Brian Bennett scored a century on his Test captaincy debut (Credit: Afghanistan Cricket Board)
\n\nBrian Bennett made his debut as the Zimbabwe Test captain in the first Test match against Afghanistan at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. In the two innings of the red-ball match, which concluded in a draw on Monday (November 9), Bennett scored 128 and 58 runs as a No. 4 batter. Bennett joined a select group of players after scoring a century and a half in the first game of the series. In his Test captaincy debut, the 23-year-old right-handed batting all-rounder is the second Zimbabwean and the seventh player overall to hit a century and fifty.
\n\nThe first player to accomplish this was England's Archie MacLaren, who made his Test captaincy debut against Australia in 1897. Geoff Rabone, Greg Chappell, Brendan Taylor, Virat Kohli, and Rahmat Shah are the other players who have scored 100 and 50 on their first Test captaincy. Only Chappell and Kohli have scored two hundreds in their debut Test as captain out of the seven players.
\n\nArchie MacLaren (England) vs Australia – 1897
\n\nGeoff Rabone (New Zealand) vs South Africa – 1953
\n\nGreg Chappell(Australia) vs West Indies – 1975
\n\nBrendan Taylor…
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