Lists of oldest cricketers
Longest-lived first-class cricketers
This list includes all those first-class players who are known to have lived to 100. Deceased Living Note: Although born in New South Wales, Australia, Syd Ward and John Wheatley appear to have been raised in New Zealand.

Lists of oldest cricketers

Section Title: Longest-lived first-class cricketers
Table Section Text: This list includes all those first-class players who are known to have lived to 100. Deceased Living Note: Although born in New South Wales, Australia, Syd Ward and John Wheatley appear to have been raised in New Zealand.

Rank	Name	Team(s)	Birth date	Death date	Age	Nationality

1	John Manners	Hampshire, Combined Services	25 September 1914	Living	104 years, 184 days	Living in England

2	Jim Hutchinson	Derbyshire	29 November 1896	7 November 2000	103 years, 344 days	England

3	Syd Ward	Wellington	5 August 1907	31 December 2010	103 years, 148 days	New Zealand

4	Norman Gordon	South Africa, Transvaal	6 August 1911	2 September 2014	103 years, 27 days	South Africa

5	Rupert de Smidt	Western Province	23 November 1883	3 August 1986	102 years, 253 days	South Africa

6	Edward English	Hampshire	1 January 1864	5 September 1966	102 years, 247 days	England

7	Cyril Perkins	Northamptonshire, Minor Counties	4 June 1911	21 November 2013	102 years, 170 days	England

8	John Wheatley	Canterbury	8 January 1860	19 April 1962	102 years, 101 days	New Zealand

9	Ted Martin	Western Australia	30 September 1902	9 June 2004	101 years, 253 days	Australia

10	D. B. Deodhar	Hindus, Maharashtra	14 January 1892	24 August 1993	101 years, 222 days	India

11	George Harman	Dublin University	6 June 1874	14 December 1975	101 years, 191 days	Ireland

12	Fred Gibson	Leicestershire	13 February 1912	28 June 2013	101 years, 135 days	Jamaica (lived in England)

13	Archie Scott	Scotland	26 January 1918	Living	101 years, 61 days	Living in Scotland

14	Alan Finlayson	Eastern Province	1 September 1900	28 October 2001	101 years, 57 days	South Africa

15	Neil McCorkell	Hampshire, Players	23 March 1912	28 February 2013	100 years, 342 days	England

16	Geoffrey Beck	Oxford University	16 June 1918	Living	100 years, 285 days	Living in England

17	Harold Stapleton	New South Wales	7 January 1915	24 September 2015	100 years, 260 days	Australia

18	Charles Braithwaite	English Residents, Players of USA	10 September 1845	15 April 1946	100 years, 217 days	United States

19	Harry Forsyth	Dublin University	18 December 1903	19 July 2004	100 years, 214 days	Ireland

20	Jack Laver	Tasmania	9 March 1917	3 October 2017	100 years, 208 days	Australia

21	Tom Pritchard	Wellington, Warwickshire	10 March 1917	22 August 2017	100 years, 165 days	New Zealand

22	Bernarr Notley	Nottinghamshire	31 August 1918	22 January 2019	100 years, 144 days	England

23	George Deane	Hampshire	11 December 1828	26 February 1929	100 years, 77 days	England

Sentence(s)

John Manners, who represented Hampshire and Combined Services, appears to be the oldest living, born 25 September 1914, thus aged 104 years, 184 days.

final_sentence: John Manners, who represented Hampshire and Combined Services, appears to be the oldest living, born 25 September 1914, thus aged 104 years, 184 days.