1983
Desmond Haynes became only the fourth batsman to be given out handled the ball in Tests, in the fourth match between India and West Indies at Bombay. A ball from Kapil Dev went off the inside edge and pad, and was rolling towards the stumps when Haynes brushed it away. It didn't affect the match too much, though: it was a high-scoring draw that included Dilip Vengsarkar's second hundred in successive Tests and Viv Richards's sixth hundred in 18 matches against India. It was also the Test debut of Richie Richardson, who started inauspiciously: lbw b Shivlal Yadav 0.

1982
A debutant who did slightly better on this day was Kepler Wessels. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, but qualified for Australia and cracked 162 on debut, on his adopted home ground, in the second Test against England at Brisbane. England were under the cosh from the moment Geoff Lawson (6 for 47) bundled them out for 219 early on the second morning. Wessels, helped by a skittish 53 from Bruce Yardley, then gave Australia a lead of 122. Jeff Thomson (5 for 73) tore through England's middle order in the second innings, and Lawson picked up another five as Australia took a 1-0 lead with a seven-wicket victory. The wheels were coming off for England, who went on to lose the series 2-1.

1993
The one-day Hero Cup final at Calcutta saw Anil Kumble conquer West Indies with an outstanding display. He took 6 for 12, the fifth-best figures in ODI history and the best by an Indian, with all his wickets coming at a cost of four runs in a 26-ball spell. West Indies had elected to bowl first - a tactic that had served them well in their semi-final victory over Sri Lanka - and a target of 226 seemed perfectly gettable when they got to 57 for 1, but then nine went down for 66 and the game was up with almost ten overs to spare. Roland Holder became the first person to be given out bowled by a TV umpire - the onfield officials weren't sure if the ball had gone off wicketkeeper Vijay Yadav onto the stumps. A crowd estimated at close to 100,000 remains a world record for any day's cricket.

1990
A tortuous defeat for Sri Lanka in a one-off Test against India at Chandigarh. India crawled to 288, but it was enough for an innings victory - and Sri Lanka's totals of 82 and 198 used up 51.5 and 120.4 overs respectively. Only two men made double figures in the first innings, and Asanka Gurusinha's unbeaten 52 accounted for 63.4% of the total, the fourth-highest in Test history. Playing in only his third Test, Indian left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju had remarkable match figures of 53.5-38-37-8. It was India's first win in 15 Tests - the barren 14 had all been overseas.

1985
Masterly blasting from Viv Richards, who smote 80 off only 39 balls to take West Indies to a comfortable eight-wicket win over Pakistan in the first match of the Wills Series at Gujranwala. One over from Abdul Qadir went for 24, and it was the start of a run of six fifties in eight ODI innings for Richards. Pakistan's 218 for 5 off 40 overs seemed to be competitive, but Richards' brutal assault saw West Indies home with 27 deliveries to spare.

1950
The first day of a match between the Bombay Governor's XI and Frank Worrell's Commonwealth XI at Bombay. Nothing too exciting in that, but it did mark the debut of the oldest man ever to play first-class cricket. Raja Maharaj Singh took his first-class bow ... at the age of 72! He made 4, didn't bowl, took no catches - and didn't play again.

Other birthdays

1860 Harry Musgrove (Australia)
1935 Prakash Bhandari (India)
1935 Charran Singh (West Indies)
1962 Daniel McDonald (Kenya)
1969 Alan Dawson (South Africa)

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