10th March Down the Years

• 10 MARCH

• Born on this day were: 
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• Spencer William Gore (1850-1906), English tennis player who won the inaugural Wimbledon in 1877 and who had played first-class cricket for Surrey in 1874-75 (His successor as Wimbledon champion, Patrick Hadow, had also played four matches for Middlesex in 1873-74);
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• Clement Arthur Milton (1928-), English batsman who made a century on debut at Headingley in 1958 and became the first Englishman to be on the field throughout an entire Test match (He also played football for England);
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• Ijaz Butt (1938-), Pakistani opening batsman in eight Tests (1958-60) and current PCB Chairman; and
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• Greg Campbell (1964-), Australian pace bowler who played four Tests for Australia and who is Ricky Ponting’s uncle.
• In 1907 the great Ranjitsinhji was installed as the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar. From the moment of his succession he tried his best to bury his fame as a cricketer. When with other leading men of affairs he always insisted on talking affairs of state, while they wanted to talk cricket. It stood, in the way of his being taken seriously.
• In 1953 New Zealand were bowled out for 172 in both their innings in the first Test against South Africa at Wellington. This was the first of seven such occurrences in Test cricket. In this match South African D.J. McGlew scored an unbeaten 255 and became only the second player after Nazar Mohammad to be on the field throughout a Test match.
• In 1970 South Africa completed their first series whitewash with another thumping victory over Australia at Port Elizabeth. Their 4-0 win was made up of four huge victories: 170 runs, an innings and 129 runs, 307 runs, and 323 runs. But thanks to apartheid South Africa would not play another Test for 22 years.
• In 1974 Lawrence Rowe hit a triple century in the third Test against England in Barbados. His 302 included 36 fours and a six, and came off just 430 balls. In the same match Tony Greig became the first Englishman to make a century (148) and take a five-wicket haul (6 for 164) in the same Test.
• In 1982 Salim Malik, aged 18 years 328 days, became the youngest player (at the time) to score a century on Test debut (100 not out) in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Karachi. Malik has since been usurped, first by Zimbabwe’s Hamilton Masakadza and then Bangladesh’s Mohammad Ashraful.
• In 1985 India won the Benson & Hedges World Cricket Championship beating Pakistan at Melbourne by eight wickets. The seven-nation tournament was held to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Victoria. Ravi Shastri was declared the ‘Championship of Champions’. During the tournament the Melbourne Cricket Ground became the second stadium to host day-night cricket under lights.
• In 2004 Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe at Harare to register their first international win since May 1999.
• In 2006 Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan became second bowler to take 600 Test wickets.
• In 2009 Australia defeated South Africa 2-0, thus taking the revenge for the home-series loss against them earlier in the season Chasing a target of 546, South Africa were bowled out for 370 as Peter Siddle and Simon Katich took three wickets each.

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