Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/February/February 24
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- 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.