India had batted all of Day 1 to score 292/9 (from 229/9) in front of about 10,000 people.
Bradman was expected to bat early on Day 2.
At his normal rate, a hundred in under two hours was probable (he got 172 in under three hours here).
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So the crowd swelled to 32,000-mark on Day 2.
The last pair (Gogumal Kishenchand and Jenni Irani) took India to 326.
Bradman was 11 at lunch.
It was not yet tea when he reached 99.
Given how he batted, surely nothing could prevent him from going after the first ball?
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Only Amarnath thought otherwise. He called Kishenchand, who was patrolling the boundary, and asked him to bowl.
(I love this caricature by Frank Lee. I found this in The Advertiser, Adelaide.)
Now Kishenchand was an excellent batsman at First-Class level (7,187 runs at 48).
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He had also, as mentioned above, done well in the first innings.
But he was at best an occasional bowler.
His leg-breaks would fetched him only 37 wickets across 127 First-Class matches.
He had not bowled on that tour till then.
So why him?
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But Amarnath's intended target acknowledged the move: "He had not bowled before and I had no idea what type of bowler he was. It was a shrewd move, as one could have been easily deceived, but I treated him with the greatest respect until eventually came a single to mid-on."
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The hundredth hundred happened.
Bradman remains the only one to score a hundred First-Class hundreds without playing for an English county.
Despite becoming a part of history, Kishenchand faded away from public memory over time.
Until last year, when this happened.
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He made his Test debut a day before his 18th birthday, and finished as one of the greatest fast bowlers in both formats.
Not as well-known is the term 'Waqared'.
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Simon Hughes described it as "term coined from Waqar Younis's prowess at producing terminal and frequently painful inswinging yorkers. Chris Cowdrey was the first Englishman to suffer this fate (broken toe 1988) and it cost him the England captaincy."
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And then there were the LBWs, often too plumb for the umpire to ponder about.
The bowleds were probably worse, for at least the toes survived.
Of Waqar's 373 Test wickets, 212 were either bowled or LBW. In ODIs the count read 224 out of 416.
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Ilikena Lasarusa Talebulamaineiilikenamainavaleniveivakabulaimainakulalakebalau, born on this day, 1921, is a favourite in quizzes, for his is the longest surname in the history of First-Class cricket.
However, there is more to him than that.
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The gargantuan surname obviously demands some explanation.
Thankfully, @tintin1107 has done that, so I can move on.
The thread also mentions why his name was abbreviated to IL Bula.
Chances are that you have not heard of Manish Majithia, a left-arm spinner who played for Railways, then Madhya Pradesh, in the Ranji Trophy, mostly in the 1990s.
On this day, 1999, however, Majithia set two First-Class records that still stand.
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Interestingly, he was playing for Madhya Pradesh (his new side) against Railways (his previous side) at Indore.
He had figures of 12.3-9-3-1 in the first innings of 216.
Railways followed on but saved the match, crawling to 86/5 in 109 overs.
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Of these, 83 (in 104 overs) came on the last day.
This was, at that point, the fewest runs in a complete day's cricket.
Majithia returned 20-20-0-1.
In the history of First-Class cricket, this is the most balls bowled by anyone in an innings without conceding a run.
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John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, was born on this day, 1718.
Yes, the sandwich is supposedly named after him, though historians do not agree on the reason.
He was appointed 1st Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State for Northern Department, and Postmaster General.
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Unfortunately, he was both corrupt and incompetent.
And despite that, he left behind two legacies.
We have already discussed the bread-based food product.
Montagu/Sandwich was also a patron of Captain Cook. He helped fund Cook's second and third expeditions.
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Cook thanked him back by going on a naming spree.
The Sandwich Islands in Hawaii, South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, and the two Montague Islands, off Australian coast and off Gulf of Alaska, are all named after Sandwich.