Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/May/May 26

England

• 1868 - Edward Tylecote became the first man to score more than four hundred runs. The feat was accomplished at Clifton College, where thirty-one years later AEJ Collins would make the current highest individual score.
• 1976 - Paul Collingwood was born at Shotley Bridge
• 1996: Graham Thorpe took his only two international wickets, in an ODI against India at Old Trafford.

New Zealand

• 1947 - New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner was born in Dunedin. He is regarded as one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen.

South Africa

• 1920 - Jack Cheetham, successful and dynamic captain of South Africa on tours of England and Australia in the early 1950s, is born at Cape Town