Quiz! Playing XIs for each team's first men's Test match in the 1990s

As of July 2025, 12 teams have men’s Test status, but things were slightly different at the start of 1990, when only eight teams had Test status. Zimbabwe became the ninth team to join the Test fold when they were awarded Test status in July 1992.

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South Africa, meanwhile, had been excluded from international cricket from 1970 to 1991 due to the apartheid regime, and played their first in over 30 years in 1992.

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The most recent Test entrants before Zimbabwe were Sri Lanka, who played their inaugural Test in 1982 against England.

In this quiz, you are given each of the nine Test teams that played in the 1990s, and you need to name the playing XI of their first Test that decade. You need to provide 99 names, and you have 15 minutes.

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Quiz: Can you name every team's first men's Test XI in the 1990s?

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