Complex sentence: In Test cricket, a batsman has carried his bat only 43 times in over 1,900 Test matches, the first being South African Bernard Tancred in 1889, and the most recent being Australian Simon Katich at the Gabba in 2008.
Split into simpler sentences: In Test cricket, a batsman has carried his bat only 43 times in over 1,900 Test matches. The most recent instance being Australian Simon Katich at the Gabba in 2008.