Youngest Test debutant from first 8 Test playing nations

#4 New Zealand- Daniel Vettori, 18 years 10 days

A young Daniel Vettori

When New Zealand selected a bespectacled left-arm spinner, who had just turned 18, in a Test series at home against England in 1997, eyebrows must have been raised. However, Daniel Vettori did admirably in his very first Test by bowling 34.3 overs and picking up 3 wickets, in a game that ended in an innings defeat for his team.

Over the next 17 years, he became New Zealand's top spin bowler and indeed, one of the world's best. A tally of 362 Test wickets in 113 Test matches at an average of 34.36 is definitely up there with the very best and Vettori rightly belongs among a select group of New Zealand cricketers, who went on to become world beaters.