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  • 1924 - Jack MacBryan fields for two-and-three-quarter hours for England in the fourth Test against South Africa at Manchester. The rest of the three-day Test is then rained off and MacBryan, a specialist batsman, neither bowls nor bats – and is never picked again for a Test match.
  • 1949 - Brian Close makes his Test debut, a record for the youngest Englishman to do so, at 18 years and 149 days old.
  • 1956 - Jim Laker takes 10-53 against Australia at Manchester, a bowling record.[1]
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