Doug Ring was a member of the Australian cricket team that toured
England in 1948. Ring played under captain Donald Bradman, whose 1948
team went undefeated in their 34 matches, earning them the sobriquet
"The Invincibles". A leg spinner, Ring was not prominent in the series,
playing in only the Fifth Test, taking one wicket for 44 runs and
scoring nine runs in his only innings. Ring took 60 first-class wickets
at a bowling average of 21.81, the most expensive among Australia's
frontline bowlers. As England agreed to have a new ball available at
intervals of 55 overs after the start of each innings, fast bowling
dominated over spin in the Tests, and Ring was used primarily in the
non-Test tour matches. Ring scored 150 first-class runs at a batting
average of 16.66 during the tour, and a top-score of 53 was his only
effort beyond 50. (This article is part of a featured topic: Australian
cricket team in England in 1948.).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed Roundhay Garden Scene
(featured), the earliest surviving motion picture, in Leeds, England.
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1926:
The first book featuring English author A. A. Milne's
fictional bear Winnie-the-Pooh was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_%28book%29>
1943:
The Holocaust: Prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp
revolted, killing 11 SS officers and staging a mass escape.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobibor_extermination_camp>
1964:
Members of the Politburo voted to remove Nikita Khrushchev as
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and replace
him with Leonid Brezhnev.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Woozle effect:
The phenomenon whereby frequent citation of earlier publications leads
to a mistaken public belief in something for which there is no evidence,
giving rise to an urban myth.
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