Youngest Test match player (male)

Pakistan’s Hasan Raza (b. 11 Mar 1982) made his Test debut – against Zimbabwe at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad, Pakistan, on 24 October 1996 – at the reported age of 14 years 227 days.

Previously, the record was held by Raza’s fellow countryman Mushtaq Mohammad (b. India, 22 Nov 1943), who was 15 years 124 days old when he made his debut for Pakistan against the West Indies on 26 March 1959.

Raza’s youthful promise failed to develop into a long Test career. He played just seven matches for Pakistan between 1996 and 2005. The second Test cap of his stop-start international career came 2 years 2 months after his debut, and there was a three-year gap between his fifth and sixth appearances. He scored 235 runs in 10 innings, at an average of 26.11 runs per innings. His 20-year first-class career realised 13,949 runs in 360 innings (average 44.70).