19th June 1269 – King Louis IX of France ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeated Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, […]

15-year-old schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade, from the KC Gandhi High School, Kalyan, India, has become the first batsman to score 1000-plus runs in an innings in any form of cricket. (He reached 1000 runs in just 323 balls whilst batting against Arya Gurukul School in the Bhandari Cup (a tournament in India for under-16s). His score […]

Sledging is what cricketers call the mocking insults swapped between players out at the wicket.  It has long been part of the game, but you might be surprised at how ungentlemanly these bastions of sport can be. Shaun Pollock to Ricky Ponting: "It's red, it's round and weighs about five ounces." Ponting hit the next […]