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	Counties


Derbyshire		Middlesex
Durham		Northamptonshire
Essex		Nottinghamshire
Glamorgan		Somerset
Gloucestershire		Surrey
Hampshire		Sussex
Kent		Warwickshire
Lancashire		Worcestershire
Leicestershire		Yorkshire

Player	Age	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
WG Grace	50y 320d	England	v Australia	Nottingham	1 Jun 1899	Test # 60
GOB Allen	45y 245d	England	v West Indies	Kingston	27 Mar 1948	Test # 298
WR Hammond	43y 279d	England	v New Zealand	Christchurch	21 Mar 1947	Test # 284
W Bardsley	43y 233d	Australia	v England	Manchester	24 Jul 1926	Test # 166
N Betancourt	42y 247d	West Indies	v England	Port of Spain	1 Feb 1930	Test # 189
SE Gregory	42y 130d	Australia	v England	The Oval	19 Aug 1912	Test # 129
RB Simpson	42y 89d	Australia	v West Indies	Kingston	28 Apr 1978	Test # 824
WW Armstrong	42y 86d	Australia	v England	The Oval	13 Aug 1921	Test # 144
JWHT Douglas	41y 330d	England	v South Africa	Manchester	26 Jul 1924	Test # 156
MH Mankad	41y 289d	India	v West Indies	Chennai	21 Jan 1959	Test # 465
VY Richardson	41y 178d	Australia	v South Africa	Durban	28 Feb 1936	Test # 251
L Amarnath	41y 95d	India	v Pakistan	Kolkata	12 Dec 1952	Test # 360
R Illingworth	41y 80d	England	v West Indies	Lord's	23 Aug 1973	Test # 727
TW Graveney	41y 44d	England	v Australia	Leeds	25 Jul 1968	Test # 640
AD Nourse	40y 279d	South Africa	v England	The Oval	16 Aug 1951	Test # 338
DS de Silva	40y 277d	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Wellington	11 Mar 1983	Test # 951
FR Brown	40y 245d	England	v South Africa	The Oval	16 Aug 1951	Test # 338
JM Blackham	40y 223d	Australia	v England	Sydney	14 Dec 1894	Test # 42
CH Lloyd	40y 124d	West Indies	v Australia	Sydney	30 Dec 1984	Test # 1006
CB Fry	40y 119d	England	v Australia	The Oval	19 Aug 1912	Test # 129
GA Gooch	40y 3d	England	v Australia	Leeds	22 Jul 1993	Test # 1227
DG Bradman	39y 357d	Australia	v England	The Oval	14 Aug 1948	Test # 303
AL Hassett	39y 356d	Australia	v England	The Oval	15 Aug 1953	Test # 376
F Mitchell	39y 339d	South Africa	v Australia	Lord's	15 Jul 1912	Test # 125
Misbah-ul-Haq	39y 237d	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Sharjah	16 Jan 2014	Test # 2115
J Ryder	39y 220d	Australia	v England	Melbourne	8 Mar 1929	Test # 180
A Shaw	39y 197d	England	v Australia	Melbourne	10 Mar 1882	Test # 8
HR Adhikari	39y 195d	India	v West Indies	Delhi	6 Feb 1959	Test # 467
IVA Richards	39y 158d	West Indies	v England	The Oval	8 Aug 1991	Test # 1175
JM Brearley	39y 126d	England	v Australia	The Oval	27 Aug 1981	Test # 908
Imran Khan	39y 43d	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Faisalabad	2 Jan 1992	Test # 1182
FMM Worrell	39y 25d	West Indies	v England	The Oval	22 Aug 1963	Test # 547
IWG Johnson	38y 334d	Australia	v India	Kolkata	2 Nov 1956	Test # 433
L Hutton	38y 278d	England	v New Zealand	Auckland	25 Mar 1955	Test # 402
AR Border	38y 245d	Australia	v South Africa	Durban	25 Mar 1994	Test # 1256
GA Headley	38y 241d	West Indies	v England	Bridgetown	21 Jan 1948	Test # 293
Lord Hawke	38y 231d	England	v South Africa	Cape Town	1 Apr 1899	Test # 59
SR Waugh	38y 218d	Australia	v India	Sydney	2 Jan 2004	Test # 1680
HL Collins	38y 209d	Australia	v England	The Oval	14 Aug 1926	Test # 167
JC White	38y 147d	England	v South Africa	Leeds	13 Jul 1929	Test # 183
JDC Goddard	38y 125d	West Indies	v England	The Oval	22 Aug 1957	Test # 443
CK Nayudu	38y 105d	India	v England	Chennai	10 Feb 1934	Test # 232
RB Kanhai	38y 100d	West Indies	v England	Port of Spain	30 Mar 1974	Test # 738
EA Halliwell	38y 65d	South Africa	v Australia	Cape Town	8 Nov 1902	Test # 77
AJ Stewart	38y 57d	England	v Pakistan	Manchester	31 May 2001	Test # 1547
VS Hazare	38y 24d	India	v West Indies	Kingston	28 Mar 1953	Test # 371
A Kumble	38y 16d	India	v Australia	Delhi	29 Oct 2008	Test # 1891

Age is shown as at the end of the player's final match as captain

Records include the following recent matches:
South Africa v Australia at Cape Town, 3rd Test, Mar 1-5, 2014 [Test # 2122]
South Africa v Australia at Port Elizabeth, 2nd Test, Feb 20-23, 2014 [Test # 2121]
New Zealand v India at Wellington, 2nd Test, Feb 14-18, 2014 [Test # 2120]

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The Delhi Test in 1948 is the only instance when three batsmen got their maiden Test centuries in the same innings. Clyde Walcott, Gerry Gomez and Robert Christiani were the batsmen who got their maiden hundreds in that Test. In addition to the three, Everton Weekes also hit a century in that innings, the first instance of four or more West Indies batsman hit four or more hundreds in a Test innings.

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