Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May/May 11

Australia

• 1941 - Ian Redpath, 66 Tests for Australia over a dozen seasons and an average of 43, is born at Geelong

England

• 1906 - John King, batting for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval, is given out hit the ball twice, the last such dismissal in England to date
• 1955 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, dies at Fordington, Dorset, aged 80