Bradley-John Watling (born 9 July 1985), known as BJ Watling, is a South African-born former New Zealand international cricketer who played domestically for Northern Districts. He made his Test debut in December 2009 and eight months later played his first One Day International. In 2012, Watling assumed the role of wicket-keeper in Tests.
Watling holds the record of most dismissals by a wicket-keeper for New Zealand and has been involved in the highest 6th and 7th wicket partnerships of New Zealand in Tests. He is the first wicket-keeper batsman to score a double hundred for New Zealand in Tests.
In May 2021, Watling announced his retirement from cricket following New Zealand's tour to England to play in the Test series and after winning the final of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship in June 2021.
Read more...The July 9, 1985 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 189 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 40 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 96 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, July 9, 2026, in 268 days. You have lived for 14,706 days, or about 352,962 hours, or about 21,177,773 minutes, or about 1,270,666,380 seconds.
Date: 10 July 1985
By Elaine Sciolino, Special To the New York Times
Elaine Sciolino
When she was 22 years old, Leticia R. Shahani fell in love with a man 15 years her senior. She spent the next 10 years finishing her studies and shaping her career before she married him. ''My feminist philosophy has been shaped by my own life,'' she said in an interview.
Date: 10 July 1985
Special to the New York Times
The Navy announced today that it would reinstate an admiral who was relieved of duty after disclosures about high prices that a supply depot under his command paid for airplane ashtrays and other spare parts.
Date: 10 July 1985
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Upi
Western diplomats said today that Afghan rebels attacked two Soviet-Afghan military convoys last month, killing hundreds of soldiers, and mounted their heaviest rocket assault in months on the suburbs of the capital of Kabul.
Date: 09 July 1985
By Leslie H. Gelb, Special To the New York Times
Leslie Gelb
Soviet negotiators in Geneva have indicated for the first time that they would be willing to accept an arms treaty allowing research on strategic defense, high-ranking Reagan Administration officials said today.
Date: 10 July 1985
By James F. Clarity and Warren Weaver Jr
James Clarity
At the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, the picture of Leslie H. Gelb, who was director of the bureau from 1977 to 1979, is back on the wall. It was taken down in February after publication of an article by Mr. Gelb, now a correspondent of The New York Times, that the bureau director, Lieut. Gen. John T. Chain Jr., objected to as damaging to national security.
Date: 10 July 1985
By Wayne Biddle, Special To the New York Times
Wayne Biddle
The Air Force sent its only available antisatellite weapon back to the manufacturer for repairs late last month, according to Congressional sources, putting an already delayed testing program into further uncertainty.
Date: 09 July 1985
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
Back in the 1950's, someone coined the term ''pseudo-event'' to describe happenings contrived solely to appear on television. Pseudo-events, in this usage, would not have happened had there been no cameras available to film them. But 30 years later, it's the other way around - events outside our private lives lack a certain reality, they become for most of us pseudo-events, if they do not appear on television.
Date: 10 July 1985
By Philip M. Boffey, Special To the New York Times
Philip
A proposed law to allow military personnel to sue the Government for medical malpractice would undermine military morale and discipline but would do little to improve the quality of medical care, officials of the Reagan Administration said today.