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On this day in sport: Australia caught ball

tampering, Gronk calls it a career
Omnisport ● March 24, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT

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March 24 was a momentous date in the world of cricket, just for all the wrong reasons.

The actions of an opening batsman during a 2018 Test series with South Africa
plunged Australian cricket into crisis.

Six years earlier, one of the greatest footballers of the modern generation made
Spanish football history.

It is also a date that marked the end of the career of arguably the best tight end to
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We look back at the major events that happened on this day in sport. PA Media: World News

1936: Red Wings outlast Maroons in NHL marathon

Want an easy way to lose weight? Play nearly three full NHL games in one day.

That's what Detroit Red Wings goaltender Normie Smith and his team-mates did as
they defeated the Montreal Maroons 1-0 in the first game of the Stanley Cup semi-
finals, the longest game in NHL history.
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Smith reportedly made 92 saves, losing 12 pounds of body weight in the process, AFP

before Mud Bruneteau scored the decisive goal in the sixth overtime period at the
Montreal Forum, the game finally coming to a close at 2:25am.

Detroit went on to win their first Stanley Cup. Thankfully, shootouts mean such epics
are no longer necessary in today's NHL.

2012: Ronaldo races to LaLiga landmark

Cristiano Ronaldo elevated himself from superstar to candidate for greatest of all time
during his glittering career at Real Madrid.
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Even in a spell that included four Champions League titles and two LaLiga crowns, his defender Rudiger focused on slowing
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achievement of eight years ago against Real Sociedad ranks among his finest at Los
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Blancos.

Ronaldo netted twice in a 3-1 win at the Santiago Bernabeu, making him the fastest Post Fun Ad

player to reach LaLiga 100 goals.

He reached his century in just 92 games, surpassing the mark set by fellow Madrid
great Ferenc Puskas, who did the same in 105 games.

2018: Bancroft caught on camera

Australian cricket was plunged into a ball-tampering scandal on the third day of the
third Test with South Africa.

Footage emerged of Cameron Bancroft rubbing the ball with a yellow object, later
revealed to be sandpaper.

His attempts to rough up the ball led to unprecedented sanctions being handed out by
Cricket Australia.

Captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner were banned from all forms of
domestic and international cricket for 12 months for their roles in the incident.

They were also stood down from the respective leadership roles, with Warner
removed from future consideration for such positions. Bancroft, meanwhile, was
banned for nine months.

2019: Gronk bows out a champion

Rob Gronkowski became the gold standard at tight end in a career that will surely see
him one day enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

However, the well-documented injuries he battled throughout his time in the NFL took
their toll and he hung up the cleats after nine seasons in the league.

He went out a champion, however, helping the New England Patriots to their sixth
Lombardi Trophy with victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII a month
prior to his retirement.

Gronkowski won three Super Bowl rings with New England and, despite retiring
before the age of 30, he ended his career widely regarded as the pre-eminent tight
end in NFL history.

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