Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/April/April 17

;Sri Lanka

• 1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan is born at Kandy

;West Indies

• 1978 - In the second innings of the fourth Test in Trinidad against Australia, Derick Parry takes 5 for 15 including four bowled, contributing to Australia's collapse of 94 all out and the West Indies winning the Frank Worrell Trophy.[http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/statsguru/engine/match/63209.html]