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On This Day - 4 January: Happy birthday Chamila Gamage!

03 Jan 2022

     

# ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS

1887 - Thomas Stevens becomes first man to bicycle around the world - starting from San Francisco and back to San Francisco

[caption id="attachment_182569" align="alignnone" width="454"] A diagram showing Thomas Stevens ‘bicycling’ in China during his world ride[/caption]

1906 - South Africa record their first-ever Test victory beating England by one run. They won the next two Tests as well, and took the series 4-1

# UNUSUAL

1898 - No not Muralitharan! Australian fast-bowler Ernie Jones becomes famous for being called for throwing in Test cricket, for the first time ever

1937 - The start of Don Bradman’s memorable innings of 270 against England in Melbourne. Bradman thus hits his highest score against England at home, sharing a record stand of 346 with Jack Fingleton. In the series, Australia become the only side to come back to win, from two-down in a five-match series!

1991 - The 12-year-old Chinese diver Fu Mingxia wins 10 m platform gold medal at World Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia to become the youngest world champion in the history of any aquatic event

[caption id="attachment_182570" align="alignnone" width="454"] Chinese diver Fu Mingxia, 12, who became the youngest world champion in the history of aquatic sport[/caption]

2002 - Muttiah Muralitharan comes agonisingly close to the best innings-figures in Test cricket. By the first evening in Kandy against Zimbabwe, he had taken 9/51 from 39 overs. The record was and still is England’s Jim Laker’s 10/53 in 51.2 overs. The next morning Travis Friend offered a regulation bat-pad catch off Murali’s first ball, only for Russel Arnold to drop it; then an lbw appeal was turned down. At the other end Chaminda Vaas took the final wicket. Murali ended up at 9/51 in 40 overs, still the sixth best ever in Tests!

[caption id="attachment_182571" align="alignnone" width="455"] Muttiah Muralitharan during the sixth-best bowling feat (9/51) in all-time Tests, in Kandy in 2002[/caption]

2016 - Chris Gayle makes sexist remarks to a pitch-side reporter on camera during Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). “I wanted to come and have an interview with you as well. That’s the reason why I’m here. Just to see your eyes for the first time. It’s nice so… Hopefully we can win this game and have a drink after. Don’t blush, baby,” Gayle told Channel Ten’s Mel McLaughlin

# BIRTHS

1935 - Birth of American boxer Floyd Patterson

1979 - Birth of Sri Lankan seam bowler Chamila Gamage, who burst onto international cricket with a wicket off his very first delivery in Tests

1990 - Birth of German footballer Toni Kroos, who won 13 trophies including two La Liga titles and three UEFA Champions League titles

 

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