da dobrowin： 1992 An infamous spat in Manchester
da fezbet： Wisden CricInfo staff06-Jul-2003All Today’s Yesterdays – July 6 down the years1992
An infamous spat in Manchester. It’s a fair bet that Aqib Javed and umpire Roy Palmer don’texchange Christmas cards, and though their quarrel wasn’t up there with MikeGatting v Shakoor Rana, it was pretty unedifying nonetheless. As the Old Trafford Test between England and Pakistandrifted away on the fourth evening, Aqib decided to spice things up byworking over Devon Malcolm with a barrage of bouncers. He wasofficially warned, and at the end of the over, Aqib complained that Palmerhad handed him his sweater with what the Wisden Almanack described as ” moreemphasis than usual, probably because it was caught in his belt”. Aqib’scaptain, Javed Miandad, didn’t help matters at all. Nor didthe match referee Conrad Hunte, who was decisive only in his indecisiveness.It overshadowed a good game: Aamir Sohail creamed 205 on the first day, andDavid Gower stroked Aqib sumptuously through thecovers on the fourth to pass Geoff Boycott’s then-record of Test runs by anEnglishman.
1997
It would be the killer entry on most people’s CV, butSteve Waugh’s twin centuries against England at Old Trafford probably only come insecond place, behind his 200 in Jamaica in 1994-95. This was someconsolation prize. Australia were in big trouble – 1-0 down and 160 for 7 -but Waugh kept them in a game with a brilliant, counter-attacking 108. Andwhen Shane Warne secured a first-innings lead (aided by oneof the greater stumpings in Test history, <bIan Healy's leg-side effort off Michael Bevan toget rid of Mark Butcher), Waugh closed the door on England with a ruthlesslydrawn-out 116. All this with a badly bruised hand, on a dog of a pitch, andwith nobody having scored two centuries in an Ashes Test for 50 years.Wisden Cricket Monthly said he "wore down England with a certainty that wasawe-inspiring."
1984
Forget the Waughs, the first twins to play in the same Testcame from New Zealand. Rose and Liz Signal both made their debuts in thefirst Test against England at Leeds in July 1984. There the comparison withthe Waughs end. It was Rose’s only Test, and Liz only played five moretimes.
1998
Another Old Trafford Test heroic batting display . From Robert Croft. Croft survived over three hours for 37not out, in the process salvaging a draw for England against South Africa.It kept England alive at 1-0, though they were barely breathing, having beenbattered here and in defeat at Lord’s. Croft’s reward was the axe for thelast two Tests.
1890
Test cricket’s first triple-centurion is born. Andrew Sandham played 14 Tests and 23 innings forEngland. In 21 of them he made 402 runs . and in the other two he made 477.That included a monstrous 325 in Jamaica in 1929-30, in Sandham’s last Test, whenhe was pushing 40 years of age. Sandham was at his best square of thewicket, and made over 40,000 first-class runs. Most of them came for Surrey,where he and Jack Hobbs were a formidable opening partnership – they shared66 century stands. Sandham also later coached Surrey. He died in Westminsterin 1982.
1937
In Glamorgan, a cricketer-turned-broadcaster is born. Most people rememberTony Lewis as the smooth, unsullied face of theBBC’s Test coverage in the 1990s. But he was also the last man to captainEngland on Test debut. That was at Delhi in 1972-73, when Lewis got a duck – and thenguided England to victory with 70 not out in the second innings on ChristmasDay. He added his only Test century at Kanpur later in that series, butplayed only nine Tests in all. After a long career with the BBC, includingone unfortunate four-letter outburst live on air in 1991, he becamepresident of MCC, and then chairman of the Welsh Tourist Board.
1977
Birth of the first black African to play for South Africa. Makhaya Ntini’s career looked doomed when he wasconvicted of rape in 1999, but the decision was overturned and he is nowfully established in his team.
1987
A crushing win for Pakistan at Headingley. In a miserably rain-affectedsummer, this was the only result of the five-Test series. The inspirationcame from Imran Khan, who took 3 for 37 and 7 for 40, and inthe process become the first Pakistani to take 300 Test wickets. AndSalim Malik began an unlikely Headingley loveaffair. Here he made 99, the highest score in the match, and on a terriblepitch in 1992 he made 82 and 84, both not out. In all Malik averaged 108there.
1974
The day David Lloyd made the only half-century of his nineTests. He was enjoying himself so much that he carried on to 214 not out,against India at Edgbaston. This was only Lloyd’s secondTest, and he was on the field for the whole match. It was also his highestfirst-class score, and England won losing only two wickets in the match. Sunil Gavaskar fell to the first ball of the match- the first such instance. He was given lbw by Bill Alley, who wasofficiating his first ball in Test cricket.
Other birthdays
1893 Wilton St Hill (West Indies)
1939 Man Sood (India)
1958 Mark Benson (England)
