Nat Thomson

Nathaniel Thomson

Personal information

Full name

Nathaniel Frampton Davis Thomson

Born

29 May 1839
Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Died

2 September 1896 (aged 57)
Burwood, New South Wales, Australia

Nickname

Nat

Batting style

Right-hand bat

Bowling style

International information

National side

Australian

Career statistics

Competition	Tests	First-class
Matches	2	27
Runs scored	67	705
Batting average	16.75	14.09
100s/50s	0/0	0/3
Top score	41	73
Balls bowled	112	1472
Wickets	1	23
Bowling average	31.00	22.26
5 wickets in innings	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	1/14	3/13
Catches/stumpings	3/0	23/7

Source: Cricinfo

Nathaniel Frampton Davis Thomson (29 May 1839, Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales – 2 September 1896, Burwood, Sydney) was an Australian cricketer who played in the first two Tests ever played, in 1877.

When Australia won the toss on 15 March 1877 and elected to bat, Nat Thomson came out with Australia's No. 1 batsman Charles Bannerman to form the first-ever Test batting partnership. Thomson was 37 years 290 days old, which made him the second-oldest player on the ground behind England's James Southerton, who remains to this day the oldest Test debutant ever. Thomson has the distinction of being the first batsman dismissed in a Test match, when he was clean bowled by England's Allen Hill for 1 when the score was 2.^[1] In the Second Test a fortnight later he made 41 in the second innings, adding 88 for the first wicket with Dave Gregory.^[2]

Thomson began his career with New South Wales in the 1850s principally as a fieldsman, but his batting improved, and he scored New South Wales' first inter-colonial fifty in 1867-68. He was offered a position on the Australian touring team to England in 1878 but declined due to business reasons and thus finished his brief international career.^[3]

Until 1993 Wisden listed him as Nathaniel Thompson (without middle names), born 21 April 1838 in Birmingham, England, and the brief biographical details in Bill Frindall's Wisden Book of Test Cricket 1876-77 to 1977-78 list him as such. This would have made him the earliest-born Australian Test cricketer. However, a note in the Births and Deaths section of the 1993 Wisden announced that research had "led to a change in the details for N.F.D. Thomson (formerly listed as Thompson)",^[4] and since that time Thomson's name and birth information have been listed as in this article. Thomson and Ned Gregory are now assumed to have been born on the same day, and jointly hold the distinction of being the earliest-born Australian Test cricketer.

References

↑ "Australia v England, 1876-77 (First Test)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
↑ "Australia v England, 1876-77 (Second Test)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
↑ The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket, Oxford, Melbourne, 1996, p. 531.
↑ Wisden 1993, p. 1220.

External links

Nat Thomson at Cricinfo
Nat Thomson at Cricket Archive

Preceded by James Southerton	Oldest Living Test Cricketer 16 June 1880 – 2 September 1896	Succeeded by Ned Gregory
Notes and references
1. Jointly with E J Gregory

Australian first-class cricket season leading run-scorers (1850–51 to 1899–1900)

1850–51: Hamilton 1851–52: Hamilton 1852–53: – 1853–54: Cavenagh 1854–55: – 1855–56: Driver/McKone 1856–57: Gilbert 1857–58: Wills 1858–59: Lewis 1859–60: Wills 1860–61: Bryant 1861–62: Caffyn 1862–63: D'Arcy 1863–64: Lockyer 1864–65: – 1865–66: N. Gregory 1866–67: Cosstick 1867–68: Wardill 1868–69: Phillips 1869–70: Gordon 1870–71: Loughnan 1871–72: Thomson 1872–73: Arthur 1873–74: – 1874–75: C. Bannerman 1875–76: D. Gregory 1876–77: C. Bannerman 1877–78: Thomson 1878–79: Ulyett 1879–80: A. Bannerman 1880–81: Horan 1881–82: Murdoch 1882–83: A. Bannerman 1883–84: Murdoch 1884–85: Barnes 1885–86: McIlwraith 1886–87: Shrewsbury 1887–88: Moses 1888–89: Trott 1889–90: Lyons 1890–91: Giffen 1891–92: Lyons 1892–93: Giffen 1893–94: Giffen 1894–95: Ward 1895–96: Donnan 1896–97: Lyons 1897–98: Hill 1898–99: Trumper 1899–1900: Trumper

Leading run-scorers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards Leading wicket-takers: 1850–51 to 1899–00 1900–01 to 1949–50 1950–51 to 1999–00 2000–01 onwards

Australia squad – Australia vs England 1876–77 test series (tied)

D. Gregory (c) Bannerman Blackham (†) Cooper Garrett N. Gregory Hodges Horan Kendall Kelly Midwinter Murdoch Spofforth Thomson

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