Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/February/February 24


 * Australia
 * 1959 - Fast bowler and TV personality Mike Whitney is born at Surry Hills.


 * England
 * 1931 - Brian Close is born in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, where Hedley Verity learned his cricket. Close is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England.


 * South Africa
 * 2008 - Mark Boucher takes the world record for most dismissals (416) by a wicket-keeper, from Adam Gilchrist.


 * West Indies
 * 1945 - Everton Weekes makes his first-class debut for Barbados, against Trinidad, aged 19 years and 364 days. He scores 0 and eight.