Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May/May 23

England

• 1918 - Denis Compton is born in Hendon, Middlesex. In 1947, he made 18 centuries and 3816 runs, the most ever in an English cricket season. He also took 47 wickets.
• 1969 - Colin Milburn loses an eye in a car accident, ending his Test career.

West Indies

• 2006 - Ramnaresh Sarwan becomes the seventh batsman to score a century in his 100th One-day International, with an unbeaten 115 in the four-wicket victory over India at Basseterre, St Kitts

Zimbabwe

• 1966 - Graeme Hick is born in Harare, then called Salisbury.