4 March
# ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS
1984 - Tennis legend Martina Navratilova retains her Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour Championship in New York beating Chris Evert 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 for her fifth overall Championship title
1992 - In the World Cup match in Sydney, which India won by 43 runs, Javed Miandad mimicked Kiran More’s hyperactive form of appealing by repeatedly jumping up and down
[caption id="attachment_191987" align="alignnone" width="453"] Javed Miandad’s mocking of Indian wicket-keeper Kiran More that became an iconic image of the rivalry between the two sides[/caption]1986 - Allan Border became only the fifth batter ever to score two centuries in a Test match, in Christchurch, New Zealand
2021 - In Antigua Kieron Pollard become only the third batter to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket - and the second in Twenty20 Internationals - after Herschelle Gibbs in the 2007 World Cup and Yuvraj Singh in the 2007 T20 World Cup. Sri Lanka bowler Akila Dananjaya had just rocked West Indies with a hat-trick in his previous over before Pollard laid into him
# UNUSUAL
1931 - Herman Griffith dismissed Don Bradman for a duck for the first time in his Test career, in Sydney
# BIRTHS
1918 - Birth of American tennis player Margaret Osborne DuPont, a six-time Grand Slam singles winner
[caption id="attachment_191989" align="alignnone" width="357"] Margaret Osborne DuPont (1918-2012), world No. 1 American female tennis player[/caption]1967 - Birth of former South Africa batsman Daryll Cullinan, the youngest South African to make a first-class hundred (aged 16)
1984 - Irish all-rounder Kevin O’Brien is born
5 March
# ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS
1864 - First track meet between Oxford and Cambridge, England
1949 - Donald Bradman plays his last innings in first-class cricket, gets 30
1966 - Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19 m indoor world record
1971 - A sixth consecutive first-class century for that great South African all-rounder Mike Procter
1992 - Beefy’s last hurrah. The final international appearance of England cricket legend Ian Botham
2004 - Pakistan win the Under-19 Cricket World Cup by beating West Indies by 25 runs in Dhaka
# BIRTHS
1921 - Pakistan’s first Test centurion Nazar Mohammad is born
1951 - Birth of Rodney Hogg, the prolific Australian wicket-taker during 1978-84
1963 - Birth of Eddo Brandes, Zimbabwe Test pace bowler
1975 - Birth of Chris Silverwood, England Test pace bowler and their former Head Coach
[caption id="attachment_191988" align="alignnone" width="358"] Ishara Amerasinghe takes Matthew Hayden’s wickets in Sydney in 2008[/caption]1978 - Ishara Amerasinghe, the six-foot Sri Lanka fast-bowler, is born