1878 – Surrey left-arm bowler Ted Barratt takes 10/43 for the team Players in Australia in a first innings in a cricket match on his home ground at The Oval. Tamara won Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80 m hurdlesFirst sisters to win Olympic gold medals, Tamara and Irina Press of Soviet Union. Saram was a regular in the Sri Lanka ‘A’ team before breaking into the national team. He was dropped from the side in 2001 and eight years later, made a comeback when he was included in the Twenty20 squad against the touring Indians and later for the T20 World Cup in EnglandHappy birthday Indika de Saram! After 17 years of marriage, the pair split 2006 and got divorced in 2007

Source: The Nation September 01, 2021 18:33 UTC