The 3rd 200 by an 🇮🇳 in ODIs, after SRT & Viru was Rohit Sharma's 209 (🎥:⬇️) in the 7th ODI vs 🇦🇺 in Bangalore, #OTD in 2013 His knock contained 12 4s & 16 6s Chasing 384, 🇦🇺 ended at 326 with a 💯 by James Faulkner A record 38 6s were hit by both teams

Birth of the 4th 🇦🇺 left-arm pacer to go past 💯 Test wickets In the 2013-14 Ashes in 🇦🇺, he terrorised the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 batters with 37 wickets at 13.97 (🎥:⬇️) In the 2nd Test of that series, he took 5-16 in 5 overs He retired in 2015 #HBD Mitchell Johnson

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Birth of a 🇿🇦 leg-spinner On his Test debut vs 🇮🇳 in Cape Town in 2007, he took 4 wickets in the 1st innings & pushed 🇮🇳 on to the back foot In 2009, in the 3rd Test vs 🇦🇺, at Cape Town, he took his Test-best figures, 6-127 (🎥:⬇️) #HBD paul harris

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.North Stand Gang - Wankhede in the stands #INDvSA #CWC25

Some of the members #INDvSA #CWC25

Birth of the youngest to represent 🇦🇺 Aged 16, she debuted in 2007 In the 2010 WT20, she took the most wkts Her 1st Test 💯 was in 2017 ⬇️ She is the 1st to get 1K runs & 💯 wkts in T20Is She also played in the 2011 FIFA World Cup #HBD Ellyse Perry

.Virrender Sehwag arrived in style #OTD in 2001 He joined his idol, Sachin Tendulkar, at the crease in the 1st Test vs 🇿🇦 at Bloemfontein "I know you're tense. You're never going to be this tense again, so enjoy the moment"-SRT to Viru & he hit a 157-ball 💯 ⬇️

One of cricket's greatest keepers was born He formed a fearsome act with Dennis Lillee; "c Marsh b Lillee" 95 times, a Test record & one of which was his 350th Test dismissal (⬇️) He is the 1st 🇦🇺 keeper to hit a Test 💯 #BirthAnniversary of Rod Marsh

The batter with the most ODI 💯s is born He led 🇮🇳 to win the 2008 U19 CWC In the 2011 CWC final he played a valuable knock ⬇️ He became Test captain in 2015 & LOI captain in 2017 In the 2023 CWC SF vs 🇳🇿, he hit the record 50th ODI 💯 #HBD Virat Kohli

One of the greatest ODI knocks was played by Sachin Tendulkar #OnThisDay, in the 5th ODI vs 🇦🇺, at Hyderabad His 45th ODI 💯, a 141-ball 175 had 19 4s & 4 6s (🎥:⬇️) He also became the 1st to reach 17000 ODI runs 🇮🇳 almost chased 351, but fell 3 short 💔

The 2nd Test player from the state of Odisha is born He was one in an assembly line of 🇮🇳 openers in the early 2000s His foot movement was precise & he had a still head in both defence & attack In his 1st Test in 🇿🇦 he hit a 50 ⬇️ #HBD Shiv Sunder Das

🇮🇳 pulled off a heist to beat 🇦🇺 by 13 runs in the 4th Test of the 2004 BGT at Mumbai #OnThisDay VVS Laxman & Sachin Tendulkar hit 50s in the 2nd inns 🇦🇺 had to chase just 107 MoM Kartik Murali's 3-25 & Harbhajan Turbanator's 5for got 🇦🇺 93 all out (🎥:⬇️)

In Bombay, Graham Gooch got down on one knee to take 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to the 1987 CWC final #OnThisDay He carried out a preconceived plan of sweeping against Maninder Singh & Ravi Shastri to make a brilliant 115 (🎥:⬇️) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 finished with 254-6 🇮🇳 fell short by 35 runs

Birth of a 6' 7" WI allrounder His 1st Test 💯 saved the Test vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in 2015 In 2019 he became the 3rd man batting at No. 8 or lower to score a Test 200 In 2022 he became the 1st WI to take a T20I hattrick in the 5th T20I vs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ⬇️ #HBD Jason Holder

In ODIs in the 90s, scores of 220 odd were defendable One such instance was the 1996 Titan Cup Final between 🇮🇳 & 🇿🇦 at Mumbai, #OnThisDay Sachin Tendulkar's 67 & Jadeja's 43 led 🇮🇳 to 220 MoM Anil Kumble's 4-25 rocked 🇿🇦's batting & 🇿🇦 fell 35 short ⬇️

🇿🇦 were knocked out of the 2022 T20WC as 🇳🇱 beat them by 13 runs in Adelaide, #OnThisDay 🇳🇱 posted 158 🇳🇱's pacers kept the RR in check Roelof van der Merwe's superb catch to dismiss Miller, turned the game (🎥:⬇️) 🇿🇦 were 112-4, they never recovered & fell short

Birth of a WI spinner On his Test debut vs 🇵🇰 in 2011 in Providence, his 4-68 was key in WI's win hHis T20I-best, 4-17, came on his T20I debut vs 🇵🇰, in 2011, in St. Lucia (🎥:⬇️) His Test-best is 8-49 vs 🇵🇰, in 2016, in Dubai #HBD Devendra Bishoo