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| Sachin Tendulkar Raises his bat after His First ODI century. |
1994
For a batsman who has scored so many one-day international hundreds, 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 Colombo's Premadasa Stadium, he hit 110, the first 50 in 43 balls. India won by 31 runs and went on to take the trophy.
1959
A car crash in England injured Garry Sobers and killed his close friend, an allrounder who might have gone on to rival his achievements. Two years earlier, while West Indies were losing the Test series in England, O'Neil Gordon "Collie" Smith had scored 161 at Edgbaston and 168 at Trent Bridge. "A joyful character," according to the Wisden Almanack, "he won many admirers." Smith scored 44 and 104 on his Test debut, against the powerful Australians on his home ground in Kingston in 1954-55. His offbreaks brought him 48 Test wickets, including 5 for 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.
Sep 9, 1894: Australia' Bert Oldfield born - He was the first to make 100 dismissals in Tests. He made 52 stumpings, still a world record.
