Laker routed Australia with 19 wickets in the 1956 Test

Jim Laker's 19 wickets
England v Australia
4th Test, 1956

Off-spinner Jim Laker followed the second-best figures in Test cricket in the first innings with the first ever 10-wicket Test haul in the second to down Australia by an innings and 170 runs.

Fellow Surrey spinner Tony Lock dismissed opener James Burke in the first innings but Laker took the last seven wickets for eight runs in 22 balls for figures of 9-37 as the tourists were bowled out for 84.

It was to get better for the Yorkshire-born spinner, though, as he ran unhindered though the Australian second innings as they followed on, bowling 51 overs and two balls to take 10-53.

Botham's Ashes century (not that one)
England v Australia, 5th Test, 1981

His famous century at Headingley began the England revival but Botham's 118 at Old Trafford clinched the 1981 Ashes for England.

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And the innings - which was just as crash-bang, lasting just 102 balls with 13 fours and six sixes - was judged by many observers to be better than Botham's feat a month earlier.

A limp start to their second innings left England 104-5 when Botham arrived.

But he helped extend that to 404 - 103 runs out of Australia's reach as it turned out - all his runs coming in a sixth-wicket stand of 149 with Chris Tavare.

Trumper's 100 before lunch
England v Australia, 4th Test, 1902

Australian batsman Victor Trumper scored the first ever century on the opening morning of a Test match.

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England captain Archie MacLaren's stated plan to "keep Victor quiet until lunch" was turned on its head as the stylish Aussie opener reached 104 not out by the end of the morning.

Only three batsmen (Charlie Macartney in 1926, Don Bradman in 1930 and Majid Khan in 1976) have since equalled Trumper's feat.

India upset England
World Cup semi-final, 1983

Kapil Dev's unfancied side downed the home team with ease to set up a surprise victory in the third World Cup final.

Few expected India to challenge in the tournament, least of all the hosts, who had their sights set on a second meeting with West Indies.

But a policy of picking seam bowlers to suit English conditions worked brilliantly.

England were bowled out for 213, with Kapil Dev and Roger Binny sharing five wickets.

And half-centuries from Sandeep Patil and Yashpal Sharma saw India to victory by six wickets with five overs to spare.

Viv Richards' one-day 189
West Indies v England, 1984

The ground that witnessed the first ever one-day international century (by Dennis Amis in 1972) also witnessed one of the finest, with the West Indies great in bludgeoning form.

Richards strode to the crease with his side in trouble at 11-2 in the first Texaco Trophy match of the summer and they were not even out of the woods at 166-9.

But Michael Holding hit 12 not out in a last-wicket partnership of 106.

In all, Richards crashed an unbeaten 189 from 170 balls, with 21 fours and five sixes.

England spinner, and now selector Geoff Miller called the knock, "as complete a one-day innings as you could ever wish to see".

Richards' innings stood as the highest one-day international score for 12 years, until Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar hit 194 against India in Madras.

Stewart's 100th-cap 100
England v West Indies, 3rd Test 2000

Old Trafford loves its own and the focus of the home fans was on Mike Atherton as for the first time two players gained their 100th Test cap in the same match.

But Atherton was out in the fourth over as England slumped to 17-3 and it was fellow veteran Stewart who lifted the side with a brisk century off 136 balls.

The Manchester ground rose in a rousing ovation rarely seen for a player born south of the Ship Canal.

Observers were unsure whether the patriotic Stewart had his tongue in his cheek when he dedicated the ton to the Queen Mother on her 100th birthday saying, "She has been brilliant".