Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/September/September 8

England

• 1938 - Frank Woolley takes the final catch of his first-class cricket career, No 1018, to set the record for a non-wicketkeeping fielder. Woolley is playing for an England Past and Present XI against Sir Pelham Warner's XI in a festival match at Folkestone. It is Woolley's 978th first-class match in a career that began in 1906.