How many players have taken a five-for on ODI debut?

This week in our stats series Did You Know? where we present well known and lesser-known facts on a theme, we look at records and trivia related to debutants.

106 Number of batsmen who have scored centuries on Test debut. In ODIs, 15 batsmen have achieved this, and in T20Is three (though none were in matches involving the Test-playing teams). In 2019, Pakistan's Abid Ali scored 112 on his ODI debut and then 109 not out on Test debut to become the first batsman to score hundreds on both Test and ODI debut.

287 The highest individual score by a batsman on Test debut, by Tip Foster in 1903. Lawrence Rowe scored 214 and 100 not out on his debut in 1972, and has the most runs in a debut Test. The highest score on ODI debut is Desmond Haynes' 148 in 1978, and the highest on T20I debut among cricketers from Test-playing teams is Ricky Ponting's 98 not out in 2005. The corresponding record on first-class debut is 267 not out by Ajay Rohera for Madhya Pradesh in 2018-19; on List-A debut, it is 202 not out by Alan Barrow for Natal in 1975-76; and on T20 debut, 114 by Bilal Asif for Sialkot Stallions in 2015.

156 Number of players to take a five-wicket haul on Test debut, with the best being Albert Trott's 8 for 43 in 1895. Fifteen bowlers have taken ten wickets in their debut Test. The best figures belong to Narendra Hirwani: 16 for 136 in 1988. In ODIs, 14 bowlers have managed to take a five-for on debut, with the best being Kagiso Rabada's 6 for 16 in 2015. The best innings figures on first-class debut are 10 for 28 by Albert Moss for Canterbury in 1889-90, and the best match figures are 15 for 73 by William Brown for Tasmania in 1857-58. The best figures on List-A debut are 7 for 27 by Denys Hobson for Northern Transvaal in 1974-75, and the best debut figures in T20s are 6 for 25 by Michael Dighton for Tasmania in 2007.

14 Hasan Raza's age when he made his debut in Tests and ODIs. He is the only player to make his debut before the age of 15 in both formats. The youngest to debut in T20Is, among the top 12 teams, is Ireland's Josh Little, at 16 years, 309 days in 2016. The youngest to score a century on debut is Mohammad Ashraful at 17 years, 61 days in 2001, while the youngest to take a five-for on debut is Nayeem Hasan at 17 years, 355 days in 2018.

49 The age at which England's James Southerton made his Test debut - 49 years, 119 days - in the first ever Test, in 1877, is still the record for a Test debutant. The oldest debutant in ODIs is Nolan Clarke of Netherlands, who was 47 years, 240 days when making his debut in the 1996 World Cup. The oldest debutant in T20Is from the 12 Test-playing teams is Pakistan's Rafatullah Ahmed: 39 years, 20 days in 2015. The oldest to score a century on Test debut is Adam Voges at the age of 35 years, 242 days in 2015, and the oldest to take a five-for on Test debut is England's Charles Marriott in 1933.

8 Number of players who scored a century or took a five-wicket haul on their Test debut and never played another Test for their country. Two of them, Andy Ganteaume and Rodney Redmond, made centuries, while six took five-fors - Aubrey Smith, Gobo Ashley, Arnold Warren, Douglas Carr, Charles Marriott and Mick Malone. Marriott, in fact, picked up five-fors in both innings, had a match haul of 11 wickets, and never played another Test. On the other hand, England's Jack MacBryan, who was handed a debut against South Africa at Old Trafford in 1924, did not get to bat, bowl or take a catch, and never played another Test. Overall, there are 405 players in Tests and 180 players in ODIs who made their debut till 2015 and never played another match in that format.

7 The largest number of debutants fielded by a team in a Test (other than in the team's debut match) since 1950. There are three instances of seven debutants: by South Africa against New Zealand in Durban in 1961, Sri Lanka against New Zealand in Christchurch in 1983, and West Indies against Bangladesh in Kingstown in 2009. The most debutants in a series post-1950, where neither of the teams was on debut, is 16, in New Zealand's tour to South Africa in 1961-62: South Africa handed debuts to ten players and New Zealand six.

Players to make their ODI debut in World Cup (since 1983, top-8 teams)

World Cup	Number of players	Players
1983	3	Abdul Qadir, John Bracewell, Athula Samarasekara
1987	7	Navjot Sidhu, Tom Moody, Phil Simmons, Danny Morrison, Andrew Jones, Tim May, Andrew Zesers
1992*	3	Ajay Jadeja, Iqbal Sikandar, Wasim Haider
1999	1	Ricardo Powell
2007	1	Kieron Pollard
2011	4	Imran Tahir, Andre Russell, Kirk Edwards, Devendra Bishoo
2015	1	Tharindu Kaushal

*1992 WC excludes six South African debutants

20 Number of players who made their ODI debuts in World Cups for the top-eight teams from the 1983 edition onwards. This excludes South Africa's six debutants in 1992, as they had only returned to international cricket a few months before that World Cup. Since 1996, only seven players from top-eight teams have made their ODI debuts in a World Cup game, of which five are from the West Indies.

2 Number of players who captained in their debut Test in the last 60 years (excluding teams playing their maiden Test) - England's Tony Lewis in 1972 and New Zealand's Lee Germon in 1995, both against India. Germon captained in each of the 12 Tests he played, while Lewis captained in each of his first eight Tests - his ninth was his last.