Run-out on Test Debut

[Silver Silva]

Safaraz Khan experienced this today against England..
Can we make an XI of the best players run out on debut?

 

[Aidan11]

Andrew Strauss being run out by Nasser Hussain.

 

[GIMH]

Andrew Strauss being run out by Nasser Hussain.

Cost him twin tons didn't it

 

[Aidan11]

Cost him twin tons didn't it

Yep. I think he was in the 80s in the 2nd innings at the time.

 

[Silver Silva]

Gordon Greenidge was run out on debut

 

[howitzer]

Greenidge
Strauss (Goddard?)
Faulkner
Compton
Crowe
Border(c)
Imran
Gregory
Waite(wk)
Kumble/Herath
Fraser/Walker

#batdeep.

 

[Immenso]

Ken Rutherford got a pair on test debut as a 19 year old opening batsman away v mid-80s Windies. The second duck was a run out without facing a ball.

WI vs NZ Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Port of Spain, March 29 - April 03, 1985

Get cricket scorecard of 1st Test, WI vs NZ, New Zealand tour of West Indies 1984/85 at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad dated March 29 - April 03, 1985.

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Ali TT]

Cost him twin tons didn't it

But helped ensure Hussain get his century in that innings (he retired immediately afterwards too I think).

Ken Rutherford got a pair on test debut as a 19 year old opening batsman away v mid-80s Windies. The second duck was a run out without facing a ball.

WI vs NZ Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Port of Spain, March 29 - April 03, 1985

Get cricket scorecard of 1st Test, WI vs NZ, New Zealand tour of West Indies 1984/85 at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad dated March 29 - April 03, 1985.

www.espncricinfo.com

John Wright desperate to escape Malcolm Marshall perhaps?

 

[Immenso]

John Wright desperate to escape Malcolm Marshall perhaps?

Not sure of the circumstances. Didn't get televised cricket out of the West Indies back then. I have in my mind the unlucky deflection, but don't know how that has formed in my mind.

 

[mr_mister]

Callum Ferguson?

 

[AndrewB]

Greenidge
Strauss (Goddard?)
Faulkner
Compton
Crowe
Border(c)
Imran
Gregory
Waite(wk)
Kumble/Herath
Fraser/Walker

#batdeep.

I guess you mean Martin Crowe, but either Crowe would qualify.
Jack Ryder is still the only player who qualifies twice.

 

[AndrewB]

This got me wondering how strong the "was out hit wicket in a Test at some point" XI would be. It turns out to be ridiculously good, considering only about 150 players qualify:

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
George Headley
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara+
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Mike Procter
Shane Warne
Michael Holding

Even the second XI is pretty good:
Graeme Smith
Arthur Morris
Wally Hammond
Frank Worrell
Steve Waugh
Clyde Walcott+
Ken Mackay
George Hirst
Bobby Peel
Tony Lock
Brian Statham

with Barlow, Compton, Dexter and plenty of other strong batters also available.