question: How many people are there who have represented more than one Test match team?

Spider says: There have been fourteen, but rather like the First-Class debuts in a Test match list, this is very uneven and dominated by certain factors. Half of these players played for their first team in the 19th-century, though the lattermost also appeared in the 20th for his second team. These are Billy Midwinter, Billy Murdoch, JJ Ferris, Sammy Woods (all Australia and England), Frank Hearne (England and South Africa), Albert Trott (England and Australia) and Frank Mitchell (England and South Africa). There are a further three who played for India before partition and Pakistan afterwards (Gul Mohammed, Abdul Hafeez Kardar and Amir Elahi). Then there is Iftikhar Ali Khan (Nawab of) Pataudi, who played for England before the Second World War and India after it. There is John Traicos, who appeared in South Africa's last series before isolation, then Zimbabwe's first four games 22 years later. There is Kepler Wessels who went the other way, qualifying for Australia during South Africa's time out then returning home 7 years after his last game for his adopted homeland to play for his native team once more. Wessels' 40 Tests (24 for Australia, 16 for South Africa) is a record for a dual international. The most peculiar case is that of wicketkeeper Sammy Guillen, who played for both West Indies and New Zealand in the 1950s, the only person to do so in modern times purely for emigrational reasons. Guillen's last act in Test cricket, however, sealed New Zealand's inaugural Test victory, against his former team.