The Manchester squabble
1992 An infamous spat in Manchester
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1992
An infamous spat in Manchester. It's a fair bet that Aqib Javed and umpire Roy Palmer don't
exchange Christmas cards, and though their quarrel wasn't up there with Mike
Gatting v Shakoor Rana, it was pretty unedifying nonetheless. As the Old Trafford Test between England and Pakistan
drifted away on the fourth evening, Aqib decided to spice things up by
working over Devon Malcolm with a barrage of bouncers. He was
officially warned, and at the end of the over, Aqib complained that Palmer
had handed him his sweater with what the Wisden Almanack described as " more
emphasis than usual, probably because it was caught in his belt". Aqib's
captain, Javed Miandad, didn't help matters at all. Nor did
the match referee Conrad Hunte, who was decisive only in his indecisiveness.
It overshadowed a good game: Aamir Sohail creamed 205 on the first day, and
David Gower stroked Aqib sumptuously through the
covers on the fourth to pass Geoff Boycott's then-record of Test runs by an
Englishman.
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It would be the killer entry on most people's CV, but
Steve Waugh's twin centuries against England at Old Trafford probably only come in
second place, behind his 200 in Jamaica in 1994-95. This was some
consolation prize. Australia were in big trouble - 1-0 down and 160 for 7 -
but Waugh kept them in a game with a brilliant, counter-attacking 108. And
when Shane Warne secured a first-innings lead (aided by one
of the greater stumpings in Test history,
Forget the Waughs, the first twins to play in the same Test
came from New Zealand. Rose and Liz Signal both made their debuts in the
first Test against England at Leeds in July 1984. There the comparison with
the Waughs end. It was Rose's only Test, and Liz only played five more
times.
Another Old Trafford Test heroic batting display . From Robert Croft. Croft survived over three hours for 37
not out, in the process salvaging a draw for England against South Africa.
It kept England alive at 1-0, though they were barely breathing, having been
battered here and in defeat at Lord's. Croft's reward was the axe for the
last two Tests.
Test cricket's first triple-centurion is born. Andrew Sandham played 14 Tests and 23 innings for
England. In 21 of them he made 402 runs . and in the other two he made 477.
That included a monstrous 325 in Jamaica in 1929-30, in Sandham's last Test, when
he was pushing 40 years of age. Sandham was at his best square of the
wicket, and made over 40,000 first-class runs. Most of them came for Surrey,
where he and Jack Hobbs were a formidable opening partnership - they shared
66 century stands. Sandham also later coached Surrey. He died in Westminster
in 1982.
In Glamorgan, a cricketer-turned-broadcaster is born. Most people remember
Tony Lewis as the smooth, unsullied face of the
BBC's Test coverage in the 1990s. But he was also the last man to captain
England on Test debut. That was at Delhi in 1972-73, when Lewis got a duck - and then
guided England to victory with 70 not out in the second innings on Christmas
Day. He added his only Test century at Kanpur later in that series, but
played only nine Tests in all. After a long career with the BBC, including
one unfortunate four-letter outburst live on air in 1991, he became
president of MCC, and then chairman of the Welsh Tourist Board.
Birth of the first black African to play for South Africa. Makhaya Ntini's career looked doomed when he was
convicted of rape in 1999, but the decision was overturned and he is now
fully established in his team.
A crushing win for Pakistan at Headingley. In a miserably rain-affected
summer, this was the only result of the five-Test series. The inspiration
came from Imran Khan, who took 3 for 37 and 7 for 40, and in
the process become the first Pakistani to take 300 Test wickets. And
Salim Malik began an unlikely Headingley love
affair. Here he made 99, the highest score in the match, and on a terrible
pitch in 1992 he made 82 and 84, both not out. In all Malik averaged 108
there.
The day David Lloyd made the only half-century of his nine
Tests. He was enjoying himself so much that he carried on to 214 not out,
against India at Edgbaston. This was only Lloyd's second
Test, and he was on the field for the whole match. It was also his highest
first-class score, and England won losing only two wickets in the match. Sunil Gavaskar fell to the first ball of the match
- the first such instance. He was given lbw by Bill Alley, who was
officiating his first ball in Test cricket.
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