deliveries columns catches/stumpings year tenfor bowling country fivefor batting name lasttestyear column international testdebutdate source date runs testdebutyear wickets lasttestdate s/s matches article_title
112 1472 2 3/0 23/7 1877 0 0 - australian 0 0 right-hand bat nat thomson 1877 tests first-class true 15 march http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7948.html cricinfo 15 march 67 705 1877 1 23 31 march 0/0 0/3 2 27 nat thomson

nat thomson

nathaniel frampton davis thomson -lrb- 29 may 1839 , surry hills , sydney , new south wales -- 2 september 1896 , burwood , sydney -rrb- was an australian cricketer who played in the first two tests ever played , in 1877 .
thomson has the distinction of being the first batsman dismissed in a test match when he was clean bowled by england 's allen hill .
thomson 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 .
until 1993 `` wisden '' listed him as nathaniel thompson -lrb- without middle names -rrb- , 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 of all australian test cricketers .
however , the births and deaths of cricketers section of the 1993 `` wisden '' indicates ` research has led to changes in the details of nfd thomson -lrb- formerly listed as thompson -rrb- who played for australia in these two tests . '
and since that time thomson 's name and birth information have been listed as in this article .
both thomson and ned gregory are now assumed to have been born on the same day , and jointly hold the distinction of being earliest-born australian test cricketer .
