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Happy Birthday Andy Lloyd
Andy Lloyd is the only Test player who has opened an innings never to have been dismissed.
Lloyd made only 10 when he got hit by Malcolm Marshall and he never played test cricket again.
His test career lasted for just 33 mins.
David Dickson retweeted
Bill Rodgers is the last living person to have voted in the 1963 Labour leadership election, in which Wilson was victorious and would lead the party for the next 13 years.
Rodgers voted for George Brown.
He is alleged to have said, 'Better George Brown drunk than Harold Wilson sober'.
[photo from the night he was elected MP for Stockton in 1962]
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India's captain Ajit Wadekar on his way to 45, England v India, 3rd Test, The Oval, August 23rd 1971. His batting was key in India winning this match which was their first in England and gave them their first series win over England. He returned home a hero. Three years later after India had been thrashed 3-0 he had to delay his return such was the level of hostility aimed towards him
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CARDIFF CITY @CardiffCityFC 1975-76
Under the management of Jimmy Andrews, the Bluebirds achieved their primary objective by winning promotion back to Football League Division Two at the first attempt and capping off the year by lifting the Welsh Cup
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Growing up, Bill Alley to me was an umpire. Only later did I learn he was an excellent allrounder in the northern leagues and then for Somerset, playing 350 times for them even though he did not make his debut until he was 38. A former boxer, he moved from Australia to England when he missed out on Test selection. He finished with 19612 first-class runs at 31.88 and 768 wickets at 22.68. He was the last batsman to score 3000 runs in a first-class season - 3019 runs at 56.96 in 1961. He later stood in 10 Tests (C)
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79 Tests 309 wkts @ 29.09, with econ 1.98
First spinner to 300 Test wkts, held wkts world record for almost 6 yrs
His 8/38 v Ind in 1961-62 included a spell of 8/6. Hat-trick v Aus @ Adelaide '60-'61. Cousin Lloyd capained 74 Tests
Lance Gibbs born #OnThisDay 1934
#CricketCounts
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33, grey & in glasses, got lost on his way to bat on debut @ Lord's & ended up in the toilet
Lillee & Thommo quipped about Groucho Marx or Father Christmas
David Steele born #OnThisDay 1941 got 365 runs @ 60.83 that series
An impressed butcher sent him lamb chops
#CricketCounts
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Essex left-arm seamer John Lever played 21 Tests for England, taking 10 for 70 and scoring a half century on debut v India at Delhi in December 1976. He represented his county for more than two decades from 1967 in what was one of their most successful periods (Patrick Eagar)
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Happy Birthday Majid Khan, cousin of @ImranKhanPTI
63 Tests, 3931 Runs, 8 Hundreds, 27 Wickets
23 ODIs, 786 Runs, 1 Hundred, 13 Wickets
The first Pakistani batsman (and first Non Australian) to score a hundred before lunch - 103* against New Zealand at Karachi, 1976.
His father (Jahangir Khan) played for India in the very first test match in 1932 against England at Lord’s.
His son also played cricket at the highest level - 1 Test and 5 ODIs for Pakistan.
His other cousin Javed Burki also played 25 tests for Pakistan.
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Surrey's Robin Jackman just fails to hold on to a return catch from Sussex's John Barclay during the B&H Group C match at Hove on May 19th 1979. Sussex won by three wickets but failed to make the quarter-finals; Surrey finished runners-up to Essex (The Cricketer)
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“Cricket is beautiful phenomenon. It's a beautiful way of life, you don't play this game of life, you live it. It's a way of living.”
~ Bishan Singh Bedi
#OnThisDay Bishan Bedi was born.
Bedi was a master of slow left-arm bowling, renowned for his control, flight, spin and variation.
India captain in 22 Tests, he took 266 wickets, including 14 five-wicket hauls, before retiring in 1979.
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A rare footage of @Athersmike bowling to Graham Gooch.
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Another of my favourite photos, Ken Kelly's autumnal shot of Mike Brearley in his last match before retiring walking off after leading Middlesex to a ten-wicket win and with it the County Championship at Worcester, September 11th 1982. This seems to sum up the end of season (and summer) as I recall it. That was not quite that for Brearley. He made one final appearance the following year when the county was struggling with availability
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Chnadrasekhar's exceptional leg-spin was a major weapon against Australia 1977.
His unusual bowling action, pace variation, and sharp turn made difficult for Australian batsmen to read However, saying his deadly spin magic destroyed Australia is dramatic language-
He was an important part of india's bowling attack,but the series was not simply a one-man destruction of Australia.
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Sussex Cricket are saddened to learn of the passing of former player Tony Buss at the age of 87.
The thoughts of everyone at Sussex Cricket are with Tony's family and friends at this sad time.
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#OTD 1978. Jim Callaghan shocks the nation by deciding against an election - despite having no majority and a poll lead.
The Daily Mirror had already revealed the poll date when he went on TV, urging the public to fight inflation and “see it through together” over the Winter.
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On This Day in 1981 @DerbyshireCCC won the NatWest Trophy at Lord’s by defeating Northants, the county's first trophy for 45 years.
A little-known statistic from this game...this side never played together again, even though Derbyshire played a John Player League match the following day...
Kirsten, Barnett, Tunnicliffe, Oldham, @MalvernJudge Wright and Hill
Miller, Taylor, Wood, Steele and Hendrick
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The only player in Test history to hit a six on all 5 days of a Test match - against England at Lords in 1980.
Kim Hughes #OnThisDay
He made 117 and 84.