Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Stuart Broad is still the only player to play Test cricket for England who's younger than us, though he's the same school year as me and would be the same as you if you were born 2 days later. Plunkett and Bopara are both a few months older than us and in your year.
Still no-one from Australia or South Africa of the applicable age, and Zimbabwe shouldn't have been a Test team after 2002/03 so they don't count IMO. Pakistani (and Bangladeshi if you consider them Test-class) DOBs are worth little more than the paper they're printed on so I won't be taking anyone who's played for them seriously even though there's more likely to be a few people than not.
From West Indies, Denesh Ramdin is your year and a few months older than you, and Xavier Marshall mine (and hence Marshall is almost inevitably younger than us), and Marshall played over 3 years ago now too, though that was under farcical circumstances.
From New Zealand, Daniel Flynn would be your year if he was British but is a few months older than you, Tim Southee would be 2 years below me and 3 below you and is 2-and-a-half years younger than both of us.
From India, Dinesh Karthik is a few months older than you, Irfan Pathan and Vikram Rajvir Singh are both your year but nearly a year older than you, and Piyush Chawla and Ishant Sharma are both 3 years younger than me and 4 school years below you. Perhaps the most pivotal of all, however, is Rudra Pratap Singh - he was the first from any nation (excluding Marshall who as I say above doesn't really count as he only played at that time due to the Digicel contracts farce) to play Test cricket who comes from somewhere with authentic birthdate recording and hence was certainly younger than the two of us. He's the same year as me and the year below you.
And from Sri Lanka, Upul Tharanga and Ajantha Mendis are a few months older than you and Chamara Kapugedera is a year below me and 2 below you.
