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Sri Lanka

• 1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan is born at Kandy

West Indies

• 1978 - In the second innings of the fourth Test in Trinidad against Australia, Derick Parry takes 5 for 15 including four bowled, contributing to Australia's collapse of 94 all out and the West Indies winning the Frank Worrell Trophy.[1]