Ashton Agar's(Australia)Record Breaking Debut in Test Match Vs England July 10,2013

At 19 years 269 days Ashton Agar is the 13th youngest player to play for Australia and the third teenager since Doug Walters in 1965. (Craig McDermott and Pat Cummins are the other two). He is the 17th player to bowl spin for Australia in the 68 Tests since Shane Warne retired

Ashton Agar(Australia)made his Test Debut against England at Nottingham on July 10,2013 and in the England 1st Innings as a Spin Bowler had figures of  7-0-24-0

In the Australia's 1st Innings as No 11 Batsman he scored 98 Runs(in 101 Balls with 4x12 and 6x2)

Ashton Agar was watched by proud parents John and Sonia, and younger brothers Wesley and William as he made history at Trent Bridge

  
 Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, paid tribute to the last-wicket pair. "What a stunning, gutsy, agonising 98 from Ashton Agar in the Ashes Test. Full marks to Hughes. Well done guys," Kevin Rudd wrote on Twitter

Record Breaking Debut Details are -

1)Phillip Hughes and Ashton Agar scored 163 Runs, the highest 10th-wicket partnership of all time in Tests

2)Ashton Agar might have missed a maiden hundred but for the man dubbed 'Ashton Who?' two world records in a day was enough as he walked off the ground with a smile and a shrug that won further admiration

• now holds the highest score by a No. 11 of all time by scoring 98 Runs surpassing Tino Best(WI) 95 Runs against England at Edgbaston in 20129(previous-best for Australia was by Glenn McGrath who scored 61 against New Zealand at the Gabba in 2004)

• dominated a transformational stand of 163 in 33 overs for the last wicket - another world record - with Phillip Hughes

3)Ashton Agar's 98 was also only the second half-century by a No.11 batsman in an Ashes Test - the previous one was by Frederick Spofforth at MCG in March 1885

4)Ashton Agar by scoring 98 runs on debut and batting as a No 11 Batsman broke the record for the highest score by a No. 11 batsman on debut held by Warwick Armstrong(Australia) who scored an unbeaten 45 against England in 1902
List of No 11 Batsman who scored on debut -

Player Name	Runs Scored	Opposition	Venue & Date
Ashton Agar(Australia)	98	England	Nottingham  July 10,2013
Chamila Gamage(SL)	40	Bangladesh	Colombo July 28,2002
Norman Cowans(England)	36	Australia	Perth Nov 12,1982
Tinashe Panyangara(Zimbabwe)	32*	Sri Lanka	Harare May 6,2004
Ken Hough(New Zealand)	31*	England	Christchurch Feb 27,1959
Devendra Bishoo(WI)	24	Pakistan	Guyana May 12,2011
Javagal Srinath(India)	21	Australia	Brisbane Nov 29,1991

 

5)Previous Top-scores of No 11 Batsman in Test Matches

Player Name	Runs Scored	Opposition	Venue & Date
Ashton Agar(Australia)	98	England	Nottingham  July 10,2013
Tino Best(West indies)	95	England	Birmingham June 7,2012
Zaheer Khan(India)	75	Bangladesh	Dhaka Dec 10,2004
Richard Collinge(NZ)	68*	Pakistan	Auckland Feb 16,1973
Glenn McGrath(Australia)	61	New Zealand	Brisbane Nov 18,2004
Wasim Bari(Pakistan)	60*	West Indies	Bridgetown Feb 18,1977
John Snow(England)	59*	West Indies	The Oval Aug 18,1966

6)Ashton Agar becomes the 9th player in Test history to finish as the highest scorer in an innings when batting at number 11, and only the second to do so on his debut following Jayantha Amerasinghe's 34 not out from a Sri Lanka first-innings total of 215 against NZ in Kandy in 1984