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On This Day - 31 August: Sobers hits six sixes in an over in England

31 Aug 2021

     

1877 - Birth of American baseball pitcher Lizzie Arlington, the first woman to play professional baseball. She passed away in 1919

1944 - Birth of remarkable West Indian cricket Captain Clive Lloyd. He led Windies in 74 of his 110 Tests, helping them reach the pinnacle of world cricket. He led them to a record 26 Test wins without a defeat, including the memorable 1984 “blackwash” series in England. In the one-day arena, Lloyd took West Indies to two back-to-back World Cup titles, in 1975 and 1979, and to the final in the next, in 1983

[caption id="attachment_158199" align="alignnone" width="357"] Clive Lloyd in 1969 at the age of 24. He is 77 today[/caption]

1968 - Garry Sobers smashed Malcolm Nash for six sixes off an over for the first time in first-class cricket

[caption id="attachment_158200" align="alignnone" width="460"] At St. Helen’s, Swansea, Sobers hammering six sixes in an over by Malcolm Nash in a 1968 English county match. Sobers made 76 n.o. and his team Nottinghamshire beat Glamorgan by 166 runs in the three-day encounter[/caption]

1969 - Indian pacer Javagal Srinath was born today. He formed a successful partnership with his Karnataka team-mate Venkatesh Prasad in the mid 1990s. Srinath announced his retirement in November 2003, with 236 Test wickets to his name. He has since served as an International Cricket Council (ICC) Match Referee

1971 - Adrienne Beames runs female world-record marathon, becomes the first woman to break the three-hour barrier clocking 2:46.30 seconds

1972 - American super swimmer Mark Spitz wraps up the Olympic butterfly double with a world record 54.27 seconds in the 100 m in Munich, having already won the 200 m in a world record time 2:00.70

1979 - The battle of American teenage tennis prodigies, 16-year-old Tracy Austin beats 14-year-old Andrea Jaeger 6-2, 6-2 in the US Open second-round

1987 - The Great Potato Incident: Minor league Williamsport Bills catcher Dave Bresnahan attempts to lure an opposing base-runner off third base using a potato, carved to look like a baseball. Umpire calls runner safe, and the catcher is fined $ 50 and released by the team

[caption id="attachment_158201" align="alignnone" width="360"] In 1997 a computer ‘Deep Blue’ beats a reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time[/caption]

1994 - Pentium computer Deep Blue beats world chess champion Garry Kasparov. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City in 1997 and won by Deep Blue

[caption id="attachment_158202" align="alignnone" width="358"] Fans celebrate probably the highest point the 1996 World Cup-winning Sri Lankans reached: Win one-off Test at The Oval after winning the title in the preceding ODI tri-series[/caption]

1998 - Sri Lanka records the most memorable Test cricket win, against England at The Oval. The feats by Muttiah Muralitharan (16 wickets for 220 runs), Sanath Jayasuriya (213 fiery runs and his air-born sixer), and Aravinda de Silva (the classic 152) in that match are still embedded in the fans’ mind

 

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