This Day In Cricket History

[Sai Jai]

10th October 2003
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Hayden claims the world record

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Matthew Hayden has a reputation of
bullying the best of bowlers at his
peak. Minnows, Zimbabwe, came up
against him at his marauding best in
2003 at Hobart. With Adam Gilchrist
for company, Hayden tore into the
Zimbabwean attack and went on to
break Brian Lara's world record for
the highest individual Test score.
Hayden's 380 was soon to be
overtaken by Lara himself but the
score still remains the best by an
Australian batsman in Tests and
second overall in Test history.

 

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In the year 11th Oct 1972, Sanjay Bangar, Indian all-rounder was born.

 

[Sai Jai]

12th October 2002
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Pakistan suffer humiliating defeat

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On this day in 2002, Pakistan
suffered a humiliating defeat by an
innings and 198 runs against the
mighty Australians at Sharjah.
Pakistan, battling with injuries to
their key batsman folded up for a
mere 59 runs in the first innings.
Australia responded by notching a
fairly competitive score of 310 runs
on the board, with Matthew Hayden,
compiling a crunching innings of 119
in extreme heat. ..Pakistan in the
second innings yet again put up an
abject poor performance and were
bowled out for 53. Shane Warne took
eight wickets for the cost of just 24
runs.
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Pakistan's score of 53 in the second
innings turned out to be their lowest
total in the history of Test cricket. To
make it worse, only three batsmen
were able to reach double figures.

 

[Sai Jai]

13th October 1987
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Viv Richards compiles crucnhing century

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On this day in the 1987 World Cup
game played between Sri Lanka and
the West Indies at Karachi, the Master
Blaster, Viv Richards dispatched
hapless bowlers to all corners of the
ground and essayed a scintillating
innings of 181.
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Richards thwacked 16 boundaries and
seven towering sixes to give
boundless joy to what was a sparse
crowd. Richards' knock of 181 was
then the highest score in World Cup
history. On the other hand, Sri
Lanka's medium pacer, Ashantha de
Mel, won't have found memories of
Richards' mass destruction, as he
ended up with the worst ten-over-
spell in the history of the game at
that time.

 

[Sai Jai]

14th October 2005
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Australia thump ICC World Test XI
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The ICC's Super Test played between
the-then best Test team going
around, Australia, and a World XI full
of stars failed to generate the kind of
interest everyone expected it to do
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In fact, Australia, who were smarting
after losing The Ashes series to
England, took a mere four days to
thrash a team that had the likes of
Rahul Dravid, Brian Lara, Muttiah
Muralitharan, Andrew Flintoff,
Jacques Kallis and company in their
ranks. Australia's spin twins, Stuart
Macgill and Shane Warne were the
chief wicket-takers for the home
side.

 

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16th October 1975
Birth of Kallis - the superman

Birth of perhaps the greatest all-rounder to have graced the game after Sir Gary Sobers. Jacques Kallis is one of the most respected personalities to have graced the game. If he failed with the bat, he usually used to make up with the ball. On those rare occasions when he failed with both bat and ball, he made sure he contributed to his team's success in the field. Ten Thousand runs in both Tests and ODIs, over Two hundred wickets and exactly 200 catches in Tests, you couldn't find a better team player. One of the pillars of South Africa, Kallis was part of the team that that tasted enormous success in all formats of the game. Only a World Cup trophy eluded him, and perhaps, that's his only regret in an otherwise

 

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[Sai Jai]

17th October 1970
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Birth of India's greatest match- winner

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They told he couldn't turn a ball and
hence wouldn't survive as a spinner.
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Boy, in a career of 18 years, he proved
everyone wrong. And when he finally
retired, he had 619 Test wickets and
close to 1000 wickets across all forms
of the game. Birth of perhaps the
greatest ever Indian match-winner, Anil Kumble. He wasn't the classic
version of a leg-spinner, he didn't
spin out batsmen but more than made up with an assortment of leg- breaks, googlies and a dangerous
flipper. Kumble used his height to
great effect, often securing
prodigious bounce from even the
most docile of pitches. His glory
moment was to come one fine day in
February, 1999. He spun Pakistan out
with incredible figures of 10/74,
becoming only the second bowler,
after Englishman, Jim Laker, to take
all 10 wickets in an innings.