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1997 Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash

1995 Raman Lamba and Ravi Sehgal score 464 for 1st wicket for Delhi

1994 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test

1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)

1989 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket

1987 Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so

1987 Kapil Dev takes his 300th Test wicket, at 28 the youngest

1985 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

1982 Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies

1980 NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

1977 Doug Walters scores 250 vs. NZ, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour

1974 Kanhai and Jameson add 465 for 2nd wicket, Warwickshire vs. Gloucs

1973 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket

1973 Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. NZ

1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)

1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide

1958 Sobers completes 446 stand for 2nd wicket with Conrad Hunte, 260

1952 Australia beat West Indies by one wicket at the MCG, last stand 38

1951 Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies

1946 Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies

1938 Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24

1936 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted

1936 Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South Africa

1933 Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled

1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)

1930 C T Patankar, cricketer, kept wicket in one Test India vs. NZ 1955-56

1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic

1924 Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper, NZ vs England 1954-55

1924 George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies

1919 Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies

1910 Eric Tindall, cricketer, All Black rep who kept wicket in 5 Tests

1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 vs. SAfr), his only Test hit wicket

1908 England beat Australia by one wicket at the MCG

1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win

1902 England beat Australia by one wicket at The Oval Famous victory

1848 Edmund Hickly gets 1st known 10 wicket innings (Kent vs. England)

1845 Allen Hill, cricketer, took the 1st wicket in Test cricket



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