5 oldest centurion captains in Test cricket

#4 – Dudley Nourse (South Africa) – 40 years, 207 days

Dudley Nourse of South Africa plays a stylish shot as people watch on

In what was surely one of his best innings ever, the left-handed Dudley Nourse, the South African captain makes it to the list of the top 5 oldest Test centurions when he scored 208 runs against England in 1951.

Batting for nine hours, with a pin in his right thumb which he had broken while fielding in an earlier match, all his strokes came with a lot of difficulty, yet he still managed to score a double century, becoming the first South African to score a double century against England. The rest of the series was a pretty dour affair and the South Africans went on to win three of the four Tests.

In all first-class cricket in South Africa or overseas for his country, Dudley Nourse made six double-centuries, to come in second after his father who had made seven.