1853:
Australian pace bowler Frederick Spofforth (18 Tests from 1877 to 1887; 94 wickets) was born.
1875:
Australian medium pacer Jack O'Connor (4 Tests from 1908 to 1909) was born.
1894:
Australian keeper-batsman Bert Oldfield (54 Tests from 1920 to 1937; 1427 runs and 78 catches & a record 52 stumpings) was born.
1941:
Indian all-rounder Syed Abid Ali (29 Tests from 1967 to 1974; 1018 runs and 47 wickets) was born.
1958:
Australian all-rounder Charlie Macartney (35 Tests from 1907 to 1926; 2131 runs and 45 wickets) died aged 72.
1959:
West Indian all-rounder OG "Collie" Smith (26 Tests from 1955 to 1959; 1331 runs and 48 wickets) died in a road accident in England, aged 26.
1963:
England's left-handed batsman Neil Fairbrother (10 Tests from 1987 to 1993) was born.
1969:
South African medium pacer Cecil "Dickie" Dixon (1 Test in 1914) died aged 78.
1981:
India's left-handed all-rounder Phiroz "PE" Palia (2 Tests from 1932 to 1936) died aged 71.
1994:
Playing in his 79th one-day match Sachin Tendulkar scored his first hundred (110) of his one-day international career, against Australia at the Khettarama Stadium at Colombo.
1872:
England batsman Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji or "Ranji" (15 Tests from 1896 to 1902; 989 runs) was born in India.
1924:
England paceman Walter Lees (5 Tests in 1906; 26 wickets) died aged 48.
1930:
South African all-rounder Major George Faulkner (25 Tests from 1906 to 1924; 1754 runs and 82 wickets) died (suicide) at London, aged 48.
1962:
Zimbabwe pace bowler Charlie Lock (1 Test in 1995) was born.
1966:
England all-rounder Jim Langridge (8 Tests from 1933 to 1946) died aged 60.
1968:
England batsman Wilf Barber (2 Tests in 1935) died aged 67.
1972:
South African leg-spinner Sid Pegler (16 Tests from 1910 to 1924; 47 wickets) died aged 84.
1974:
Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Akram from 1995 was born.
1979:
Sri Lankan Test keeper-batsman Prasanna Jayawardene in 2000 was born.
1989:
West Indies captain and batsman Jeff Stollmeyer (32 Tests from 1939 to 1955; 2159 runs), died at Florida, USA aged 68. He was shot in the head by armed robbers at home in Trinidad.
1992:
Arjuna Ranatunga (48) became the first Sri Lankan batsman to aggregate 2000 runs in Tests, against Australia at Moratuwa.
1993:
South Africa beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 208 runs at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground to record its first Test overseas in 28 years!
1999:
Fielding at backward and deep square leg respectively, Steve Waugh (nose) and Jason Gillespie (right tibia) sustained fractures as in a horrific collision on the second day of the Test between Australia and Sri Lanka at Kandy. They had to be airlifted by helicopter to Colombo. Shane Warne as captain.
1849:
Australian leg-break bowler William Cooper (2 Tests from 1881 to 1884) was born.
1874:
South African right hand batsman Charles Prince (1 Test in 1899) was born.
1907:
West Indian all-rounder Oscar Da Costa (5 Tests from 1930 to 1935) was born.
1911:
Indian captain and all-rounder Lala Amarnath (24 Tests from 1933 to 1952; 878 runs and 45 wickets) was born.
1912:
West Indian keeper-batsman Derek Sealy (11 Tests from 1930 to 1939; 478 runs) was born.
1948:
South African batsman Bertie Powell (1 Test in 1899) died aged 75.
1950:
Indian batsman Sorabji Colah (2 Tests from 1932 to 1933) died aged 47.
1976:
Indian Test left arm spinner Murali Kartik in 2000 was born.
1983:
India's Mohinder Amarnath won the third successive man-of-the-match award against Pakistan at Hyderabad. He had earlier won consecutive awards in the semi-final and final of the 1983 Prudential World Cup.
1985:
Sri Lankan keeper Amal Silva became the first to score a hundred (111) and take nine dismissals in the same match - against India at Colombo.
1985:
Sri Lanka gained its first ever Test win by 149 runs at P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo against India.
1999:
Sri Lanka beat Australia by six wickets at Kandy in Sanath Jayasuriya's first Test as captain.
1913:
Indian born South African batsman Bob Stewart (1 Test in 1889) died aged 57.
1917:
South African fast bowler Bill Lundie (1 Test in 1914) died in Belgium during World War I, aged 29.
1924:
South African all-rounder 'Fish' Markham (1 Test in 1949) was born.
1932:
Pakistani batsman Waqar Hassan (21 Tests from 1952 to 1959; 1071 runs) was born at Amritsar, India.
1937:
West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall (48 Tests from 1958 to 1969; 192 wickets) was born.
1948:
Australian paceman Max Walker (34 Tests from 1972 to 1977; 138 wickets) was born.
1953:
South African all-rounder Frederick Kuys (1 Test in 1899) died aged 83.
1963:
West Indian all-rounder Ben Sealy (1 Test in 1933) died aged 64.
1968:
South African pace bowler Richard Snell (5 Tests from 1992 to 1994) was born.
1979:
England's left-handed batsman Denis Smith (2 Tests in 1935) died aged 72.
1979:
Indian left arm spinner Dilip Doshi on debut takes six wickets for 103 runs in 43 overs in his very first Test innings, against Australia at Madras.
1992:
Australian Mark Waugh bagged his second successive "pair" at Moratuwa against Sri Lanka to become the first specialist batsman in Test history to do so.
1864:
England all-rounder Robert Cuttell (2 Tests in 1899) was born.
1876:
South African batsman Percy Twentyman-Jones (1 Test in 1902) was born.
1902:
England batsman Arthur Mitchell (6 Tests from 1933 to 1936) was born.
1963:
England batsman Robin Smith (62 Tests from 1988 to 1996; 4236 runs) was born in Durban.
1968:
Sri Lankan all-rounder Chandika Hathurusinghe (26 Tests from 1991 to 1999; 1274 runs and 17 wickets) was born.
1969:
Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne from 1992 was born.
1976:
New Zealand batsman Craig McMillan from 1997 was born.
1977:
English batsman (5 Tests from 1936 to 1939) and later Test umpire (in 18 Tests) Arthur Fagg died aged 62.
1868:
South African all-rounder Arthur Seccull (1 Test in 1896) was born.
1884:
Aussie right-hander Dave Smith (2 Tests in 1912) was born.
1895:
England leg-spinner Charles "Father" Marriott (1 Test in 1933; 11 wickets) was born.
1905:
South African captain and batsman Herby Wade (10 Tests from 1935 to 1936) was born.
1911:
South African batsman Robert Harvey (2 Tests in 1936) was born.
1916:
Australian medium pacer Geff Noblet (3 Tests from 1950 to 1953) was born.
1919:
Australian keeper-batsman Gil Langley (26 Tests from 1951 to 1956; 98 dismissals) was born
1919:
Indian left arm medium pace Nyalchand Shah (1 Test in 1952) was born.
1956:
England pace bowler and now television commentator Paul Allott (13 Tests from 1981 to 1985) was born.
1957:
Left handed batsman for Australia (24 Tests from 1982 to 1985; 1761 runs) and captain for South African (16 Tests 1992 to 1994; 1027 runs) Kepler Wessels was born.
1958:
New Zealand captain and batsman Jeff Crowe (39 Tests from 1983 to 1990; 1601 runs) was born.
1959:
New Zealand's pace bowler Brendon Bracewell (6 Tests from 1978 to 1985) was born.
1959:
Sri Lankan pace bowler Saliya Ahangama (3 Tests in 1985) was born.
1963:
Indian all-rounder Robin Singh Sr (1 Test in 1998) was born in Trinidad, West Indies.
1965:
England all-rounder JW 'Jack" Hearne (24 Tests from 1911 to 1926; 806 runs and 30 wickets) died aged 74.
1966:
Pakistani left-handed batsman Aamer Sohail (47 Tests from 1992 to 2000; 2823 runs) was born.
1971:
England pace bowler Bill Copson (3 Tests from 1939 to 1947) died aged 63.
1983:
The Bangalore Test match was the first in which no-balls and wides were debited to bowlers' analyses.
1989:
New Zealand batsman Edwin McLeod (1 Test in 1930) died aged 88.
1992:
Indian pace bowler "Mantu" Banerjee (1 Test in 1948) died aged 73.
1999:
India beat West Indies at Toronto to win the DMC Cup 2-1.
1903:
Indian batsman Syed Wazir Ali (7 Tests from 1932 to 1936) was born.
1904:
Australian off-spinning all-rounder Phil Lee (2 Tests from 1931 to 1933) was born.
1937:
West Indian batsman Joey Carew (19 Tests from 1963 to 1972; 1127 runs) was born.
1942:
Australian left-arm spinner Joe Travers (1 Test in 1902) died aged 71.
1946:
South African all-rounder and coach Mike Procter (7 Tests from 1967 to 1970; 226 runs and 41 wickets) was born.
1955:
Pakistani leg-spinner Abdul Qadir (67 Tests from 1977 to 1990; 1029 runs and 236 wickets) was born.
1956:
Australian John Maguire (3 Tests from 1983 to 1984) was born.
1961:
West Indian fast bowler Patrick Patterson (28 Tests from 1986 to 1992; 93 wickets) was born.
1964:
England paceman Steve Watkin (3 Tests from 1991 to 1993) was born.
1964:
South African batsman Robert Dower (1 Test in 1899) died aged 88.
1971:
New Zealand all-rounder Nathan Astle from 1996 was born.
1982:
Roy Dias scores 102 against India at Delhi to record Sri Lanka's first ODI hundred.
1984:
England batsman Jack Ikin (18 Tests from 1946 to 1955) died aged 66.
1989:
New Zealand captain and pace bowler Harry Cave (19 Tests from 1949 to 1958) died aged 66.
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