South Africa's youngest Test cricket debutants

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01/02/2025 09:05 AM

Kwena Maphaka become South Africa’s youngest ever Test debutant in early January 2025.

The talented fast bowler played a few ODIs and T20Is before graduating to Test level.

It is not often cricketers play a Test before their 20th birthday.

Here, we recall South Africa’s youngest debutants in Test cricket.

William Shalders

Dante Perkin

Also read: The 25 bowlers who took a wicket with their first ball in Test cricket

Arthur Ochse

Paul Adams

Kwena Maphaka

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