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Majid Khan, former Pakistani captain, stated last
week that Pakistan had employed the services of as
many as 40 debutants in Test cricket in the
previous four years. Actually, this is not true.
They have capped 26 newcomers since January 1 ,
2000; that is in the last five years . In addition
to Pakistan , there are three teams, namely India ,
West Indies and Zimbabwe with 26 Test debutants
each . Bangladesh hold the record with 40 players,
but then they made their Test debut in 2000 and
hence the figure is understandable . On the other
hand of the scale, the world champion Australia has
had the least number of debutants on their
roll-call - just eight. This is reflected in their
outstanding track record .
Details of countries with the most capped players
in test cricket during this millennium , arranged
in the descending order of Test per player ratio : |
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India's Test debutants ( 26 ) : W. Jaffer ,
M.Kartik , N.Chopra , M.Kaif , S.S.Das , S.S.Karim
, Zaheer Khan , V.Dahiya , Sarandeep Singh ,
R.L.Sanghvi , S.V.Bahutule , S.S.Dighe , H.K.Badani
, D.Dasgupta , V.Sehwag , S.B.Bangar , I.R.Siddiqui
, T.Yohannan , A. Ratra , P.A.Patel , L.Balaji ,
A.Chopra , Yuvraj Singh , I.K.Pathan , G.Gambhir ,
K.K.D. Karthik
Pakistan's Test debutants ( 26 ) : Younis
Khan , Atiq-uz-Zaman , Irfan Fazil , Qaiser Abbas ,
Danish Kaneria , Faisal Iqbal , Imran Farhat ,
Misbah-ul-haq , Mohammad Sami , Humayun Farhat ,
Shoaib Malik, Taufeeq Umar , Naved Latif , Kamran
Akmal , Mohammad Hafeez , Shabbir Ahmed , Umar Gul
, Yasir Hameed , Farhan Adil , Salman Butt , Yasir
Ali , Asim Kamal , Naved-ul-Hasan , Riaz Afridi ,
Mohammad Khalil , Mohammad Asif |