This Day In Cricket History

[Sai Jai]

8th January 1981 ..
India get bowled for 63 in Sydney
..
On this day in 1981, in a
Benson&Hedges World Series match
played at the Sydney Cricket Ground,
Australian captain, Greg Chappell,
blew away the Indian batting line up
with his medium-pacers and ended
with career best ODI figurs that read
9.5-5-15-5. India capitulated to their
then-lowest total in ODI cricket - 63
with only Gundappa Viswanath and
Roger Binny managing double-digit
scores. Chappell's victims included
Sunil Gavaskar, Yashpal Sharma,
Roger Binny, Karsan Ghavri and Dilip
Doshi. In response, Australia cantered
to the target in the 21st over with the
Greg Chappell top scoring with 33.
India's total of 63 remained their
lowest total in ODIs for 19 years before
they were bowled out for 54 in an ODI
against Sri Lanka in Sharjah.

 

[Velladurai.S]

First Home Century:-

Flashback Friday : The same day in 1993 SACHIN.R.TENDULKAR hit his first century on Indian soil - this was his 5th ton which came against England!! He scored 165 at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. :clap:clap:clap:tup

List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sai Jai]

9th January 1996 ..
Shaun Pollock arrives with a bang
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On this day in 1996, former South
African captain, Shaun Pollock,
marked his ODI debut with a man-of-
the-match performacne against
England in Cape Town. Choosing to bat
first on a green track at Newlands,
South Africa were under early
pressure and reduced to 107/6 by an
English attack comprising Peter Martin,
Dominic Cork and Darren Gough.
Shaun Pollock, with Jacques Kallis for
a company, scored a run-a-ball 66 to
take the hosts to 211. England, in their
chase, were cruising at 155-3 before
Pollock came back into the attack and
picked up four wickets to give the
Proteas a narrow 6-run win. Pollock
ended the match with figures of 4/34.
South Africa went on to win the 7-
match ODI series 6-1.

 

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10th January 2005
..
Bangladesh win their first Test
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On this day in 2005, Bangladesh recorded their first win in Test history when they beat Zimbabwe by 226 runs in Chittagong. Choosing to bat first on
a flat track, Bangladesh posted 488 in
their first innings, riding on a fluent 94
from skipper Habibul Bashar. There
were also fifties for Mohammad
Ashraful, Mohammad Rafique and
opener Nafees Iqbal. In response, the
visiting Zimbabwe side were bowled
out for 312, thanks solely to left-arm
spinner, Rafique's 5/65. With a 176-run
first innings lead, Bangladesh added
another 204 in their second essay to
set Zimbabwe a massive target of 381
to get in the fourth innings. Enamul
Haque junior then picked up six
wickets to skittle out Zimbabwe for a
paltry 154 to spark celebrations. It took
Bangladesh 4 years and 35 Tests to get
their first Test win and when the win
finally came, it was momentous.

 

[Sai Jai]

12th January 1964
..
Bapu Nadkarni bowls record number of maidens
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On this day in 1964, in the first Test
between India and England in Madras,
Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 maiden overs
in a row - a record for six-ball overs
that still hasn't been broken, or ever
will be, unless all Tests are played on
the sort of wicket that England and
India were presented with in Nagpur
late last year. Bapu finished with
figures of 32-27-5-0. He was frugal in
the second innings too and ended up
with figures of 6-4-6-2.

 

[Sai Jai]

13th January 1930
..

New Zealand's first Test ends in a loss
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New Zealand's first Test outing ended
in a 8-wicket loss at the hands of
England on this day in 1930. It was a
low-scoring affair and the match only
lasted for two days if the abandoned
second day's play is not considered,
and a rest day to add to it. Choosing to
bat, New Zealand could only manage a
total of 112 at Lancaster Park,
Christchurch. Maurice Allom and Stan
Nichols were the wicket takers, picking
up five and four wickets apiece.
England fared only slightly better
when it was their turn to bat -
Duleepsinhji was the top-scorer with
49 as the visitors folded for 181.
However, New Zealand failed with the
bat yet again, managing only 131 to
give England a target of 63. Allom was
amongst the wickets again as he
finished with a match haul of eight
wickets. England lost two wickets in
the chase, but Duleepsinhji's
unbeaten 33 helped the visitors to a 8- wicket win.

 

[Sai Jai]

Edited Post ..

 

[Sai Jai]

14th January 2009
..
A thrilling Ranji Trophy final
..
A thrilling game in Mysore ended with
Mumbai clinching their 39th Ranji
Trophy title. It was heart-break for
hosts Karnataka, who looked set to
pull off a mammoth chase, only to
falter in the end. Mumbai's first
innings score was 233 all-out and the
visitors bowled out Karnataka for 130
to take a handy 103-run lead. While
their top order failed again in the
second innings, Mumbai's lower order
combined well to set the hosts a target
of 338. A terrific knock of 144 from
Manish Pandey put Karnataka on
course for a title win, only to see Ajit
Agarkar and Dhawal Kulkarni ruin the
home team's party by picking up the
last five wickets for 71 runs. Karnataka
fell 7 short of the target while Agarkar
finished with a five-wicket haul in the
second essay.

 

[Sai Jai]

15th January 1988

..
Dream debut for Narendra Hirwani
..
Narendra Hirwani, India leg spinner,
rounded off a remarkable debut Test
against West Indies at the at MA
Chidambaram Stadium in 1988. He was
only nineteen years old and did not
have any international experience, but
that hardly showed as the youngster
bamboozled West Indies en route to a
remarkable match haul of 16/136,
surpassing Australian Bob Massie's
figures of 16/137 on debut. It was a
formidable West Indian batting line-up,
with the likes of Haynes, Richards and
Hooper, among others. However, none
of them had any answers against the
leggie as he spun a web around the
West Indian batsmen to take 8/61 in
the first innings and 8/75 in the
second to to bowl India to a 255-run win ..

 

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16th January 1993
..
Ambrose gets an unusual request
..
It was a brave thing to do when Dean
Jones went up to Curtly Ambrose and
asked him to remove his wrist bands.
The Australian batsman claimed that
the white bands were disturbing his
concentration. This happened during
the first World Series final between
Australia and West Indies at the
Sydney Cricket Ground on January 16,
after West Indies had posted a total of
239/8. Ambrose, who came first
change after Phil Simmons, duly
complied with Jones' request. However,
little did that batsman realise that he
had woken up a monster within
Ambrose. The fast bowler went on a
demolition spree, finishing with a haul
of 5/32 to bowl West Indies to a 25-run
win. West Indies went on to clinch the
Benson & Hedges World Series trophy
by winning the next final two days
later, with Ambrose (3/26) doing some damage again ..