1992
Pakistan's finest hour when Imran's cornered tigers savaged England under the Melbourne lights in a memorable World Cup final. Remember Graham Gooch dropping Imran Khan? Derek Pringle trapping Javed Miandad distinctly adjacent early in his vital innings? But two moments that nobody ever forgets are the successive, violently swinging deliveries from Wasim Akram to Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis, which castled them both and decided the match.

1885
The end of Test cricket's first five-match series. It seems unthinkable now, but England went through the whole series unchanged. They won it too: 3-2 after an innings victory in this final Test at the MCG. This despite Fred Spofforth slapping the first fifty by a No. 11 in a Test and in Australian first-class cricket.

1868
Birth of Bill Lockwood, the fast bowler who played 12 Tests for England at the turn of the 20th century. He ended with an average of 20.53, and in first-class cricket he took a wicket every 37.8 balls, or just over six overs. Lockwood had five years out of Test cricket, after almost being killed by a shark and turning to drink when his wife and one of his children died, before making a brave comeback. In 1902 he took 11 for 76 against Australia at Old Trafford - and England still lost. He died in Old Radford, near Nottingham, in 1932.

1979
The first day of the fourth World Series Cricket SuperTest between West Indies and Australia at Georgetown was abandoned after rioting which followed a lengthy rain delay. The damage caused was so extensive that the match did not start until two days later, and with it curtailed to three days a draw was almost inevitable.

1953
A flat-track bully is born. The burly Pakistani middle-order batsman Haroon Rashid could be a devastating strokemaker, but he wasn't so comfortable when the ball was jagging around. Against England in Pakistan he averaged 84.25; against England in England a mere 5.67, although he did clout one unforgettable six onto the top of the Grand Stand at Lord's in 1978. He also biffed six sixes in his 108 against England at Hyderabad in 1977-78. Pakistan won each of his last five tests, but Haroon was dumped after a duck - in a total of 581 for 3 - against India at Hyderabad in 1982-83.

1973
A double dose of the nervous ninety-nines at Karachi. Majid Khan and Mushtaq Mohammad both fell one short in the third Test between England and Pakistan. Mushtaq's misery was compounded by his being run out. It was infectious stuff: two days later Dennis Amiss was caught for 99, completing a unique Test hat-trick.

1991
It's one of life's more peculiar statistics that Allan Border had a better bowling average against West Indies (24.32) than Messrs Lindwall (27.34), Lillee (27.75), Miller (25.98) or Warne (32.27). Everyone knows about his 11-for at Sydney in 1988-89, but on this day in Guyana he took 4 for 0 in nine balls. However, Border's burst only came after Des Haynes and Richie Richardson had given the proper bowlers a fearsome buffeting. Greg Matthews had figures of 37.5-6-155-3. Fairly ordinary in this helter-skelter day and age, but then this was a real pasting.

1889
A strange kind of one-cap wonderdom. South African left-arm slow-medium bowler Gobo Ashley took 7 for 95 against England at Cape Town - but his side lost by an innings and 202 runs, and he never played again.

Other birthdays
1870 Rockley Wilson (England)
1888 Morice Bird (England)
1944 Ross Duncan (Australia)
1958 Yograj Singh (India)
1971 Aashish Kapoor (India)
1977 Brooke Walker (New Zealand)
1978 Imran Abbas (Pakistan)

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