Howzat! Not so good I’m afraid

I am a long-term subscriber to Sky Sport and am furious that Sky lost the rights to Black Caps’ matches here in New Zealand. We used to be able to watch all these matches on Sky but now we just get overseas cricket games. I used to love watching rugby in the winter and cricket in the summer on Sky. But now I’m only getting half of what I used to see. However, I don’t see Sky’s prices being halved for us long-suffering sports fans. I no longer think Sky is good value for money.

Disgruntled fan (Auckland)

team’s last game on British soil, five days before the plane crash at Munich that killed seven players.

– The Beatles’ early hit I Want To Hold Your Hand tops the US hot 100 and stays there for seven weeks before being replaced by She Loves You.

– The Underarm Incident (below) takes place at Melbourne. Australia’s cricket captain Greg Chappell instructs his brother Trevor to bowl underarm to Brian McKechnie with New Zealand needing six runs from the last ball to tie their one-day match at the MCG. McKechnie defends the ball and then tosses away his bat in disgust as Australia wins the match by six runs.

– New Zealand broadcaster Paul Holmes dies, aged 62, of prostate cancer and heart problems.

– Cricket all-rounder Richard Hadlee makes his test debut for New Zealand in the drawn first test v Pakistan in Wellington.

– The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand hits number one in the US charts. small-plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

– Actors Angelina Jolie, 23, and Jonny Lee Miller, 26, divorce after three years of marriage.

– Actor Johnny Depp, 51, and model Amber Heard, 28, are married at their home in Los Angeles.

FEBRUARY 4

– Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is released and becomes Grammy Album Of the Year.

– New Zealand’s Richard Hadlee becomes the first cricketer to take 400 test wickets, dismissing Sanjay Manjrekar in the first test against India in Christchurch.

– New Zealand batsmen Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make a record 469-run stand against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington. Crowe is dismissed for 299.

FEBRUARY 5

– Hollywood film studio United Artists is founded by Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and DW Griffith.

– Apollo 14 lands on the Moon and Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell walk on the surface for four hours.

– Acclaimed US actor Kirk Douglas dies, aged 103.