The first player younger than you to play for your Country

[Shady Slim]

The Lion of Bangalore is a worthy cricketer to share a birthday with, Shady.. I approve.

oop sorry to disappoint but it turns out prasad is august 5 and i'm august 4; the list i was reading had a four next to his name lol

this sucks all i've got is robin peterson and some guy named "clarence passailague" who had a giant first class partnership with george headley

 

[BoyBrumby]

Not the same year, but I share a birthday with Punter, so that's pretty cool.

 

[mr_mister]

I share one with both Russell Crowe and Jackie Chan. Now that's cool

 

[Marius]

I think it was probably Victor Mpitsang, played two ODIs for SA vs WI in 1998/99.

 

[GIMH]

I know you've all been keen for me to follow up so I am pleased to confirm that my initial answer of Liam Plunkett was correct. He beat Alastair Cook by a few months.

The fact I am older than Alastair Cook is a source of eternal shame for me.

 

[AndrewB]

FWIW:
- Every date is the birthday of at least 2 Test cricketers. (29 February is, not too surprisingly, the date with fewest births: Alf Gover and Gavin Stevens).
- There's one set of Test cricketing triplets: Mohammed Shami, Iftikhar Ahmed and Paul Stirling were all born on 3 September 1990.
- There's 112 other pair of Test cricketing twins (including of course the Waughs and the Marshalls)

 

[wpdavid]

Not that anyone asked, but the last England player who was older than me was John Emburey, when recalled at 40+ in 1995. Prior to him, Gooch and Gatting in the previous winter's ashes tour.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not that anyone asked, but the last England player who was older than me was John Emburey, when recalled at 40+ in 1995. Prior to him, Gooch and Gatting in the previous winter's ashes tour.

I know Mike Watkinson was older than me in 1996, but anything later would require research.

 

[stephen]

Shaun Tait was the first bloke younger than me to debut. That was in 2005 when we were both well into our 20s.

 

[thierry henry]

Both for tests and across all formats it's Tim Southee, who is a bit of an anomaly...he is almost 4 years younger than me, and over 4 years younger than anyone else who had debuted for NZ to that point.

On his debut he was 19 and the next youngest NZ player was 23, while I was almost 23.

2 days later Daniel Flynn debuted, who is just barely younger than me.

 

[Teja.]

No but I was born on the day Kurt Cobain died lol.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

No but I was born on the day Kurt Cobain died lol.

i think you meant to post Kuldeep Yadav

 

[Teja.]

Only counting tests.

Kuldeep Yadav was the first who is six months younger to me.

Since then, Rishabh Pant (4 years younger), Prithvi Shaw (6 years younger).

Pandya and Vihari are both 5-6 months older to me.

Have posted that haha. Don't think any test cricketers were born on the exact day I was born though.

 

[JBMAC]

Ian Craig

 

[Burgey]

I think it's Boof, sadly.

 

[Bahnz]

Southee for me too. He was the first of that '08 U19 team to force his way in as the last of Fleming's side moved towards retirement.

 

[Gremlin]

Darren Gough. Which is a coincidence as he got his call up not long after I saw him at the next table in a restaurant in Leeds.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Kane Williamson

 

[Starfighter]

None yet as it turns out. Not really an Australian thing to debut them young.

 

[BoyBrumby]

None yet as it turns out. Not really an Australian thing to debut them young.

Cummins was barely out of short trousers when he made his bow. 18 from memory?