All Today’s Yesterdays – August 20 down the years August 19 | August 21 1930 Australia were eventually all out for 695 in the deciding Test at TheOval
Wisden CricInfo staff20-Aug-2003
All Today’s Yesterdays – August 20 down the years
August 19 | August 21
1930
Australia were eventually all out for 695 in the deciding Test at TheOval. Their top score, a 232 which according to Wisden ‘overshadowedeverything else’, set the seal on the young Don Bradman’s triumphantfirst tour of England. It was his last knock of a series in which hescored 974 runs, still a world record, including three scores of over200. Australia went on to win by an innings and regain the Ashes.1930
Death of the first batsman to score a Test century – which isunderstating it a bit. Against England at Melbourne in 1876-77 , Charles Bannerman faced the first ball in Test cricket, scored the first run,the first fifty and the first hundred. By the time he retired hurt witha damaged finger, he’d made 165 of Australia’s total of 245, still thehighest percentage of a completed innings in all Tests. His highestscore in his two subsequent Tests was an unremarkable 30 – but his placein Test history is secure. His brother Alick, a famous stonewallingbatsman, also played for Australia.1900
Second and last day of the only cricket match ever played at the OlympicGames. Devon County Wanderers scored 117 and 145 to beat the Union desSociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (78 and 26) by 158 runs at theVélodrome de Vincennes, a cycling track in Paris. Montague Toller took 7for 10 in that dismal second innings of 26. The French team included such typically French names as Anderson, Attrill, Browning, Robinson and Henry Terry.1952
The leading England offpsinner of his generation was born. John Embureytook 147 Test wickets, including best figures of 7 for 78 at Sydney in1986-87. An eccentric but decidedly useful lower-order batsmen, he hitten Test fifties, including 70 and 74 not out at Karachi in 1987-88. Asa replacement for the sacked Mike Gatting, he captained England to twodefeats by the all-conquering West Indies in 1988, and is now back atMiddlesex after an unsuccessful stint as coach at Northants.1987
The start of the runfest that was the MCC v Rest of the World match atLord’s. Staged to celebrate MCC’s 200th anniversary, the game sawcenturies from the G-men: Graham Gooch (117), Mike Gatting (179) andGordon Greenidge (122) – but it was Sunil Gavaskar’s majestic 188 whichstole the show. Gavaskar also recorded the only duck of the match whenhe was cleaned up by Malcolm Marshall in the World’s second innings asthey chased 353 to win. Rain washed out the final day.1869
The scorer of the fastest Test half-century was born. When Jack Brownscored his blistering 140 at Melbourne in 1894-95, the first fifty tookonly 28 minutes, the first hundred only 95, fast enough to win the matchand the series. In 1898 Brown scored exactly 300 and shared a colossalstand of 554 with ‘Long John’ Tunnicliffe for Yorkshire againstDerbyshire at Chesterfield. It stood as a world record in first-classcricket until two other Yorkshiremen, Percy Holmes and HerbertSutcliffe, beat it by a single run in 1932.1992
In their 55 overs against Pakistan at Trent Bridge, England scored 363for 7, which was then a record for any one-day international. GraemeHick scored 50 in 34 balls and Waqar Younis ‘s 11 overs cost him 73runs. England won by 198 runs.1865
Birth of the first opener to carry his bat through a Test innings. WhenSouth Africa were blasted out for only 47 by England at Cape Town in1888-89, Bernard Tancred scored 26 not out. Regarded as the best of theearly South African batsmen, he was the first to score two centuries ina first-class match there. His brothers Louis and Vincent also openedthe batting in Tests.1919
Death of brilliant wicketkeeper Gregor MacGregor, who made 17 dismissalsin his eight Tests for England, the first against Australia at Lord’s in1890 when he was still at Cambridge University. He was also aninternational rugby three-quarter, helping Scotland beat England fourtimes, including in his last match, in 1896.1996
Some stars of tomorrow performed today. India beat Pakistan at Lord’s inthe final of the Under-15 World Challenge. Eight of those finalists havesince gone on to play international cricket: Faisal Iqbal, Hasan Raza, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Taufeeq Umar and Yasir Arafat of Pakistan, and Reetinder Sodhi and Mohammad Kaif of India.Other birthdays
1847 Andrew Greenwood (England)
1909 Alby Roberts (New Zealand)
1921 Jack Wilson (Australia)
1932 Atholl McKinnon (South Africa)
1940 Rex Sellers (Australia)
1956 Alvin Greenidge (West Indies)