100 tests

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Could 9 be Graham Gooch following his ban after the rebel tour!

So here are the answers after 24 hours of guesses
1. Who was the first player to play 100 Tests? COLIN COWDREY
2. Which player did not miss a test match from his debut through to his 100th Test? BRENDON MCCULLUM
3. Who is the only player to go on to play 200 Tests? SACHIN TENDULKAR
4. Which 2 players played 150 consecutive Tests? ALISTAIR COOK AND ?? ALLAN BORDER
5. Who took the shortest period of time from debut to their 100th test? ALISTAIR COOK
6. Which two players scored a double hundred in their 100th test? JOE ROOT AND DAVID WARNER - AN INTERESTING COMBINATION BASED ON A BIRMINGHAM NIGHTCLUB EXPERIENCE!
7. Who scored 2 centuries in his 100th test? RICKY PONTING
8. Whose 100th test match was his last test match? GRAHAM THORPE (WHO THEN MADE WAY FOR KEVIN PIETERSEN TO KICK START HIS TEST CAREER)
9. Who missed the most number of matches by not being selected between his test debut and his 100th test? GRAHAM GOOCH
10. How many of the 100 test club have played for Yorkshire? TENDULKAR, PUJARA, INZAMAN, BOYCOTT, ROOT FLEMING, YOUNIS KHAN WITH WILLIAMSON AND BAIRSTOW HOPEFULLY JOINING THE CLUB LATER THIS WEEK

I would have got two of them - Cowdrey (first to 100) and Tendulkar (200) - but they had already 'gone' before I discovered the thread.

I am surprised how many people had played in 100 Tests, given that some countries like Pak and NZ hardly play any. I saw Fleming's last game, in Napier, which was also Southee's debut. Very good player, Fleming, who scored lots of 50s but few 100s, which he referred to in his after-match speech...how nice it was going to be, not having to answer questions about conversion rates, even round the dinner table at home!

He did little for Yorkshire, after a good start, but was much better than Yuvraj Singh, same season, who could scarcely make a run. I suppose it was Fleming who started the current NZ era of excellence, with the good work being continued by Vettori, McCullum and Williamson. They've been good for perhaps 20 years, now.

Yes over 80 members of the club - who says test cricket is dead!

re Lyon, he did not play 100 consecutive tests from his debut to his 100th test, whereas McCullum did.

Lyon may well have then played 100 consecutive tests but had been dropped at various points beforehand as this cricinfo para confirms.

However, Lyon's career was not without bumps along the way. In 2013 he was dropped from the Test team twice, first in India after he was attacked by MS Dhoni in the first Test in Chennai, and then for the first two Tests of the Ashes tour of England. The Ashes axing was especially galling for Lyon, given that he had taken nine wickets in his previous Test, the fourth and final Test of the Indian tour in Delhi, and he was overlooked for the uncapped teenager Ashton Agar. By the third Test, Lyon was rightfully back in the side and continued to be a consistent performer (as off early 2022 he had not missed another Test). One gap in his game had been the ability to bowl Australia to victory in the fourth innings of a Test, but he finally achieved that against India in Adelaide in 2014-15, in what became his first Player-of-the-Match performance, although it was something that continued to come under occasional scrutiny in following years.