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The Ashes 1964 (Australia in England)
Mon, August 25 2014
Ashes 1964: Geoffrey Boycott scores his 1st Test hundred
On August 17, 1964, Geoffrey Boycott scored the first of his eventual 22 Test centuries against Australia at The Oval in the fifth and the final match of the Ashes. Sarang Bhalerao goes into rewind mode to talk about the bespectacled Boycott’s 113.
Thu, July 03 2014
Ashes 1964: Fred Trueman becomes the first bowler to capture 300 wickets in Test history
August 15, 1964. After rather listless bowling, Fred Trueman suddenly ran through the Australian lower order. Arunabha Sengupta looks back at the day when the Yorkshire fast bowler got Neil Hawke caught by Colin Cowdrey, thus becoming the first bowler in the history of Test cricket to capture 300 wickets.