Youngest first-class debutant retires - at 19

Four years ago Barney Gibson entered the first-class record books but now the Yorkshireman has decided to retire from the game aged just 19. Back in 2011 he became the youngest English first-class cricketer in history when he kept wicket for Yorkshire against Durham University aged just 15 years and 27 days - needing special dispensation from his school to play - but it proved to be his only appearance at senior level.

Gibson has never progressed from the second XI and was eventually overlooked as wicketkeeper - his last match saw him send down 3.3 overs and he didn't even bat. "This was a difficult decision to make," Gibson said. "I have been involved with the club since I was 11 and I feel that now is the right time for me to look at a career change." Yorkshire's director of cricket development Ian Dews said he was "very much Gibson's own decision".

An early debut, it seems, is no guarantee of success. Gibson broke the records held by Charles Young, who was 15 years and 131 days when he played for Hampshire against Kent at Gravesend in 1861. He played 38 games across the next 18 years before slipping away into history.