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Detailed explanation-1: -For a cricketer to score a century (100 runs or more) on his Test match debut is considered a notable achievement, and as of December 2022, it has been accomplished 113 times by 111 players. Two of those players, Lawrence Rowe and Yasir Hameed, have scored centuries in both innings of their debut match.

Detailed explanation-2: -England’s Dennis Amiss was the first debutant to score a century in ODIs; he scored 103 runs off 134 balls against Australia during the first match of the Prudential Trophy in 1972.

Detailed explanation-3: -1. Tip Foster (ENG) Tip Foster of England is the 1st ever player to register a 200 in a test debut, more than 100 years before in 1903 against Australia. And that 287 scored by Foster is still the highest score ever made by a debutant in an Innings in the debut Test match.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pakistan’s Javed Miandad was the first batsman to have scored a century on Test debut as well as in their hundredth Test match; West Indian Gordon Greenidge is the only other cricketer to have achieved the feat.