Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/August/August 27


 * Australia
 * 1908 - Don Bradman (pictured) is born


 * England
 * 1968 - England win the fifth and final Test of The Ashes series to square the rubber with six minutes to spare after a final day in which The Oval is flooded by a lunchtime storm. Mopping up by staff and spectators enables play to resume with 75 minutes left and five wickets to get. Derek Underwood took four of them to finish with seven for 50.
 * 1973 - Gary Sobers takes six catches at Lord's, a record for a non-wicketkeeper in a Test
 * 1979 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes off Somerset's Dennis Breakwell at Taunton.