When did theEnglish Cricket team last field an English born eleven at test level?

Question

this is prompted by a question I have just answered and now it's annoying me

Answer 1

Good question - I haven't a clue, got to be a while back.

Answer 2

Good question, I'm thinking the answer is before Apartheid began in South Africa...

Answer 3

Three years ago?

Answer 4

1955? Really its just a guess.

IDK mate,

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Answer 5

1973

Answer 6

possibly the match before Andrew Strauss's test debut?

still researching to try and find out, made more difficult by the fact that i cant access Cricinfo on this computer

EDIT: nope thats not right, still researching

EDIT: i may have found it....England vs Sri Lanka, 1st Test, Galle 2nd-6th december 2003

Trescothick

Vaughan

Butcher

Thorpe

Collingwood

Flintoff

Read

Batty

Giles

Johnson

Hoggard

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_cri...

Answer 8

d**n it, somebody asked this on TMS (Test Match Special on the BBC) a few months ago and I've forgotten the answer. I knew I should have written it down somewhere!