Marnus Labuschagne has gone 47 Test match innings without a ton. This equals the Australian record number of innings of a Top 4 Test match batter failing to get a 100. The person who he now holds the record with? Alick Bannerman who played his last Test in 1893. #cricketcounts

Shot at Aubers Ridge 1915, left for dead, memorial service held, found & taken prisoner by the Germans Lived to 90 Middlesex stalwart: 18594 runs for the county One Test, in SA 1931: 18 & 1 - à la Bradman! Later a f-c umpire Harry Lee born #onthisday 1890 #cricketcounts

Essex all-rounder & captain who helped bring through Alastair Cook Later the two fell out 3 Tests, 86 runs, 3 wkts; 31 ODIs, best 5/26 Knee ended his bowling, then his career Later ‘Chicken’ on talkSPORT breakfast Ronnie Irani born #onthisday 1971 #cricketcounts

Debut tour, WI 1985, aged 19: 0, 0, 4, 0, 2, 1, 5. Recovered to 2465 runs in 56 Tests @ 27.08, 3 100s; led NZ in 18 317 v DB Close’s XI at Scarborough, 1986 Later in bookmaking & racing And lest I forget - that nose! Ken Rutherford born #onthisday 1965 #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1952, Lucknow, on jute matting In only their 2nd Test, Pak beat Ind by an innings & 43 runs Nazar Mohammad carried his bat for 124*, on the field for every ball of the match Fazal Mahmood 12/94 A new nation’s first Test win #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1989, Kanpur, Nehru Cup India chase 256 v Eng Chetan Sharma, sent in at No 4, finishes it with his first & only ODI 100: 101* off 96 Early pinch-hitter Same fellow who bowled Miandad the last-ball full toss at Sharjah #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1991, Sharjah, Wills Trophy final Aaqib Javed, 19, takes 7/37 v Ind, incl a hat-trick: Shastri, Azharuddin & Tendulkar, all lbw Then the best figures in ODIs Still the youngest to take an ODI hat-trick Pak won by 72 runs #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1982, Adelaide, Sheffield Shield SA chasing 272 v Vic David Hookes reached 100 in 34 balls & 43 mins, with 17 fours & 3 sixes, the fastest f-c 100 in Australia. No joke bowling. Out for 107; SA 206/7 in 24 overs, match drawn #cricketcounts

Kenya-born, Worcs-schooled, NZ-capped 1992 WC: Martin Crowe tossed him the new ball, & an off-spinner opening the bowling became a tactic 37 Tests, 75 ODIs; run out for 99 v Eng, 1992 Dipak Patel born #onthisday 1958 #cricketcounts

Queensland all-rounder of rare promise 713 runs & 48 wkts in 19 Tests; 128 at Kingston 1955 Knee wrecked at Karachi, 1956, aged 23 Later an ICC match referee Ron Archer born #onthisday 1933 #cricketcounts

Surrey quick in the great 1950s side Headingley 1957: 6/36 v WI incl a hat-trick, England’s first post-war; next came 38 years later 39 wkts @ 22.51 in 13 Tests Later a long-serving WACA umpire Peter Loader born #onthisday 1929 #cricketcounts

Left-hander of the late 90s SL side 1821 runs @ 28.01 in 44 Tests, 3 100s. 3950 runs in ODIs; 2007 WC runner-up, his final match Useful spinner as well Now one of the more thoughtful voices in the commentary box Russel Arnold born #onthisday 1973 #cricketcounts

From Nagpur's tennis-ball cricketer to Vidarbha’s first Test player Fast, swing both traditional & reverse 170 wkts @ 30.95 in 57 Tests 106 ODI wkts; India’s top wkt-taker at the 2015 WC with 18 Also 31 off 10 balls v SA, 2019 Umesh Yadav born #onthisday 1987 #cricketcounts

#onthisday 1996, Faisalabad Hasan Raza debuted v Zim, aged 14y 233d according to his papers - the youngest Test cricketer if one believes the documentation Many did not; doubts persist 7 Tests, 235 runs in a stop-start career #cricketcounts

Victorian all-rounder: 573 runs & 33 wkts in 17 Tests; Deaf, he was bowled by a no-ball in the first Test SCG 1897-98, did not hear the call, walked off & was run out by Storer 112 at MCG, his revenge as Aus won by an inn Charlie McLeod born #onthisday 1869 #cricketcounts

Blocking & bat-pad stubbornness ironically named Slasher. 1507 runs & 50 wkts in 37 Tests Adelaide 1961: Aus 9-207, 110 mins left v WI. Mackay 62 off 223 balls saved the Test with Kline 289 @ 41.28 & 6 wkts in that great series Ken Mackay born #onthisday 1925 #cricketcounts

Neat, quiet gloveman from Siliguri 104 dismissals in 40 Tests; first Indian keeper with 10 cts in a Test, Cape Town 2018 1353 runs, 3 100s 115* in the 2014 IPL final, the first 100 in one, & still finished on the losing side Wriddhiman Saha born #onthisday 1984 #cricketcounts

Trinidadian tearaway; 100 wkts in just 21 Tests Overall 161 wkts @ 24.27 in 43 Tests; 118 in ODIs Then the back gave way, again & again Now that rare commentator who does his homework: “Carlos Brathwaite! Remember the name!” Ian Bishop born #onthisday 1967 #cricketcounts

Harry Brook has emulated what was hitherto a unique cross-format feat: he joins Chris Gayle, the only previous player to score 300+ in a Test, 200+ in an ODI and 100+ in a T20I.