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India's captain Dhoni on his way to 71 on day 1 of the 4th test match between England and India at Old Trafford, Manchester.
Indian bowler Jasprit Bumrah prepares to unleash a fast delivery to an unsuspecting England batter during the final day of the 4th test at The Oval. Bumrah had earlier taken his 100th wicket.
Aussie tailenders Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon had England fielders spread around the Old Trafford boundary towards the end of their 1st innings after tea on Day Two. Ben Stokes is fielding in a backstop position, vainly hoping the Starc will top-edge one into his hands. Starc scored 54* off 58 balls, with 9 boundaries, before Australia declared on 497-8.
Just in time for the Ashes 4th Test at Chester-le-Street are these kindly donated cricket programmes; New Zealand 1949 cricket tour handbook and souvenir programme, complete with filled out score card, and a South African 1951 tour fixture, facts and averages handbook.
Title:
Sports - Rugby
Publicity Caption:
4th Test, NZ versus British Lions, Eden Park, Auckland
Photographer:
G. Riethmaier
August 1977, Auckland
Archives New Zealand Reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 177 / B13294
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Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Well David Warner bagging 'a pair' really cheered up the crowd at Emirates Old Trafford, me included! England may have gone on to lose the test and The Ashes, but we had some real joy watching Warner fail abysmally with the bat during the series. After the 5th test he averaged only a pathetic 9.5 from his 10 innings in the series. It simply could not have happened to a nicer guy.
March AFB Museum
May 4, 2008
In order to extend the range of their photographic missions with their Lockheed A-12s, the CIA and Lockheed came up with a "Mother-Daughter" solution. Two A-12s were modified to become two-seaters, with a pylon mounted on the fuselage between the twin vertical tails. The A-12s were redesignated as M-21 for Mother. On top of the pylon was mounted a ramjet powered drone with a camera, called the D-21 known as the Daughter, later becoming known as the GTD-21. test flights showed it added to the range of the M-21 by over 1000nmi at altitudes of 90,000ft. It also would allow for flights over well defended areas without risking a loss of crew.
On the 4th test flight of the M-D combo in 1966, an inflight accident caused the loss of both aircraft, as well as one crew member. The loss of the mothership, as well as other technical problems, resulted in the decision to drop the M-D combo.
Still wanting to use the drone, the mother ship was switched to a B-52, with the drone mounted to an underwing pylon, the same as the Hound dog cruise missile normally carried on later B52s. Because the D-21 was powered by a ramjet, engine startup required speeds above what was capable with the B-52. So, a rocket engine was mounted to the bottom of the drone for launch. The drone then became a GTD-21B.
The program wasn't considered a success, and the drones were stored at the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona.
The program was never publicized, and was unknown to the general public, until the drones were discovered by an IPMS (International Plastic Modelers Society) tour of the boneyard. At the time, individuals were allowed to leave their car or bus, and wander around to take pictures. Some individuals saw the D-21s off in a corner, and rushed over to take pictures, and the rest is history.
The drones were later offered to the Aerospace industry for testing along with a blackbird as a mothership, however, I don't believe anybody took up the offer.
As expected, the English newspapers found it hard to contain their delight after England's 77-run victory at Johannesburg, with even the usually football-mad tabloids joining in.
"Hoggy bashes the Boks" was the lead story in The Sun, with a follow-up on England's star, described as the King of the Swingers. "The Hogwarts Express served up some magic," wrote John Etheridge, warming to a theme. "He stomped the ground like Shrek and made the ball swerve like a demented boomerang." The Mirror found space on an inside page to praise "Hoggard's Seventh Heaven", but preferred a back page story on how David Beckham is not addicted to fame. What next? How Wayne Rooney loves doing social work?
The Daily Mail was happier to concentrate on Hoggard the bowler. "He exploited the conditions perfectly," it reported. "His ability to swing the ball was richly rewarded with England's best match figures in a Test since Ian Botham claimed 13 for 106 in Bombay a quarter of a century ago."
Even the heavyweights struggled to contain themselves. "A hayrick-haired son of the soil with a heart of oak bowled England to a memorable victory," wrote Mike Selvey in The Guardian "Hoggard is a country boy whose ploughman-plod has its roots in solitary dogwalking out on the moors. A brief conversation on the eve of the game, a statement rather than a question, was revealing: "Your pitch then Hoggy." He just grinned and made that wristy twofingered glove-puppet motion that fast bowlers like to make when suggesting seam movement. He knew that this was his time and he had the wherewithall to make it count."
In The Independent, Stephen Brenkley reported that Hoggard would find all the media attention a bit too much. "Hoggard looked tired and slightly nonplussed by events, which were both understandable reactions. He will not like all the fuss, or the notebooks and cameras that will dance attendance on him over the next few days. His favourite pastime is walking his dogs (usually alone) in the countryside near his home close to Baildon in West Yorkshire and going home to open one of the many cans of beer he keeps in his fridge."
There was also praise for Graeme Smith's rearguard which almost saved the match for South Africa. "He battled with immense pride to avoid defeat," said Christopher Martin-Jenkins in The Times. "Having come in at No 8, ignoring medical advice that he should not bat because of the concussion he suffered when hit by the ball accidentally on Sunday morning, Smith was still there when Hoggard took his seventh wicket, and twelfth of the match. The injury to the tough young South Africa captain's pride will be greater than that to his head."
Writing in The Guardian, South African journalist Neil Manthorp couldn't contain his frustration. "South African cricket may yesterday have suffered its most damaging blow since its isolation ended in June 1991," he fumed. "Last year was so packed full of disappointment that there were fears that the team's supporters, most of them fickle at the best of times, would be drawn back towards following the resurgent Springbok rugby side. Now that has all gone, crushed as decisively as an elephant stamping on a cockroach. It was as dispiriting a defeat as South Africa have suffered in the modern era and now the ghosts of the past are set to re-emerge as the recriminations begin."
Back to the game itself, and in the Daily Telegraph, Geoff Boycott underlined the contribution Marcus Trescothick made to England's win. "It was his innings that gave Hoggard the opportunity of winning the match," he wrote. "He'll find it difficult to play a better and more important innings in his career."
In the same paper, Derek Pringle highlighted Andrew Flintoff's dismissal of Shaun Pollock. "Softening him up with a 90mph bouncer that struck the batsman a sickening blow to the head (the ball rebounded to deep mid-wicket), he got him three balls later, the ensuing edge the result of footwork scrambled by the earlier impact."
Martin Williamson is managing editor of Cricinfo.
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Just in time for the Ashes 4th Test at Chester-le-Street is this New Zealand 1949 cricket tour handbook and souvenir programme, complete with filled out score card!
After lunch the India team bond once again. A very well-bonded team ... that got comprehensively stuffed in under two and a half days, having won the toss!
A view from the mid-wicket boundary with England batting on the 1st day of the Fourth Investec test against South Africa at Emirates Old Trafford. After a cloudy morning the sun burst through in the afternoon to help brighten up proceedings.
Graeme Swann and Matt Prior are elated after MS Dhoni falls.
England v. India, 4th Test, The Kia Oval, Monday 22 August 2011
Most of the capacity crowd at Emirates Old Trafford were hoping to see England's Ben Stokes repeat his recent heroics from Headingley and the World Cup Final victory, as he walked out to bat on Day Four with Jonny Bairstow. It wasn't to be as Stokes showed he's human after all making only 26 and 1 in the game.
during the The Ashes 4th Test match between Australia and England at Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia on 6 January 2022. Photo by Peter Dovgan.
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The setting-sun illuminates the side of 'Airlander 10', the world's longest aircraft, as it nears the end of its 4th test flight from Cardington.
The 'feet' at the front are a modification, to mitigate any damage from a heavy-landing, as a response to the infamous 'bump' in 2016!
Title:
Sports - Rugby
Publicity Caption:
4th Test, NZ versus British Lions, Eden Park, Auckland
Photographer:
G. Riethmaier
August 1977, Auckland
Archives New Zealand Reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 177 / B13297 collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=24815820
For further enquiries email research.archives@dia.govt.nz
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Title:
Sports - Rugby
Publicity Caption:
4th Test, NZ versus British Lions, Eden Park, Auckland
Photographer:
G. Riethmaier
August 1977, Auckland
Archives New Zealand Reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 177 / B13295
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=24815818
For further enquiries email research.archives@dia.govt.nz
Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
Less than an hour after play stopped in the England vs. India test match the ground was deluged. Most of us made the decision to head for a tram home, rather than watch the groundstaff mop up and vainly hope for more play.
Stuart Broad traps Travis Head lbw on the 2nd morning of the Old Trafford test. Broad bowled superbly throughout the game once again, troubling the Aussie batsmen constantly.
It was around 5:25 pm. A section of the George Headley Stand was swathed in the Indian tri-colour, and with a soothing breeze blowing behind his back, Anil Kumble began to bowl what would possibly have been the fourth ball of the penultimate over of the day. Within the next few seconds Sabina Park - the once-great Caribbean fortress - was an arena transformed; 35 years of hurt overcome.
On April 19 1971, when the last Indian team triumphed here, Watergate hadn't yet entered the lexicon, Greg Chappell was taking his initial strides in Test cricket, Kumble was just over six months old, and the others in the squad weren't even born. It's been a long time coming. Ever since, Indian teams have left these shores either decimated, frustrated, hurt or all of the above. Other teams came here and won - Australia in fact broke the barrier way back in 1995 - but India, both in 1997 and 2002, found it a bridge too far.
India could afford to draw in the final Test of the `71 series - they'd already taken the lead in the second Test at Port of Spain. Garry Sobers's West Indies needed 262 to win the game in the final innings, 7 less than what Brian Lara's boys needed today, but ended up holding on for a hard-fought draw. This match at Jamaica was probably similar to Barbados in 1997, the only game of the series that produced a result and a low-scoring scrap at that. That pitch, like this one, had a vicious streak and India, chasing 120 in the final innings collapsed for a mere 81. India couldn't afford a repeat, they'd fought too hard to let this one slip.
They got a royal scrap alright. With 269 to defend, and the pitch throwing up all sorts of possibilities, India were always favourites to win. Even Dravid, who'd played what he felt were two of his "best innings" and what Lara felt was the "best two innings" he had seen on such a pitch, had been defeated by the surface. Surely West Indies, who rolled over for a mere 103 in the first innings, weren't going to get even halfway there. Surely, from 29 for 3 they had no way out.
No, said Ramnaresh Sarwan, who unfurled some of the most gorgeous straight-drives seen all series during the course of his I'll-go-down-in-a-blaze 51. No, said Dwayne Bravo, who showed that, irrespective of the nature of the pitch, his style would be effective. And no, this was the most emphatic no of all, said Denesh Ramdin, 21 years old and showing the maturity of a man twice his age. They attacked the spinners and rekindled hope, they rotated strike superbly, picked their deliveries, and injected the stadium with hope. They even got the music to re-start. It was a sight to see the pocket-sized Ramdin audaciously loft Anil Kumble to the scaffolding, to watch him farm the strike and regularly back himself even against the good balls. Against two world-class spinners, on a snorter of a pitch, he nearly stole the day.
But wait. You can get past a master once, maybe even thrice, as Bravo did by swiping Kumble for three successive fours in an over, but it's the master that eventually wins. You may be able to hit other bowlers off rhythm, dent their confidence with a flurry of boundaries but such tactics invariably pump up Kumble even more. Bravo tried to swipe one too many, Samuels, Taylor and Collins tried to pad one too many and all were gobbled up by that one untiring machine called "Jumbo". He's been around, this fella, taken criticism after criticism about being a home-pitch bully, and it was most fitting that he was there, right at the end, showing his worth.
Hugging him tight, a few moments after the final wicket fell, was his old mate, Dravid. Their partnership in the first innings, all grit and graft, showed the value of blue-collar ethic, and it was fitting that both had played a large part in one of Indian cricket's finest hours. One mustn't get carried away by this triumph, never forgetting that India were expected to clinch this series. At the same time, it's no point being too critical and saying they should have won by a bigger margin. It's not as if Indian cricket has taken a giant leap, but it's definitely taken a crucial step forward.
There was a cute touch to the three-day finish as well. The `71 series was the first time cricket had been played on Sundays in the Caribbean, in all the games except the opening one at Kingston. A neat circle was completed then when India rounded off the win at the end of an exciting Sunday.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is staff writer of Cricinfo
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Police helicopter overhead on day 1 of the 4th test match between England and India at Old Trafford, Manchester.
In between the 3rd & 4th Ashes Tests Ian Botham is spending three days walking in Wales raising funds for the NSPCC. Without his efforts over the years the National Childrens Hospital in Wales would not have been built as he raised millions for the Noah's Ark Appeal through his sponsored walks. He will host a dinner in Cardiff on Thursday evening before flying to Durham for the 4th test which begins on Friday morning. Some lucky bidders will fly in the private jet with him after putting in the winning bid on an auction in aid of the NSPCC to fly with him to go and watch the match.
during day 1 of the 4th and final Test between West Indies and India at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Photo by WICB Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography
Occupants of the Fosters Stand at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, Manchester on the 2nd day of the 4th Test between England and South Africa. 5th August 2017.
Dhoni with an off drive for 4 on day 1 of the 4th test match between England and India at Old Trafford, Manchester.
The England slips on day 1 of the 4th test match between England and India at Old Trafford, Manchester.
As far as Test cricket is concerned, a new chapter begins for India. Yes, Virat Kohli might have captained the first match of the series at Adelaide but now the throne is officially his. Producing some breathtaking batting displays, Kohli is on song and under the wise old marshall, Ravi...
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Joe Root avoids another very quick bouncer from Varun Aaron. The shadows are from the floodlights in the gathering Old Trafford gloom.
Cricket's aptitude for producing the inexplicable has seldom been so convincingly demonstrated. England arrived at the supposedly impregnable bastion of West Indian cricket with their form and confidence rock-bottom. Even team manager Keith Fletcher admitted a draw would have been been considered a triumph: West Indies had won their last 12 Tests on the ground. To win, and win handsomely, becoming the first visiting Test team to succeed at Bridgetown since R. E. S. Wyatt's England team 59 years earlier, and only the second ever, beggared belief. And yet it was no fluke. England dictated the game and won on merit, eight minutes after the scheduled tea interval on the final day. Each of the five days had attracted capacity crowds, swelled by about 6,000 holidaying England supporters, creating a unique and strangely bipartisan atmosphere for a Caribbean Test.
West Indies fielded the same team who won the Georgetown and Port-of-Spain Tests, but England substituted Tufnell for Salisbury. Richardson again won the toss and followed Barbados tradition, if not logic, by bowling first. The pitch was truer and faster than any encountered thus far and Atherton and Stewart profited with a first-wicket stand of 171, one short of the England record on the ground. The scoring-rate was brisk and their command such that it came as a surprise when Atherton fell for 85. Stewart proceeded to a chanceless century, on his 31st birthday, in 293 minutes, but the loss of four wickets in the final session, prolonged by the slow over-rate until cut off by bad light, undermined England's control.
It seemed the familiar pattern had been restored on the second day, when four wickets from Ambrose, at a personal cost of 24, restricted the total to 355. But the West Indian reply was quickly in trouble, despite Haynes surviving a controversial run-out appeal when he eased up, believing his shot had crossed the boundary. Haynes later retired hurt, struck on the finger by Lewis, initiating a disastrous period for West Indies. In his eighth over with the new ball, Fraser dismissed Richardson and Arthurton and, after Lara had seen a lavish drive superbly caught at cover by the substitute, Hussain, he returned for a crucial evening spell which brought him four for one in 17 balls. It was easily his most effective and impressive bowling since his prolonged pelvic injury and, with Tufnell containing skilfully at the other end, West Indies were 205 for eight when Ambrose became a seventh victim for Fraser on the third morning. Chanderpaul's remarkable temperament was again in evidence as he batted five hours in company with the tail, who eventually carried the side past 300. The last three wickets added 170 but Fraser still achieved figures of eight for 75, the best by an Englishman against West Indies, and the best for England since Bob Willis took eight for 43 against Australia at Headingley in 1981.
The lead of 51 was precarious, however, when Walsh quickly dismissed Atherton and Ramprakash. With Smith failing once more, England were tottering until Hick joined Stewart and, with the aid of generous supply of no-balls, added 92 before the close of the third day - delayed, like the previous two, by a desultory over-rate which was to produce a heavy fine for the West Indians. The first session of the fourth day was a critical one. Having survived it for the loss of one more wicket - Hick - they were well-placed. Stewart, who scored only 13 in the two hours to lunch, then advanced rapidly to his second century of the match, the first England player to achieve the feat against West Indies. If his second innings lacked the fluency of his first, it surpassed it for application; he had been batting almost eight hours when he played on, wearily, for the second time in the game. His stand of 150 with Thorpe was a record for England's fifth wicket against West Indies.
Thorpe's breezy 84, made in 188 minutes, permitted Atherton the unaccustomed luxury of a declaration and West Indies, set an improbable 446, 40 more than had ever been made to win a Test, were 47 for two at the close, the retirement of Richardson with a hamstring strain adding to their woes. If Russell had not missed a stumping with Lara on strike, England might have thought they were nearly home; as it was, they had to wait 75 minutes on the fifth morning before, crucially, he mishooked Caddick to mid-on where Tufnell took an impressive catch. With Haynes batting down the order with his damaged finger, the rest was not far short of a procession. Last man Walsh hit Tufnell for three defiant sixes in an over, but two balls later Ambrose was bowled and angrily swatted down his stumps, an act which cost him a £1,000 fine from the referee. This passed unnoticed by most of the England supporters, who were already on the field celebrating.
Local offices closed and excited crowds streamed to the Eden Park ground on the last afternoon as Cave and Beard bowled New Zealand to their first victory in 26 years of Test cricket. New Zealand owed much to the example of Reid, their captain. Until his arrival at the crease on the opening day nothing about New Zealand's cricket suggested their eventual triumph. Miller and MacGibbon struggled unconvincingly against a keen attack, following the early dismissal of McGregor, and Reid brought the first touch of mastery to the batting. Free, attacking strokes enabled him to hit eleven 4's in his 84, and he dominated a partnership of 104 with the dour Beck.
Bad light ended the first day forty minutes early with New Zealand 203 for six, and as the players left the field a tropical cyclone broke over the ground. Quicker bowlers were in their element next day. Dewdney swiftly accounted for the remaining New Zealand batsmen but MacGibbon and Cave proved equally menacing when West Indies batted. Weekes was, for once, among the early batting casualties and, despite a painstaking display by Furlonge, West Indies finished 110 behind.
Atkinson made a valiant attempt to retrieve the touring side's position with another whole-hearted bowling performance, but sensibly brisk batting by Guillen helped Reid to set them the formidable task of scoring 268 in four hours. Against the hostile swing bowling of Cave and Beard, West Indies collapsed so completely on a good batting pitch that the board soon showed 22 for six.
Weekes and Binns rallied their team briefly but, after Alabaster dismissed both in an economical spell of leg-breaks, Cave and Beard completed West Indies' rout for their lowest score in Test cricket.
McGregor catches Weekes:
For what seemed an age, but was perhaps five or six seconds, the hearts of 9000 Eden Park faithful stopped beating - and many, many thousands of steam-radio listeners held their breaths - as the ball went steeple-high and then dropped down toward Noel McGregor on the midwicket boundary fence.
In the three previous Tests of the series, Everton de Courcey Weekes and his fellow West Indians hadn't really toured; they had simply taken the lead in a regal procession. The great man had centuries against Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington, and one in each of the three Tests - two of which West Indies won by an innings, and one by 10 wickets.
Weekes had different work to do at Eden Park. New Zealand fought so splendidly that on the last afternoon West Indies needed 268 in four hours - just the sort of challenge Weekes relished. However, by the time the maestro had his baton, his orchestra had lost wickets at 4, 16, 16, 16, 18 and 22.
West Indies were 68, Weekes 31, when the young legspinner Jack Alabaster, trying for extra turn, dragged the ball down short. As soon as he sensed the length, Weekes decided the ball would go over the midwicket fence.
"It turned a little more than I expected, I got it maybe three-four inches too high up the bat," said Weekes afterward.
And wee McGregor: "…when I saw the shot, I knew it was coming to me; then I realised it could be a catch. The thought flashed through my head that if I dropped it, I would hop back over the fence, and disappear in the crowd. Oh, the joy when I held the ball in my hands."
Normal heartbeats ensued until West Indies were out for 77, and New Zealand had their first Test cricket win.
Don Cameron is a writer based in New Zealan
A stilted W.G.Grace impersonator greeting spectators at Emirates Old Trafford, with the redeveloped pavilion behind, before play on Day One of the 4th Investec test match between England and South Africa.
Looking from the Melbourne Road overbridge in Newport as K183 and S313 round the bend on the dual gauge line having just departed the Altona Sidings near Newport Station on their 4th test run of the day to Sunshine and return. The line alongside the locos is the out of use broad Gauge only line that runs to Brooklyn.
K183 test running between Newport and Sunshine - Friday 22-10-2021.
On Day Three Australian captain Steve Waugh took control, making a superb 122*. In the photo the MCG crowd are applauding him reaching his century. He lacked any prolonged support and Australia were all out for 340, a lead of 70.
By the close of another very long day England finished almost level on 65-2. Sadly, Michael Atherton grabbed a pair in this test.
With a posse of huntsmen looking on, South African batsman Hashim Alma at the Staham end crease, Old Trafford, Manchester, during the 4th Test between England and South Africa. 4th August 2017.