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1996 Kevan James scores 103 and takes 4 wkts in 4 balls, Hants vs. Ind

1996 Shaun Pollock takes 4 wkts in 4 balls for Warwickshire in B&H

1995 Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for England 1926-34), dies at 91

1994 Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts

1993 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield

1992 Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v New Zealand by 9 wkts)

1990 Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of New Zealand, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts

1990 Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts

1988 WA beat Queensland by 5 wkts to win the Sheffield Shield Final

1985 Australia beat WI by innings at SCG, Bob Holland 10 match wkts

1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match

1976 India set 403 to win by WI They get them, 6 wkts 7 overs spare

1969 Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts

1964 C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies

1961 Kevan James, cricketer, all-rounder 4 wkts/4 balls and ton vs. India 1996

1959 Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler, Test vs. New Zealand 1986, no wkts

1958 Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies

1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 vs. England, 13 wkts for match

1952 Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India

1952 Vinoo Mankad takes 13 Pakistan wkts to win 1st India-Pak clash

1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket

1947 Murray Webb, cricketer, New Zealand fast bowler in 3 Tests, 4 wkts at 117 75

1947 Bob Massie, cricketer, Australia swing bowler, 16 wkts on debut vs. England 1972

1947 Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30), dies

1945 Australia Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts

1945 England defeat Australia Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket

1941 Brian Yuile, cricketer, New Zealand slow left-armer took 34 wkts in 17 Tests

1939 Lester King, cricketer, WI fast bowler, 2 Tests 1962-68, 9 wkts

1936 Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test vs. South Africa

1934 Sydney Burke, cricketer, South Africa quick, 11 wkts on Test debut vs. New Zealand 1961

1932 Mahmood Hussain, Pakistani cricket swing bowler, 68 wkts in 27 Tests

1932 Jaswick Taylor, cricketer, WI pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 Tests

1931 Neil Adcock, cricketer, South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62

1930 John Alabaster, cricketer, New Zealand most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts

1929 Cuan McCarthy, cricketer, 36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball

1928 Khan Mohammad, cricketer, Pakistan fast-med bowler, 54 wkts in 13 Tests

1926 Frank King, cricketer, WI fast bowler in 14 Tests in 50's, 29 wkts

1893 J M Blankenberg, cricketer, 60 wkts in 18 Tests for South Africa

1884 Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies

1862 W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer, 7 wkts in 1 Test for South Africa 1889


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