# ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS
1921 - The first-ever Ashes Test cricket whitewash. Australia finish it in Sydney today with another comprehensive victory; this time by nine wickets
1955 - Pakistan and India finished off their first five-Test series to be drawn 0-0 with a rain-affected stalemate in Karachi
1958 - The 21-year-old Garry Sobers turned his maiden Test century into a stunning 365 not out at Sabina Park, beating by one run the previous highest score in Test cricket, Len Hutton’s 364 against Australia in 1938
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Garry Sobers, 21, during his historic knock of 365 not out at Sabina Park in 1958[/caption]
1980 - “Boom boom” Shahid Afridi, who scored One-Day International (ODI) century off 37 balls in his debut at the age of 16, against Sri Lanka in Kenya, is born
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Shahid Afridi during his world-record 37-ball hundred against Sri Lanka in Nairobi[/caption]
# UNUSUAL
1965 - Australian swimming authorities suspend triple Olympic-gold-medal winning sprinter Dawn Fraser for 10 years for misconduct at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics
1992 - Pakistan were routed for 74 runs by England on a sweaty track in Adelaide during the World Cup, but rain washed out the match giving Pakistan one point that was the difference between qualification for the semi-finals and an early exit. They went on to win the World Cup that time under Imran Khan!
# BIRTHS
1918 - Birth of Ceylonese hurdler Duncan White, the first Olympic medallist from Sri Lanka, then Ceylon - a silver medal in men’s 400 m hurdles in 1948 in London
1953 - Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket Captain Bandula Warnapura is born today
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Sanjeewa Weerasinghe with his family in Australia[/caption]
1968 - Birth of Sri Lanka’s youngest Test cricketer Sanjeewa Weerasinghe
2 March # ACHIEVEMENTS / HISTORIC EVENTS 1992 - American swimmer Anita Hall breaks the 200 m breaststroke world record twice in one day 1996 - In Delhi, Sri Lanka massacre India by six wickets in a cricket World Cup Group game, chasing 272 to win. The match is remembered for Sanath Jayasuriya’s thundering 79 which prompted retirement of Indo fast-bowler Manoj Prabhakar from the game as he went for 33 runs in two overs and 47 in his four [caption id="attachment_191579" align="alignnone" width="455"]
The dejected Indians after the 1996 World Cup Group game against Sri Lanka in Delhi[/caption]
2008 - India beat South Africa in the final to win the 2008 Under-19 cricket World Cup in Malaysia
2011 - Ireland batter Kevin O’Brien smoked the fastest hundred in World Cup history, off 50 balls, against the old enemy, England
2019 - New Zealand's highest Test total, 715/6 declared, comes on this day in Hamilton against Bangladesh
2019 - Roger Federer beats Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in Dubai to win his 100th Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tour title
# UNUSUAL
1974 - Australia batter Greg Chappell cracks a Test-best 247 not out and 133 in a Test in Wellington. His elder brother made 145 and 121 making it the only instance of brothers scoring a hundred in both innings of a first-class match
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In 1974, Australia’s Greg (on left) and Ian Chappell became the only brothers to score centuries on both innings in a Test[/caption]
# BIRTHS
1964 - Birth of American surfer Laird Hamilton, the co-inventor of tow-in surfing. He holds the records for the heaviest wave ever ridden successfully
1977 - Birth of former England cricket Captain Andrew Strauss
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Fast-bowler Darshana Gamage who played for Sri Lanka in 2003 in 43 today[/caption]
1979 - Birth of Sri Lankan seam bowler Dharshana Gamage