Today In Cricket (extracts)

TODAY IN CRICKET Events on this day in cricket history: 2010 Edition

RICK EYRE

Rick Eyre Media 2009

Table of Contents Thanks to Sergeant Bilko and President Arthur..................5 History yesterday, today and tomorrow..............................8 Making the most out of this book.......................................11 January 2010.....................................................................14 February 2010...................................................................31 March 2010.......................................................................47 April 2010.........................................................................65 May 2010...........................................................................81 June 2010..........................................................................97 July 2010..........................................................................114 August 2010.....................................................................132 September 2010..............................................................148 October 2010...................................................................163 November 2010...............................................................180 December 2010................................................................195 Thanks (to real people)....................................................214 Feedback..........................................................................216

Making the most out of this book.

They say that newspapers and magazines are under threat from the internet, but I believe that books will be here forever. That is why, after seventeen years of publishing on the 'net and similar media, I have decided to bring a collection of my material to the printed page. Even if I am utilising a self-publishing print-on-demand website to create this first edition of "Today In Cricket"!

The formula for the main body of this book is fairly simple.

Since 1992 I have assembled data about major events in the history of the sport of cricket, including birth and death dates of prominent players, particularly Test and one-day international cricketers. I have used the limitations of 1990's online text presentation to give my own concise online summary of each person or event.

Sometimes

quirky, occasionally witty, sometimes dry. A bit like the game itself.

There may be other compilations of daily ephemera about cricket, but with "Today In Cricket" I

give you my

personal, and I must say, Australianised, interpretation of events. I bring four decades of experience as a follower of

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the game, including one intense period from 1998 to 2001 when I scrutinised the world's cricketing news every day in producing Cricinfo's email newsletter service.

There are close to six thousand entries in the book. Most of the events commemorated relate to landmark events on the playing field rather than off it. There are exceptions where an off-field event of note (for example, Hansie Cronje's sensational resignation as South African captain in 2000) can be identified with a particular date. Dates of birth and death for all Test players are noted. Many oneday international players without Test experience are also included, as are a number of women who have played at Test or World Cup level.

There has to be a cut-off date for the publication of any book. The newest event in the 2010 edition of "Today In Cricket" is the Champions League Twenty20 final on October 23, 2009. (The oldest event, incidentally, is Kent's victory over England in the first game of "first-class" cricket on June 18, 1744.)

"Today In Cricket" should not be treated as an encyclopaedia, nor as a text book of cricketing history. It is something that I hope you will come back to throughout Page 12 - Making the most out of this book.

the year for amusement, pleasure, and perhaps discussion.

If you do happen to read it from cover to cover I'll be thrilled, but don't worry I won't be asking questions later!

I hope you enjoy reading "Today In Cricket" as much as I have enjoyed the many years in bringing it to print reality.

Rick Eyre Sydney 24 October 2009

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Today In Cricket History: 1 June People born on this day: 1919: Owen Wynne, batted in six Tests for South Africa 1948-50 1930: Matt Poore, NZ batsman in fourteen Tests 1953-56 average 15.43 1932: Francis Cameron, NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65 1933: Ian Sinclair, two Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00 1943: Ian King, noted Aboriginal fast bowler for Queensland 1949: Margaret Jennings, Australian women's captain and wicketkeeper in the seventies 1963: Jenny Owens, Australian women's slow bowler 1982-87 1964: Rashid Patel, Indian pace bowler, one Test and one ODI 1988-89 1973: Shafiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh pace bowler 1997-2000 1976: Shahriar Hossain, Bangladesh Test opening batsman 1979: Bindeshwari Goel, off-spinner in womens Tests for India 2002 1985: Dinesh Karthik, Indian keeper-batsman since 2004 People died on this day: 1922: Frank Walters, one Test for Australia 1885, scored 7 and 5 2002: Hansie Cronje, plane crash. South African batsman in 68 Tests and 188 ODIs Events on this day: 1899: Test debut of Wilfred Rhodes & Victor Trumper in Grace's last 1978: Test debut of David Gower, v Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58 1985: Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 v Warwicks 2008: Rajasthan defeats Chennai to win inaugural T20 Indian Premier League final

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Today In Cricket History: 2 June People born on this day: 1865: George Lohmann, maybe England's greatest 19th century bowler 1908: Gordon Weir, NZ batsman in eleven Tests 1930-37 1917: Peggy Antonio, outstanding leg-spinner for Australia in womens Tests 1934-37 1929: June Bragger, bowled in five women's Tests for England against Aus and NZ 1963-66 1948: Trevor Jesty, England ODI all-rounder 1983 later umpire 1955: Gerald Peckover, 1983 World Cup for Zimbabwe 1965: Steve Waugh, brother of Mark. Mighty batsman for Australia 1965: Mark Waugh, brother of Steve. Mighty batsman for Australia 1967: Alan Rutherford, Ireland wk, Northern Ireland flagbearer 1998 Commonwealth Games 1967: Clare O'Leary, Test opening batsman for Irish women, 2000 1971: Martin Suji, Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup 1973: Jayantha Silva, Sri Lankan Test left-arm spinner 1995-98 1987: Angelo Mathews, Sri Lankan Test batsman 2009 People died on this day: 1929: Charles Coventry, 13 runs in 2 Tests England v S.Africa 1889 1974: Waldemar Frederick Eric Marx, 3 Tests S.Africa v Aust 1921-22 1989: Ted a'Beckett, four Tests for Australia 1928-32 2000: Martin Hanley, South African off-spinner in one Test 1949

Today In Cricket History: 3 June People born on this day: 1906: Norman Gallichan, all-rounder in one Test NZ v England 1937 1906: Walter Robins, dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder 1928: John Reid, prolific New Zealand batsman 1949-65 1930: Michael Melle, South African pace bowler of early 1950's 1940: Richard Edwards, WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour 1951: David Ogilvie, 5 Tests for Australia 1977-78 1956: Surinder Khanna, Indian ODI wicketkeeper 1979-84 1960: Carl Rackemann, Australian fast-bowler 1982-91 1961: Kevin Arnott, Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992 1965: Helen Plimmer, England women's batter 1989-97 1966: Wasim Akram, brilliant Pakistani left-arm fast bowler 1972: Robert Kennedy, New Zealand opening bowler 1996 1977: Hasibul Hussain, Bangladesh Test pace bowler 1979: Neil Ferreira, Zimbabwean batsman in one Test 2005 People died on this day: 1904: Vincent Tancred, brother of Bernard and Louis. One Test for South Africa 1981: Eric Dalton, 698 runs for South Africa at 31.72 Page 98 - Today In Cricket History: 3 June

1994: Jack Cowie, 9 Tests for New Zealand, 45 wkts at 21.53 1997: John Holt, seventeen Tests for West Indies 1954-59 Events on this day: 1899: W.G.Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 yrs 320 days 1971: Test debut of Imran Khan, v England at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19) 2000: Last international for Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajit Jadeja (v Pak, Dhaka)

Today In Cricket History: 4 June People born on this day: 1876: Robert Dower, one Test S.Africa v England 1898, scored 0 and 9 1887: Nelson Betancourt, one Test for WI against England 1930 1910: George Carew, Barbados batsman, four Tests for WI 1935-49 1915: Walter Hadlee, father of Richard and Dayle, NZ batsman late 40's 1950: Brian Rose, England batsman in 9 Tests 1977-81 1958: Tony Pigott, England pace bowler in one Test v NZ 1984 1959: Russell Tiffin, Zimbabwean umpire on international panel 1975: Dinanath Ramnarine, Trinidad and Tobago leg-spinner, WI 1998People died on this day: 1926: Fred Spofforth. 18 Tests, 94 wkts @ 18.41. Best match 14-90 1937: Donald Eligon, Trinidad, due to a nail in his cricket boot 1950: Sam Staples, England pace bowler in 3 Tests 1927-28 1979: Edward Dawson, England batsman in 5 Tests 1927-30 Events on this day: 1957: May and Cowdrey make 411 stand v WI. Ramadhin bowls 98 overs 1964: Test debut of Geoff Boycott v Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 1971: Zaheer Abbas scores 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours 1979: Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons 1993: The ball from hell. Gatting, b Warne 4, at Old Trafford.

Today In Cricket History: 5 June People born on this day: 1884: Claude Jennings, six Tests for Australia on disastrous 1912 England tour 1906: Jack Robertson, South African slow bowler in Tests against Australia 1935-36 1912: Eric Hollies, England leggie, bowled Bradman in his last innings 1916: Sid Barnes, Australian batsmen of the thirties and forties 1921: Lancelot Pierre, one Test WI v England 1948, 0-28 1936: M.A.("Kelly") Seymour, S.African off-spinner in 7 Tests 1963-70 1940: H.R.("Tiger") Lance, S.African batting all-rounder 1961-67 1945: Ambar Roy, nephew of Pankaj. Batted in four Tests 1969-70 Today In Cricket History: 5 June - Page 99

1974: Mervyn Dillon, West Indian fast bowler 19971979: Fraser Watts, Scottish ODI opening batsman 2006People died on this day: 1932: Henry Taberer, bowled Trumper for his only Test wkt for S.Africa 1981: Alec Bedser, no relation, died in car accident. Border batsman 1971-72 Events on this day: 1952: Test debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley 2009: Netherlands defeats England in opening match of ICC World Twenty20

Today In Cricket History: 6 June People born on this day: 1890: Ted Bowley, England batsman 1929-30 1909: M.J.Gopalan, one Test India v England 1933-34 1917: Prior Jones, WI pace bowler in nine Tests 1948-52 1930: Frank Tyson, the "Typhoon". England pace destroyer mid-fifties 1943: Asif Iqbal, elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80 1956: Andy Pycroft, Zimbabwe Test batsman 1957: Mike Gatting, England batsman 1977-95 and captain 1959: Tahir Naqqash, Pakistani pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1982-85 1967: Wasim Haider, member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad 1968: Karen Young, Irish Women's Test opening batsman 2000 1969: Sunil Joshi, Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996-99 1972: Dulip Liyanage, Sri Lanka right-arm fast-medium Test bowler 1973: Ashfaq Ahmed, Pakistan pace bowler 1993-94 1980: Dewald Nel, Transvaal-born Scottish ODI quick 2006People died on this day: 1888: Henry Charlwood, 63 runs in England's first two Tests 1877 1947: Norman Reid, one Test S.Africa v Aust 1921-22, 11 and 6, 2-63 1951: Lionel Hallam, the 3rd Lord Tennyson, England captain 1921 1984: Bill Voce, key player of the Bodyline series 1988: Joe Partridge, South African pace bowler 1963-65 Events on this day: 1991: Test debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley 1994: Brian Lara scores 501 not out for Warwickshire vs Durham 1994: Warwickshire score 4 for 810 declared against Durham 2007: First of three one-dayers between Asian XI and African XI, classified as official ODIs.

Today In Cricket History: 7 June People born on this day:

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1846: Charles Absolom, batted in one Test for England 1879 1875: George Simpson-Hayward, England batsman and lob bowler 1910 1894: Karl Nunes, Jamaican wicketkeeper, WI captain 1928-30 1907: Alice Wegemund, five stumpings in two Tests for Australian women 1937 1921: Myrtle Edwards, one Test for Australian women against NZ 1948 1930: Ian Leggat, one Test v South Africa 1953-54 without distinction 1947: Rudolph Doodnauth, five first-class appearances for Guyana 1973-88 1957: Timur Mohamed, Guyana batsman, WI tour of England 1980 1957: Neal Radford, in Zambia. England pace bowler in 3 Tests 1986-88 1964: Graeme Labrooy, Sri Lankan pace bowler in nine Tests 1986-91 1975: Shane Bond, New Zealand Test quickie 20011975: Marlon Black, Trinidad and West Indian fast bowler in Tests 20001977: Deep Dasgupta, Bengal and India wicketkeeper, in Tests from 2001 People died on this day: 1929: J.E.P.McMaster, Eng v S.Af Test 1889 (out for 0) only f-c game 1958: Roger Hartigan, two Tests for Aust in 1908, a century in his 1st 1964: Charlie Llewellyn, 544 runs and 48 wkts in 15 Tests for S.Africa 1996: Narotam (Tom) Puna, three Tests for New Zealand against England 1966 Events on this day: 1957: Mickey Stewart holds seven catches for Surrey v Northants 1975: Dennis Lillee takes first one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup 1975: Sri Lanka's first one-day international, v WI World Cup 1993: Graham Gooch is dismissed handled the ball v Aust, Old Trafford

Today In Cricket History: 8 June People born on this day: 1866: Hylton Philipson, England wicketkeeper 1892-95 1891: Fred Susskind, five Tests for South Africa in England 1924 1901: Archibald Palm, batted in one Test for South Africa 1927-28 1903: Leslie Townsend, four Tests for England 1930-34 1906: S.Nazir Ali, brother of Wazir Ali, both in India's 1st Test 1932 1919: Guy Overton, NZ pace bowler in three Tests on 1953-54 SA tour 1924: Ian Colquhoun, NZ wicketkeeper vs England 1954-55 1929: Ventappa Muddiah, Indian off-spinner in two Tests 1959-61 1932: Ray Illingworth, England off-spin all-rounder and captain 1945: Derek Underwood, "Deadly". Maybe the best post-war SLA 1946: Richie Robinson, Victorian keeper, Australian batsman 1977 People died on this day: 1948: Hanson Carter, 28 Tests for Australia, caught 44 stumped 21 1999: Joyce Liebert, batted in four womens Tests for England 1934-35 Events on this day: 1950: Test debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) v England

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