Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May/May 26


 * England
 * 1868 - Edward Tylecote became the first man to score more than four hundred runs. The feat was accomplished at Clifton College, where thirty-one years later AEJ Collins would make the current highest individual score.
 * 1976 - Paul Collingwood was born at Shotley Bridge
 * 1996: Graham Thorpe took his only two international wickets, in an ODI against India at Old Trafford.
 * New Zealand
 * 1947 - New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner was born in Dunedin. He is regarded as one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen.
 * South Africa
 * 1920 - Jack Cheetham, successful and dynamic captain of South Africa on tours of England and Australia in the early 1950s, is born at Cape Town