1894 - Birth of one of the best wicket keeper of all time, Australian Bert Oldfield, who was born today. He was the first to make 100 dismissals in Test cricket and 52 of his 130 victims were stumped

1959 - A car crash in England injured Garry Sobers and killed team-mate O’Neil Gordon “Collie” Smith. Two years earlier, while West Indies were losing the Test series in England, he had scored 161 at Edgbaston and 168 at Trent Bridge. Smith scored 44 and 104 on his debut Test, against the Australians on his home ground in Kingston in 1954-55. His off-breaks brought him 48 Test wickets, including 5/90 in Delhi in 1958-59, a series in which he scored his final Test century. A crowd of 60,000 attended his funeral, in Jamaica

[caption id="attachment_160045" align="alignnone" width="278"] In 1959 a car crash in England injured Garry Sobers and killed team-mate O’Neil Gordon “Collie” Smith[/caption]

1960 - Pakistan ended India’s run of six consecutive Olympic field hockey gold medals with a 1-0 win over their sub-continent rivals at the Rome Games

1972 - Soviet Union beat the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with US leading 50-49 the final; three seconds is replayed three times until the Soviets finally win. This was first time USA lost a game since basketball was introduced as Olympic event in 1936

[caption id="attachment_160046" align="alignnone" width="460"] Soviet Union beat the USA 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history[/caption]

1978 - Chris Evert won her fourth straight US singles title, beating fellow American Pam Shriver 7-5, 6-4. It was the first time the event was played on hard courts

1985 - Birth of Croatian midfielder Luka Modric. He won the Ballon d’Or in 2018. His heroics in the 2018 FIFA World Cup helped Croatia reached the finals

[caption id="attachment_160047" align="alignnone" width="419"] Croatian midfielder Luka Modric[/caption]

1990 - The 19-year-old Pete Sampras won his first Grand Slam title after beating fellow American Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to become the youngest male US Open winner

1994 - For a batsman who has scored so many One-Day International hundreds (ODI), Sachin Tendulkar had to wait an inordinately long time for his first. In his 78th ODI, a Singer World Series day-nighter against Australia at the R. Premadasa Stadium, he hit 110, the first 50 in 43 balls. India won by 31 runs and went on to take the trophy

2001 - Lleyton Hewitt of Australia became the youngest world No. 1 player at 20 years of age after beating Pete Sampras 7-6, 6-1, 6-1

2019 - Arguably Afghanistan’s finest moment in their first decade as an international side when they beat Bangladesh in a Test in Chattogram on this day. Afghanistan’s icon player and freshly installed Captain Rashid Khan --the youngest in men’s Test cricket history-- became the first player to take ten wickets and score a fifty in his first Test in charge. On day one, Rahmat Shah became his team’s first century-maker in Tests