1976 – Former West Indies batsman Wavell Hinds was born in Kingston, Jamaica. He played 45 Tests and 119 ODIs for the West Indies between 1999 and 2010. Hinds scored 10,110 runs in his first-class career with 23 centuries. He became the president of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA) in 2011.
1983 – Trinidad and Tobago Olympic swimmer Linda McEachrane is born in Port-of-Spain. The 2002 athletes competed in the women’s 100 meters at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. McEachrane, who was also named USA Swimmer of the Year in 2004, swam for Tulane University in New Orleans. She was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.
1988 – Anisa Mohammed was born in Sangre Grande, Trinidad, West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago. A World Cup winner with the West Indies in 2016, Mohammed has taken 180 wickets in ODIs and 125 in T20Is, a record in women’s international cricket. She has 258 West Indies caps and is the only West Indian woman to have taken an international hat-trick. Mohammed dismissed Marizanne Kapp, Saarah Smith and Masatata Klaas in successive deliveries in September 2018 at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
1991 – Trinidad and Tobago all-rounder Yannick Ottley was born. A right-handed batsman and an orthodox left-arm bowler, Ottley has played 37 first-class matches, scoring 1307 runs and taking 13 wickets. He has also played 40 List A matches and 15 T20 matches. Ottley was the vice-captain of the West Indies U19 team in the 2010 ICC U19 World Cup.
2019 – Shimron Hetmyer hit 70 not out off 47 balls as the Guyana Amazon Warriors eased past the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by eight wickets in Providence. The Patriots posted 153 for 8 with Devon Thomas scoring 62, with Shadab Khan taking 2 for 20 for the Amazon Warriors.
2021 – Ali Khan took 4 for 6 in three overs to bowl out Jamaica Tallawahs for 92 and seal a 75-run win for Trinbago Knight Riders. Lendl Simmons scored 42 in Knight Riders 157 for 4 at Warner Park.
