Lists of oldest cricketers

Note: Twenty-five first-class cricketers are known to have attained centenarian status (see relevant section below). Vasant Raiji appears to be the oldest living, born 26 January 1920, thus aged 100 years, 139 days.

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Note: The above lists include players who have played Test cricket within the past 18 months and have not formally announced their retirement.

Norman Gordon of South Africa, the only Test cricketer to live to 100

Bill Brown, longest-lived Australian Test cricketer

See also Oldest living Test cricketers above.

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Note: John Traicos debuted for Zimbabwe at the age of 45 years, 154 days, but had already played three Tests for South Africa 22 years prior.[4]

Note: The oldest debutant, James Southerton, was also the first Test cricketer to die (on 16 June 1880). Miran Bakhsh was known as Miran Bux during his playing career.

The longest-lived first-class cricketer is believed to have been John Manners. See also Longest-lived first-class cricketers below.

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Wilfred Rhodes, England Test cricketer from 1899 until 1930

Note: The Test career of Wilfred Rhodes spanned a record 30 years, 315 days. England's youngest Test cricketer and another Yorkshireman, Brian Close (born 24 February 1931), lies second in this regard. He made his debut against New Zealand in 1949 and was recalled, after an absence of almost nine years, to oppose West Indies in 1976 (his career lasting 26 years, 356 days).

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This list includes all those first-class players who are known to have lived to 100.[7]

  Deceased   Living

Rank	Name	Team(s)	Birth date	Death date	Age	Nationality
1	John Manners	Hampshire, Combined Services	25 September 1914	7 March 2020	105 years, 225 days	England
2	Jim Hutchinson	Derbyshire	29 November 1896	7 November 2000	103 years, 344 days	England
3	Syd Ward	Wellington	5 August 1907	31 December 2010	103 years, 148 days	New Zealand
4	Norman Gordon	South Africa, Transvaal	6 August 1911	2 September 2014	103 years, 27 days	South Africa
5	Rupert de Smidt	Western Province	23 November 1883	3 August 1986	102 years, 253 days	South Africa
6	Edward English	Hampshire	1 January 1864	5 September 1966	102 years, 247 days	England
7	Cyril Perkins	Northamptonshire, Minor Counties	4 June 1911	21 November 2013	102 years, 170 days	England
8	John Wheatley	Canterbury	8 January 1860	19 April 1962	102 years, 101 days	New Zealand
9	Archie Scott	Scotland	26 January 1918	1 November 2019	101 years, 272 days	Scotland
10	Ted Martin	Western Australia	30 September 1902	9 June 2004	101 years, 253 days	Australia
11	D. B. Deodhar	Hindus, Maharashtra	14 January 1892	24 August 1993	101 years, 222 days	India
12	George Harman	Dublin University	6 June 1874	14 December 1975	101 years, 191 days	Ireland
13	Fred Gibson	Leicestershire	13 February 1912	28 June 2013	101 years, 135 days	Jamaica (lived in  England)
14	Alan Finlayson	Eastern Province	1 September 1900	28 October 2001	101 years, 57 days	South Africa
15	Neil McCorkell	Hampshire, Players	23 March 1912	28 February 2013	100 years, 342 days	England
16	Geoffrey Beck	Oxford University	16 June 1918	5 March 2019	100 years, 262 days	England
17	Harold Stapleton	New South Wales	7 January 1915	24 September 2015	100 years, 260 days	Australia
18	Charles Braithwaite	English Residents, Players of USA	10 September 1845	15 April 1946	100 years, 217 days	United States
19	Harry Forsyth	Dublin University	18 December 1903	19 July 2004	100 years, 214 days	Ireland
20	Jack Laver	Tasmania	9 March 1917	3 October 2017	100 years, 208 days	Australia
21	Tom Pritchard	Wellington, Warwickshire	10 March 1917	22 August 2017	100 years, 165 days	New Zealand
22	Bernarr Notley	Nottinghamshire	31 August 1918	22 January 2019	100 years, 144 days	England
23	Vasant Raiji	Bombay, Baroda	26 January 1920	13 June 2020	100 years, 139 days	India
24	George Deane	Hampshire	11 December 1828	26 February 1929	100 years, 77 days	England
25	Alan Burgess	Canterbury	1 May 1920	Living	100 years, 43 days	Living in  New Zealand

Note: Although born in New South Wales, Australia, Syd Ward and John Wheatley appear to have been raised in New Zealand. George Harman, who acquired two Rugby Union caps for Ireland, died in Cornwall. Charles Braithwaite was born in England. Fred Gibson moved to England in 1944. Neil McCorkell was born in England, but lived in South Africa from 1951. The prominent Antiguan cricketer, Sir Sydney Walling, who died aged 102 years, 88 days in October 2009, never appeared in matches accorded first-class status.

The oldest person, and only septuagenarian, to play first-class cricket was Raja Maharaj Singh, aged 72, his sole appearance being for the Bombay Governor's XI against a Commonwealth XI in November 1950.[8]

England women's cricketer Eileen Whelan (born 30 October 1911) was the first female Test cricketer to attain centenarian status; she is currently aged 108 years, 227 days. Thelma McKenzie (Australia, born 6 April 1915) was the second to achieve this landmark; she is currently aged 105 years, 68 days.

The first One-Day International took place on 5 January 1971 when Australia played England.

The first Twenty20 International took place on 17 February 2005 when Australia played New Zealand. The oldest living T20I cricketers are:

1. Osman Göker of Turkey, currently aged 60 years, 104 days
2. Cengiz Akyüz of Turkey, currently aged 58 years, 12 days
3. Serdar Kansoy of Turkey, currently aged 57 years, 343 days
4. Hasan Alta of Turkey, currently aged 55 years, 19 days
5. James Moses, currently aged 54 years, 310 days
6. Sunil Dhaniram, currently aged 51 years, 240 days
7. Tony Whiteman of Luxembourg, currently aged 51 years, 20 days
8. Sanath Jayasuriya, currently aged 50 years, 349 days
9. Sanjayan Thuraisingam, currently aged 50 years, 276 days