Today @acscricket launches First-Class to Harrogate, a celebration of first-class cricket in Harrogate, where Yorkshire played 1882-1996. Stephen Blades superbly details many of the matches across a 114-year span of social and economic change. On sale at shop.acscricket.com

A mouth watering statistic from today in South Africa’s innings v Australia. It is the first time in Test match history that six people have scored 2 or less in an innings whilst five others have scored more than 40. The highs and lows of cricket. #cricketcounts

Yorked Gilchrist on debut Karachi 2006: Butt, Younis & Yousuf, a hat-trick in the 1st over of a Test 100 wkts & 1105 runs in 29 Tests 102 at Bengaluru vs Pak ODIs: 173 wkts; 3/16 & Player of the Match in the 2007 World T20 final Irfan Pathan born #onthisday 1984 #cricketcounts

Oxford zoologist, later a biology teacher at Sevenoaks At the crease, the patient specimen: 35 in 6½ hours at Madras 1982; 78 in 7 hours at Old Trafford 1981 1755 runs @ 32.50 in 31 Tests, 2 100s Chris Tavaré born #onthisday 1954 #cricketcounts

839 runs in his first Ashes series 334* at Peshawar 1998, then declared, level with Bradman 7525 runs @ 43.49 in 104 Tests, 19 100s; led Aus in 50 - w/l 26/13. Slip catcher supreme, 157 cts - 51 off Warne Mark 'Tubby' Taylor born #onthisday 1964 #cricketcounts

Played for Aus before playing f-c cricket Tests: 8786 runs @ 44.59, 26 100s; 335* v Pak at Adelaide 2019 ODIs: 6932 runs @ 45.30, 22 100s; 2 WC titles T20Is: Player of the Tournament as Aus won the 2021 WC Also, Cape Town 2018 David Warner born #onthisday 1986 #cricketcounts

Left-handed elegance; keeper & captain Tests: 12400 runs @ 57.40, 38 100s, 11 doubles, 2nd only to Bradman Without the gloves: an astronomical 66.78; with them: 40.48 ODIs: 14234 runs, 25 100s; four in a row at the 2015 WC Kumar Sangakkara born #onthisday 1977 #cricketcounts

Shot at Aubers Ridge 1915, left for dead, memorial service held, found & taken prisoner by the Germans Lived to 90 Middlesex stalwart: 18594 runs for the county One Test, in SA 1931: 18 & 1 - à la Bradman! Later a f-c umpire Harry Lee born #onthisday 1890 #cricketcounts

Essex all-rounder & captain who helped bring through Alastair Cook Later the two fell out 3 Tests, 86 runs, 3 wkts; 31 ODIs, best 5/26 Knee ended his bowling, then his career Later ‘Chicken’ on talkSPORT breakfast Ronnie Irani born #onthisday 1971 #cricketcounts

Debut tour, WI 1985, aged 19: 0, 0, 4, 0, 2, 1, 5. Recovered to 2465 runs in 56 Tests @ 27.08, 3 100s; led NZ in 18 317 v DB Close’s XI at Scarborough, 1986 Later in bookmaking & racing And lest I forget - that nose! Ken Rutherford born #onthisday 1965 #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1952, Lucknow, on jute matting In only their 2nd Test, Pak beat Ind by an innings & 43 runs Nazar Mohammad carried his bat for 124*, on the field for every ball of the match Fazal Mahmood 12/94 A new nation’s first Test win #cricketcounts