1999
India played its first test against Pakistan at Chennai after a nine year gap. A thriller of a match that saw Pakistani’s holding their nerves in the end and going one up in the two match series. India were given to chase 271 but collapsed to 81 for 5 before Sachin Tendulkar, hit a glorious 136 in vain. India ended up falling 12 runs short of the target leaving the entire nation disappointed.

1995
A day where Pakistan’s Salim Malik lead his team against Zimbabwe at Harare. A confusion during the toss with Zimbabwe skipper Andy Flower made match referee having to order a re-toss as he felt that Malik has called wrongly. As fate would have it Zimbabwe batted first and trounced Pakistan by an innings.

1976
At 5.25pm Ian Redpath flipped that great West Indian offspinner Lance Gibbs into the hands of Michael Holding at long-off, and Fred Trueman’s record of 307 Test wickets was broken. This was Gibbs’s last Test - and Redpath’s - and Gibbs took one more wicket to end with 309 at an average of 29.09.