DURATION BETWEEN RUGBY TEST MATCHES

DURATION BETWEEN RUGBY TEST MATCHES-Updated 10.09.2013
Name	Country	First Test	Second Test	Y	M	D
E.Hughes	New Zealand	6-Jun-08	13-Aug-21	13	7	2
G.M.Cooke	Australia	12-Aug-33	28-Sep-46	13	1	16
A. Sorakin	Russia	19-Nov-95	11-Jun-08	12	6	23
Geoff Ralf	Canada	25-Oct-74	16-Nov-85	11	0	21
P.Dizabo	France	28-Jan-50	23-Jul-60	10	5	26
Kevin Yates	England	7-Jun-97	26-May-07	9	11	19
Tommy Vile	Wales	18-Jan-13	5-Feb-21	8	0	18
Maurie Fa'asavalu	Samoa	1-Nov-03	2-Jul-11	7	8	1

As I update my records on the stats sister site I run I will place some of that info here on this blog.

I am at present updating my Samoa data. I’m working on the year 2011 and came across the fact that Maurie Fa'asavalu waited over seven years between test matches for Samoa as per the chart above. Certainly a remarkable and unusual feat.

For other rugby test data go to www.rugbyinternational.net

TEST RUGBY RECORDS

The Longest Duration Between Test Matches

Just recently I have been updating the test data for Russia. I came across a player who had a number of years between test matches.

Andrey Sorokin played v Italy ‘A’ in Bucharest 11 June 2008. I noticed his previous test match was v France Military 19 November 1995! I got my date calculator out and discovered there had been 12 years, 6 months and 23 days between those two test matches. Was it a record? Nearly. Here is the list below.

DURATION BETWEEN RUGBY TEST MATCHES-Updated 22.03.2013
				Duration
Name	Country	First Test	Second Test	Y	M	D
E.Hughes	New Zealand	6-Jun-08	13-Aug-21	13	7	2
G.M.Cooke	Australia	12-Aug-33	28-Sep-46	13	1	16
A. Sorakin	Russia	19-Nov-95	11-Jun-08	12	6	23
Geoff Ralf	Canada	25-Oct-74	16-Nov-85	11	0	21
P.Dizabo	France	28-Jan-50	23-Jul-60	10	5	26
Kevin Yates	England	7-Jun-97	26-May-07	9	11	19
Tommy Vile	Wales	18-Jan-13	5-Feb-21	8	0	18

 

Sorokin comes in third.
Sources: scrum.com and ‘Test Rugby Lists’ by Clark, Mason and Samuelson