1975 - The first World Cup and an England-Australia semi-final in front of a raucous Yorkshire crowd. Australian left-arm seamer Gary “Gus” Gilmour, in his first match of the tournament, took figures of 12-6-14-6; his wickets were all in the top seven - Amiss, Wood, Fletcher, Greig, Hayes, and Knott - and left England for dead at 37/7. They limped to 93 - which might have been enough, but for Gilmour’s run-a-ball 28, which rescued the Aussies from a fraught 39/6
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Gary Gilmour returns to pavilion after taking 6/14 with (from left) Doug Walters, Road Marsh, Dennis Lillee, Max Walker, and Rick McCosker in the 1975 cricket World Cup 1975 semi-final vs. England at Headingley on 18 June[/caption]
1979 - The only game of the second World Cup that was won by an Associate nation - over three days, owing to a late start and the fact that the following day was a rest day. Sunil Wettimuny, Roy Dias, and Duleep Mendis made half-centuries on a placid Old Trafford track to take Sri Lanka to 238. India started their chase on the Monday confidently, but after Gundappa Viswanath was run out for 22, they lost their last seven wickets for 59. Leg-spinner D.S. De Silva and medium-pacer Tony Opatha took three each
1990 - First “sudden-death” US Open Golf Championship is won by Hale Irwin. It is a form of playoff: the first player to win a hole wins the match
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Hale Irwin is one of the few players in history to win three US Opens. In 1990 became the oldest ever US Open champion at the age of 45, beating Mike Donald in a competition held on the “sudden-death” format[/caption]
2019 - Eoin Morgan smashed a record 17 sixes in a World Cup game against Afghanistan, taking England to 397, their seventh innings score of over 375 since they moved into beastly batting mode during mid-2015. Morgan ended up on 148 and England hit 25 sixes in all - also a record. Special treatment was reserved for Afghanistan’s icon Rashid Khan, who went for 110 runs off his nine overs - again, you guessed it, a record, mentioned Cricinfo
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England Skipper Eoin Morgan struck 148 against Afghanistan in the 2019 World Cup, which they England eventually won. Morgan smashed a record 17 sixes in that exhilarating knock[/caption]
2019 - The Mali women’s team were dismissed for a total of six (6) runs today --a record-- in the Kwibuka Women’s T20 tournament in Kigali, Rwanda. The home side took four balls to knock the target off. Mali’s innings lasted nine overs, but only one of their six runs came off the bat; after that, it was a sequence of ducks, with five extras!