People born on this day:
1949: Alvin Kallicharran, wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81
1938: Grahame Thomas, Australian batsman of the mid-sixties
1870: Frederick Kuys, one Test for South Africa 1899
1908: Berkeley Gaskin, Guyana pace bowler, West Indies 1948
1939: Malcolm Francke, leg-spinner, Ceylon 1956 to Qld 1984
People died on this day:
2008: Merv Wallace, New Zealand Test batsman 1937-53
Events on this day:
1984: Border scores 100* v WI Trinidad after 98* in first innings
1971: Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown
1947: Test debut of Bert Sutcliffe, NZ v England at Christchurch
1992: Pakistan score 6-264 to overhaul NZ in exciting World Cup semi