Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May

May 1

Windies

• 1951 - Gordon Greenidge is born in Barbados. Greenidge grew up in England from the age of 12. His Test debut was in India in 1974 and his last Test was on his 40th birthday in 1991 at Antigua.[1] He and Desmond Haynes formed one of the most formidable opening partnerships of all time.

England

• 1930 - Don Bradman makes 236 in his first first-class innings in England, in a tour match against Worcestershire.
• 1963 - The world's first limited overs competition starts: the first Gillette Cup match between Lancashire and Leicestershire at Old Trafford. Due to rain, the 65-overs-a-side match goes into a second day.[2]

America

• 1751 - 1st American cricket match is played

May 2

Australia

• 1910 - Laurie Nash born.

West Indies

• 1969 - Brian Lara is born at Cantaro, Trinidad

May 3

Australia

• 1955 - David Hookes is born

England

• 2000 - Godfrey Evans dies, aged 78.

May 4

Pakistan

• 1990 - Wasim Akram takes his second One Day International hat-trick in six months at Sharjah in the Austral-Asia Cup final against Australia.[3]

May 5

South Africa

• 1889 - Herbie Taylor, captain of South Africa in the 1920s and the first South African batsman to reach 2,500 runs in Tests, is born at Durban

May 6

England

• 1970 - Chris Adams, who led Sussex to their first victories in the County Championship, is born at Whitwell, Derbyshire

May 7

Sri Lanka

• 1972 - Upul Chandana, 16 Tests and 146 One-day Internationals for Sri Lanka, is born at Galle

May 8

England

• 1873 - H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, captain of England in South Africa and an administrator who was knighted for his services to cricket, is born at Titsey in Surrey

Pakistan

• 1938 - Javed Burki, captain of Pakistan at the age of 24 and later an international match referee, is born at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

May 9

England

• 1901 - George Duckworth, wicketkeeper in 24 Tests for England in the 1920s and 1930s and later a tour organiser and manager for Commonwealth teams in India, is born at Warrington

West Indies

• 1932 - Conrad Hunte, opening batsman in 44 Tests and later international Test match referee, is born at St Andrew, Barbados

May 10

Zimbabwe

• 1972 - Stuart Carlisle, 37 Tests and 111 One-day Internationals, is born at Harare

May 11

Australia

• 1941 - Ian Redpath, 66 Tests for Australia over a dozen seasons and an average of 43, is born at Geelong

England

• 1906 - John King, batting for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval, is given out hit the ball twice, the last such dismissal in England to date
• 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, dies at Fordington, Dorset, aged 80

May 12

Australia

• 1867 - Hugh Trumble, off-spinning all-rounder who was a mainstay of the Australian attack throughout the 1890s and beyond, is born at Abbotsford, Victoria

England

• 1903 - Jim Parks, Sr., all-rounder who scored 3003 runs and took 101 wickets for a unique double in 1937, is born at Haywards Heath.
• 1979 - Robert Key is born at East Dulwich in south-east London

May 13

Australia

• 1904 - Tim Wall, fast bowler whose 10 wickets for 36 runs in a single innings for South Australia against New South Wales at Sydney in 1933 remains the best bowling performance in first-class cricket in Australia, is born at Semaphore, South Australia

May 14

Australia

• 1894 - Hunter Poon, first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, born.
• 2001 - Gil Langley dies, aged 81.

May 15

England

• 1924 - Don Kenyon, eight Test caps for England and captain of the first Worcestershire side to win the County Championship in 1964 and 1965 is born at Wordsley, Staffordshire
• 1935 - Ted Dexter, captain of England in the 1960s, is born in Milan, Italy
• 1948 - The Invincibles hit a still standing record of 721 runs against Essex at Southend-on-Sea.[4]

Australia

• 1917 - Invincible, Ron Saggers is born in Sydenham, New South Wales

May 16

Australia

• 1906 - Ernie McCormick is born at North Carlton, Victoria

West Indies

• 2010 - England win the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, beating Australia in the final played at Kensington Oval, Barbados.

May 17

Australia

• 1932 - Peter Burge, 42 Tests for Australia and then a match referee, is born at Kangaroo Point, Queensland

West Indies

• 1955 - Leslie Hylton is hanged in Jamaica after being convicted for the murder of his wife. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to die by capital punishment.

May 18

England

• 1935 - Harold Gimblett, a village cricketer aged 21 from Bicknoller, making his first-class debut for Somerset against Essex at Frome, bats at No 8 and hits 123, his hundred coming in 63 minutes and winning the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of the season.
• 1953 - The Rev. Tom Killick, who played two Tests for England in 1929, dies at the age of 46 while playing in a match between the diocesan clergy of St Albans and Coventry at Northampton.
• 1959 - Graham Dilley, fast-medium bowler in 41 Tests for England between 1979 and 1989, is born at Dartford, Kent.

May 19

England

• 1874 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, is born at Cheltenham

May 20

Australia

• 1968 - Albert Hartkopf dies, aged 78.

England

• 1911 - E. M. Grace, older brother of W. G. and a leading cricketer of the 1860s and 1870s, dies at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, aged 69. He was known as "The Coroner"
• 1944 - Keith Fletcher, 59 Tests for England and also captain and manager of the team, is born at Worcester

Wales

• 1921 - The first first-class cricket match played by Glamorgan in the County Championship ends in victory for the Welsh county over Sussex at Cardiff by 23 runs.

May 21

England

• 1993 - Robin Smith hits 167 not out for England against Australia at Edgbaston, the highest score in a One-day International for England.

India

• 1997 - Saeed Anwar hits 194 runs off 146 balls for Pakistan, the highest score ever made score in One Day Internationals.[5]

May 22

Australia

• 1879 – Warwick Armstrong was born at Kyneton, Victoria.
• 1907 – Australian Albert Trott, playing for Middlesex, took four wickets in four balls in Somerset's second innings and followed that with a hat-trick in the same innings, a feat not so far equalled.

May 23

England

• 1918 - Denis Compton is born in Hendon, Middlesex. In 1947, he made 18 centuries and 3816 runs, the most ever in an English cricket season. He also took 47 wickets.
• 1969 - Colin Milburn loses an eye in a car accident, ending his Test career.

West Indies

• 2006 - Ramnaresh Sarwan becomes the seventh batsman to score a century in his 100th One-day International, with an unbeaten 115 in the four-wicket victory over India at Basseterre, St Kitts

Zimbabwe

• 1966 - Graeme Hick is born in Harare, then called Salisbury.

May 24

England

• 1955 - Charles Palmer took eight wickets without conceding a run, seven of them bowled, for Leicestershire against Surrey.[6]

South Africa

• 1942 - Ali Bacher, captain of South Africa in the series before the apartheid era ban came into effect and influential administrator in the transition to multiracial cricket in South Africa, is born at Roodepoort.

May 25

Alan Kippax

Australia

• 1897 - Alan Kippax (pictured) is born at Sydney

England

• 1868 - Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868 play in their first tour match against Surrey. Surrey won by an innings and 7 runs.[7]

May 26

England

• 1868 - Edward Tylecote became the first man to score more than four hundred runs. The feat was accomplished at Clifton College, where thirty-one years later AEJ Collins would make the current highest individual score.
• 1976 - Paul Collingwood was born at Shotley Bridge
• 1996: Graham Thorpe took his only two international wickets, in an ODI against India at Old Trafford.

New Zealand

• 1947 - New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner was born in Dunedin. He is regarded as one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen.

South Africa

• 1920 - Jack Cheetham, successful and dynamic captain of South Africa on tours of England and Australia in the early 1950s, is born at Cape Town

May 27

Australia

• 1975 - Michael Hussey is born.

England

• 1887 - Frank Woolley is born at Tonbridge, Kent. Woolley went on to score the second-highest number of runs in first-class cricket, he is one of only two players to score 50,000 runs and take 2000 wickets, and is the only non-wicket-keeper to take 1000 catches.
• 1938 - Don Bradman completes 1,000 runs, the earliest in any English first-class season that this milestone has been achieved.

India

• 1962 - Former India cricketer Ravi Shastri is born. Shastri, an all–rounder who batted right–handed and bowled left arm spin, has since become a cricket commentator.

Sri Lanka

• 1977 - Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene is born.

May 28

England

• 1912 - Jimmy Matthews completed the unique feat of two Test hat-tricks in the same match, both on the same day.
• 1988 - Graeme Hick hit 172 against West Indies to become the second man since the Second World War to score 1000 first-class runs in England before the end of May.

West Indies

• 1956 - West Indian wicket-keeper batsman Jeff Dujon was born in Kingston. He has 272 Test dismissals and 3322 Test runs to his name.

May 29

Australia

• 1839 - Australians Nat Thomson and Ned Gregory were born. Both would play in the first ever Test match. Thomson was the first man to be dismissed in a Test and Gregory made the first duck.

England

• 1902 - Edgbaston hosted its first Test match, the 12th Test venue worldwide and the only one (out of 94 to the start of the 2007 season) to host its first Test in the month of May.

West Indies

• 2000 - West Indies recorded the ninth one-wicket victory in Tests as Jimmy Adams and Courtney Walsh added 19 against Pakistan.

May 30

England

• 1887 - Playing for Hampshire, Sir Francis Lacey made 323*, the highest score in a Minor Counties match.
• 1949 - England's Bob Willis was born. He went on play ninety Tests for England, taking 325 wickets in the process. He also captained his country in eighteen Tests.

West Indies

• 1909 - George Headley was born in Panama. In his twenty-two Test matches for West Indies, he averaged over sixty.

May 31

England

• 1815 - The first first-class game at the current Lord's ground was played.
• 1928 - Charlie Hallows, needing an innings of 232 to complete 1,000 runs in the month of May, makes exactly that score for Lancashire in the match against Sussex at Manchester, and then is out next ball. Only two other players – W. G. Grace in 1895 and Wally Hammond in 1927 – have achieved 1,000 in the calendar month.

India

• 1928 - Indian Pankaj Roy was born in Kolkata. He added 413 with Ashok Mankad to make the largest opening partnership in history.

Sri Lanka

• 1966 - Roshan Mahanama, who shared 576 with Sanath Jayasuriya to make the highest ever Test partnership, was born.

South Africa

• 1924 - Russell Endean, South African cricketer and first man to be given out handled the ball, was born.