ON THIS DAY: 2003

1971: Australia and England met in the first one-day cricket international in Melbourne.

2000: Pele was voted the best player of the 20th century, ahead of Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer, in a poll by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

2007: England lost the fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney by 10 wickets to complete a 5-0 series win for Australia, the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years.

2011: Batsman Paul Collingwood announced his retirement from Test cricket after helping England retain the Ashes by winning the Sydney Test.

2015: Temba Bavuma became the first black African to score a Test century for South Africa after making 102 not out against England in Cape Town.

Canada’s John Part ended Phil Taylor’s eight-year reign as world champion by beating him in the final of the PDC event in Purfleet.