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Teenage centurions
Who was the last player before this year to score two hundreds in a Championship season as a teenager?
Joe Clarke did it earlier this season (he's since got a third hundred since turning 20 as well) and Haseeb Hameed, perhaps even more impressively, has just hit his second of the season as an opener (and against Stuart Broad and Imran Tahir). Joe Root didn't manage it until he was 21 and was an England player later that year. Alastair Cook didn't manage it until he was 20 and he was also an England player later that year. Daniel Lawrence and Dominic Sibley haven't managed it yet (despite being 3rd youngest centurion and youngest double centurion). David Sales, another to have famously scored big as a youngster didn't manage it until he was 21.
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Hmm, Ben Stokes did it as an 18yo and then scored three as a 19yo.
That sort of surprises me, but then it sort of doesn't surprise me either. Anyone think of any more examples, particularly opening bats?
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Ian Bell made 3 in the 2001 season, aged 19.
Atherton made a couple in 1987, aged 19 but not confident that he was opening back then. The tragic Australian maestro Archie Jackson made 7 f-c hundreds as a teenager, one of them in an Ashes Test. Last edited by Summer of '77 : 6th July 2016 at 20:55. |
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Atherton's first century for Lancs first team was aged 20. Previous first class centuries were for the MCC (aged 18) and Cambridge University (aged 19)
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I believe James Taylor did it for Leicestershire in 2009. In fact, he scored three tons.
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Sam Hain got four in 2014
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Now can anyone come up with an opener?
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Struggling.
The best I have so far is Godfrey Bryan of Kent, who made a century opening against Notts on debut in 1920, aged 17 years, 245 days (the youngest ever Championship centurion) and then one against Hants in 1921, aged 18. Alastair Cook made only one hundred as a teenager, and I saw it ! |
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In my day being a teenage centurion meant drinking 100 shots of beer in 100 minutes. Many succeeded, many failed, many did both
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Tendulkar must have got at least a couple for Yorkshire.
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I've asked my computer to tell me a definitive answer to this question, but I won't spoil the guessing game by revealing all.
I will say that only 3 teenagers have ever scored 2 championship 100s in the same season while opening the batting. And they once batted 1, 2, 3 in the same England test team. And I'm astonished that So77 hasn't got one of them. Another good fact is that the only player other than Stokes to do it in 2 separate seasons is Denis Compton, who did it in 1937 and managed a couple as a teenager again in 1938, despite the fact that his 20th birthday was on 23 May. |
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Trescothick?
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Keysey! Blimey, how soon one forgets !
And Vaughan, and Tresco, as MM rightly suggests. |
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Vaughan?
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Was just wondering if Rob was 3rd!
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Just ran the same query on the Sheffield Shield, where it's only been done 13 times. Two of those are Jackson, and three are Ponting (at 17, 18, and 19). Matt Renshaw did it in the season just gone. Only 3 as opener (Jackson, Renshaw and Nic Maddinson a few years ago).
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Not much point in being coy about the full list, now. It goes:
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Name 100s (opening) Season Age =================================================== H Hameed 2 (2) 2016 19yr 167d JM Clarke 2 (0) 2016 19yr 347d SR Hain 4 (0) 2014 19yr 55d BA Stokes 3 (0) 2011 19yr 359d BA Stokes 2 (0) 2010 18yr 347d CF Hughes 2 (0) 2010 19yr 201d JWA Taylor 3 (0) 2009 19yr 232d MH Wessels 3 (0) 2005 19yr 306d JC Hildreth 2 (0) 2004 19yr 359d TR Ambrose 2 (0) 2002 19yr 221d OA Shah 2 (0) 1998 19yr 330d RWT Key 2 (2) 1998 19yr 36d A Symonds 2 (0) 1995 19yr 329d ME Trescothick 2 (2) 1994 18yr 215d MP Vaughan 2 (2) 1994 19yr 230d GA Hick 2 (0) 1985 19yr 114d P Johnson 2 (0) 1984 19yr 120d RA Smith 3 (0) 1983 19yr 285d Javed Miandad 2 (0) 1976 19yr 88d PJ Watts 2 (0) 1959 19yr 63d DCS Compton 2 (0) 1938 19yr 360d DCS Compton 2 (0) 1937 19yr 94d F Chester 3 (0) 1913 18yr 216d JW Hearne 2 (0) 1910 19yr 180d JN Crawford 2 (0) 1905 18yr 276d RA Young 2 (1) 1905 19yr 334d |
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