Associate player becomes oldest international cricketer to debut after turning 60

The date of March 10, 2025, marked a historic day in international cricket when the Falkland Islands became the 106th nation to feature in international cricket. The team featured all 11 players above the age bracket of 31. In another shocking news, all of their players were of more than the age of 40 except for two players between 30 to 40.

But the player who attracted the eyeballs and made a historic record for making a historic debut-record international record was Andre Brownlee. On the match day against Costa Rica on March 10, 2025, his age was recorded as 62 years and 147 days.

With this appearance for the Falkland Islands, he became the first man cricketer to play international cricket after the age of 60. He appeared for Costa Rica in two more T20 internationals in the second and third T20I on March 11 and 12.

In the overall list of international debuts of the oldest cricketers, he is now in the third spot across both men’s and women’s cricket. He is following Guernsey Women’s Philippa Stahelin, who made her debut against Norway Women in 2024. Before her, it was Sally Barton of Gibraltar Women who made her debut at the age of 67 years and 206 days in 2024.

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Falkland Islands face massive defeat in their first international appearance

Speaking of the action of the first-ever international T20I of the Falkland Islands, they had a horrific outing against Costa Rica. The Falkland Islands’ skipper Cecil Alexander won the toss and asked Costa Rica to bat first. Batting first, Costa Rica were bowled out at the score of 94 runs in 16.1 overs. Deepak Rawat, Sham Murari, and Rakesh Bharathan played the knocks of 16, 13, and 14 runs, respectively. 

Sarfraz Rao and Jaco Alexander scalped 3 wickets each for the Falkland Islands in the first innings, alongside 2 wickets each picked by Phillip Stroud and skipper Cecil Alexander.

While chasing the target, Falkland Islands hardly survived against the bowling attack of Costa Rica and they were bundled out at the score of just 28 runs in 12.1 overs and lost the game by 66 runs. Phillip Stroud was the only batter to touch the double-digit mark of 13 runs as an individual score. 
Sham Murari and Deepak Rawat scalped 4 wickets each for Costa Rica, alongside a wicket each bagged by Sachin Ravikumar and Yeudy Altamirano. 

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