Oldest living players

Records for Test Matches

Oldest living players

Player	Span	Mat	Born	Age
RG Draper (SA)	1950-1950	2	24 Dec 1926	97y 140d
RN Harvey (AUS)	1948-1963	79	8 Oct 1928	95y 217d
TG McMahon (NZ)	1955-1956	5	8 Nov 1929	94y 186d
Wazir Mohammad (PAK)	1952-1959	20	22 Dec 1929	94y 142d
CD Gopinath (IND)	1951-1960	8	1 Mar 1930	94y 72d
IB Leggat (NZ)	1954-1954	1	7 Jun 1930	93y 340d
CT Patankar (IND)	1955-1956	1	24 Nov 1930	93y 170d
GB Stevens (AUS)	1959-1960	4	29 Feb 1932	92y 73d
GB Lawrence (SA)	1961-1962	5	31 Mar 1932	92y 42d
RW Blair (NZ)	1953-1964	19	23 Jun 1932	91y 324d
MJ Stewart (ENG)	1962-1964	8	16 Sep 1932	91y 239d
MK Elgie (SA)	1961-1962	3	6 Mar 1933	91y 67d
MJK Smith (ENG)	1958-1972	50	30 Jun 1933	90y 317d
RM Harris (NZ)	1959-1959	2	27 Jul 1933	90y 290d
CW Smith (WI)	1960-1962	5	29 Jul 1933	90y 288d
DT Dewdney (WI)	1955-1958	9	23 Oct 1933	90y 202d
BD Morrison (NZ)	1963-1963	1	17 Dec 1933	90y 147d
JL Hendriks (WI)	1962-1969	20	21 Dec 1933	90y 143d
NJ Contractor (IND)	1955-1962	31	7 Mar 1934	90y 66d
HA Furlonge (WI)	1955-1956	3	19 Jun 1934	89y 328d
WV Rodriguez (WI)	1962-1968	5	25 Jun 1934	89y 322d
CG Borde (IND)	1958-1969	55	21 Jul 1934	89y 296d
JW Guy (NZ)	1955-1961	12	29 Aug 1934	89y 257d
LR Gibbs (WI)	1958-1976	79	29 Sep 1934	89y 226d
DE Hoare (AUS)	1961-1961	1	19 Oct 1934	89y 206d
DW Richardson (ENG)	1957-1957	1	3 Nov 1934	89y 191d
I Meckiff (AUS)	1957-1963	18	6 Jan 1935	89y 127d
BA Bolton (NZ)	1959-1959	2	31 May 1935	88y 347d
SF Rehman (PAK)	1958-1958	1	11 Jun 1935	88y 336d
VV Kumar (IND)	1961-1961	2	22 Jun 1935	88y 325d
K Taylor (ENG)	1959-1964	3	21 Aug 1935	88y 265d
RW Barber (ENG)	1960-1968	28	26 Sep 1935	88y 229d
JG Binks (ENG)	1964-1964	2	5 Oct 1935	88y 220d
PT Barton (NZ)	1961-1963	7	9 Oct 1935	88y 216d
A Brown (ENG)	1961-1961	2	17 Oct 1935	88y 208d
KH Eastwood (AUS)	1971-1971	1	23 Nov 1935	88y 171d
P Bhandari (IND)	1955-1956	3	27 Nov 1935	88y 167d
FE Rumsey (ENG)	1964-1965	5	4 Dec 1935	88y 160d
Khalid Ibadulla (PAK)	1964-1967	4	20 Dec 1935	88y 144d
RB Kanhai (WI)	1957-1974	79	26 Dec 1935	88y 138d
RB Simpson (AUS)	1957-1978	62	3 Feb 1936	88y 99d
KN Slater (AUS)	1959-1959	1	12 Mar 1936	88y 61d
JW D'Arcy (NZ)	1958-1958	5	23 Apr 1936	88y 19d
RI Harford (NZ)	1968-1968	3	30 May 1936	87y 348d
WE Russell (ENG)	1961-1967	10	3 Jul 1936	87y 314d
V Subramanya (IND)	1965-1968	9	16 Jul 1936	87y 301d
HJ Rhodes (ENG)	1959-1959	2	22 Jul 1936	87y 295d
GS Sobers (WI)	1954-1974	93	28 Jul 1936	87y 289d
AE Dick (NZ)	1961-1965	17	10 Oct 1936	87y 215d
AC Smith (ENG)	1962-1963	6	25 Oct 1936	87y 200d
WS Farrer (SA)	1962-1964	6	8 Dec 1936	87y 156d
PH Parfitt (ENG)	1961-1972	37	8 Dec 1936	87y 156d
WM Lawry (AUS)	1961-1971	67	11 Feb 1937	87y 91d
GT Dowling (NZ)	1961-1972	39	4 Mar 1937	87y 69d
TR Veivers (AUS)	1963-1967	21	6 Apr 1937	87y 36d
KE Palmer (ENG)	1965-1965	1	22 Apr 1937	87y 20d
JSE Price (ENG)	1964-1972	15	22 Jul 1937	86y 295d
DA Sharpe (PAK)	1959-1959	3	3 Aug 1937	86y 283d
WW Hall (WI)	1958-1969	48	12 Sep 1937	86y 243d
DW Allan (WI)	1962-1966	5	5 Nov 1937	86y 189d
BR Knight (ENG)	1961-1969	29	18 Feb 1938	86y 84d
FM Engineer (IND)	1961-1975	46	25 Feb 1938	86y 77d
G Thomas (AUS)	1965-1966	8	21 Mar 1938	86y 52d
Mohammad Farooq (PAK)	1960-1965	7	8 Apr 1938	86y 34d
Javed Burki (PAK)	1960-1969	25	8 May 1938	86y 4d
GF Rorke (AUS)	1959-1959	4	27 Jun 1938	85y 320d
CD Watson (WI)	1960-1962	7	1 Jul 1938	85y 316d
AR Lewis (ENG)	1972-1973	9	6 Jul 1938	85y 311d
JT Sparling (NZ)	1958-1964	11	24 Jul 1938	85y 293d
PR Carlstein (SA)	1958-1964	8	28 Oct 1938	85y 197d
R Dumbrill (SA)	1965-1967	5	19 Nov 1938	85y 175d
FM Misson (AUS)	1960-1961	5	19 Nov 1938	85y 175d
CC Griffith (WI)	1960-1969	28	14 Dec 1938	85y 150d
A D'Souza (PAK)	1959-1962	6	17 Jan 1939	85y 116d
AA Baig (IND)	1959-1967	10	19 Mar 1939	85y 54d
MJ Macaulay (SA)	1965-1965	1	19 Apr 1939	85y 23d
AN Connolly (AUS)	1963-1971	29	29 Jun 1939	84y 318d
RGA Headley (WI)	1973-1973	2	29 Jun 1939	84y 318d
RM Prideaux (ENG)	1968-1969	3	31 Jul 1939	84y 286d
D Gamsy (SA)	1970-1970	2	17 Feb 1940	84y 85d
BF Hastings (NZ)	1969-1976	31	23 Mar 1940	84y 50d
N Gifford (ENG)	1964-1973	15	30 Mar 1940	84y 43d
JDF Larter (ENG)	1962-1965	10	24 Apr 1940	84y 18d
BA Davis (WI)	1965-1965	4	2 May 1940	84y 10d
PHJ Trimborn (SA)	1967-1970	4	18 May 1940	83y 360d
EAS Prasanna (IND)	1962-1978	49	22 May 1940	83y 356d
RM Edwards (WI)	1968-1969	5	3 Jun 1940	83y 344d
KR Stackpole (AUS)	1966-1974	43	10 Jul 1940	83y 307d
RHD Sellers (AUS)	1964-1964	1	20 Aug 1940	83y 266d
P Lever (ENG)	1970-1975	17	17 Sep 1940	83y 238d
RM Cowper (AUS)	1964-1968	27	5 Oct 1940	83y 220d
G Boycott (ENG)	1964-1982	108	21 Oct 1940	83y 204d
J Birkenshaw (ENG)	1973-1974	5	13 Nov 1940	83y 181d
GA Bartlett (NZ)	1961-1968	10	3 Feb 1941	83y 99d
RW Morgan (NZ)	1965-1972	20	12 Feb 1941	83y 90d
MR Bynoe (WI)	1959-1967	4	23 Feb 1941	83y 79d
GP Bilby (NZ)	1966-1966	2	7 May 1941	83y 5d
IR Redpath (AUS)	1964-1976	66	11 May 1941	83y 1d
Nasim-ul-Ghani (PAK)	1958-1973	29	14 May 1941	82y 364d
GD McKenzie (AUS)	1961-1971	60	24 Jun 1941	82y 323d
JA Jameson (ENG)	1971-1974	4	30 Jun 1941	82y 317d
PM Pollock (SA)	1961-1970	28	30 Jun 1941	82y 317d
GE Corling (AUS)	1964-1964	5	13 Jul 1941	82y 304d
RW Taylor (ENG)	1971-1984	57	17 Jul 1941	82y 300d
PB Truscott (NZ)	1965-1965	1	14 Aug 1941	82y 272d
S Abid Ali (IND)	1967-1974	29	9 Sep 1941	82y 246d
DS Steele (ENG)	1975-1976	8	29 Sep 1941	82y 226d
JA Snow (ENG)	1965-1976	49	13 Oct 1941	82y 212d
BW Yuile (NZ)	1963-1969	17	29 Oct 1941	82y 196d
IJ Jones (ENG)	1964-1968	15	10 Dec 1941	82y 154d
Intikhab Alam (PAK)	1959-1977	47	28 Dec 1941	82y 136d
LC Mayne (AUS)	1965-1970	6	23 Jan 1942	82y 110d
DJ Brown (ENG)	1965-1969	26	30 Jan 1942	82y 103d
DJ Sincock (AUS)	1964-1966	3	1 Feb 1942	82y 101d
UN Kulkarni (IND)	1967-1968	4	7 Mar 1942	82y 66d
JM Brearley (ENG)	1976-1981	39	28 Apr 1942	82y 14d
A Bacher (SA)	1965-1970	12	24 May 1942	81y 354d
DS de Silva (SL)	1982-1984	12	11 Jun 1942	81y 336d
Pervez Sajjad (PAK)	1964-1973	19	30 Aug 1942	81y 256d
RA Hutton (ENG)	1971-1971	5	6 Sep 1942	81y 249d
DA Renneberg (AUS)	1966-1968	8	23 Sep 1942	81y 232d
R Edwards (AUS)	1972-1975	20	1 Dec 1942	81y 163d
B Wood (ENG)	1972-1978	12	26 Dec 1942	81y 138d
DL Amiss (ENG)	1966-1977	50	7 Apr 1943	81y 35d
JR Watkins (AUS)	1973-1973	1	16 Apr 1943	81y 26d
MLC Foster (WI)	1969-1978	14	9 May 1943	81y 3d
DL Murray (WI)	1963-1980	62	20 May 1943	80y 358d
Asif Iqbal (PAK)	1964-1980	58	6 Jun 1943	80y 341d
Shafqat Rana (PAK)	1964-1969	5	10 Aug 1943	80y 276d
IM Chappell (AUS)	1964-1980	75	26 Sep 1943	80y 229d
TM Findlay (WI)	1969-1973	10	19 Oct 1943	80y 206d
JN Shepherd (WI)	1969-1971	5	9 Nov 1943	80y 185d
Mushtaq Mohammad (PAK)	1959-1979	57	22 Nov 1943	80y 172d
BD Milburn (NZ)	1969-1969	3	24 Nov 1943	80y 170d
CA Davis (WI)	1968-1973	15	1 Jan 1944	80y 132d
RJ Inverarity (AUS)	1968-1972	6	31 Jan 1944	80y 102d
RG Pollock (SA)	1963-1970	23	27 Feb 1944	80y 75d
BL Irvine (SA)	1970-1970	4	9 Mar 1944	80y 64d
JRF Duncan (AUS)	1971-1971	1	25 Mar 1944	80y 48d
Saleem Altaf (PAK)	1967-1978	21	19 Apr 1944	80y 23d
J Benaud (AUS)	1972-1973	3	11 May 1944	80y 1d

Ages current at May 12, 2024

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Chattogram, 2nd Test, Mar 30-Apr 3, 2024 [Test # 2537]

Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Sylhet, 1st Test, Mar 22-25, 2024 [Test # 2536]

New Zealand v Australia at Christchurch, 2nd Test, Mar 8-11, 2024 [Test # 2535]