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Let us take a trip down memory lane and recall some of the finest moments and incidents that occured during the third week of November.
16 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
Charlie Turner (1862-1944), Australian seamer who took his 101 Test wickets at the startling average of 16.53 (In 155 first-class matches in all he took an incredible 35 ten-wickets hauls);
Waqar Younis (1971-), Pakistani fast bowler and captain who with Wasim Akram was one of the finest exponents of reverse-swing.
Nelson claims its first victim! In 1921 South African Arthur William 'Dave' Nourse was dismissed on 111 in the second Test against Australia at Johannesburg becoming this dreaded number's first victim in Test matches.
In 1982 Chris Tavare took 63 minutes to get off the mark in the second innings of the first Test between England and Australia at Perth. In all Tavare made 9 from 82 balls, and in the first innings he took almost eight hours over 89. In the course of that innings Tavare was stuck on 66 for 90 minutes – it was the second time in three Tests that he had twice spent an hour without scoring. The match was also notable for Norman Cowans' becoming England's 500th Test cricketer.
In 1983 Kapil Dev took 9 for 83 becoming the tenth bowler and the first captain to take nine wickets in a Test innings. In a low-scoring game India were bowled out for 103 as they chased 242 to win. Michael Holding took 4 for 30 and India were 39 for 7 and then 63 for 9 at one point. They recovered to 103, but West Indies took a 2-0 lead in the six-match series, which they eventually won 3-0. India's 138-run defeat saw six Indian batsmen (Gavaskar, Patil, Shastri, Kapil Dev, Binny and B.S. Sandhu) registering a score of one.
In 2006 Indian schoolboys Manoj Kumar and Mohammed Shaibaz, both 13, break Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli's record for the highest partnership in cricket history, with 721 in 40 overs for St Peter's School in Hyderabad.
17 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
Arthur Chipperfield (1905-87), Australian batsman who was the first man to score 99 on his Test debut;
Bert Sutcliffe (1923-2001), New Zealand batsman who along with the great Australian Neil Harvey, was one of the finest left-hander of his generation;
Colin McDonald (1928-), Australian batsman who top-scored in both innings of the famous match when Jim Laker took 19 wickets at Old Trafford.
In 1986 Javed Miandad celebrated his 100th ODI by making his 3,000th run, but Pakistan were easily beaten by West Indies in the fourth ODI at Multan. In a match reduced to 44 overs West Indies made 202 for 5, and then their battery of pace bowlers blew Pakistan away for 113.
In 1988 New Zealand were hammered by 172 runs in the first Test against India at Bangalore. With almost half their team struck down by a virus – at one point they had to field a record five substitutes, including a TV commentator (former captain Jeremy Coney) and a journalist – New Zealand were struggling from the moment Navjot Sidhu hit 116 in his first Test innings for five years. Indian spinners Arshad Ayub and Narendra Hirwani (who took his wicket-tally to 24 in his first two Tests) shared 16 wickets.
In 1999 the Sheffield Shield became the Pura Milk Cup after a sponsorship deal.
In 2007 Adam Gilchrist became the first man to hit 100 sixes in Test cricket.
18 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
R.J.D. Jamshedji (1892-1976), Indian batsman and slow left-arm bowler who was India’s oldest Test debutante at the age of 41 years 27 days when he played in his only Test, against England at Bombay in 1933-34;
Evan Gray (1954-), Kiwi batsman and slow left-arm bowler who played ten Tests for New Zealand;
Nic Pothas (1973-), right-handed batsman who played three ODIs for South Africa.
In 1985 Pradeep Sunderam took 10 for 78 while playing for Rajasthan against Vidarbha at Jodhpur, setting a new Indian record (at the time), with his match analysis of 16 for 154.
In 1988 Vivian Richard’s played in his 100th Test when he took the field against Australia in the first Test at Brisbane. He was the seventh person and only the second West Indian after Clive Lloyd to play in 100 Tests. West Indies won the match by nine wickets and Richards became the tenth fielder to hold 100 catches in Test cricket.
In 1989 Javagal Srinath took a hat-trick for Karnataka on his first-class debut against Hyderabad at Secunderabad. Also making his debut in this Ranji trophy match was Anil Kumble who took 2 for 42 and 2 for 66. His did not exactly announce himself as a batsman though, getting a pair. Srinath took 5 for 83 and 2 for 97. (They also got married on exactly the same day: 1 July 1999.)
In 1993 Zimbabwe and India tied in their Hero Cup match at Indore. Zimbabwe needed 249 to beat India, but at 212 for 8 victory seemed far. Two were needed off the final ball, but Streak was run out going for a second leg-bye. It was only the seventh tied ODI.
In 2000 Andy Flower scored an unbeaten 183 for Zimbabwe in the first Test against India at Delhi, in what was the start of one of the most amazing runs in Test history. In the following 13 months he scored 1,436 runs at an average of 119.67, including five hundreds and seven fifties. Flower ended the year as the world’s No.1 batsman in the PwC ratings.
19 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
Henry Jupp (1841-89), English batsman who carried his bat through a completed innings twelve times and scored the first half-century for England in Test cricket;
Willie ‘Billy’ Bates (1855-1900), English off-spinner who took 7 for 28 (including the first Test hat-trick by an Englishman) and 7 for 74 as England hammered Australia by an innings at Melbourne in 1883;
Rajab Ali (1965-), Kenyan pace bowler whose 3 for 17 in the 1996 World Cup against West Indies spearheaded an amazing 73-run win in what ranks as one of the great upsets in ODI history.
In 1976 India declared their first innings against New Zealand at Kanpur on 524 for 9. All the Indian batsmen reached double figures but none scored a century. This was the highest Test total not to contain a century.
In 1978 Pakistan beat India by eight wickets in the third Test at Karachi to clinch their first series victory against India. Sunil Gavaskar (111 and 137) became the first to score centuries in each innings of a Test twice. He made two hundreds in a Test again that winter too, against West Indies at Calcutta, and is the only person in Test history to achieve this feat on three occasions. It was an especially good series for Zaheer Abbas, who made 583 runs in three matches at an incredible average of 194.33.
In 2000 Allan Donald, became the first South African to take 300 Test wickets when he trapped Shayne O’Connor lbw during the first Test against New Zealand on his home ground at Bloemfontein. He took three wickets in each innings to help South Africa to a five-wicket win over the Kiwis.
In 2001 in a highly controversial action match referee Mike Denness penalised six Indian players at the end of the fourth day of the second Test against South Africa at Port Elizabeth. The players received fines and suspensions for misdemeanours which included showing dissent and attempting to intimidate the umpire (Sehwag, S.S. Das, Harbhajan Singh and Deep Dasgupta), interference with the ball thus changing its condition (Tendulkar) and breach of ICC Players and Team Officials Code which includes conduct of players on the field and bringing the game into disrepute (Ganguly). South Africa sided with India against the patently biased decision and replaced Mike Denness with Dennis Lindsay. The ICC responded by declaring the third Test at Centurion as unofficial. Some good came out of the turmoil though: ICC announced that henceforth players would have a right to appeal against sentences which till now had been arbitrarily handed down.
20 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
Chris Harris (1969-), New Zealand all-rounder whose improvised batting, and slow-medium bowling and brilliant fielding make him a ODI specialist;
Dion Nash (1971-), New Zealand seam bowler.
The Melbourne Cricket Club was formed on this day in 1838. It was the first club in Victoria and two later it staged the first recorded match in Victoria, against the military.
In 1955 Kripal Singh scored 100 not out in the first Test against New Zealand at Hyderabad. On the same day and in the same Test, Polly Umrigar (223) scored India’s first Test double century sharing a then record 238-run stand with Vijay Manjrekar for the third wicket. India scored 498, their highest at the time, and the match ended in a draw.
In 1969 Gundappa Viswanath made 137 in the second innings of the second Test against Australia at Kanpur. He had got a duck in the first innings and was the first Indian batsman to score a century on debut against Australia. Viswanath was also the first to break the Indian jinx of failing to score another hundred after getting one on debut – a fate which had befallen all the other five Indians who had made a debut hundred.
In 1970 Barry Richards playing for South Australia against Western Australia in Sheffield match at Perth scored 325 in a day – the sixth highest in first-class history (the best is Brian Lara’s 390, to take him from 111 to 501 for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994). He went on to make 356 in 372 minutes.
In 1987 Ramiz Raja of Pakistan became the first man (in ODIs) to be given out ‘obstructed the field’ in the second ODI against England at Karachi. Raja who was on 99 hit the ball with his bat to avoid being run out when taking his second run while trying to complete his hundred on the final ball of the match. England won by 23 runs.
In 1988 Courtney Walsh took the first split hat-trick in Test history and the 18th overall in the first Test against Australia at Brisbane. He took the wicket of A.I.C. Dodemaide in the first innings and Mike Valetta and Graeme Wood in the second. It was the first hat-trick since 1976-77, the first in Australia since 1960-61 and the first to involve both innings.
In 1997 Pakistan thrashed West Indies by an innings and 19 runs in the first Test at Peshawar. Mushtaq Ahmed (10 for 106 in the match), and Inzamam-ul-Haq (92) set up what was their biggest victory over West Indies – until the next match, which they won by an innings and 29 runs.
In 2007 Marvan Atapattu announced his retirement from cricket after Second Test, which Australia won to take series 2-0.
21 NOVEMBER
Two opposing captains were born on this day in
1870. Joe Darling (1870-1946), left-handed batsman who was one of Australia’s finest captains leading them to victory in England in 1899 and 1902, and also at home in 1901-02 was born in 1870. He was also the first left-hander to score a hundred in a Test (against England at Sydney in 1897-98) and two matches later, at Adelaide, was the first person to hit a six in a Test. This was when the rules stipulated that the ball had to be hit out the ground to be counted as a six – hits over the boundary counted as five.
Born on exactly the same day was the Hon. Francis Stanley Jackson (1870-1947), English all-rounder and captain who regained the Ashes in 1905 after his opposite number Joe darling lost all five tosses. Not only did he win those five tosses, but he also topped both the batting and bowling averages for either side with 492 runs at 70.28 and 13 wickets at 15.46. He was later Governor of Bengal.
Also born on this day were:
Skand Gupt (1935-96), Indian commentator who gave running commentary in Hindi on TV and All India Radio for over two decades;
Basil ‘Shotgun’ Williams (1949-), West Indian opening batsman who was brought in to replace West Indies’ World Series Cricket defectors and scored a century on debut;
Bruce Laird (1950-), Australian opening batsman who played 21 Tests;
Tim Robinson (1958-), English batsman who has now joined the first-class umpires’ list in 2001
Salim Elahi (1976-), Pakistan batsman who remains only the fourth player to score a hundred on ODI debut.
In 1913 Jack Hobbs scored his 50th century with 170 for MCC against Eastern Province at Port Elizabeth. He made a mere 147 more.
In 1952 Nariman Contractor made his first-class debut for Gujarat against Baroda at Baroda. He made 152 and 102 not out in the match to become the first and only Indian to perform this feat on debut and only the second ever after A.R. Morris who did so for New South Wales against Queensland at Sydney in 1940-41.
In 2002 the second Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Kandy had a bizarre start when its fifth over was completed by three bowlers. Dillon left the field after two balls of his third over and C.E.L. Stuart was asked to complete the over but sent down two unintentional head-high full tosses in three balls leaving umpire John Hampshire with no choice but to direct the captain to remove him for the rest of the innings. Gayle then bowled the last three balls of the over. This is the first instance of its kind in Test history.
22 NOVEMBER
Born on this day were:
J.T. ‘Johnny’ Tyldesley (1873-1930), English batsman who played in 31 Tests and made almost 40,000 first-class runs in a long career with Lancashire and England;
Mushtaq Mohammad (1943-), Pakistani all-rounder and captain who was officially the youngest Test player (15 years 124 days against West Indies at Lahore in 1958-59) and the youngest Test centurion (17 years 82 days against India at Delhi in 1960-61) until Hasan Raza and Mohammad Ashraful upstaged him in recent years (Three of his brothers and his nephew also played Test cricket for Pakistan);
Marvan Atapattu (1970-), Sri Lankan batsman and captain who started his Test career with one run in six innings, (and even that single should apparently have been called a leg-bye) but scored six double hundreds thereafter;
Trevor Madondo (1976-2001), one of Zimbabwe’s most promising black cricketers, an attacking right-handed batsman and occasional wicket-keeper who died of malaria at the age of 24.
In 1974 two all-time greats made their Test debuts in the first Test against West Indies and India at Bangalore. Vivian Richards made a quiet start making four and three before he fell to Bhagwat Chandrasekhar. Gordon Greenidge came to the party in style, scoring 93 and 107 to become the first West Indian to make a hundred on Test debut overseas. Clive Lloyd then slammed a 85-ball century, and West Indies won by 267 runs when India were bowled out for 118 on the final day.
In 1979 Mudassar Nazar scored 126 on the second day of the first Test against India at Bangalore to emulate his father Nazar Mohammad who also scored a century as an opening batsman against India. They became only the second father-son combination after Dave and Dudley Nourse (South Africa against Australia) to score hundreds in the same series. Play was held up on the first day when all players threw themselves to the ground face down to protect themselves against a swarm of bees. In the same match R.M.H. Binny made his debut scoring 46 and going wicketless.
In 1986 Sunil Gavaskar scored his 34th and final Test century (176) against Sri Lanka at Kanpur.
In 2005 Sourav Ganguly lost Test captaincy to Rahul Dravid after a row with coach Greg Chappell.
