Following Fawad Alam’s recall to the Pakistan side after over ten years and 88 Tests, Roderick Easdale reflects on some other Test careers weirdly interrupted or abruptly curtailed

Young gun: Brian Close

Like Fawad Alam, New Zealander Rodney Redmond made a century on Test debut, swashbuckling his way to 107 in the final Test against Pakistan in 1972. In one Majid Khan over, he hit five fours and went from 44 to 86 with ten fours and two singles.
On 97, he hit a ball for two which was fielded just inside the boundary. But the crowd, thinking the ball had crossed the boundary, invade...