1998
A battle royale between two legends who had had several face-offs over the years. And Sachin Tendulkar won again. The enduring image of this match in Sharjah is of Shane Warne swatting flies away from his face, looking perplexedly at Tendulkar, who read the pitch of Warne's deliveries before they landed and sent them across the boundary. Tendulkar scored 143 in 131 balls - then his highest in ODIs - and though India lost (thanks largely to a well-paced hundred from Michael Bevan), they qualified for the final. Tendulkar made 134 in that match, on his 25th birthday, and India won the Coca Cola Cup.
1981
Jonathan Trott, born today, announced himself in Test cricket with a century on debut at The Oval in 2009 that enabled England to win the Ashes.
1959
Birth of the stylish Ranjan Madugalle, a regular fixture in the Sri Lankan middle order in their formative years as a Test-playing nation. He was only once on the winning side, and made only one century - 103 against India in Colombo in 1985-86. Madugalle went on to head the ICC's elite panel of match referees.
A battle royale between two legends who had had several face-offs over the years. And Sachin Tendulkar won again. The enduring image of this match in Sharjah is of Shane Warne swatting flies away from his face, looking perplexedly at Tendulkar, who read the pitch of Warne's deliveries before they landed and sent them across the boundary. Tendulkar scored 143 in 131 balls - then his highest in ODIs - and though India lost (thanks largely to a well-paced hundred from Michael Bevan), they qualified for the final. Tendulkar made 134 in that match, on his 25th birthday, and India won the Coca Cola Cup.
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| Sachin Tendulkar vs Shane Warne in Coca Cola Cup |
1981
Jonathan Trott, born today, announced himself in Test cricket with a century on debut at The Oval in 2009 that enabled England to win the Ashes.
1959
Birth of the stylish Ranjan Madugalle, a regular fixture in the Sri Lankan middle order in their formative years as a Test-playing nation. He was only once on the winning side, and made only one century - 103 against India in Colombo in 1985-86. Madugalle went on to head the ICC's elite panel of match referees.
