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The runs that stay unmade

Cricbuzz · Jon Hotten · 18 Jul 2024, 6:27 PM
The runs that stay unmade
What might have happened had Voges got into the side at 25 rather than 35, had he played 120 Tests instead of 20? Might real greatness have awaited him then? · Getty

If Adam Voges' career left some to wonder what might have happened if he'd been picked for Australia sooner, England are developing a list of uncapped players whose timing was equally unfortunate

Adam Voges holds one of cricket's most melancholic records, that of the oldest man to make a century on his Test debut. He was 35 at the time and had scored 12,000 first-class runs, but he had the fluke of birth to be part of a generation of stellar batters that had limited his international cricket to thirty-odd ODI appearances, the last of those a couple of years before his Test selection.

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