Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May/May 24


 * England
 * 1955 - Charles Palmer took eight wickets without conceding a run, seven of them bowled, for Leicestershire against Surrey.


 * South Africa
 * 1942 - Ali Bacher, captain of South Africa in the series before the apartheid era ban came into effect and influential administrator in the transition to multiracial cricket in South Africa, is born at Roodepoort.