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Thursday, 1 January 2015

Penultimate Tests at a new ground



Has there been any other player whose penultimate Test was the first at a new ground, as Kumar Sangakkara's was at the Hagley Oval? - Manjula Aravinda

This happened rather a lot in the early days of Test cricket, when several new grounds were used within a few years, and many players appeared in only a handful of matches. The first Test of all, at Melbourne, was the penultimate one for ten of the players who appeared in it (Tom Armitage, Harry Charlwood, Andrew Greenwood, Allen Hill, John Hodges, Harry Jupp, Tom Kendall, James Lillywhite junior, James Southerton and Nat Thomson). Over the following years, the first Test at the Oval was the penultimate one for George Alexander; the first at Old Trafford for Alfred Lucas; the first at Lord's for Alfred Lyttelton and Lord Harris; the first at Port Elizabeth for Monty Bowden, Charles Coventry, Basil Grieve, Philip Hutchinson, Arthur Ochse, Albert Rose-Innes and Bernard Tancred; the first at Cape Town for William Milton, Fred Smith and Charles Vintcent; and the first at Johannesburg for Frank Hearne. All three of Smith's Tests were the first at the ground in question (Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg), as were both of Alexander's two (The Oval and Adelaide).

More recently, Imran Khan's penultimate Test was the only one played at Gujranwala. - Michael Jones/Aslam Siddiqui/Anusha Ranaweera

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