ON THIS DAY: 2006
1930: New Zealand played their first Test match, taking on England at Christchurch. England won by eight wickets.
1985: Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in one over, for Bombay off the bowling of Baroda’s Tilak Raj.
1991: Manchester United announced they would be become a public company with their shares quoted on the Stock Exchange.
2007: Walter Smith resigned as Scotland manager to take over as Rangers boss.
2010: Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor announced his team would head home from the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola following a gun attack on the team bus which claimed the lives of three people.