Brendon Kuruppu makes his double-hundred to the utmost ecstasy of the local spectators at CCC on 19 April 1987 against NZ[/caption]
1897 - John J. McDermott of New York wins the first Boston Marathon (15 runners, 24.5 miles) with a time of 2:55:10 seconds
1933 - Birth of Harold “Dickie” Bird, who is noted as an England Test umpire. After a modest first-class career with Yorkshire and Leicestershire, he wrote the bestselling sports autobiography in British history after a 66-Test career that ended emotionally and tearfully at Lord’s in 1996
1966 - Birth of Paul Reiffel, Australian pace bowler
1975 - Birth of Jason “Dizzy” Gillespie, another Australian pacie
1987 - Brendon Kuruppu scores 201 on Test cricket debut for Sri Lanka versus New Zealand in Colombo. His 777-minute innings is the slowest double-hundred in first-class history, all very out of character for a man who later made his reputation as an ODI slogger. It was his first first-class century, and his last Test hundred: Kuruppu only played four Tests, two of them in England, in 1988 and 1991
1991 - Battle of the Ages: Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 42-year old George Foreman in 12 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
1996 - The day West Indies fast bowler by the name Patterson Thompson had a shocking Test debut against New Zealand in Barbados. He bowled 22 no-balls and returned match figures of 22-1-135-4 - which ruined his career