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Australia

• 1959 - Fast bowler and TV personality Mike Whitney is born at Surry Hills.

England

• 1931 - Brian Close is born in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, where Hedley Verity learned his cricket. Close is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England.

South Africa

• 2008 - Mark Boucher takes the world record for most dismissals (416) by a wicket-keeper, from Adam Gilchrist.

West Indies

• 1945 - Everton Weekes makes his first-class debut for Barbados, against Trinidad, aged 19 years and 364 days. He scores 0 and eight.