Players making their first-class debut in a Test match

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Players making their first-class debut in a Test match

Player	Match	Venue	Season
JR Hodges	Australia v England	Melbourne	1876-77
TK Kendall	Australia v England	Melbourne	1876-77
Hon. CJ Coventry	England v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
OR Dunell	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
CE Finlason	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
BAF Grieve	England v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
P Hutchinson	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
GA Kempis	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
WH Milton	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
AE Ochse	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
A Rose-Innes	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
FW Smith	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
RB Stewart	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
AB Tancred	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
CH Vintcent	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1888-89
WH Ashley	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1888-89
JEP McMaster	England v South Africa	Cape Town	1888-89
WHM Richards	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1888-89
NHCD Theunissen	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1888-89
G Cripps	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1891-92
JF du Toit	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1891-92
CG Fichardt	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1891-92
EA Halliwell	South Africa v England	Cape Town	1891-92
AM Miller	England v South Africa	Port Elizabeth	1895-96
JT Willoughby	South Africa v England	Port Elizabeth	1895-96
WHB Frank	South Africa v England	Johannesburg	1895-96
GH Shepstone	South Africa v England	Johannesburg	1895-96
AG Archer	England v South Africa	Cape Town	1898-99
GE Vivian	New Zealand v India	Kolkata	1964-65
U Ranchod	Zimbabwe v India	New Delhi	1992-93
Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	2001-02
Yasir Ali	Pakistan v Bangladesh	Multan	2003-04
Nazmul Hossain	Bangladesh v India	Chittagong	2004-05
Mujeeb Ur Rahman	India v Afghanistan	Bengaluru	2018
Ben White	Ireland v Bangladesh	Mirpur	2023
Matthew Humphreys	Ireland v Sri Lanka	Galle	2023
NT Nyamhuri	Zimbabwe v Afghanistan	Bulawayo	2024-25
AM Ghazanfar	Zimbabwe v Afghanistan	Bulawayo	2024-25

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Additional Information

Dunell captained South Africa on his first-class and Test debut (the 1888-89 Port Elizabeth Test is now considered to be the first first-class match ever played in South Africa, which is why so many players from that match appear on this list). du Toit, Frank, McMaster, Richards and Stewart played only one first-class match, a Test, while Coventry, Grieve, Hutchinson and Willoughby played two (both Tests).