18 SEPTEMBER
Born on this day were:
RJD Jamshedji (1892-1976), Indian slow left-arm bowler who at 41 years 27 days holds the record for being the oldest Indian player to make his Test debut (against England in 1932 at Bombay);
Winston Davis (1958-), West Indian pace bowler whose 7 for 51 against Australia in the 1983 World Cup was a record for the tournament till it was bettered by both Glenn McGrath (7 for 15) and Andy Bichel (7 for 20) in 2003 ;
Derek Pringle (1958-), English all-rounder who is now cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (His late father Don played for East Africa in the 1975 World Cup); and
Darren Gough (1970-), English fast bowler.
In 1985 Kapil Dev passed Bishen Singh Bedi's record of 266 Test wickets against Sri Lanka at Kandy.
In 1997 it was the first day of the first Test to feature three pairs of brothers in one Test team. Andy and Grant Flower, Bryan and Paul Strang, and Gavin and John Rennie played for Zimbabwe against New Zealand at Harare. Guy Whittall was also in the team and his cousin Andy was 12th man. Grant Flower made a century in each innings of a drawn match.
In 1997 Sourav Ganguly's career best 5 for 16 in a ODI against Pakistan at Toronto gave India a win by 34 runs and a winning 3-0 lead in the series.
In 2001 South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis set a world record at Bulawayo for batting for the longest time without being dismissed in Test cricket. Kallis who made 388 runs in the two Test series, during his innings of 157 not out, 42 not out and 189 not out, batted for 1,028 minutes – seven more than Nasser Hussain of England against South Africa in 1999-2000. He extended his record to 1,241 minutes, a record, which was broken by Shivnarine Chanderpaul in the fourth Test against India at Antigua later in the season when he remained undefeated on 136 at the end of the last day.
