1 JULY
Born on this day were:
Frank Lowson (1925-84), English batsman who played in seven Tests;
Chester Watson (1938), West Indian batsman whose seven Tests yielded only 12 runs; and
Graham Lloyd (1969), English ODI batsman.
In 1954, Khalid Hassan aged just 16 years 352 days, made his Test debut for Pakistan against England at Trent Bridge. At the time he was the youngest Test cricketer and since this was his last Test as well, his last day of Test cricket came at the tender age of 16 years 356 days.
Three 'greats' of the game died today: In 1965, the great Wally Hammond died in Natal, South Africa, aged 62. He made 7,249 runs for England at an average of 58.45. In 1971, Lord Learie Constantine, West Indian all-rounder and captain died in London, aged 69. In 2006, Fred Trueman died at the age of 75.
In 1977, Glenn Turner scored 141 for Worcestershire against Glamorgan at Swansea. His 141 out of a total of 169 was a world record 83 per cent of the innings total. Other contributions were 1,3,3,0,4,0,4,7,5 and 0 with 1 extra. He broke Vijay Hazare's record of 79.8 per cent in 1943-44.
In 1996, Hampshire's Kevin James became the only man to take four wickets in four balls and also score a century in a first-class match against India at Southampton. He took 5 for 74 and scored 103.
In 1999, Javagal Srinath married Jyotsna, and Anil Kumble, Chethana on the same day in Bangalore. They had made their first-class debut on the same day, for Karanataka against Hyderabad at Secunderabad in a Ranji Trophy match.
In 2000, England beat West Indies by two wickets at Lord's. Chasing 188, England were 160 for 8, but Dominic Cork, who already had match figures of 7 for 52, saw them through to victory.
2 JULY
Born on this day were:
Reginald Allen (1858-1952), Australian pace bowler who played in only one Test and who was the uncle of 'Gubby' Allen; and
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903-95), British prime minister (1963-64), who as Lord Douglas played first-class cricket for Middlesex and went on MCC's tour to South America in 1926-27 under Pelham Warner.
In 1951, Worcestershire wicket-keeper Hugo Yarnold dismissed seven Scotland batsmen at Dundee, stumping six of them. His six stumpings are still a first-class record.
Two double hundreds were also scored on this day: In 1954, Denis Compton scored 278 against Pakistan at Trent bridge – his highest Test innings. England won comfortably by an innings. In 1966, Basil Butcher made 209 not out in the second innings of the third Test against England also at Trent Bridge. It took West Indies to 483 for 5 declared, and eventually a 139-run victory.
In 1969, Ireland bowled out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry. Ireland's captain Dougie Goodwin took 5 for 6 and Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18. The West Indies were 12 for 9 at one point before a last-wicket stand of 13 got them to 25. Ireland made 125 for 8 and West Indies lost by nine wickets. Goodwin's match figures were an astonishing 14.5-9-7-7.
In 1981, Geoff Boycott made his 100th Test appearance against Australia at Lord's, becoming the second man after Colin Cowdrey to achieve this feat. When he reached his half century in the second innings he also equaled Cowdrey's record of 60 scores of 50 and more.
In 1994, Richard Johnson took 10 for 45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire at Derby. Middlesex won by an innings and 96 runs.
In 1998, the Old Trafford Test between England and South Africa was the first to introduce a speed gun at Test level.
In 2005, the NatWest Series final at Lord's between England and Australia ended in a thrilling tie.
In 2006, India beat West Indies in the fourth Test at Kingston to take series 1-0.
3 JULY
Born on this day were:
Joe Hardstaff Jr. (1911-90), Nottinghamshire middle-order batsman who played 23 Tests for England and averaged 46.74;
Sir Richard Hadlee (1951), New Zealand all-rounder who was the first bowler to take 400 Test wickets and also held the record for the most five-wickets hauls in Test cricket;
Ewen Chatfield (1950), New Zealand medium pacer who survived a horrific injury on his Test debut;
Wasim Raja (1952), Pakistani all-rounder who played for Pakistan in the 1970s and 1980s and is now an ICC match referee (He is the elder brother of Ramiz and both brothers have played 57 Tests each);
Henry Olonga (1976-), Zimbabwe pace bowler who was the first black to play Test cricket for Zimbabwe; and
Harbhajan Singh (1980-), Indian off-spinner who is the only Indian to take a hat-trick in Tests and whose 32 wickets against Australia in the 2000-01 series is an Indian record.
In 1776, the first printed score-cards were those for Hampshire against Kent at Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon which were advertised in a Kentish newspaper a few days before the match.
In 1936, a sparrow was killed while in flight by a ball bowled by Mohammad Jahangir Khan (Cambridge University) to T.N. Pearce (MCC). This sparrow was mounted on the ball which killed it and is displayed in the Lord's Museum.
In 1984, Gordan Greenidge scored 214 against England – the first West Indian double hundred at Lord's. West Indies won the match by nine wickets. On the same day Derek Underwood finally made his first, and only first-class hundred for Kent against Sussex at Hove, at the grand old cricketing age of 39.
England's pace bowler Dean Headley, whose father and grandfather had represented West Indies, provided the first instance of three generations of a family appearing in Test cricket, when he made his Test debut against Australia at Manchester in 1997.
4 JULY
Born on this day were:
Sir Alec Bedser (1918), one of England's greatest post-war bowlers (236 Test wickets at 24.89) who was later an England selector for a record 23 years;
Ghulam Ahmed (1922-98), one of India's premier spinners in the 1950s (22 Tests) and later secretary of the BCCI between 1975 and 1980;
Peter Richardson (1931), English left-handed opener who played in 34 Tests;
Cyril Mitchley (1938-), South African player who was Transvaal wicket-keeper and is now a Test umpire;
Jan Brittin (1959), English player whose 1,935 runs, made in 27 Tests for England between 1979 and 1996 are a Test record in women's cricket (as are her five hundreds); and
Craig Spearman (1972), New Zealand opener who has played 19 Tests.
In 1955, Baloo Palwankar died in Bombay, aged 80. Famous as the 'Rhodes of India', Baloo was a left-hand spinner whose heyday was between 1900 and 1920. He was an untouchable by caste but played for the Hindus in the Presidency as well as Quadrangular matches. He was 'discovered' by Col. J.G. 'Jungly' Grieg and once took all ten wickets in an innings while playing for BB&CI Railway against Poona Gymkhana. He was a member of the team that toured England under the Maharaja of Patiala which included players like Col. K.M. Mistry and Dr. H.D. Kanga. He had four brothers all of who played cricket.
In 1974, Sunil Gavaskar was out to the first ball of the third Test at Edgbaston against England. He was caught behind off the bowling of G.G. Arnold. He suffered this ignominy two more times to become the only batsman in the history of the game to be dismissed in such a manner three times.
In 1981, Clive Rice scored 105 not out for Nottinghamshire against Hampshire at Bournemouth. His team was dismissed for 143 and this is the lowest completed first-class innings in England to contain a century.
In 1984, Warwickshire thrashed Oxfordshire by 277 runs in a natWest Trophy match at Edgbaston. Alvin Kallicharran scored 206 – the first double hundred in a one-day match in England and then took 6 for 32 with his off-spinners.
In 1987, Imran Khan took his 300th Test wicket in the third Test against England at Headingley, becoming the first Pakistani to achieve this feat. He took ten wickets in the match which Pakistan won by an innings and 18 runs.
In 2006, Sri Lanka established a new world record for the highest total in an official one-day international, 443-9 against Holland at Amstelveen.
5 JULY
Born on this day were:
Jock Cameron (1905-35), South African wicket-keeper-batsman and captain who was only 30 when he died of enteric fever in Johannesburg in 1935;
Graham Anthony Richard 'Tony' Lock (1929), English left-arm spinner (49 Tests) who was Jim Laker's bowling partner for Surrey and England and generally remembered as the man who took the only wicket Jim Laker did not take in the Old Trafford Test in 1956; and
John Wright (1954), New Zealand batsman who scored 12 Test hundreds and was the first Kiwi to reach 5,000 Test runs and is also a former India coach.
In 1845 I Zingari, the oldest and most famous of the many wandering clubs was formed when W.P. bolland took a side to Harrow. The founders of the club were the Ponsonby brothers – Lord Bessborough and Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane together with J.L. Baldwin and R.P. Long. The name of the club is Italian for 'the gypsies' and the colours are black, red and gold signifying 'out of darkness, through fire, into light.' Membership can only be obtained on invitation, and the annual subscription do not exceed the entrance.' W.P. Bolland though dead for more than a hundred years is Perpetual President.
In 1957, at Trent Bridge, Tom Graveney scored 258 in the third Test against West Indies. England reached 619 for 6, but were denied victory by Frank Worrell who carried his bat for 191 in the first innings. Collie Smith scored a Test-best 168 in the second innings after West Indies followed on.
In 1973, Harold 'Dickie' Bird made his Test umpiring debut in the third Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley. He retired 23 years later having stood in what was at the time a record 66 Tests.
In 1986, India were dismissed for 390 in their first innings in the third Test at Edgbaston against England. England too had made an identical score in their first innings and this was only the fourth instance since 1877 that both sides were dismissed for identical first-innings scores. It was Sunil Gavaskar's 115th Test – a record at the time and the match in which he played his 200th innings and took his 100th catch.
In 1988, West Indies beat England by an innings at Old Trafford. England were bowled out for 135 and then 93, with Malcolm Marshall taking a career best 7 for 22 in the second innings. England started this final day on 60 for 3 but Marshall ended the innings in just over an hour.
In 2001, Channel 4 introduced Hawk-Eye as a TV tool for the first time in the Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Hawk-Eye uses six cameras placed around the ground to track the ball's speed, trajectory and direction. These 3D images are processed by a central computer, which predicts the exact point where the ball would have passed the stumps or hit them. The results were revealing: of the 20 lbw decisions in the series, eight were wrong.
6 JULY:
Born on this day were:
Andrew Sandham (1890-1982), Test cricket's first triple-centurion who played 14 Tests and 23 innings for England;
Anthony Robert 'Tony' Lewis (1937-), English batsman who was the last man to captain England on Test debut and who was later a BBC broadcaster and president of MCC; and
Makhaya Ntini (1977-), seam bowler who is the first black African to play for South Africa.
In 1934, English middle-order batsman Elias Henry 'Patsy' Hendern scored 132 in the third Test against Australia at Old Trafford aged 45 years 151 days – still the oldest after Jack Hobbs to score a Test hundred.
In 1974, David Lloyd made 214 not out, against India at Edgbaston. This was Lloyd's second Test and he was on the field for the whole match becoming the fifth player to achieve this feat. It was also his highest first-class score and England won losing only two wickets in the match.
In 1987, Pakistan crushed England by an innings and 18 runs in the third Test at Headingley, Leeds. The inspiration came from Imran Khan, who took 3 for 37 and 7 for 40 and in the process became the first Pakistani to take 300 Test wickets.
In 1993, English left-hander Graham Thorpe scored an unbeaten 114 on Test debut against Australia at Nottingham – he became the 14th Englishman and the only left-hander to do so.
In 1997, Steve Waugh completed his second hundred (116) of the match in the third Test against England at Old Trafford. He had scored 108 in the first innings. It was Steve Waugh's 14th Test century and the first instance of twin centuries in a Test by an Australian since DM Jones (against Pakistan, Adelaide 1989-90), and the first instance in an Ashes Test since AR Morris and DCS Compton (in Adelaide, 1946-47). This was the 45th instance of twin centuries in all Test matches. Australia won the match by 268 runs.
In 1999, Indian Test batsman M.L. Jaisimha who played in 39 Tests (1959-71) at an average of 30.68 died, aged 60. He became the first batsman in Test history to bat on all five days of a Test against Australia at Calcutta in 1959-60. A prolific scorer in domestic cricket, he was later a writer and national Test selector.
In 2008 Ajantha Mendis bamboozled India to finish with astonishing figures of 6 for 13 and help Sri Lanka win the Asia Cup final in Karachi by 100 runs.
7 JULY
Born on this day were:
George Hearne (1856-1932), English all-rounder who was the oldest of the three Test-playing Hearne brothers (Frank and Alec were the others), and cousin of the famous J.T. Hearne; and
Vincent Tancred (1875-1904), South African batsman who played one Test in 1898.
In 1868, Surrey's wicket-keeper Edward Pooley claimed a record 12 dismissals (eight caught, four stumped) against Sussex at The Oval. This record was equaled in 1938-39 by Donald Tallon, and by HB Taber in 1968-69. It was subsequently beaten by Wayne James who got 13 dismissals for Matabeleland against Mashonaland CD at Bulawayo in 1995-96.
In 1958, Arthur Milton scored an unbeaten 104 on Test debut for England against New Zealand at Leeds. He became the second Gloucestershire player to score a hundred on debut after WG Grace in 1880.
In 1993, the ICC ceased to be administered by MCC and became an independent organisation with its own CEO, the headquarter remaining at Lord's. The category of Foundation Member with its special rights was abolished. Sir Clyde Walcott was elected the first non-British chairman of ICC and he started his term on 1 October 1993.
In 1998, India's Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar set a new ODI opening partnership world record of 252 runs against Sri Lanka in the final of the Independence Cup in Colombo. Tendulkar's century in this match (128) was the 400th century in ODIs. India beat Sri Lanka by six runs. (He also scored the 300th century in ODIs when he scored 100 runs against Pakistan at Singapore on 5 April 1996.)
In 2005, full replacements ("supersubs") were used in a one-day international for the first time: England v Australia at Leeds.
Born on this day were:
Frank Lowson (1925-84), English batsman who played in seven Tests;
Chester Watson (1938), West Indian batsman whose seven Tests yielded only 12 runs; and
Graham Lloyd (1969), English ODI batsman.
In 1954, Khalid Hassan aged just 16 years 352 days, made his Test debut for Pakistan against England at Trent Bridge. At the time he was the youngest Test cricketer and since this was his last Test as well, his last day of Test cricket came at the tender age of 16 years 356 days.
Three 'greats' of the game died today: In 1965, the great Wally Hammond died in Natal, South Africa, aged 62. He made 7,249 runs for England at an average of 58.45. In 1971, Lord Learie Constantine, West Indian all-rounder and captain died in London, aged 69. In 2006, Fred Trueman died at the age of 75.
In 1977, Glenn Turner scored 141 for Worcestershire against Glamorgan at Swansea. His 141 out of a total of 169 was a world record 83 per cent of the innings total. Other contributions were 1,3,3,0,4,0,4,7,5 and 0 with 1 extra. He broke Vijay Hazare's record of 79.8 per cent in 1943-44.
In 1996, Hampshire's Kevin James became the only man to take four wickets in four balls and also score a century in a first-class match against India at Southampton. He took 5 for 74 and scored 103.
In 1999, Javagal Srinath married Jyotsna, and Anil Kumble, Chethana on the same day in Bangalore. They had made their first-class debut on the same day, for Karanataka against Hyderabad at Secunderabad in a Ranji Trophy match.
In 2000, England beat West Indies by two wickets at Lord's. Chasing 188, England were 160 for 8, but Dominic Cork, who already had match figures of 7 for 52, saw them through to victory.
2 JULY
Born on this day were:
Reginald Allen (1858-1952), Australian pace bowler who played in only one Test and who was the uncle of 'Gubby' Allen; and
Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903-95), British prime minister (1963-64), who as Lord Douglas played first-class cricket for Middlesex and went on MCC's tour to South America in 1926-27 under Pelham Warner.
In 1951, Worcestershire wicket-keeper Hugo Yarnold dismissed seven Scotland batsmen at Dundee, stumping six of them. His six stumpings are still a first-class record.
Two double hundreds were also scored on this day: In 1954, Denis Compton scored 278 against Pakistan at Trent bridge – his highest Test innings. England won comfortably by an innings. In 1966, Basil Butcher made 209 not out in the second innings of the third Test against England also at Trent Bridge. It took West Indies to 483 for 5 declared, and eventually a 139-run victory.
In 1969, Ireland bowled out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry. Ireland's captain Dougie Goodwin took 5 for 6 and Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18. The West Indies were 12 for 9 at one point before a last-wicket stand of 13 got them to 25. Ireland made 125 for 8 and West Indies lost by nine wickets. Goodwin's match figures were an astonishing 14.5-9-7-7.
In 1981, Geoff Boycott made his 100th Test appearance against Australia at Lord's, becoming the second man after Colin Cowdrey to achieve this feat. When he reached his half century in the second innings he also equaled Cowdrey's record of 60 scores of 50 and more.
In 1994, Richard Johnson took 10 for 45 for Middlesex against Derbyshire at Derby. Middlesex won by an innings and 96 runs.
In 1998, the Old Trafford Test between England and South Africa was the first to introduce a speed gun at Test level.
In 2005, the NatWest Series final at Lord's between England and Australia ended in a thrilling tie.
In 2006, India beat West Indies in the fourth Test at Kingston to take series 1-0.
3 JULY
Born on this day were:
Joe Hardstaff Jr. (1911-90), Nottinghamshire middle-order batsman who played 23 Tests for England and averaged 46.74;
Sir Richard Hadlee (1951), New Zealand all-rounder who was the first bowler to take 400 Test wickets and also held the record for the most five-wickets hauls in Test cricket;
Ewen Chatfield (1950), New Zealand medium pacer who survived a horrific injury on his Test debut;
Wasim Raja (1952), Pakistani all-rounder who played for Pakistan in the 1970s and 1980s and is now an ICC match referee (He is the elder brother of Ramiz and both brothers have played 57 Tests each);
Henry Olonga (1976-), Zimbabwe pace bowler who was the first black to play Test cricket for Zimbabwe; and
Harbhajan Singh (1980-), Indian off-spinner who is the only Indian to take a hat-trick in Tests and whose 32 wickets against Australia in the 2000-01 series is an Indian record.
In 1776, the first printed score-cards were those for Hampshire against Kent at Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon which were advertised in a Kentish newspaper a few days before the match.
In 1936, a sparrow was killed while in flight by a ball bowled by Mohammad Jahangir Khan (Cambridge University) to T.N. Pearce (MCC). This sparrow was mounted on the ball which killed it and is displayed in the Lord's Museum.
In 1984, Gordan Greenidge scored 214 against England – the first West Indian double hundred at Lord's. West Indies won the match by nine wickets. On the same day Derek Underwood finally made his first, and only first-class hundred for Kent against Sussex at Hove, at the grand old cricketing age of 39.
England's pace bowler Dean Headley, whose father and grandfather had represented West Indies, provided the first instance of three generations of a family appearing in Test cricket, when he made his Test debut against Australia at Manchester in 1997.
4 JULY
Born on this day were:
Sir Alec Bedser (1918), one of England's greatest post-war bowlers (236 Test wickets at 24.89) who was later an England selector for a record 23 years;
Ghulam Ahmed (1922-98), one of India's premier spinners in the 1950s (22 Tests) and later secretary of the BCCI between 1975 and 1980;
Peter Richardson (1931), English left-handed opener who played in 34 Tests;
Cyril Mitchley (1938-), South African player who was Transvaal wicket-keeper and is now a Test umpire;
Jan Brittin (1959), English player whose 1,935 runs, made in 27 Tests for England between 1979 and 1996 are a Test record in women's cricket (as are her five hundreds); and
Craig Spearman (1972), New Zealand opener who has played 19 Tests.
In 1955, Baloo Palwankar died in Bombay, aged 80. Famous as the 'Rhodes of India', Baloo was a left-hand spinner whose heyday was between 1900 and 1920. He was an untouchable by caste but played for the Hindus in the Presidency as well as Quadrangular matches. He was 'discovered' by Col. J.G. 'Jungly' Grieg and once took all ten wickets in an innings while playing for BB&CI Railway against Poona Gymkhana. He was a member of the team that toured England under the Maharaja of Patiala which included players like Col. K.M. Mistry and Dr. H.D. Kanga. He had four brothers all of who played cricket.
In 1974, Sunil Gavaskar was out to the first ball of the third Test at Edgbaston against England. He was caught behind off the bowling of G.G. Arnold. He suffered this ignominy two more times to become the only batsman in the history of the game to be dismissed in such a manner three times.
In 1981, Clive Rice scored 105 not out for Nottinghamshire against Hampshire at Bournemouth. His team was dismissed for 143 and this is the lowest completed first-class innings in England to contain a century.
In 1984, Warwickshire thrashed Oxfordshire by 277 runs in a natWest Trophy match at Edgbaston. Alvin Kallicharran scored 206 – the first double hundred in a one-day match in England and then took 6 for 32 with his off-spinners.
In 1987, Imran Khan took his 300th Test wicket in the third Test against England at Headingley, becoming the first Pakistani to achieve this feat. He took ten wickets in the match which Pakistan won by an innings and 18 runs.
In 2006, Sri Lanka established a new world record for the highest total in an official one-day international, 443-9 against Holland at Amstelveen.
5 JULY
Born on this day were:
Jock Cameron (1905-35), South African wicket-keeper-batsman and captain who was only 30 when he died of enteric fever in Johannesburg in 1935;
Graham Anthony Richard 'Tony' Lock (1929), English left-arm spinner (49 Tests) who was Jim Laker's bowling partner for Surrey and England and generally remembered as the man who took the only wicket Jim Laker did not take in the Old Trafford Test in 1956; and
John Wright (1954), New Zealand batsman who scored 12 Test hundreds and was the first Kiwi to reach 5,000 Test runs and is also a former India coach.
In 1845 I Zingari, the oldest and most famous of the many wandering clubs was formed when W.P. bolland took a side to Harrow. The founders of the club were the Ponsonby brothers – Lord Bessborough and Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane together with J.L. Baldwin and R.P. Long. The name of the club is Italian for 'the gypsies' and the colours are black, red and gold signifying 'out of darkness, through fire, into light.' Membership can only be obtained on invitation, and the annual subscription do not exceed the entrance.' W.P. Bolland though dead for more than a hundred years is Perpetual President.
In 1957, at Trent Bridge, Tom Graveney scored 258 in the third Test against West Indies. England reached 619 for 6, but were denied victory by Frank Worrell who carried his bat for 191 in the first innings. Collie Smith scored a Test-best 168 in the second innings after West Indies followed on.
In 1973, Harold 'Dickie' Bird made his Test umpiring debut in the third Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley. He retired 23 years later having stood in what was at the time a record 66 Tests.
In 1986, India were dismissed for 390 in their first innings in the third Test at Edgbaston against England. England too had made an identical score in their first innings and this was only the fourth instance since 1877 that both sides were dismissed for identical first-innings scores. It was Sunil Gavaskar's 115th Test – a record at the time and the match in which he played his 200th innings and took his 100th catch.
In 1988, West Indies beat England by an innings at Old Trafford. England were bowled out for 135 and then 93, with Malcolm Marshall taking a career best 7 for 22 in the second innings. England started this final day on 60 for 3 but Marshall ended the innings in just over an hour.
In 2001, Channel 4 introduced Hawk-Eye as a TV tool for the first time in the Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Hawk-Eye uses six cameras placed around the ground to track the ball's speed, trajectory and direction. These 3D images are processed by a central computer, which predicts the exact point where the ball would have passed the stumps or hit them. The results were revealing: of the 20 lbw decisions in the series, eight were wrong.
6 JULY:
Born on this day were:
Andrew Sandham (1890-1982), Test cricket's first triple-centurion who played 14 Tests and 23 innings for England;
Anthony Robert 'Tony' Lewis (1937-), English batsman who was the last man to captain England on Test debut and who was later a BBC broadcaster and president of MCC; and
Makhaya Ntini (1977-), seam bowler who is the first black African to play for South Africa.
In 1934, English middle-order batsman Elias Henry 'Patsy' Hendern scored 132 in the third Test against Australia at Old Trafford aged 45 years 151 days – still the oldest after Jack Hobbs to score a Test hundred.
In 1974, David Lloyd made 214 not out, against India at Edgbaston. This was Lloyd's second Test and he was on the field for the whole match becoming the fifth player to achieve this feat. It was also his highest first-class score and England won losing only two wickets in the match.
In 1987, Pakistan crushed England by an innings and 18 runs in the third Test at Headingley, Leeds. The inspiration came from Imran Khan, who took 3 for 37 and 7 for 40 and in the process became the first Pakistani to take 300 Test wickets.
In 1993, English left-hander Graham Thorpe scored an unbeaten 114 on Test debut against Australia at Nottingham – he became the 14th Englishman and the only left-hander to do so.
In 1997, Steve Waugh completed his second hundred (116) of the match in the third Test against England at Old Trafford. He had scored 108 in the first innings. It was Steve Waugh's 14th Test century and the first instance of twin centuries in a Test by an Australian since DM Jones (against Pakistan, Adelaide 1989-90), and the first instance in an Ashes Test since AR Morris and DCS Compton (in Adelaide, 1946-47). This was the 45th instance of twin centuries in all Test matches. Australia won the match by 268 runs.
In 1999, Indian Test batsman M.L. Jaisimha who played in 39 Tests (1959-71) at an average of 30.68 died, aged 60. He became the first batsman in Test history to bat on all five days of a Test against Australia at Calcutta in 1959-60. A prolific scorer in domestic cricket, he was later a writer and national Test selector.
In 2008 Ajantha Mendis bamboozled India to finish with astonishing figures of 6 for 13 and help Sri Lanka win the Asia Cup final in Karachi by 100 runs.
7 JULY
Born on this day were:
George Hearne (1856-1932), English all-rounder who was the oldest of the three Test-playing Hearne brothers (Frank and Alec were the others), and cousin of the famous J.T. Hearne; and
Vincent Tancred (1875-1904), South African batsman who played one Test in 1898.
In 1868, Surrey's wicket-keeper Edward Pooley claimed a record 12 dismissals (eight caught, four stumped) against Sussex at The Oval. This record was equaled in 1938-39 by Donald Tallon, and by HB Taber in 1968-69. It was subsequently beaten by Wayne James who got 13 dismissals for Matabeleland against Mashonaland CD at Bulawayo in 1995-96.
In 1958, Arthur Milton scored an unbeaten 104 on Test debut for England against New Zealand at Leeds. He became the second Gloucestershire player to score a hundred on debut after WG Grace in 1880.
In 1993, the ICC ceased to be administered by MCC and became an independent organisation with its own CEO, the headquarter remaining at Lord's. The category of Foundation Member with its special rights was abolished. Sir Clyde Walcott was elected the first non-British chairman of ICC and he started his term on 1 October 1993.
In 1998, India's Sourav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar set a new ODI opening partnership world record of 252 runs against Sri Lanka in the final of the Independence Cup in Colombo. Tendulkar's century in this match (128) was the 400th century in ODIs. India beat Sri Lanka by six runs. (He also scored the 300th century in ODIs when he scored 100 runs against Pakistan at Singapore on 5 April 1996.)
In 2005, full replacements ("supersubs") were used in a one-day international for the first time: England v Australia at Leeds.
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