Who is the cricketer … who made the captain in a debut test, 25 years ago, father has hit the century against India

Last Updated:February 06, 2025, 23:57 IST

Who is Johnathan Campbell: Jonathan Campbell has created history in the first match of Test career. At the age of 27, Jonathan, who made a Test debut for Zimbabwe, has joined the selected players who …Read more

Jonathan Campbell created history by becoming captain in the first Test of his career.

New Delhi. Jonathan Campbell created history as soon as he landed on the field in the first match of Test career. Zimbabwe’s team is currently facing the only Test match with Ireland in their home. Through this match, Jonath started a Test career for Zimbabwe. 27 -year -old Jonathan was captained in place of Craig Irwin who has withdrawn his name from this Test match due to personal reasons. Left -handed batsman Jonathan Campbell’s father Alastair Campbell has also been an international cricketer. Alastair Campbell scored a century in the Champions Trophy, playing for Zimbabwe 25 years ago in front of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly.

This is the first time from Zimbabwe when the team is commanded by the father first and then the son. This is the fourth time in the history of Test cricket when the pair of father and son were seen leading the team. The list also includes the pair of Lala Amarnath and Mohinder Amarnath of India, while England’s Frank Mann and George Mann, Colin Cowdre and Chris Cowdre have achieved this feat.

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Jonathan Campbell is the second cricketer in the world to captain it in a debut Test match. Before this, Nil Brand has done this feat in his team’s debut Test for South Africa. The South African Test team was captained.

Jonathan’s father Alastair Campbal has played 60 Tests and 188 international matches for Zimbabwe. Father was also a left -handed batsman of Jonathan who scored a brilliant century in the Champions Trophy in 2000. In that match, veteran players like Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were also playing. Jonathan made his debut in international cricket for Zimbabwe in 2024. He has played 9 T20 matches in which he has scored 123 runs. Jonathan, who scored 1913 runs in 45 matches of first class, has also come out with 4 centuries during this time.