Well, he's half right -
Brian Close remains the youngest person to play in a Test for England. He was not yet 19 - and in the middle of his first season of first-class cricket - when he played in the third Test against New Zealand
at Old Trafford in 1949. He didn't score a run, but did manage to take a wicket. Close played his final Test all of 27 years later, also
at Old Trafford, against West Indies in 1976. He was 46 by then, but although that's the oldest for an England player in recent years it isn't quite the record. Three 50-year-olds have played for England:
George Gunn, who was 50 years 303 days old on the last day of his last Test, against West Indies
at Kingston in 1929-30;
WG Grace (50 years 320 days) against Australia
at Trent Bridge in 1899; and the grand-daddy of them all,
Wilfred Rhodes, who was 52 years 165 days old on the last day of his Test career, in the same match as Gunn against West Indies
in Jamaica in 1929-30. The only other 50-year-old to play Test cricket was an Australian,
Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, who was two months short of his 51st birthday when he played against England
at Sydney in the last match of the 1932-33 Bodyline series.