On This Day

[braveneutral]

Potentially but it feels like it would have been given at a younger age to have such prominence?

[The Professor]

On this day in 1903 Foster breaks tonnes of test records on Day Three.

Overall the English debutant batted for seven hours to reach his total of 287 - the highest score at that time for any Test player.

He put together an imperious partnership with Len Braund of 192 runs. When Braund went it looked like Foster might be isolated with nobody to support him. It also looked like, despite Foster's flawless innings, that England might trail in the first innings. This was stopped by Albert Relf and Wilfred Rhodes.

Startlingly the ninth and tenth wicket were worth 115 and 130 runs respectively. The last wicket was another record for the time.

England were all out with a lead of 292. Australia got seventeen runs underway for no loss in their second innings before play was closed.

Hindsight Review:

Tip Foster's record stood for 112 years - until Ross Taylor overturned it for new Zealand v Australia.

The last wicket stand between Foster and Rhodes stood for 70 years before Brian Hastings and Richard Collinge broke in 1973.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1903 Australia bat themselves back into the game.

Australia needed a slow and steady innings with little disasters to get back into the game...and this is what they delivered on Day 4.

Victor Trumper was the driving force and stood unopposed on 119 overnight. His middle order stoicism held the Australian innings together when the wheels could have come off. He aided three batsmen in half century partnerships.

Trumper gave Australia something to smile about after the crowd turned unpleasant after the running out of Clem Hill. This rendered Australia 254-4. Trumper and Monty Noble then got Australia back on track.

The day ended with Australia on 367/5; 75 runs ahead.

[rich1uk]

wonder if hope remembers this game

[The Professor]

On this day in 1903 Victor Trumper carries his bat in impressive day for Australia.

Unlike the day before, Trumper didn't have much support in his efforts. He and Bert Hopkins put on 48 for the 7th wicket but after that there was not much in the way of a lower order resistance - just Trumper slogging away against some very consistent English bowling. Trumper's 185* took just short of four hours and included 25 fours.

Australia's total of 485 meant that England were chasing 194 to win. They got off to a poor start when Pelham Warner and Johnny Tyldesley were both out cheaply, leaving England on 32-9. Tip Foster followed up his prolific first innings with a mere 19 and Len Braund bagged a duck. Tom Hayward held things together and finished on 60 alongside George Hist - who was dropped on 0 - but had swelled his total to 21 by the close of play. England needed 72 to win.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1903 England take a 1-0 lead in Ashes series v Australia

The overnight pair of Tom Hayward and George Hirst nearly went it alone and overhauled the target themselves but their partnership of 99 runs ended with England needing just thirteen to win. It was Hayward who was caught behind off the bowling of Jack Saunders.

This brought debutant Bernard Bosanquet to the crease who scored a single run whilst the other twelve came from Hirst.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1991 Punjab and Bangalore's Mandeep Singh was born.

Born to an athletics coach, Mandeep Singh has had sport in his veins from birth - however his father discouraged him from becoming a cricketer.

Mandeep began his career as something of an IPL journeyman, turning out for Kolkata, Punjab and Bangalore in the space of six years. His most successful season came in 2012 when he scored 432 runs in twelve matches for Punjab. This fine form saw him shortlisted for the squad for 2012 T20 World Cup squad, however he did not make the cut.

Despite being better known for his short form performances, 2015 saw Mandeep excel himself in the Ranji Trophy being the top run scorer in that tournament.

Mandeep had to wait until this year to make his T20i debut and has played two other games since then. His top score is 52*.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 India got off to a bad start v Australia in the Second Test.

After India won the toss and elected to bat, Pankaj Roy and Nari Contractor put on a good opening stand of 38 but from that point on India lost regular wickets. There was a middle order revival led by Abbas Ali Baig (19), Chandu Borde (20) and Gulabrai Ramchand (24) but after that the tail fell away too. Alan Davidson was the biggest contributor to India's poor batting with his haul being 5-31. India only managed 152 runs in just over 70 overs.

Australia managed to knock off 23 runs without the loss of a wicket in reply.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 Australia took the lead against India despite huge haul for Jasubhai.

It was an innings of two halves for Australia as they overhauled India's first innings lead. Two half century scores from Colin McDonald and Neil Harvey gave Australia the impetus. The only other batsman who bothered the scorers was Alan Davidson who got 41. The rest of the middle order and the tail faded away to nothingness. It was a red letter day for Jasubhai Patel who ended the innings on 9-69. The best figures for an Indian bowler at that time (a record that would stand for 40 years). Those two bigger innings took Australia to 291 - a lead of 67 over India.

India gained 31 runs in reply, with Pankaj Roy and Nari Contractor were 8 and 21 respectively.

[Dr Cricket]

Weird name Jasu considering that a girl name.
must be a gujarati as well with the bhai in the end of the name, quite funny how my mum and relatives got Ben at the end of their names because of the tradition only my youngest aunt doesn't have it because my other aunts didn't want it for their younger sisters lol.

[The Professor]

Spent all his life in Ahmedabad

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 India did what they needed to do and batted through the day against Australia.

What turned out to be a good day for India started very poorly with Pankaj Roy out after gaining just one further run for the team effort. This then saw Nari Contractor put together two strong partnerships, first with Polly Umrigar (worth 40) and then with Abbas Ali Baig (49). By the time India were three batsmen down they had put 121 runs on the board.

When Contractor was dismissed Alan Davidson (his third wicket of the day) it looked like India may collapse as they were wont to do. It was Rannath Kenny and Bapu Nadkarni who put a stop to this. They stood unopposed at the end of the day, the former on 29 and the latter on 8.

After the stoic day from India they ended on 226-6, 159 runs ahead.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 there was a rest day between India and Australia so we celebrate Jasubhai Patel's record breaking figures with a journey down how India's bowling records were broken.

The first substantial figures for an Indian bowler came in 1934 - two years after it's Test debut. Amar Singh made 7-36 against England in Chennai.

This record stayed extant for 18 years until Vinoo Mankad broke it twice in a year. The first time was in the February of 1952 when he got 8-55 against England...again in Chennai. Eight months later Mankad faced off against Pakistan and knocked three runs off his old record - bagging 8-52 in Delhi.

The 1950s was a good time for shattering bowling records. A year before Jasubhai's record breaking figures, Subhash Gupte got the same amount of wickets but for a greater economy - going for 102 for his nine wickets in Kanpur

Jasubhai's figures of 9-69 stood as an Indian record for forty years until 1999 when current Indian head coach got 10-74 in Delhi.

The latest inclusion on the list is another Chennai hero. Ravindra Jadeja whose 7-48 is twentieth best on the all time list.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 a tight final day between India and Australia is set up through Indian dominance.

The pair of Ramnath Kenny and Bapu Nadkarni, so effective on Saturday, continued their spell of dominance on the Monday. The two put together a seventh wicket partnership of 72. When Kenny fell just over of his fifty, Nadkarni soon followed just before his half century. It was a partnership of slow mercenary cricket but it was what India needed. The tail did not wag in the slightest and India were all out for 291, setting Australia an impressively daunting 232 to win.

This was made even more daunting when India dismissed Gavin Stevens for just seven runs. Colin McDonald and Neil Harvey then tried to get Australia's show back on the road with a 37 run partnership but Harvey was lost in the closing overs of the day. At close Australia were 59/2 with 173 needed to win.

[The Professor]

On this day in 1959 India win their second ever Test against Australia.

Australia lost wickets regularly throughout the final day of this even Test and went down to a loss that many would have thought very unlikely at the start of the match.

The day started badly for Australia when they lost Norm O'Neill without adding a single run to his overnight score of five. From that point on Colin McDonald could not find a partner who wanted to play cricket with him.

Four of the final six batsmen were all out for ducks. The only exceptions to this was Alan Davidson who got 8 and a surprise final wicket partnership of 21 between McDonald and Ian Meckiff.

Polly Umrigar and, first innings hero, Jasubhai Patel profited from the duck fest with both bowlers getting two ducks each. Overall Umrigar finished with figures of 4-27 with Patel getting 5-55.