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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 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin 1977 Doug Walters scores 250 vs. New Zealand, 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. New Zealand 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. New Zealand 1955-56 1928 World record 10th wicket stand 307 (Kippax / Hooker) NSW vs. Vic 1924 Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper, New Zealand 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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