On this day
1902 All-rounder Monty Noble took 6 for 52 and Australia won the one and only cricket Test played at Sheffield's Bramall Lane, England
1904 NY Giants 18-game winning streak ended when Phillies won 6-5 in 10 innings at Huntington Park
1914 MLB Boston Braves (26-40) were 15 games back in NL, and went on to win World Series 4-0 vs Philadelphia A's
John Wright – New Zealand Cricketer
During his career, he scored more than 5,000 Test runs (the first New Zealand Test player to do so)[1] at an average of 37.82 runs per dismissal with 12 Test centuries, 10 of them in New Zealand. He also played for Derbyshire in England. In first-class cricket he scored over 25,000 runs, having scored over 50 first-class centuries. He scored over 10,000 runs in List A limited-overs cricket.
Following his retirement in 1993, he coached the Indian national cricket team from 2000 to 2005 and New Zealand from 2010 to 2012.
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