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February
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.