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