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Basically what was happen on Jan 1st in cricket History

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2014 ( jan 1)

The day a 17-year-old record was broken. It was a rude beginning to the new year for West Indies' bowlers as New Zealand's Corey Anderson ransacked a century off just 36 balls in a shortened ODI in Queenstown. He blasted 14 sixes on his way to eclipsing the record set by a 16-year-old Shahid Afridi in 1996. Anderson made best use of the short boundaries and raced to his fifty in 20 balls. He stood at 95 at the start of the 18th over. The first ball from Nikita Miller was short and Anderson duly pulled a six over long-on. He remained the record-holder for only a year, though. In Johannesburg in January 2015, AB de Villiers broke it with a 31-ball hundred, also against West Indies.

1908 (jan 1)

One of the greatest of all Test careers began. The wide open spaces of the MCG held no terrors for Jack Hobbs, who scored 83 in his first Test knock. He went on to become the first batter to score 5000 Test runs, 💞and his other feats would take forever to list. Try virtually any page in the first-class batting section of the Wisden Almanack.

1902

Birth of the greatest one-eyed cricketer of Norwegian descent to play in a Test. Eiulf Peter "Buster" Nupen was regarded as one of the best bowlers ever seen on South African matting, and he might have had better Test figures than 50 wickets at 35.76 if he'd had a full complement of eyes. 👁️He lost one as a young man while trying to knock two hammers together.

1910

The last of the top underarm lob bowlers made a successful start to his only Test series. A weak England team, stuffed with amateurs, couldn't avoid defeat in Johannesburg, but a first-innings haul of 6 for 43 by one of those unpaid workers, George Hayward Thomas Simpson-Hayward (better known as George Simpson-Hayward), made it a close-run thing.

1923

Another memorable debut, this time in Cape Town, where George Macaulay dismissed George Hearne with his first ball in Test cricket. Macaulay later made the winning hit in England's very narrow victory.

1967

The late 1960s was the golden age of stadium riots on the subcontinent. One of them forced the cancellation of today's play between India and West Indies in Calcutta. Clashes with police, stands set alight: nothing unusual for the time. It didn't affect the result, though - West Indies thumped India by an innings, with seven wickets each for Messrs Sobers and Gibbs.👁️

1995

Batting for Delhi against Himachal Pradesh in Delhi, Ravi Sehgal made 216, his maiden first-class hundred, and helped Raman Lamba 🌹(312) put on 464, a first-wicket record for any first-class match in India. The match was distinctly one-sided: Himachal Pradesh were dismissed for 205 and 122 and lost by an innings and 310 runs.

1925

That greedy run-accumulator Bill Ponsford collected another 128 of them against England in Melbourne to become the first batter to score a hundred in each of his first two Tests.💚

2017❤️🌲

Vidarbha won their maiden Ranji Trophy title after beating Delhi by nine wickets in their first final appearance in 61 seasons, in Indore. Medium-pacer Rajneesh Gurbani took a six-for, which included a hat-trick, and wicketkeeper-batter Akshay Wadkar scored his first hundred, in only his fifth first-class game. Thirty-nine-year-old Wasim Jaffer was able to maintain his 100% win record in Ranji finals after previously having been on the winning side eight times with Mumbai.

1905

Despite an undistinguished Test career (a single appearance at The Oval in 1934), Hans Ebeling, who was born today, played a major part in a big Test occasion. He was the prime mover behind the Centenary Test in Melbourne in 1977.

1944

Birth of West Indian opener Charlie Davis, whose last Test hundred was his biggest: 183 against New Zealand in Bridgetown in 1972, when he put on 254 with Garry Sobers. He'd been almost impossible to dismiss in the 1970-71 series against India (again at home), averaging 132.25.

1928

Genuinely useful but injury-prone seamer Khan Mohammad is born. He was often Fazal Mahmood's foil in Tests for Pakistan, and the two were just about the only bowlers left standing when Garry Sobers made his world record 365 not out in Kingston in 1958. Khan's figures of 0 for 259 are the worst in any Test innings by a wicketless bowler - but his 54 Test wickets cost only 23.92 each and he had figures of 5 for 61 (including Len Hutton for a duck) at Lord's in 1954 and 6 for 21 against New Zealand in Dacca in 1955.

1984💋

The first Bangladesh bowler to take a hat-trick, Alok Kapali, was born today. That feat came in Peshawar in 2003 - when he helped Bangladesh gain their maiden first-innings lead. Kapali scored his maiden ODI hundred in 2008, against India in the Asia Cup in Karachi, but his international career was put on hold when he joined the Indian Cricket League in 2008. However, he quit after a season and made himself available for selection for Bangladesh again.

1990

Rubel Hossain, born today, made memorable debuts in ODIs and Tests - in a rare one-day win for his side, over Sri Lanka in Mirpur in 2009, and in their historic Test series win in West Indies later that year. He sank New Zealand in an ODI in Mirpur in 2013 with 6 for 26 and famously took Bangladesh into the 2015 World Cup quarter-final with a four-for. Hossain was first spotted at a pace-hunt programme, and went the Under-19 route before establishing himself in the national side.

1980

And another. Bangladesh fast bowler Mushfiqur Rahman, whose ten-Test, 28-ODI career progressed much like his team's faltering steps in international cricket was also born today. After going wicketless in his first two Tests, in Zimbabwe in 2001, Rahman was dropped for two years. His comeback in 2003-04 didn't grab headlines either; his career-best figures were 4 for 65 against West Indies in a Test in St Lucia in 2004, and though he had a few scores in the 40s in Tests and ODIs, he never got a fifty in either format.

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India win their second World Cup

MS Dhoni leads from the front to put paid to Sri Lanka's hopes

Co-hosts India took the 2011 World Cup title with a six-wicket win •

2011

Twenty-eight years after they first won the World Cup, India won their second title.🐓🔥 Favourites going into the tournament, the tenth, they came up against Sri Lanka, playing their second World Cup final in a row, and broke a number of hoodoos in the Mumbai final: of home teams never having won the title, of teams chasing having won only twice before, and of century-makers in finals never having finished on the losing side. When Mahela Jayawardene produced a perfectly paced hundred and Lasith Malinga struck early to reduce them to 31 for 2, India looked a long shot, but Gautam Gambhir anchored them with a resolute 97. Then MS Dhoni, the captain, walked out at No. 5 instead of Yuvraj Singh - who was later voted Man of the Tournament - and delivered an innings for the ages, seeing off the threat of Muthiah Muralidaran (who was playing in his last game) and finishing proceedings majestically with a six clouted high over long-on to cue night-long celebrations all over Mumbai and India.

1996

Singapore's inaugural one-day international, and some unforgettable pyrotechnics from Sanath Jayasuriya. At the smallish Padang ground he savaged Pakistan for a century off just 48 balls - a record at the time - and in all, walloped 134 off 65 balls of pure bedlam. There were 11 fours and 11 sixes, including four sixes in a row. Sri Lanka won a match of 664 runs, another record that has since been broken. The next time they met Pakistan, in the final five days later, Jayasuriya belted 76... off 28 balls.

1981

Australia batter Michael Clarke, who was born today, had a sensational debut against India in Bangalore in 2004, scoring 151 to give Australia the series lead in the conquest of their "final frontier". Clarke took over from Ricky Ponting as Australia's captain in all three formats in 2011, and after leading the side to defeats in Cape Town - where Australia were bowled out for 47 - and in Hobart against New Zealand, he presided over a series whitewash against India, scoring his maiden triple-century in the process. In his next seven Tests Clarke scored three double-hundreds, and he ended 2012 with 1595 runs, averaging over 100. The year 2013 started off equally productively in terms of his run-scoring, but Australia lost 0-4 in India and 0-3 in England. No one expected anything different for the home Ashes at the end of the year, but Clarke led Australia's resurgence with a 5-0 mauling of England, and then a 2-1 defeat of South Africa away. He signed off from ODIs in style in 2015, having led Australia to their fifth World Cup win, but he didn't have the same successful ending to his Test career, losing the Ashes that followed in England 3-2.

1963

Birth of an innovator. Dermot Reeve had enough theories and plans to make an MCC member choke on his coaching manual. In one match, against Hampshire in 1996, he deliberately dropped his bat time and time again when facing left-arm spinner Raj Maru, so that he could not be given out caught off the glove. Reeve and Bob Woolmer formed a formidable captain-coach partnership and led Warwickshire to unprecedented success in the mid-1990s. Reeve - who was born in Hong Kong, and played for them in the 1982 ICC Trophy - could certainly play (he famously went after Allan Donald in the 1992 World Cup semi-final), and had about six different slower balls. He probably unlucky not to lead England in one-day cricket.

1888

One of cricket's finest writers is born, in Manchester. Neville Cardus revolutionised sportswriting by rejecting the accepted way of doing things; Matthew Engel described him as "an artist of devastating originality". A Guardian man who was notably anti-establishment and whose beginnings in life were distinctly humble, Cardus was knighted in 1967 and died in 1975. He was also a distinguished writer on music.

1932

Pakistan seamer Mahmood Hussain, who was born today, gave wholehearted support to the great Fazal Mahmood in Pakistan's formative years as a Test-playing nation, and took five wickets in their memorable victory over England at The Oval in 1954. Hussain was often overbowled, but one of his injuries was a blessing in disguise: he bowled only five balls before hobbling off in Kingston in 1958, when Garry Sobers smacked his famous 365 not out.

1946

Birth of the gangling New Zealand swing bowler Richard Collinge, who despite 110 Test wickets and a batting average of 14 is best remembered for his feats with the willow. Against Pakistan in Auckland in 1973, Collinge made 68 not out, the highest Test score by a No. 11 at the time, and added a record 151 for the tenth wicket with Brian Hastings. But bowling was his trade, and he took six wickets in New Zealand's first victory over England, in Wellington, including, crucially, Geoff Boycott in each innings.

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A quadruple-century

Lara goes large... again

Brian Lara is the first player to reclaim the highest individual score record in Tests •

2004

Ten years to the week after Brian Lara first broke the record for the highest score in Tests, he did it again, piling on 400 in the fourth Test against England in St John's, to become the first player to reclaim the record. Matthew Hayden, who had topped Lara's 375 with 380 off Zimbabwe in Perth, had held the record for just six months. At the start of the Test, West Indies were staring at a whitewash, and even a century may not have been enough to save Lara's captaincy. But the innings, on a featherbed of a pitch, restored dignity to both Lara and his beleaguered side.

1976

A famous victory for India, who chased a then-record 406 to beat West Indies in the third Test, in Trinidad. They did it pretty comfortably too, with seven of the mandatory last 20 overs to spare, and it remained the highest fourth-innings total to win a Test until West Indies did it themselves against Australia in 2003 in Antigua. All this after Clive Lloyd declared his second innings at six wickets down when Alvin Kallicharran reached his hundred. Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath both made centuries, as Albert Padmore, Raphick Jumadeen and Inshan Ali (combined innings figures: 2 for 220) failed to make the most of a gently turning pitch, on which three times as many wickets fell to the spinners (21) as to the seamers (7). Lloyd never was very keen on spinners, and this match made up his mind that from then on it would be pace, pace, pace.

1930

The end of the longest Test career of all. Nobody has been longer in the tooth than Wilfred Rhodes - 52 years, 165 days - was when he played his last day of Test cricket today, against West Indies in Jamaica. His Test career had spanned an amazing 30 years, 315 days - he made his debut in WG Grace's last match, in 1899. Also making his final appearance was the fourth-oldest Test player, whippersnapper George Gunn (50 years 303 days).

1917

Birth of the only other man apart from Rhodes to have batted in every position from No. 1 to No. 11 in Tests. For a player with an average of only 31, Indian allrounder Vinoo Mankad made some huge scores: two double-centuries, against New Zealand in 1955-56, and a mighty 184 - when nobody else reached 50 in the innings - in defeat at Lord's in 1952. In that match Mankad, an extremely thrifty left-arm spinner, who often rushed through his overs in little more than a minute each, also made 72 and bowled 97 overs. In fact, he bowled more than 40 overs in a Test innings on 25 occasions. He completed the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in only 23 Tests, a record until Ian Botham bettered it by two Tests in 1979.

1948

A West Indian spinner is born. Trinidad left-armer Raphick Jumadeen had a bit of a thankless task, plying his trade at a time when slow bowlers were becoming an endangered species in West Indian cricket. He played 12 Tests in the 1970s, but these came in fits and starts, and he was only once given a full series, against India in 1975-76. Jumadeen never tore through a side, but he remained tidy and economical: his debut match figures - 64-31-64-1 - summed up his career.

1911

One of South Africa's oldest debutants is born. Opening-batter-turned-seamer Geoff Chubb had already passed 40 when he made his debut, against England at Trent Bridge in 1951. Chubb, whose thinning hair and glasses made him an unlikely destroyer, played all five of his Tests on that tour, and took 21 wickets, including consecutive five-fors in defeats at Lord's and Old Trafford. He died in East London in 1982.

1983

Dwayne Smith, born today, scored a century on Test debut - it was only his second first-class hundred - to help West Indies end their string of defeats in South Africa, but he went on to largely be a T20 specialist, like many of his West Indies peers of the time. In 2008 he signed with Mumbai Indians in the IPL, and the following year he was part of the title-winning Deccan Chargers side. He made a limited-overs comeback for West Indies in 2012, doing well at the top of the order, and in 2014, he narrowly missed out on a maiden ODI century when he was dismissed for 97 in Delhi.

1894

Birth of the robust Fred Barratt, who had a modest five-Test career with England but excelled at county level for Nottinghamshire. He took 1224 wickets, and once, against Sussex at Trent Bridge in 1924, bowled a batsman and sent a bail flying almost 40 yards🌹. He died in Nottinghamshire in 1947.

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Carnage in Antigua

Viv Richards scored a century off 56 balls •

1986

A delirious crowd in St John's, Antigua watched their favourite son, Viv Richards, annihilate England with the fastest recorded century (in terms of balls faced) in Test history - a record that stood for 30 years. It took only 56 balls, and Richards' 110 not out, which came off 58 balls, included seven fours and seven sixes. There was a casual one-handed six over long-on off John Emburey, and another flat, straight one off Ian Botham that took the breath away - and almost Botham's head as well. Two days later West Indies completed their second blackwash of England in 18 months, with Roger Harper returning the startling figures of 12-8-10-3. The 240-run victory margin would have been bigger if West Indies hadn't sent down 61 no-balls.

1963

Birth of allrounder Manoj Prabhakar, who was a regular in the Indian side in the early 1990s. His bowling was his strongest suit; Prabhakar mixed cunning slower balls with inswing and outswing, and on his day he could be a formidable opponent with the new ball. He once bowled Kepler Wessels for 0 in consecutive Tests - the only ducks Wessels bagged for South Africa in internationals. Generally Prabhakar was a useful lower-order batter, who was turned into a defensive, platform-laying opener to good effect against England in 1992-93. India won only one of Prabhakar's first 23 Tests, then ten of his last 16, but his career ended in ignominy when he was booed on his home ground in Delhi after getting slaughtered (4-0-47-0) against Sri Lanka in the 1995-96 World Cup. Prabhakar was dropped for the next match and immediately retired. His attempts to implicate others in the match-fixing controversy backfired when he was banned himself for his own alleged involvement. But he returned to cricket in coaching roles in the Ranji Trophy.

1990

Another West Indies-England contest in Antigua, and another major milestone - a West Indies opening partnership that stood as a record for 33 years. Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes punished a battered and bruised England for 298 runs, the highest of their four 200-plus stands, and 38 more than England had managed in their entire first innings. Greenidge, in his 100th Test, made 149 and Haynes 167 - nobody else in the whole match got more than Rob Bailey's 42. West Indies, who had all the psychological momentum after their dramatic win in Barbados, bossed this decider from the off and wrapped up an innings victory with four sessions to spare, to take the series 2-1.

2024

Sunrisers Hyderabad broke their own record for the highest total in the history of the league, set three weeks prior (277 vs Mumbai Indians) when they scored 💋287 against Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in 20 overs of unparalleled butchery. Opener Travis Head was the driving force, making 102 off 41 balls with nine fours and eight sixes. There were thirties from Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad and Aiden Markram, and 67 off 31 from Heinrich Klaasen. No SRH batter scored at a rate slower than 154; Samad went at close to four runs per ball. RCB did well to get 262 in their reply, thanks to Dinesh Karthik, who unleashed some carnage of his own to make 83 off 35.

1958

One of New Zealand's best offspinners is born. John Bracewell's strike rate of a wicket every 82 balls was very respectable for a spinner in the 1980s, when the art was virtually dead. He took three six-fors, all of them in New Zealand's wins, the most famous of which was in Auckland in 1985-86. Bracewell's 6 for 32 helped the Kiwis to a victory that made them the first side to beat Australia in two series in one winter, and he became the first New Zealand spinner to take a ten-for. He could belt the ball too, and in Sydney earlier the same winter he bashed 83 not out in a last-wicket partnership of 124 with Stephen Boock. Bracewell went on to coach Gloucestershire, inspiring them to a series of one-day trophies at the turn of the century. He returned to New Zealand as the national coach in September 2003. He quit the job in 2008 and returned to Gloucestershire, before taking over as Ireland coach for a while in 2015.

1936

The West Indian offspinner Jack Noreiga, who was born today, played only four Tests, all against India in 1970-71, when he was called up at the age of 34 to replace the out-of-form Lance Gibbs. He certainly made his mark, though. In the second Teston his home ground in Trinidad, Noreiga took 9 for 95 in the first innings, still the best figures by a West Indian in Tests.

1845

Australia's first captain is born. Dave Gregory, a gritty, middle-order batsman, was at the helm for their first three Tests. He didn't achieve much with the bat, making only one score of note - 43 in defeat in Melbourne in the second Test of 1876-77. In his five Test innings Gregory batted at Nos. 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11. He played for New South Wales, a distinction shared with four of his brothers and three of his nephews.

1906

Sandy Bell, born today, opened the bowling for South Africa, sometimes working up a good pace, bringing the ball down from a considerable height and capable of late inswing. He had his best Test figures in his first Test match, at Lord's in 1929, taking 6 for 99. In the same series he shared in the then-South African batting record for the last wicket - 103 with HG Owen-Smith at Headingley. He took 23 wickets in five Tests in Australia in 1931-32, claiming five in an innings in successive Test matches in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

1982

Sri Lanka opener Tharanga Paranavitana, born today, started his Test career with a duck in a match in which Sri Lanka and Pakistan racked up 644 and 765 in their first innings each in Karachi in 2009. During the next Test, in Lahore, he was among the six players injured when terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan bus. He shook off the unfortunate start with two half-centuries when Pakistan visited a few months later. But in his first 32 Tests, Paranavitana only managed two hundreds - at home against India - and after a string of middling scores, he was dropped towards the end of 2012.

2025

The ever mercurial Punjab Kings were kept to 111 in an IPL league game in Mullanpur on this day, but went on to win in 15 overs against defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders. It wasn't a result many would have predicted after PBKS 🌹💚raced to 39 in 19 balls and then lost wickets in a clatter (including the top three all caught Ramandeep Singh off Harshit Rana) but Yuzvendra Chahal, who had taken two wickets in his five games in the season until then, proved something of a surprise weapon, taking 4 for 28. Marco Jansen did most of the rest with 3 for 17, and KKR found themselves with four losses in their first seven games of the season.

1978

Daren Powell, born today, started out as a No. 3 batter and offspinner but moved to medium pace when he came across concrete pitches in school. He made his Test debut in 2002, though he cemented his position only in 2005, when many senior players made themselves unavailable for the first Test against South Africa. In 2006-07 he picked up nine wickets at 27.55 in ODIs and earned a call-up to the World Cup squad, where he turned in a series of sound performances, but he then faded away from the international scene.

1963

Manzoor Elahi, born today, played six Tests and 54 ODIs for Pakistan. He scored a half-century each in either format and did little else of note in his ten-year career. His brothers Saleem and Zahoor also played for Pakistan.

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Tall, lean and quick

Birth of an Indian fast bowler

Ishant Sharma had Jehan Mubarak caught in the slips, Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test, P Sara Oval, Colombo, 5th day, August 24, 2015

Ishant Sharma showed promise on his first tour of Australia • AFP

1988

Birth of the 6ft 4in Ishant Sharma, who like Irfan Pathan before him, grabbed headlines during a tour of Australia in 2008, where his probing spell in the second innings in Perth set up India's win. But after a golden debut season, during which he was looked at as Zaheer Khan's successor, Ishant began to steadily lose pace. India's selectors tried to protect him by reducing his workload, but he struggled to recapture the form of his early period. When he completed 50 Tests in early 2013, he had among the worst averages for bowlers with 50 Test caps to their name, but the following year he was instrumental in India's famous Test win at Lord's, taking a career-best 7 for 74 in the match. A year later, he played a big part in India's Test series win in Sri Lanka, taking eight wickets at the SSC and going past 200 wickets in the process. In 2018 through early 2019, he enjoyed perhaps his finest year in the game, with 18 wickets in England, eight and 11 against South Africa and Australia away either side of it, and 11 in two Tests in the West Indies in mid-2019.

1980

As the rain-hit Centenary Test petered out at Lord's, Australia's Kim Hughes became only the third man to bat on all five days of a Test match. He made 117 and 84. But the day was probably more memorable for John Arlott's final stint behind the microphone. As the famous commentator ended his long career with the BBC's Test Match Special, play stopped and the whole ground stood to applaud him.

2018

Moeen Ali returned to the England Test side and delivered a series win, taking 9 for 134 against India in Southampton. The match was more closely fought than the 60-run margin of victory suggested. On day one, India' seamers reduced England to 86 for 6 before their No. 8, Sam Curran, helped lift them to 246. India managed a slim lead thanks to a fighting unbeaten century by Cheteshwar Pujara. In their second innings, England were propped up by Jos Buttler and Curran again. Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane put on a 101-run partnership in chase of a target of 245, but after their dismissals, to Moeen, India folded for 184.

1972

In the Gillette Cup final at Lord's, Warwickshire's perfectly respectable 234 for 9 was put in perspective by Clive Lloyd. He had opened the bowling with 12 consecutive economical overs, and now did what he did best, hammering an unforgettable 126 to win the match. Lancashire became the only club to win any of the major English one-day trophies three years in a row. It was no coincidence that Lloyd appeared in all three finals.

1981

Six-foot-seven-inch Chris Tremlett, born today, established himself in the England Test side during the 2010-11 Ashes - where he took 18 wickets in three Tests, including eight in Perth, England's only defeat of the series - though he had been around, injury permitting, since 2005. Tremlett troubled batters with awkward bounce and also with seam movement from just short of a length, but in the Lord's Test of 2011, during the whitewash of India, he added swing to his repertoire, before hamstring and back injuries ruled him out again. He then came back for a single Test, the 2013 Ashes encounter in Brisbane, before fading away.

2019

India completed a whitewash of West Indies in three formats when they won the second Test by 257 runs in Kingston. West Indies fought harder in their second innings than they did in their first, when they were all out for 117, but India won with a day to spare. Hanuma Vihari, who made a hundred and a fifty, was declared Man of the Match, but it was Jasprit Bumrah - "the most complete bowler in the world", according to his captain, Virat Kohli - who set the win up with his 6 for 27 in the first innings, which included a hat-trick. Kohli himself became India's most successful Test captain with the victory, his 28th in charge. For West Indies, Jason Holder took five in the first innings, and Shamarh Brooks dug in for over three hours for his fifty, but there wasn't much else worth shouting about.

1896

Death of Australian opening batter Nat Thomson, who played in the first two Test matches ever, both in Melbourne in 1876-77. In the opening game, he became the first man to be dismissed in Test cricket, bowled by England's Allen Hill for a single. He made his highest score (41) in his fourth and last innings.

1967

In their first appearances in the Gillette Cup final, Kent and Somerset served up some serious excitement. From 138 for 1, Kent struggled to 193 all out thanks to fine seam bowling from Fred Rumsey, Kenny Palmer and Bill Alley. But it was much the same story with the Somerset innings: a good start of 58 for 1 followed by a collapse, triggered by Derek Underwood's slow-medium left-arm. Somerset were all out for 161 and didn't reach the final again until 1978.

1978

If it's September 2, it must be a Gillette Cup final - and Somerset must be losing it. Still without a major trophy on their sideboard, they were all out for 207 despite a typically hard-hit 80 by Ian Botham. They lost by five wickets to Sussex, who had already won the Cup twice before.

1996

As the Wisden Almanack reported, the early death of Paddy Clift "cast a pall over Leicestershire's Championship 1996 celebrations". A respected Rhodesian allrounder, Clift announced himself in the Leicestershire team with the astonishing figures of 8 for 17 (five bowled, three lbw) against MCC at Lord's in 1976. Although he never scored 1000 runs or took 100 wickets in a Championship season, he was an integral member of the team, taking two hat-tricks, scoring a century in 50 minutes, and helping them win the Sunday League in 1977 and the B&H Cup in 1985.

1878

Surrey bowler Edward Barratt took all ten wickets in an innings on his home ground: 10 for 43 for the Players against the touring Australians at The Oval. He had some help with all ten: his victims were caught or stumped. The opening batter Charles Bannerman scored 51 in a total of 77. The Australians made only 89 in their second innings - but it was enough to win the match. On a dreadful pitch, typical of the time, the Players were all out for 82 and 76 and lost by eight runs.