19 JULY
Born on this day were:
John Gunn (1876-1963), English all-rounder whose exceptionally long first-class career him play first-class cricket saw him play first-class cricket when he was over 50, scoring over 20,000 runs and taking over a 1,000 wickets (He played six Tests all against Australia and his uncle William and brother George also played for England);
Arthur Fielder (1877-1949), who played six Test for England, all against Australia (In 1906 he became the only person to take all ten wickets in an innings for Players against Gentlemen at Lord's);
P. Ananda Rau (1914-91), South India's outstanding cricket commentator from 1943 till the 1970s for both first-class and Test cricket;
Dom Moraes (1938-), Indian poet and author who published a book on cricket called Green is the Grass in 1951 when he was just 13 – the youngest writer on cricket at the time;
R(oger) M(ichael) H(umphrey) Binny (1955-), Indian all-rounder who was the first Anglo-Indian to play for India and who took the highest number of wickets (18) in the 1983 World Cup; and
Dilhara Fernando (1979-) Sri Lanka pace bowler.
In 1986 Australian George Giffen (1237 runs and 101 wickets in 30 Tests) became the first all-rounder to do the Test 'double' of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, against England at Old Trafford.
In 1899 Australian Monty Noble (60 not out and 59 not out) became the only batsman in Test cricket to score two fifties on the same day against England at Old Trafford.
In 1952 India suffered the ignominy of being the only Test side to be dismissed twice in one day in a Test match in the 20th century. They were bowled out at Old Trafford, Manchester for 58 and 82 losing to England by an innings and 207 runs. Trueman took 8 for 31 in the first innings and Tony Lock 4 for 36 in 9.3 overs as 22 wickets fell in the day. It would be 49 years until England next played Test cricket on July 19.
In 1993 this was the last day of first-class cricket for Ian Botham. Halfway through Durham's tour match against the Australians, Botham announced that it would be his last. He made 32 and went wicketless. On the same day Lancashire's Glen Chappel scored a first-class hundred in just 21 minutes against Glomorgan at Manchester. This came in contrived circumstances (when runs were given from full tosses and long hops to expedite a declaration) and hence does not qualify as a record. Chappel's hundred came against non-serious bowlers, Tony Cottey (6-0-121-0) and Matthew Maynard (6-0-110-1).
In 2003 Surrey won the inaugural Twenty20 Cup beating Warwickshire at Trent Bridge by nine wickets. The Twenty20 Cup was a major new addition to the cricket season, replacing the Benson & Hedges Cup in the English domestic calendar. On the same day Steve Waugh made 100 not out against Bangladesh in the first Test at Darwin to make his 31st century and also equal Gary Kirsten's record making hundreds against all nine other Test playing nations.
