This Day In Cricket History

[Sai Jai]

29th January 1998

Test match called off due to unsafe
pitch

On this day in 1998, the Test match
between the West Indies and England
played in Jamaica lasted a mere 61
deliveries and 56 minutes. The game
was called off as the track had too
much variable bounce on offer and it
was termed as 'unsafe' for the
batsmen.
England had progressed to 17 for 3.
Alec Stewart and Graham Thorpe had
a torrid time batting on that
treacherous track. The umpires, Steve
Bucknor and Srinivas
Venkataraghavan then, decided to call
off the match.

 

[Sai Jai]

30th January 1993

Curtly Ambrose wreaks havoc
During his illustrious career, when
Curtly Ambrose bowled with fire and
aggression, he invariably took plenty
of wickets. On January 30, 1993, he
blew away a fine Australian batting
line-up by taking seven wickets for
just one run in 32 balls. He ended up
with astonishing figures of 7 for 25.
If the delivery to Allan Border was
pitched on leg-stump and angled away
sharply from the left-hander to catch
the edge then, Mark Waugh got a brute
of a delivery that bounced
disconcertingly on him to produce the
edge. Ian Bishop followed up
Ambrose's efforts by taking a six-
wicket haul in the second innings as
Australia crashed to a heavy defeat by
an innings and 25 runs. It also meant
that the West Indies won the five-
match Test series 2-1.

 

[Sai Jai]

31st January 1999

Tendulkar's brilliance goes in vain

On January 31, 1999, Pakistan beat
India in a keenly fought Test match in
Chennai by 12 runs. While chasing a
score of 271 in the fourth innings, the
Indian batsmen struggled to pick
Saqlain Mushtaq's doosra and were
tottering at 82 for 5.
However, India's legendary middle-
order batsman, Sachin Tendulkar,
essayed a brilliant hundred to take the
hosts closer to a memorable win.
Unfortunately for India and Tendulkar,
the master batsman was dismissed by
Saqlain for 136. The tail was blown
away by Saqlain as Pakistan showed
the determination and the self-belief
to emerge victorious. This was the first
time India took on Pakistan in a Test in
nine years.
.. Still i remember this match with sachin back injury :s ..

 

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Today in 1981 at MCG: Trevor Chappell bowls the infamous "underarm ball" as instructed by his brother & capt Greg - to Kiwi Brian McKechnie. :dodgy:u:s

 

[Sai Jai]

2nd February 1992

Boon 's 13th Test ton

A patient 107 from David Boon set
Australia on their way towards
another convincing victory over the
touring Indians at the WACA, Perth.
The hosts trounced the Indians by a
massive margin of 300 runs. Boon
found useful allies in Border and
Moody as Australia piled up 346 runs
on the board. India, despite Sachin
Tendulkar's glorious 114, folded for
272, conceding a lead of 74 runs. Dean
Jones and Tom Moody made hundreds
in Australia's second innings, thereby
helping the hosts pile up an overall
lead of 441 runs. India were never in
the chase as they folded away to 141
all-out, losing 10 wickets for just 59 runs
..

 

[Sai Jai]

3rd February 1997

Australia blown away at the WACA
Back in 1997, when the wicket in Perth
made visiting teams go numb with
fear, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney
Walsh made the Aussies dance to their
music before inflicting a crushing 10-
defeat. Having already clinched the
five-match Test series, Mark Taylor
decided to bat first on the WACA
surface. Mark Waugh and Michael
Bevan scored fifties even as the rest of
the team capitulated to the nagging
precision of Ambrose to be bowled out
for 243. Brian Lara then struck a classy
132 as West Indies took
a 141-run lead. In the second innings it
was Walsh's turn to harass the
batsmen. He picked up 5/73 to bowl
the hosts out for 194 before the West
Indies openers knocked off the 54 runs
in just over 10 overs. The defeat
not with standing, Australia pipped the
Carribeans to a 3-2 series win ..

 

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Today in 1992 at the WACA, Perth: Kapil Dev claimed his 400th Test wicket. He was then the 2nd bowler after Richard Hadlee to do so. hya

 

[Sai Jai]

4th February 1979

India score 644 against West Indies in Kanpur

Centuries from Gundappa Viswanath,
Anshuman Gaekwad and Mohinder
Amarnath took India to their then then
highest Test total of 644/7 decl in the
final Test of the six-match home
series against Alvin Kallicharran's
West Indies side. With the majority of
their best players having opeted to
play World Series Cricket in Australia,
Kallicharran was asked to lead a vastly
inferior side than the one the world
had accusstomed to seeing. The pitch
at Green Park, Kanpur proved to be a
haven for the India, whose decision to
bat first against a weak-looking West
Indies bowling was vindicated. In
response, Faoud Bacchus scored a
patient 250 as the six-day Test match
meandered towards a tame draw. By
virtue of their win in Madras, India took
the six-match series 1-0
..

 

[Sai Jai]

5th February 2011

Spot-fixers banned

On this day in 2011, the International Cricket Council banned Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Amir of Pakistan after a London court found
them guilty of having indulged in spot fixing during an England - Pakistan Test match at Lords. The investigations and court proceedings gathered steam after Mazhar Majeed, a player agent, was arrested by the Scotland Yard after getting caught on tape discussing the deliberate no-balls that would be bowled during the Test.
The three players were suspended from cricket for a period of ten, seven and five years respectively. Later in the year, a tribunal also handed out jail sentences to the three involved.
Amir, the youngest of the trio, was
detained in the Portland Young
Offenders Institution for three
months. An ICC media release in late
January 2015 has granted Amir,
permission to return to Pakistan's
domestic cricket
..

 

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Today in 1999 in the Delhi Test: Anil Kumble claimed all 10 Pakistani wkts for 74 runs in 2nd inns! hyahya:luv:clap:nj