Of people whose Test debut came during the time ODIs were being played, the longest wait is by the New Zealand fast bowler Kerry Walmsley, who won his first Test cap in March 1995 and played his first ODI more than eight and a half years later in November 2003. That’s unless you count John Traicos, who made his Test debut for South Africa in February 1970 (about a year before the inaugural one-day international), and played his first ODIs more than 13 years later, for Zimbabwe, during the 1983 World Cup. I could have made it clearer last week that I was talking about ODI debut then first Test, so apologies if anyone was confused by that.
