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January 1

Australia

1963 - Glenn Trimble, who played in two One Day International World Series Cup matches for Australia, is born in Brisbane.
2007 - Justin Langer (pictured right) announces his retirement from Test cricket.

England

1997 - Graham Kersey, Surrey wicket keeper, dies in a car crash in Queensland.

Pakistan

1928 - Khan Mohammad is born.

West Indies

1944 - Charlie Davis, is born. In the 1970/71 home series against India, Davis scored 529 runs in 4 Tests at an incredible average of 132.25.[1]

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January 2

In Australia

1879 - Fred Spofforth (pictured) takes the first Test hat-trick against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1937 - The start of the third Test against England at Melbourne which included Don Bradman's knock of 270 which is rated by Wisden as the top test innings of all time

In India

1979 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the only batsman to hit a century in each innings of a Test match three times

In Bangladesh

1990 - Indian batsman Raman Lamba died after being hit on the head while fielding at short slip during a club match.

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January 3

West Indies

1949 - Everton Weekes' 101 in Calcutta completes a sequence of five consecutive Test innings centuries

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January 4

England

1975 - Mike Denness drops himself from the England side for the fourth Test against Australia at Sydney after scoring 65 runs in six innings

Australia

1936 - Clarrie Grimmett (pictured), for Australia v South Africa at Cape Town takes his 190th Test wicket, setting a new career bowling record.

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January 5

Australia

1971 - The first One Day International was played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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January 6

In India

1959 - Kapil Dev was born in Chandigarh.

In Australia

2008 - India is beaten by 122 runs in the Second Test at Sydney, in a match marred by numerous umpiring errors and accusation of poor sportsmanship on both sides.

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January 7

Pakistan

1992 - Imran Khan retires from Test cricket

India

1956 - Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy complete a record first-wicket partnership of 413 against New Zealand at Madras.[2]

Australia

2011 - England beat Australia by an innings and 83 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground to clinch the 2010-11 Ashes series by 3-1.

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January 8

Australia

1901 - New South Wales makes 918 runs against South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Five batsmen make centuries.[3]

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January 9

England

1971 - Bob Willis makes his Test debut against Australia in Sydney[4]

West Indies

1968 - Jimmy Adams is born

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January 10

New Zealand

1930 - NZ played their first Test against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth Test nation. Maurice Allom, bowling for England on the first day, takes four wickets in five balls, including a hat-trick, to reduce New Zealand to 21 for seven wickets. Allom is the first Test bowler to take a hat-trick on his Test debut.

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January 11

India

1973 - Rahul Dravid (pictured) is born at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Pakistan

1959 - Hanif Mohammad, playing for Karachi against Bahawalpur, is run out going for his 500th run. His score of 499 beats the previous highest first-class score by 47 and remains the world record for 35 years.

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January 12

West Indies

1962 - Richie Richardson is born.

India

1964 - Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs in the first Test between India and England at Madras.[5]

Zimbabwe

1976 - Gavin Rennie is born

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January 13

Australia

1911 - South Africa's first Test win over Australia at Adeliade.[6]
1978 - The Australia national women's cricket team win the Women's Cricket World Cup for the first time in Hyderabad.[7]

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January 14

Australia

1933 - Bill Woodfull is struck over the heart during the third Test at Adelaide in the Bodyline series

India

1978 - Australia wins the Women's Cricket World Cup with a victory over England at Hyderabad

West Indies

1979 - Daren Ganga is born

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January 15

Australia

1895 - Albert Trott debuted for Australia at Adelaide Oval against England in the 3rd Ashes Test, taking 8-43. Trott's debut match also included knocks of 38* and 72* with the bat. He later also played for England.
1959 - Colin Cowdrey's century in the 3rd Test at Sydney takes 362 minutes - the slowest in Ashes history until Bob Woolmer's 394 minute record in 1975.

England

1956 - Paul Parker is born.

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January 16

In South Africa

2004 – Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs hit 301 for first wicket v West Indies at Centurion, making the highest first-wicket stand in SA v WI Tests

In Australia

1993 - In the first final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, Dean Jones insists that Curtly Ambrose remove his white wristbands as they distracted him. An incensed Ambrose promptly took a 5 wicket haul for just 32 runs.
1997 - Anthony Stuart takes as hat-trick against Pakistan in his 3rd and last Test appearance

In the West Indies

1911 - Wicketkeeper Ivan Barrow is born in Jamaica. In 1933 Barrow became the first West Indian to make a century in a Test in England.
1956 - Wayne Daniel is born

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January 17

West Indies

1926 - Clyde Walcott is born.

Pakistan

1925 - Pakistan's first captain Abdul Kardar is born

England

1908 - Brian Valentine is born

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January 18

India

1972 – Vinod Kambli is born

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January 19

In Australia

1868 - Bob McLeod is born
1922 - Invincible Arthur Morris (pictured) is born. He was the first man to make a century in both innings of his first-class debut.
2004 - David Hookes dies after a brawl outside a Melbourne pub

In India

1977 - India is bowled out for 83 in the second innings of the 3rd Test against England in Madras, a record low innings score at the time[8]

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January 20

Scotland

1908 – Ian Peebles is born

South Africa

1977 – Frog-in-a-blender bowler Paul Adams is born

West Indies

1968 – Junior Murray is born

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January 21

Australia

1888 - Herbie Collins (pictured) is born.
1991 - England cricketers David Gower and John Morris are fined £1000 each after flying at low height in small Tiger Moth aircraft over the ground at Carrara where their team is playing Queensland.

West Indies

1948 - A record 12 players debut in the first Test between West Indies and England at Barbados. Several, such as Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Jim Laker go on to considerable fame.[9]

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January 22

West Indies

1948 - England's Jim Laker took six wickets for 25 runs in nine overs on the second morning of his debut Test against West Indies at Bridgetown, finishing with seven for 103 in the innings.
1988 - Brian Lara (pictured) made his first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago against the Leeward Islands. He made 14 and 22.

Sri Lanka

1966 - Nishantha Ranatunga is born

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January 23

New Zealand

1971 – Adam Parore is born

Australia

1976 - in his 66th and second last Test, renowned stonewaller Ian Redpath hits his first career six.[10]

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January 24

Zimbabwe

1970 – Neil Johnson is born

South Africa

1950 – Australia win the third Test at Durban by 5 wickets after South Africa declined to enforce a follow on. [11]

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January 25

Australia

1980 - Hunter Poon (pictured), first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, dies in Brisbane aged 85.

In South Africa

1957 - Hugh Tayfield bowled 137 balls without conceding a run in the 3rd Test against England at Kingsmead, Durban.[12]

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January 26

In Australia

1883 - The first Test played at the Association (later Sydney Cricket Ground) Cricket Ground, starts. [13]
1954 - Kim Hughes is born at Margaret River, Western Australia
1962 - Tim May is born
1963 - Simon O'Donnell is born

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January 27

New Zealand

1969 – Shane Thomson, 19 Tests and 56 ODIs, is born at Hamilton
1979 – Daniel Vettori is born at Auckland

Sri Lanka

1974 – Chaminda Vaas is born at Mattumagala.

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January 28

Australia

1873 – Monty Noble (pictured) is born in Chinatown, Sydney

England

1880 – Herbert Strudwick is born at Mitcham.

West Indies

1935 – England captain Bob Wyatt, in a move that Wisden calls "amazing and inexplicable", reverses his team's batting order as they set out after lunch on the final day of the second Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad to score 325 to win. The move backfires and England are all out for 107 to lose by 217 runs.

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January 29

Australia

1966 - Bobby Simpson (pictured) and Bill Lawry put on then-record 244 for first wicket in fourth Test against England at Adelaide. England had been all out for 241 the previous day.

Pakistan

1955 - Miran Bux (Miran Bakhsh) makes Test debut for Pakistan v India at Lahore aged 47 years and 284 days, the second oldest debutant of all time (after James Southerton).
2006 - India's Irfan Pathan takes a hat-trick with the last three balls of the first over in the third Test at Karachi.

West Indies

1951 - Andy Roberts is born at Antigua.

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January 30

In Australia

1992 - Curtly Ambrose takes 7 wickets for 1 run in the fifth and deciding Test between the West Indies and Australia at the WACA Ground.

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January 31

In Australia

1944 - John Inverarity is born in Subiaco, Western Australia

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February

February 1

Australia

1932 - Donald Bradman scores 299 not out for Australia against South Africa in fourth Test at Adelaide. His batting partner, last man Pud Thurlow, is run out going for Bradman's 300th run.
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls an underarm delivery in one of the final matches against New Zealand in the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The incident caused a diplomatic row.

Pakistan

1982 - Shoaib Malik is born in Sialkot

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February 2

In Bangladesh

1968 - Aminul Islam is born. Aminul made a century in his debut Test against India at Dhaka. The match was also his country's first Test. The only other two men to achieve the same feat were Charles Bannerman (AUS) and Dave Houghton (ZIM).

In Australia

1988 - In the Bicentennial Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (pictured), David Boon makes an unbeaten 184 to save the match after Australia was forced to follow on.

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February 3

In the West Indies

1851 – Lord Harris is born in Trinidad, the son of the English Governor. Harris was the second captain of England and was a key figure in the early Tests between England and Australia as well as the Imperial Cricket Conference which established rules and expanded Test cricket to include South Africa.

In Australia

1933 – Fast bowler Tim Wall takes 10 wickets for 36 runs in a single innings for South Australia against New South Wales at Sydney. This remains the best bowling performance in first-class cricket in Australia. New South Wales win the match.

1936 – Bobby Simpson is born in Marrickville, New South Wales. Simpson was a star of the game as an opening batsman (with Bill Lawry), captain and coach for the Australian cricket team. Remarkably for a batsman, Simpson's first Test century came seven years after his debut and he made 311 runs.[14]

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February 4

Australia

1929 - Archie Jackson makes a debut 164 at Adelaide.
1937 - Australia win the fourth Test at Adelaide to level The Ashes series 2-2, having lost the first two matches to England. A double century by Donald Bradman and 10 wickets in the match for Chuck Fleetwood-Smith (pictured) enable the Australians to win by 148 runs after trailing by 42 in the first innings.

New Zealand

1990 - Richard Hadlee becomes the first man to take 400 Test wickets. The match was at Christchurch against India.[15]

Pakistan

1935 - The first non-Muslim cricketer to play for Pakistan, Wallis Mathias is born in Karachi.

South Africa

1894 - Rolland Beaumont is born in Natal.

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February 5

England

1766 - Silver Billy Beldham, one of the great cricketers of the early 1800s, is born at Wrecclesham in Surrey

South Africa

1970 - Barry Richards scores 140 out of 229 in three hours in only his second Test match for South Africa, against Australia at Durban. But his highest Test innings is upstaged by Graeme Pollock's 274, completed the following day, which was South Africa's highest Test score at the time.

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February 6

Australia

1948 - Don Bradman plays his last Test innings in Australia. He tore a rib muscle and retired hurt at 57.
1971 - Brad Hogg is born on this day.

England

1886 - Wicketkeeper and umpire Tiger Smith is born in Birmingham.
1931 - Fred Trueman is born in Stainton, near Doncaster.

New Zealand

1997 - Daniel Vettori became New Zealand's youngest Test cricketer at 18 years 10 days.

South Africa

1970 - Graeme Pollock completes innings of 274 in Test match against Australia at Durban, then the highest Test innings for South Africa. Pollock put on 200 for the sixth wicket with Tiger Lance, who made 61: this is still South Africa's highest sixth wicket partnership.

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February 7

In India

1999 - At Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi, Indian leg spinner Anil Kumble (pictured) becomes only the second man to take all ten wickets in a Test innings after Jim Laker in 1956.

In Australia

1995 - English batsmen Mike Gatting and Graham Gooch both retire from Test cricket after being out for 0 and 11 respectively in the 5th Ashes Test in Perth.
1972 - Former Western Warrior wicket-keeper and batsman Ryan Campbell was born on this day in Perth.

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February 8

Australia

1879 - During a Sydney match between a touring English team and a team from the New South Wales Cricket Association, a riot ensues after star Australian batsman Billy Murdoch was given out by Victorian umpire George Coulthard (pictured).

India

1963 - Mohammad Azharuddin born.

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February 9

Australia

1970 - Glenn McGrath is born

England

1922 - Jim Laker is born

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February 10

In Australia

1937 - Australian opener and captain and later commentator Bill Lawry was born on this day in Thornbury, Victoria.

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February 11

Australia

1851 - First Intercolonial match in Australia at Launceston Racecourse between an eleven of Van Diemen's Land and the Colony of Victoria.

West Indies

1948 - Billy Griffith, pressed into service as emergency opening batsman by England in second Test against West Indies at Bridgetown, scores his maiden first-class century, finishing (the following morning) with 140.

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February 12

In India

1949 - Gundappa Viswanath is born in Bhadravati, Mysore. Viswanath made over 6000 Test runs at an average of 41 from 91 matches.

In New Zealand

1941 - Ross Morgan is born in Auckland. Morgan played 20 Tests in the 1960s and 1970s as a middle-order batsman.

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February 13

West Indies

1948 - Andy Ganteaume, 53 not out overnight in second Test between West Indies and England at Bridgetown, completed a century and finished with 112 in what would prove to be his only Test innings.
1957 - Thelston Payne born in Barbados.

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February 14

In England

1902 - Australian bowler Bert Hopkins (pictured) takes CB Fry and Ranjitsinhji both for ducks on the opening day of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.[16]

In South Africa

1896 - South Africa is bowled out for 30 runs in their second innings by England at Port Elizabeth [17]

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February 15

New Zealand

1978 - After 48 years and in the 48th Test between the two countries, New Zealand finally win a Test match against England, winning by 72 runs in a low-scoring match at Wellington.

West Indies

1956 - Desmond Haynes is born in Barbados

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February 16

Australia

1933 - Archie Jackson, (pictured right), who appeared in eight Test matches for Australia, dies at Brisbane from tuberculosis at the age of 23.

New Zealand

1979 - First Test is staged at McLean Park in Napier, New Zealand. The ground is the 50th Test venue worldwide. The match is between New Zealand and Pakistan.

West Indies

1904 - Ellis Achong, who appeared in six Tests in the 1930s and is sometimes credited as the origin of the term "chinaman" to describe slow left-arm unorthodox spin bowling, is born in Trinidad.
1954 - Michael Holding is born at Kingston.

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February 17

Australia

1882 - First Test match staged at the Sydney Cricket Ground started.
1936 - Barry Jarman born.

New Zealand

1930 - First Test match staged at Eden Park, Auckland, started.

Sri Lanka

1982 - Played in their first Test match
1996 - Won the World Cup hosted by India/Sri Lanka/Pakistan[18]

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February 18

Australia

1911 - Billy Murdoch (pictured), captain of the Australian team on the tour of England after which The Ashes were instituted, collapses and dies during the Test match between Australia and South Africa at Melbourne.
1948 - Bruce Francis born in Mosman, New South Wales.

England

1922 - Ben Brocklehurst, fleetingly captain of Somerset in the 1950s and long-standing owner of The Cricketer, is born at Knapton Hall in Norfolk.

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February 19

England

1891 - Off-spinning all-rounder Farmer White, fleetingly England's Test captain in the 1920s, is born at Holford, Somerset

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February 20

England

1862 - Silver Billy Beldham, one of the great cricketers of the early 1800s, dies at Tilford in Surrey aged 96.
1949 - Eddie Hemmings is born at Leamington Spa

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February 21

Australia

1970 - Michael Slater is born

India

1987 - Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan, stages its first and so far only Test match

West Indies

1930 - First Test staged at the Bourda ground at Georgetown, Guyana starts.
1965 - Keith Arthurton is born on the island of Nevis.
1979 -Glendon Gibbs, Test cricketer and administrator, dies in Georgetown, Guyana.

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February 22

Bangladesh

2006 - Bangladesh win a One-day international match against Sri Lanka for the first time in 16 attempts, winning the second of a three-match series by four wickets at the Shaheed Chandu Stadium, Bogra

New Zealand

1991 - Seddon Park at Hamilton becomes the sixth Test venue in New Zealand when it stages the second Test in the series against Sri Lanka.

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February 23

South Africa

1974 - Herschelle Gibbs is born in Cape Town.

Canada

2003 - John Davison makes a century off 67 balls in a World Cup match against the West Indies, the fastest in World Cup history at that time.[19]

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February 24

Australia

1959 - Fast bowler and TV personality Mike Whitney is born at Surry Hills.

England

1931 - Brian Close is born in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, where Hedley Verity learned his cricket. Close is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England.

South Africa

2008 - Mark Boucher takes the world record for most dismissals (416) by a wicket-keeper, from Adam Gilchrist.

West Indies

1945 - Everton Weekes makes his first-class debut for Barbados, against Trinidad, aged 19 years and 364 days. He scores 0 and eight.

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February 25

Australia

1855 - Big-hitting George Bonnor is born at Bathurst, New South Wales.
1960 - Glenn Bishop, two Limited Overs Internationals for Australia, born in Adelaide.
2001 - The greatest batsman of all time, Sir Don Bradman, (pictured right), died in Adelaide at the age of 92.

Sri Lanka

1966 - Don Anurasiri, 18 Tests and 45 ODIs, is born in Panadura.

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February 26

Pakistan

1955 - First-ever Test match is staged at the National Stadium, Karachi

West Indies

1925 - Everton Weekes is born

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February 27

Australia

1937 - Jack Badcock hits 118 for Australia in the decisive Ashes Test at Melbourne, the only time in 12 innings in seven Tests that specialist batsman Badcock is not dismissed while still in single figures.

New Zealand

1932 - First Test ever between New Zealand and South Africa begins at Christchurch. South Africa win by an innings and 12 runs.

South Africa

1944 - Graeme Pollock is born in Durban, Natal.

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February 28

New Zealand

1957 - Wicketkeeper Ian Smith, now a commentator, is born at Nelson.

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February 29

England

1908 - Alf Gover is born at Epsom, Surrey.

New Zealand

1988 - Mark Greatbatch, on his Test debut, bats throughout the final day for an unbeaten 107 to secure a draw for New Zealand in the second Test against England at Eden Park, Auckland.

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March

March 1

Australia

1921 - Australia win fifth Test against England at Sydney by nine wickets, completing the first 5-0 whitewash in The Ashes' history.

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March 2

England

1977 - Andrew Strauss is born

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March 3

Australia

1937 - Australia complete the comeback by winning the fifth and decisive Ashes Test at Melbourne, taking the series 3-2 after having lost the first two matches to England. The decisive game is won in five days by an innings and 200 runs.

Pakistan

1970 - Inzamam-ul-Haq is born

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March 4

South Africa

1967 - Daryll Cullinan is born

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March 5

In Australia

1951 - Rodney Hogg is born in Richmond, Victoria

In South Africa

1963 - Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes is born in Port Shepstone, Natal

In Rhodesia

1971 - Mike Procter hits his sixth consecutive century in first-class cricket, for Rhodesia against Western Province at Salisbury

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March 6

In Sri Lanka

1996 - Sri Lanka make 398 for 5 off 50 overs against Kenya in a 1996 Cricket World Cup match at Kandy, a record ODI score at that time.[20]

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March 7

West Indies

1952 - Viv Richards is born in St John's, Antigua.

1964 - Everton Weekes retires from first-class cricket. He scores 13 in his final innings, ending with 12,010 first-class runs at 55.34.

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March 8

South Africa

1931 - Neil Adcock, spearhead of South Africa's new ball attack in 26 Tests in the 1950s and early 1960s, is born at Sea Point, Cape Town.

Australia

1904 - Hugh Trumble took a hat-trick in the Fifth Test of the 1903–04 series against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, becoming the first bowler to take two hat-tricks in Test cricket.

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March 9

India

1985 - Parthiv Patel born.

West Indies

1974 - Lawrence Rowe hits 302, the first triple century for the West Indies in matches against England, in the third Test of the 1973-74 series, played at Bridgetown Oval. It was Rowe's first century outside Jamaica.

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March 10

South Africa

1970 - South Africa complete their first series whitewash with a win over Australia at Crusaders, Port Elizabeth. South Africa won the four Tests convincingly: by 170 runs, an innings and 129 runs, 307 runs, and 323 runs. However, the Test was the last played by South Africa until after the end of the apartheid era in 1991.

West Indies

1974 - Lawrence Rowe makes 302 against England, at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown.[21]

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March 11

In India

1915 - Vijay Hazare is born in Sangli, Maharashtra. Hazare played in 30 Tests with an average of 47.65. He was also a useful right-arm medium pace bowler.[22]
1949 - In the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Bombay and Maharashtra at Poona, a total 2,376 runs are scored for the loss of 38 wickets - a world record. The innings scores were 651, 407, 714 and 604. Bombay won the match by 354 runs[23]

In South Africa

1910 - After 12 Tests, Jack Hobbs makes his first century, for England against South Africa at Cape Town.

In Pakistan

1980 - On day four of the second Test at Faisalbad, all eleven Australians bowl, including wicket-keeper Rod Marsh who took a wicket.[24]

In Australia

1967 - Andrew Zesers, two Limited Overs Internationals, born.
2008 - Cricket Australia and the Pakistan Cricket Board announce that the tour of Pakistan by the Australia national cricket team has been postponed due to security issues.
2013 - The Australian cricket team's selection panel suspends four players (vice-captain Shane Watson, batsman Usman Khawaja and fast bowlers James Pattinson and Mitchell Johnson) from the upcoming Test against India due to their non-completion of an assignment.

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March 12

South Africa

1889 - South Africa played in their first Test match, against England at Port Elizabeth, becoming the third Test nation.
2006 - South Africa chased 434 against Australia in a record breaking ODI.

Australia

1977 - The Centenary Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground commences. Remarkably, Australia won the match by 45 runs, exactly the same margin as the first Test match played in 1877.

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March 13

India

1996 - In the semi-final of the 1996 Cricket World Cup at Calcutta, the match is abandoned after crowds set fire to the stands and throw fruit at the players.

England

1859 - The Honourable Ivo Bligh is born in Westminster, London

Australia

1977 - David Hookes hits five fours off one over on day-two of the Centenary Test at the MCG

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March 14

Australia

1938 - John Gleeson was born in Kyogle, New South Wales
1963 - Bruce Reid was born in Osborne Park, Western Australia

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March 15

Australia

1877 - The first ever Test match commences between Australia and England, played at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Charles Bannerman becomes the first player to score a Test century. Allen Hill takes the first-ever Test wicket and James Southerton becomes the oldest-ever Test debutant at 49 years and 119 days.

West Indies

1953 - Colin Croft born in Demerara, British Guiana.

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March 16

Bangladesh

2012 - Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricketer to score 100 international centuries, when he made 114 against Bangladesh at Mirpur.

England

1906 - All-round sportsman Maurice Turnbull is born in Cardiff, Wales

India

1910 - The Nawab of Pataudi Senior is born in Pataudi, Punjab

West Indies

2007 - In a 2007 Cricket World Cup match at Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, Herschelle Gibbs becomes the first person to hit six sixes off one over in an international cricket match.[25]

Zimbabwe

1974 - Heath Streak is born in Bulawayo

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March 17

Pakistan

1996 - Sri Lanka wins the 1996 Cricket World Cup played in Lahore, beating Australia in the final.

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March 18

Australia

1877 - Clem Hill is born in Hindmarsh, South Australia.

Sri Lanka

1992 - For the first time, England lose a Test to Sri Lanka in a one-off Test at Colombo.[26]

West Indies

1935 - West Indies beat England by an innings and 161 runs in the fourth and final Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica to secure victory in a Test series for the first time, by two matches to one.
2007 - Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer (pictured) is found dead in his hotel room during the 2007 Cricket World Cup amid speculation that he had been murdered. After several months of inquiries, police finally conceded that he had died of natural causes.

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March 19

In South Africa

1948 - Vintcent van der Bijl is born in Cape Town

In New Zealand

1952 - Warren Lees is born in Dunedin

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March 20

South Africa

1973 - Nicky Boje is born in Bloemfontein.

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March 21

Australia

1854 - Alick Bannerman is born in Paddington, New South Wales.
1876 - Jack Saunders is born in Toorak, Victoria.
1938 - Grahame Thomas is born in Croydon Park, New South Wales.

South Africa

1994 - Steve Waugh takes 5 wickets for 28 runs on the last day of the Second Test at Newlands in Cape Town. Australia won the match by 9 wickets.^[1]

References

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March 22

In Australia

1927 - George Thoms is born in Footscray, Victoria.
1988 - Ian Botham is involved in an in-flight incident between Perth and Brisbane. He was charged by police and pleaded guilty to charges of assault and offensive behaviour. His contract with the Queensland Bulls was later terminated.

In New Zealand

1915 - Fen Cresswell is born. Creswell died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1966.
1995 - Sri Lanka has their first series win, after a drawn second Test at Dunedin.

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March 23

In South Africa

2003 - Australia wins the 2003 Cricket World Cup played at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, beating India in the final.

In Australia

2002 - Ben Hollioake dies in a car crash in Perth, Western Australia

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March 24

Australia

1885 - Umpire Jack Hodges refuses to resume after tea on the third day following disputes by England players.[27]
1961 - Dean Jones is born in Coburg, Victoria
1979 - Kim Hughes' first match as captain of the Australian cricket team at the WACA Ground against England.[28]

England

1985 - Norman Gifford makes his One Day International debut at the age of 44

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March 25

Australia

1992 - Pakistan wins the 1992 Cricket World Cup played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, beating England in the final.

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March 26

Pakistan

1970 - Test batsman Zaheer Abbas is given out for 0 for hitting the ball twice on the first day of the Ayub Trophy final between Pakistan International Airlines A and Karachi Blues.

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March 27

West Indies

1991 - an effigy of Trinidadian umpire Clyde Cumberbatch is burnt in the stands at Guyana during the Second Test of the Frank Worrell Trophy.[29]

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March 28

India

1968 - Future England captain Nasser Hussain is born in Madras.

New Zealand

1951 - In an umpiring mixup, Alex Moir bowls two successive overs each side of the tea interval in the second Test against England at Wellington - the first person to do so since Warwick Armstrong at Old Trafford in 1921.
1955 - New Zealand make the lowest Test score in history - 26 against England at Auckland.[30]

Australia

1995 - The Queensland Bulls win their first Sheffield Shield after 68 years of trying.

West Indies

2007 - In an ICC World Cup match, Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga is the first bowler to take four wickets from four balls, at Providence Stadium, Georgetown (neutral venue). His wickets were Shaun Pollock (bowled), Andrew Hall (caught Upul Tharanga), Jacques Kallis (caught Kumar Sangakkara) and Makhaya Ntini (bowled).

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March 29

Australia

1921 - Invincible Sam Loxton is born at Albert Park, Victoria
1979 - opener Andrew Hilditch is given out handled the ball at the non-striker's end after accidentally intercepting the ball and handing it to Sarfraz Nawaz at the WACA Ground.[31]

England

1871 - Tom Hayward, leading professional batsman from the years before the First World War and scorer of then-record tally of 3518 runs in the 1906 season, is born at Cambridge

New Zealand

1951 - New Zealand captain Geoff Howarth is born in Auckland

South Africa

1994 - Australian captain Allan Border retires after being out for 45 runs at Durban. Border held numerous career records: top run scorer (11,174 runs); most Test matches played (156); batted in more Test innings than any other player (265); captained Australia 93 times (all consecutive).

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March 30

Australia

1908 - Leg spin bowler Chuck Fleetwood-Smith is born in Stawell, Victoria
1927 - Wicket-keeper Wally Grout is born in Mackay, Queensland

England

1940 - Spin bowler Norman Gifford is born in Ulverston, Lancashire

India

1993 - Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 - Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

New Zealand

1997 - Canterbury make 777 runs in the first innings of the Shell Cup final against Otago.

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March 31

England

1978 - Harold Gimblett, hard-hitting England and Somerset batsman whose first-class debut in 1935 was the stuff of legends, died, committing suicide after years of depression and other health worries.

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April

April 1

England

1957 - David Gower is born at Tunbridge Wells

New Zealand

1973 - Stephen Fleming is born at Christchurch

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April 2

Australia

1981 - Michael Clarke is born at Liverpool, New South Wales

India

2011 - India won the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.

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April 3

England

2010 - English first-class cricket season scheduled to begin: earliest start ever for first-class matches in England

West Indies

1930 - Sabina Park at Kingston, Jamaica, becomes the fourth West Indian Test match venue when it hosts the fourth match of the inaugural series against England. It is the 23rd Test match ground worldwide. The match runs for nine days but is still left as a draw.
1930 - Andy Sandham makes 325 for England at Sabina Park, the first Test Triple century in history.[32]

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April 4

England

1930 - Andrew Sandham scored the first Test triple-century against the West Indies at Sabina Park.

India

1933 - Bapu Nadkarni is born.

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April 5

England

1921 - Les Jackson, Derbyshire fast-medium bowler whose two Test appearances were separated by a dozen years and who took 143 wickets in 1958 at less than 11 runs apiece, is born at Whitwell, Derbyshire.

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April 6

Australia

1991 - Bill Ponsford, who twice broke the world record for the highest first-class score, dies aged 90.

Bangladesh

2014 - Sri Lanka win the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, beating India in the final played at Mirpur.

India

1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar born in Rajapur, Maharashtra.

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April 7

Australia

1882 - Bert Ironmonger, second oldest Test player and fourth oldest Test debutant, is born at Pine Mountain, Queensland

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April 8

England

1902 - Arthur Wellard, Somerset all-rounder, smiter of more than 500 sixes in his first-class career (which included two Tests), is born at Southfleet in Kent
1963 - Alec Stewart is born at Merton

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April 9

Bangladesh

2006 - The Fatullah Osmani Stadium in Fatullah becomes the fifth Test cricket venue in Bangladesh when it stages the first Test against Australia. It is the 93rd Test match ground worldwide. Bangladesh lead by 158 on the first innings, but the Australians recover to win the match by three wickets.

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April 10

Australia

1914 - Tasmanian Jack Badcock is born. Badcock made his first-class debut at the age of 15, the second youngest Australian to do so. Noted for making some large scores, he played for Tasmania and South Australia and in 1936 made 325 for South Australia against Victoria. Other big knocks included 271 in 1938-39 and 274 in 1939-40. He only played in seven Tests, including five on a tour of England in 1938. He managed only 160 runs in 12 Test innings, and that included a century (118) but no scores at all in double figures.

West Indies

1979 - The last day of the 5th Supertest between the West Indies and Australia at Antigua. The match was the final fixture in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket series held between 1977 and 1979.

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April 11

England

1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury is born
1913 - The Nevill Ground is destroyed in the only suffragette arson attack on a cricket ground.

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April 12

India

1917 - Vinoo Mankad is born at Jamnagar

West Indies

2004 - Brian Lara completes innings of 400 not out, the highest score in Test cricket, in the fourth Test between West Indies and England at St John's, Antigua. Lara becomes the first player to regain the record for the highest Test score, having held it before when he made 375 against the same opposition on the same ground 10 years earlier.

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April 13

Ireland

1906 - Samuel Beckett, two first class matches for University of Dublin, born.

South Africa

1895 - First class debut of Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test cricketer.

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April 14

Australia

1947 - Bob Massie, 16 wickets on his Test debut for Australia against England at Lord's in 1972 – the most wickets in a Test by an Australian – is born at Subiaco, Western Australia

South Africa

1876 - Sir Murray Bisset, South African captain who later served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, born.

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April 15

Australia

1845 - Australia's first captain, Dave Gregory is born, in Fairy Meadow, New South Wales

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April 16

The Invincibles arrive

England

1948 - The Australian team arrives in Tilbury, and becomes the first team to complete a tour undefeated. They become known as the Invincibles.

1981 - Eric Hollies, who bowled Sir Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test innings, dies aged 68.

Pakistan

1963 - Saleem Malik, who played in 103 Tests and 283 One-day Internationals, is born in Lahore.

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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.[33]

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April 18

West Indies

1958 - Malcolm Marshall is born at Bridgetown, Barbados
1994 - Brian Lara completes innings of 375, then the highest score in Test cricket, in the fifth Test between West Indies and England at St John's, Antigua. Lara will become the first player to regain the record for the highest Test score on the same ground 10 years later, with a score of 400 not out.

India

2008 - the first Twenty 20 match of the 2008 Indian Premier League is played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Kolkata win by 140 runs.

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April 19

Australia

1975 - Jason Gillespie is born at Darlinghurst, New South Wales

England

1873 - Sydney Barnes is born at Smethwick
1933 - Dickie Bird (pictured) is born at Barnsley

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April 20

England

1912 - David Townsend, the last player to play Test cricket for England without ever playing for one of the first-class counties, is born at Norton, County Durham

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April 21

India

1945 - Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, 57 Tests as a player and 73 as an umpire, is born at Madras, (now Chennai)

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April 22

Sri Lanka

1983 - The Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy becomes the second Test venue in Sri Lanka and the 54th in the world when it hosts the match with Australia.

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April 23

England

1986 - Jim Laker dies. Laker was most famous for a 1956 Ashes Test at Old Trafford, in which he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia.

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April 24

India

1973 - Sachin Tendulkar born. Nicknamed the 'Little Master', Tendulkar is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman, and the greatest One-day international batsman.

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April 25

In England

1872 - C. B. Fry is born in Croydon, Surrey

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April 26

West Indies

1985 - Future New Zealand captain Ken Rutherford makes his Test debut at Barbados. His first 6 scores in Tests were 0, 0, 4 (an edge through the slips), 0, 2 & 5.

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April 27

England

1969 - The John Player's County League 40-over Sunday competition began in England, with wins for Essex, Glamorgan, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Surrey and Warwickshire.
1999 - Cyril Washbrook, Lancashire and England opening batsman before and after the Second World War, dies aged 84.

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April 28

South Africa

1997 - Former Derbyshire batsman Ashley Harvey-Walker is shot dead in a bar in Johannesburg by a gunman who calls out his name and then shoots when Harvey-Walker stands up.

West Indies

2007 - Australia wins the 2007 Cricket World Cup played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, beating Sri Lanka in the final.

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April 29

England

1948 - Don Bradman is dismissed by spin bowler Peter Jackson for 107, the first time on four tours of England that Bradman has not opened the tour with a double century against Worcestershire

India

1979 - Ashish Nehra born in Delhi.

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April 30

Australia

1964 - Ian Healy, wicketkeeper in 119 Tests and 168 One-day internationals for Australia is born in Brisbane

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May

May 1

Windies

1951 - Gordon Greenidge is born in Barbados. Greenidge grew up in England from the age of 12. His Test debut was in India in 1974 and his last Test was on his 40th birthday in 1991 at Antigua.[34] He and Desmond Haynes formed one of the most formidable opening partnerships of all time.

England

1930 - Don Bradman makes 236 in his first first-class innings in England, in a tour match against Worcestershire.
1963 - The world's first limited overs competition starts: the first Gillette Cup match between Lancashire and Leicestershire at Old Trafford. Due to rain, the 65-overs-a-side match goes into a second day.[35]

America

1751 - 1st American cricket match is played

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May 2

Australia

1910 - Laurie Nash born.

West Indies

1969 - Brian Lara is born at Cantaro, Trinidad

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May 3

Australia

1955 - David Hookes is born

England

2000 - Godfrey Evans dies, aged 78.

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May 4

Pakistan

1990 - Wasim Akram takes his second One Day International hat-trick in six months at Sharjah in the Austral-Asia Cup final against Australia.[36]

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May 5

South Africa

1889 - Herbie Taylor, captain of South Africa in the 1920s and the first South African batsman to reach 2,500 runs in Tests, is born at Durban

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May 6

England

1970 - Chris Adams, who led Sussex to their first victories in the County Championship, is born at Whitwell, Derbyshire

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May 7

Sri Lanka

1972 - Upul Chandana, 16 Tests and 146 One-day Internationals for Sri Lanka, is born at Galle

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May 8

England

1873 - H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, captain of England in South Africa and an administrator who was knighted for his services to cricket, is born at Titsey in Surrey

Pakistan

1938 - Javed Burki, captain of Pakistan at the age of 24 and later an international match referee, is born at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

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May 9

England

1901 - George Duckworth, wicketkeeper in 24 Tests for England in the 1920s and 1930s and later a tour organiser and manager for Commonwealth teams in India, is born at Warrington

West Indies

1932 - Conrad Hunte, opening batsman in 44 Tests and later international Test match referee, is born at St Andrew, Barbados

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May 10

Zimbabwe

1972 - Stuart Carlisle, 37 Tests and 111 One-day Internationals, is born at Harare

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May 11

Australia

1941 - Ian Redpath, 66 Tests for Australia over a dozen seasons and an average of 43, is born at Geelong

England

1906 - John King, batting for Leicestershire against Surrey at The Oval, is given out hit the ball twice, the last such dismissal in England to date
1955 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, dies at Fordington, Dorset, aged 80

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May 12

Australia

1867 - Hugh Trumble, off-spinning all-rounder who was a mainstay of the Australian attack throughout the 1890s and beyond, is born at Abbotsford, Victoria

England

1903 - Jim Parks, Sr., all-rounder who scored 3003 runs and took 101 wickets for a unique double in 1937, is born at Haywards Heath.
1979 - Robert Key is born at East Dulwich in south-east London

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May 13

Australia

1904 - Tim Wall, fast bowler whose 10 wickets for 36 runs in a single innings for South Australia against New South Wales at Sydney in 1933 remains the best bowling performance in first-class cricket in Australia, is born at Semaphore, South Australia

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May 14

Australia

1894 - Hunter Poon, first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, born.
2001 - Gil Langley dies, aged 81.

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May 15

England

1924 - Don Kenyon, eight Test caps for England and captain of the first Worcestershire side to win the County Championship in 1964 and 1965 is born at Wordsley, Staffordshire
1935 - Ted Dexter, captain of England in the 1960s, is born in Milan, Italy
1948 - The Invincibles hit a still standing record of 721 runs against Essex at Southend-on-Sea.[37]

Australia

1917 - Invincible, Ron Saggers is born in Sydenham, New South Wales

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May 16

Australia

1906 - Ernie McCormick is born at North Carlton, Victoria

West Indies

2010 - England win the 2010 ICC World Twenty20, beating Australia in the final played at Kensington Oval, Barbados.

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May 17

Australia

1932 - Peter Burge, 42 Tests for Australia and then a match referee, is born at Kangaroo Point, Queensland

West Indies

1955 - Leslie Hylton is hanged in Jamaica after being convicted for the murder of his wife. Hylton is the only Test cricketer to die by capital punishment.

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May 18

England

1935 - Harold Gimblett, a village cricketer aged 21 from Bicknoller, making his first-class debut for Somerset against Essex at Frome, bats at No 8 and hits 123, his hundred coming in 63 minutes and winning the Walter Lawrence Trophy for the fastest hundred of the season.
1953 - The Rev. Tom Killick, who played two Tests for England in 1929, dies at the age of 46 while playing in a match between the diocesan clergy of St Albans and Coventry at Northampton.
1959 - Graham Dilley, fast-medium bowler in 41 Tests for England between 1979 and 1989, is born at Dartford, Kent.

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May 19

England

1874 - Gilbert Jessop, legendary fast-scoring and hard-hitting batsman of the so-called Golden Age before the First World War, is born at Cheltenham

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May 20

Australia

1968 - Albert Hartkopf dies, aged 78.

England

1911 - E. M. Grace, older brother of W. G. and a leading cricketer of the 1860s and 1870s, dies at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, aged 69. He was known as "The Coroner"
1944 - Keith Fletcher, 59 Tests for England and also captain and manager of the team, is born at Worcester

Wales

1921 - The first first-class cricket match played by Glamorgan in the County Championship ends in victory for the Welsh county over Sussex at Cardiff by 23 runs.

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May 21

England

1993 - Robin Smith hits 167 not out for England against Australia at Edgbaston, the highest score in a One-day International for England.

India

1997 - Saeed Anwar hits 194 runs off 146 balls for Pakistan, the highest score ever made score in One Day Internationals.[38]

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May 22

Australia

1879 – Warwick Armstrong was born at Kyneton, Victoria.
1907 – Australian Albert Trott, playing for Middlesex, took four wickets in four balls in Somerset's second innings and followed that with a hat-trick in the same innings, a feat not so far equalled.

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May 23

England

1918 - Denis Compton is born in Hendon, Middlesex. In 1947, he made 18 centuries and 3816 runs, the most ever in an English cricket season. He also took 47 wickets.
1969 - Colin Milburn loses an eye in a car accident, ending his Test career.

West Indies

2006 - Ramnaresh Sarwan becomes the seventh batsman to score a century in his 100th One-day International, with an unbeaten 115 in the four-wicket victory over India at Basseterre, St Kitts

Zimbabwe

1966 - Graeme Hick is born in Harare, then called Salisbury.

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May 24

England

1955 - Charles Palmer took eight wickets without conceding a run, seven of them bowled, for Leicestershire against Surrey.[39]

South Africa

1942 - Ali Bacher, captain of South Africa in the series before the apartheid era ban came into effect and influential administrator in the transition to multiracial cricket in South Africa, is born at Roodepoort.

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May 25

Australia

1897 - Alan Kippax (pictured) is born at Sydney

England

1868 - Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868 play in their first tour match against Surrey. Surrey won by an innings and 7 runs.[40]

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May 26

England

1868 - Edward Tylecote became the first man to score more than four hundred runs. The feat was accomplished at Clifton College, where thirty-one years later AEJ Collins would make the current highest individual score.
1976 - Paul Collingwood was born at Shotley Bridge
1996: Graham Thorpe took his only two international wickets, in an ODI against India at Old Trafford.

New Zealand

1947 - New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner was born in Dunedin. He is regarded as one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen.

South Africa

1920 - Jack Cheetham, successful and dynamic captain of South Africa on tours of England and Australia in the early 1950s, is born at Cape Town

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May 27

Australia

1975 - Michael Hussey is born.

England

1887 - Frank Woolley is born at Tonbridge, Kent. Woolley went on to score the second-highest number of runs in first-class cricket, he is one of only two players to score 50,000 runs and take 2000 wickets, and is the only non-wicket-keeper to take 1000 catches.
1938 - Don Bradman completes 1,000 runs, the earliest in any English first-class season that this milestone has been achieved.

India

1962 - Former India cricketer Ravi Shastri is born. Shastri, an all–rounder who batted right–handed and bowled left arm spin, has since become a cricket commentator.

Sri Lanka

1977 - Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene is born.

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May 28

England

1912 - Jimmy Matthews completed the unique feat of two Test hat-tricks in the same match, both on the same day.
1988 - Graeme Hick hit 172 against West Indies to become the second man since the Second World War to score 1000 first-class runs in England before the end of May.

West Indies

1956 - West Indian wicket-keeper batsman Jeff Dujon was born in Kingston. He has 272 Test dismissals and 3322 Test runs to his name.

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May 29

Australia

1839 - Australians Nat Thomson and Ned Gregory were born. Both would play in the first ever Test match. Thomson was the first man to be dismissed in a Test and Gregory made the first duck.

England

1902 - Edgbaston hosted its first Test match, the 12th Test venue worldwide and the only one (out of 94 to the start of the 2007 season) to host its first Test in the month of May.

West Indies

2000 - West Indies recorded the ninth one-wicket victory in Tests as Jimmy Adams and Courtney Walsh added 19 against Pakistan.

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May 30

England

1887 - Playing for Hampshire, Sir Francis Lacey made 323*, the highest score in a Minor Counties match.
1949 - England's Bob Willis was born. He went on play ninety Tests for England, taking 325 wickets in the process. He also captained his country in eighteen Tests.

West Indies

1909 - George Headley was born in Panama. In his twenty-two Test matches for West Indies, he averaged over sixty.

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May 31

England

1815 - The first first-class game at the current Lord's ground was played.
1928 - Charlie Hallows, needing an innings of 232 to complete 1,000 runs in the month of May, makes exactly that score for Lancashire in the match against Sussex at Manchester, and then is out next ball. Only two other players – W. G. Grace in 1895 and Wally Hammond in 1927 – have achieved 1,000 in the calendar month.

India

1928 - Indian Pankaj Roy was born in Kolkata. He added 413 with Ashok Mankad to make the largest opening partnership in history.

Sri Lanka

1966 - Roshan Mahanama, who shared 576 with Sanath Jayasuriya to make the highest ever Test partnership, was born.

South Africa

1924 - Russell Endean, South African cricketer and first man to be given out handled the ball, was born.

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June

June 1

Australia

1943 - Ian King born. King remains one of the few Indigenous Australians to play first-class cricket.

England

1978 - Chris Old, bowling for England against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston, takes four wickets in five balls, the middle (and non-wicket-taking) ball of the five being a no ball.
1985 - In making 322 against Warwickshire, Viv Richards became the first West Indian to make 300 runs in a day. The 300 came up off only 244 balls, including eight sixes and 42 fours.

New Zealand

1932 - New Zealand seamer, chairman of selectors and umpire Frank Cameron was born.

South Africa

2002 - Hansie Cronje died in a plane crash aged 32. Cronje captained South Africa in 53 matches and admitted to his involvement in match fixing in 2000.

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June 2

Australia

1965 - Steve Waugh was born in Sydney, shortly followed by his twin brother Mark. They were the first twins to play together in a Test match, something they would do 108 times.

England

1865 - English bowler George Lohmann was born. He took 112 wickets in 18 Tests, at an average of just 10.75.

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June 3

New Zealand

1928 - New Zealand captain and all-rounder John Reid was born. Of his 58 Tests as captain, New Zealand only won three - but these were their first three Test victories.

Pakistan

1966 - Wasim Akram was born. The left-arm fast bowler took 916 international wickets for Pakistan.

South Africa

1904 - Vincent Tancred dies.
1981 - Eric Dalton dies.

Zimbabwe

1961 - Kevin Arnott, the first Zimbabwean to face a ball in Tests and second to make a century, was born.

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June 4

Australia

1926 - Fred Spofforth dies.

England

1971 - In only his second Test match, Zaheer Abbas scored 274 against England at Edgbaston.
1993 - Shane Warne bowled the Ball of the Century to dismiss Mike Gatting during the first Test match of the 1993 Ashes series.

New Zealand

1915 - New Zealand captain and father of Richard, Walter Hadlee is born.

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June 5

Australia

1916 - The Invincible Sid Barnes was born. He averaged over sixty in Test cricket.

England

1912 - Eric Hollies, the man who prevented Bradman having a career average of 100, was born. Bradman needed only four runs for the achievement, but Hollies bowled him for a duck second ball.

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June 6

England

1994 - Brian Lara scored 501 not out for Warwickshire at Edgbaston, making the highest score in first-class cricket.

Pakistan

1943 - The Pakistani batsman Asif Iqbal was born in Hyderabad, India. He started his career as an opening bowler, but made his way into the middle order.

West Indies

1940 - Herbert Lance, the South African all-rounder nicknamed "Tiger" was born.

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June 7

England

1952 - 21-year-old debutant Fred Trueman took three wickets, helping reduce India to 0 for 4 at the start of their second innings at Headingley.
1988 - England drew the first Test in their summer of four captains.

South Africa

1964 - Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test player, dies.

West Indies

1894 - Karl Nunes, who would lead West Indies in their first Test match, was born.

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June 8

England

1932 - Ray Illingworth, the only English captain to regain The Ashes in Australia since the Bodyline series, was born at Pudsey.
1945 - England left-arm spinner Derek Underwood was born at Bromley. He was at his best on a sticky wicket and took 297 Test wickets.
1950 - West Indian spinners Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin made their Test debut at Old Trafford, sharing fifteen wickets in the match.

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June 9

Australia

1975: Andrew Symonds was born in Birmingham, UK. He would go on to hit the most sixes in a first-class innings (16) and match (20) and later play for the Australian national side.

England

1967 - Geoffrey Boycott made his highest Test score, 246 not out, but was dropped for the next match.
1983 - The third Cricket World Cup started, with Zimbabwe beating Australia in their first One-day International. Duncan Fletcher scored 69 not out and took four wickets.

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June 10

England

1986 - India make their first Test win in eleven attempts at Lord's
1991 - England make their first Test win against the West Indies at home in 22 years

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June 11

Australia

1954 - John Dyson is born in Kogarah, New South Wales

England

1907 - Northamptonshire is bowled out for 12 in 40 minutes by Gloucestershire at Gloucester in what is still the lowest score in county cricket and the third lowest first-class score of all time.[41]
1927 - The first ball-by-ball radio broadcast from Lord's is made on the first day of the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. Pelham Warner made the commentary.
1939 - Rachael Heyhoe-Flint is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

West Indies

1951 - Collis King born in Christ Church, Barbados.

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June 12

Australia

1956 - Terry Alderman is born at Subiaco, Western Australia. In the 1981 England tour, he took 42 Test wickets, the biggest haul in a series since Jim Laker's 46 in 1956 and the fourth-highest total of all time.

Pakistan

1957 - Javed Miandad is born at Karachi, West Pakistan.

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June 13

New Zealand

1970 - New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns was born.

England

1953 - Alec Bedser took 14-99 in the first Test against Australia at Trent Bridge. These were the best bowling figures made by a bowler who was not on a winning team (the match was drawn).

India

1965 - Indian Maninder Singh was born. He made his debut against Pakistan aged 17 years 193 days, India's youngest Test crickter at the time.

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June 14

England

1984 - Andy Lloyd makes his debut against the West Indies at Edgebaston and is struck on the temple-guard of his helmet with a bouncer from Malcolm Marshall. He was hospitalised and never played for England again. Lloyd is the only Test Match opening batsman never to have been dismissed.

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June 15

England

1909 - The Imperial Cricket Conference, forerunner of the International Cricket Council, founded at Lord's with representatives from England, Australia and South Africa.
1960 - Kent beat Worcestershire by an innings and 101 runs at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells. The first-class match is scheduled for three days but is completed in a single day, the last time this happens in a first-class game. Spinner Norman Gifford makes his first-class debut for Worcestershire and takes four Kent wickets (as well as batting twice in a day). Scorecard here.
1969 - Greg Chappell scores the first-ever century in the John Player's County League 40-over Sunday competition, making an unbeaten 128 for Somerset against Surrey at Brislington

Kenya

1969 - Maurice Odumbe born.

West Indies

1995 - Everton Weekes knighted for his services to cricket.

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June 16

England

1924 - South Africa are bowled out for 30, equalling the then Test record for a low score, in the first Test against England at Birmingham. Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate take all 10 wickets in 12.3 overs, with Extras contributing 11 of the 30 runs and Herbie Taylor top-scoring with just seven.
1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes complete a world record first-wicket stand of 555 playing for Yorkshire against Essex at Leyton. Sutcliffe makes 313 and Holmes is unbeaten on 224, made in 445 minutes. Yorkshire win the match by an innings and 313 runs.

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June 17

England

1930 - Nottinghamshire groundstaffer Sydney Copley was called in as a substitute fielder in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge and takes a spectacular catch to dismiss Stan McCabe off the bowling of Maurice Tate. England won the match by 93 runs.[42]
1999 - Australia and South Africa tie the second semi-final of the 1999 Cricket World Cup at Edgbaston [43]

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June 18

England

1958 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, dies at Montreux, Switzerland
1986 - Papua New Guinea beat Gibraltar by 369 runs in an ICC World Cup Qualifier match at the Cannock and Rugeley Cricket Club, Cannock, Staffordshire.[44]
2005 - 500-to-1 outsiders Bangladesh defeat Australia by 5 wickets in the 2nd match of the triangular ODI tournament at Sophia Gardens.

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June 19

England

1851 - Billy Midwinter, who played in the inaugural Test at Melbourne in 1876-77 and played in eight Tests for Australia and four for England, is born in Gloucestershire.
2002 - In a C&G Trophy limited overs match at The Oval, Surrey and Glamorgan hit an aggregate of 867 runs. Ali Brown for Surrey made 268 runs off 160 balls.[45]

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June 20

England

1996 - Umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird's last Test begins at Lord's, London. Sourav Ganguly makes his debut in this Test and scores a century, while Rahul Dravid, also on debut, is dismissed for 95. Jack Russell scores a century, the first by an English wicketkeeper in 44 years.
1999 - Australia wins the 1999 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's, London, beating Pakistan in the final.

India

1939 - Ramakant Desai is born

South Africa

1954 - Allan Lamb is born. Lamb played Test cricket for England because of South Africa's ban due to Apartheid. He has over 100 ODI caps and also played for Western Province, Northamptonshire and Orange Free State.

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June 21

England

1901 - Nottinghamshire bowled out for 13 at Trent Bridge by Yorkshire, Wilfred Rhodes (pictured) taking 6 for 4
1937 - John Edrich is born
1975 - West Indies win the 1975 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia in the final played at Lord's London.[46]
1981 - Australia win the first Test of what was to be one of the most fascinating Ashes series.[47]
1997 - England bowled out for 88 by Australia at Lord's, London, their lowest total there since 1888.[48]
2009 - Pakistan win the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, beating Sri Lanka in the final played at Lord's London.

New Zealand

1954 - Jeremy Coney is born.

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June 22

England

2006 - Graeme Hick (pictured) completes his 100th first class century for Worcestershire, only the eighth time a batsman has made 100 or more centuries for a single first-class team.

Australia

1994 - Marnus Labuschagne is born

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June 23

England

1916 - Leonard Hutton, opening batsman for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955 and the first professional captain of the team in modern times, is born at Pudsey in Yorkshire
1979 - West Indies win the 1979 Cricket World Cup, beating England in the final played at Lord's, London.

West Indies

1928 - Played its first Test match, against England.
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan is born at Wakenaam Island, Guyana

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June 24

West Indies

1995 - Inshan Ali, slow left-arm bowler for West Indies in 12 Tests in the 1970s, dies at Port of Spain, Trinidad, aged 45.

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June 25

England

1921 - Charlie Macartney (pictured) scores 345 runs in four hours as the Australians total 608 for seven on the first day of the match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. The score remained for 73 years as the highest number of runs hit by a cricketer in one day – it was beaten by Brian Lara's 380 runs on his way to the highest first-class score of 501 not out.

India

1932 - Played in their first Test match against England at Lord's becoming the sixth Test nation.
1983 - India wins the 1983 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's London, beating the West Indies in the final.

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June 26

England

1745 - The first recorded women's cricket match, between Bramley and Hambledon at Gosden Common near Guildford, Surrey.
1937 - England's Len Hutton makes his Test début against New Zealand at Lord's, making 0 and 1.[49] In his obituary, Wisden described him as "one of the greatest batsmen the game has produced in all its long history."

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June 27

Australia

1939 - Neil Hawke is born in Cheltenham, South Australia. Hawke was an all-round sportsman who played cricket for Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia and Australian rules football for Port Adelaide, East Perth and West Torrens.

England

1939 - West Indian George Headley becomes the first player to complete two centuries in a Test match at Lord's when he follows his first innings 106 with a second innings of 107. But England win the match by eight wickets.

South Africa

1980 - Kevin Pietersen is born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.
1983 - Dale Steyn is born in Phalaborwa, South Africa.

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June 28

West Indies

1888 - George Challenor (pictured) is born
1934 - Roy Gilchrist is born

Australia

1915 - Victor Trumper dies

Pakistan

1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed is born

England

1969 - John Hampshire makes a test century on debut at Lord's, the first Englishman to do so.

South Africa

1928 - Peter Heine, who famously shared the new ball with Neil Adcock for the South Africa in the 1950s, is born.

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June 29

Australia

1939 - Alan Connolly is born.
1947 - Jeff Moss, Test batting average of 60.00, born.

England

1950 - At Lord's West Indies win a test in England for the first time, with spinners Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine taking 18 wickets.
1965 - Paul Jarvis is born.

Ireland

2007 - Sachin Tendulkar (pictured), reaches 15,000 runs in ODI cricket, the first and only cricketer to do so.

West Indies

1939 - Ron Headley, son of George Headley and father of Dean Headley, is born.

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June 30

England

1899 - Jack Hearne, takes the first hat trick in Test cricket in England, dismissing Australians Clem Hill, Syd Gregory and Monty Noble in a match at Headingley [50]
1924 - England become the first team to score 500 runs in a single day's play, as they score 503/2 in a match versus South Africa at Lord's [51]
1930 - Don Bradman, scores 254 versus England at Lord's in his first test innings there, as Australia reach 720/6.[52]
1933 - M. J. K. Smith, who captained England in exactly half of his 50 Tests, is born in Leicester

Sri Lanka

1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) is born in Matara

India

1941 - John Jameson, the English cricketer who faced the first ball in World Cup history, is born in Bombay (now Mumbai)
1973 - Dodda Ganesh is born.

South Africa

1941 - Peter Pollock, the South African fast bowler and selector, father of Shaun, is born in Pietermaritzburg

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July

July 1

England

1932 - Tich Freeman takes 8/31 and 9/61 for Kent against Warwickshire at Folkestone
1954 - Khalid Hassan made his Test debut for Pakistan at Trent Bridge at the age of 16 years, 356 days.
1993 - England makes 5 changes to their team in a match at Trent Bridge versus Australia, after being 2-0 down in the Ashes: Mark Lathwell, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ilott and Martin McCague debut, while Nasser Hussain makes a comeback after a 3 year hiatus. Thorpe scores a century on debut, the first Englishman to do so in 20 years.[53]
1994 - Darren Gough (pictured), on the second day of his debut Test match versus New Zealand at Old Trafford, scores 65 runs. He also takes 4/47 in the first innings.[54]
1996 - In a tour match against India, Hampshire's Kevan James takes four wickets in four balls followed by a century, the only time the feat has been done in first-class cricket.[55]

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July 2

England

1935 - South Africa win a Test match in England for the first time, beating England by 157 runs in the second match of the series at Lord's. The match is the 18th game between the two sides in England, and the South Africans have lost nine of the preceding 17.
1954 - Denis Compton makes his highest Test innings of 278 against Pakistan at Trent Bridge.[56]

Ireland

1969 - Ireland thrashed the West Indies by 9 wickets at Sion Mills. Ireland's captain Dougie Goodwin took 5 for 6, and Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18. [57]

West Indies

1952 - Herbert Chang, Test batsman and member of the Rebel West Indian side to South Africa, born in Jamaica.

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July 3

India

1980 - Harbhajan Singh (pictured) is born at Jalandhar, Punjab.

New Zealand

1951 - Richard Hadlee is born at St Albans, Christchurch.

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July 4

England

1918 - Surrey and England bowler Alec Bedser and his twin Eric are born in Reading, Berkshire

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July 5

England

1921 - Australia win the third Test at Leeds by 219, their eighth consecutive victory in an Ashes Test and still the longest winning sequence by either team in The Ashes. It remains also England's longest sequence of consecutive defeats.

New Zealand

1954 - John Wright is born at Darfield

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July 6

South Africa

1977 - Makhaya Ntini is born at Mdingi, Eastern Cape Province

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July 7

India

1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni born.

South Africa

1875 - Vincent Tancred born.

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July 8

India

1972 - Sourav Ganguly born.

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July 9

England

1965 - At Headingley against New Zealand, John Edrich made 310 runs, which included 52 fours and five sixes.[58] 238 runs or 77% of the score were boundaries, a world record which still stands.
1982 - Ian Botham hits his highest Test score of 208, at The Oval against India.[59]

India

1969 - Venkatapathy Raju is born in Alamuru, Andhra Pradesh.

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July 10

India

1949 - Sunil Gavaskar born.

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July 11

England

1930 - At Headingley in the third Ashes Test, Don Bradman's knock of 309 includes the fastest (214 minutes) double century in Test history and the only time a triple century has been scored in single day.[60]
1968 - At Edgebaston in the third Ashes Test, Colin Cowdrey makes his 21st century as well as becoming the first man to make 100 Test appearances.[61]

Australia

1950 - wrist-spinner and Australian selector Jim Higgs is born in Kyabram, Victoria.

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July 12

India

1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar born.

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July 13

Australia

1944 - Eric "Fritzy" Freeman born in Semaphore, South Australia
1947 - The Big Ship Warwick Armstrong (pictured) dies at Darling Point, New South Wales

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July 14

England

1976 - Geraint Jones is born at Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea

Sri Lanka

1967 - Hashan Tillakaratne is born in Colombo

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July 15

South Africa

1977 - Andre Nel is born at Germiston

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July 16

South Africa

1973 - Shaun Pollock is born at Port Elizabeth

England

1895 - Archie MacLaren makes the first first-class cricket quadruple century in history, with 424 runs for Lancashire against Somerset at County Ground, Taunton.[62]

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July 17

Australia

1996 - Alan McGilvray, commentator, dies at the age of 85.

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July 18

Australia

1949 - Dennis Lillee is born at Subiaco,
England, Western Australia.

India

1996 – Smriti Mandhana is born at Mumbai, Maharashtra.

England

1848 - W. G. Grace (pictured) is born at Downend, South Gloucestershire. Grace is credited with making cricket a popular spectator sport, and developed most of the techniques of modern batting.
1981 - At the end of the third day of the Headingley Ashes Test, Bookmakers offered odds of 500-1[63] for an England win. The following day would see Ian Botham almost single-handedly save the match and the series.

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July 19

England

1876 - John Gunn is born.
1877 - Arthur Fielder is born.
1952 - Fred Trueman takes 8/31 against India at Old Trafford leading to them being dismissed for 58.[64]
1993 - Ian Botham retires from first-class cricket in a tour match for Durham against the Australians. Botham finished the match as wicket-keeper without wearing gloves or pads.
2003 - Surrey beat Warwickshire in the final of first ever Twenty20 Cup. [65]

Sri Lanka

1979 - Dilhara Fernando is born

India

1955 - Roger Binny is born

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July 20

England

1900 - Batsman Maurice Leyland is born.
1971 - Controversial fast bowler Ed Giddins is born.
1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind Australia in the third Ashes Test at Leeds, subside to 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon, still 92 behind. Then an eighth wicket stand of 117 between Ian Botham and Graham Dilley avoids the innings defeat and at close of play England are 351 for nine, with Botham still not out. The next day completes the story.[66]

Sri Lanka

2000 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) scores 148 off 156 balls on the first day of a Test series against South Africa in Galle.

India

1911 - Baqa Jilani, who was later selected for a Test by the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram for insulting CK Nayudu is born.

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July 21

England

1863 - Aubrey Smith (pictured), the only player to captain England in his only Test, is born.
1934 - Bill Voce is taken out of the attack for bowling four overs of Bodyline for Nottinghamshire against Lancashire.
1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind Australia in the third Ashes Test at Leeds and then being 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon of the previous day, still 92 behind, recover through Ian Botham's unbeaten 149 to 356 all out, setting Australia 130 to win. Then Bob Willis, changing ends to bowl with the wind as Australia get to 56 for one, takes eight of the last nine wickets at a personal cost of 43 runs as England win by 18 runs. This is only the second time in a Test match that a side following on has recovered to win.

South Africa

1945 - Batsman Barry Richards - who could play only four tests because of Apartheid - is born.
1994 - South Africa play in England for the first time after re admittance to Test cricket[67]. They had not been able to so for 29 years because of expulsion from Test Cricket because of Apartheid .

India

1934 - All-rounder Chandu Borde - later manager of the Indian cricket team - is born.
1947 - Opening batsman Chetan Chauhan is born.

West Indies

1995 - Brian Lara is dismissed for a pair in a tour match at Canterbury.

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July 22

Australia

1890 - Jack Barrett scores an unbeaten 67 out of a total of 176 on test debut, as he becomes the first opener to carry his bat through a completed Test innings in an Ashes Test.[68]
1995 - English Bodyline series strike bowler Harold Larwood (pictured) dies in Sydney, after having emigrated to his adopted country in 1950.

West Indies

1950 - Frank Worrell makes 261 at Trent Bridge, his highest Test knock.[69]
1978 - Batsman Runako Morton is born.

Sri Lanka

1982 - Fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara is born.

England

1935 - Medium-pacer Tom Cartwright, Ian Botham's future coach, is born.

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July 23

Australia

1851 - Charles Bannerman (pictured), who faced the first ball in Test cricket, and made the first century is born at Woolwich in England. He still holds the record for the highest percentage of team runs in a completed innings.[70]
1934 - Don Bradman completes his second double century, making 304 at Headingley. [71]

England

1942-Double-international Andy Ducat, who played both football and cricket for England, dies while batting in a cricket match at Lord's
1949 - Jack Robertson makes an unbeaten 331 as Middlesex score 623 for five in a day against Worcestershire at Worcester. The innings remains the highest individual score in Middlesex history.
1949 - Brian Close makes his debut aged 18 years 149 days, the youngest ever to play for England.
1953 - Batsman and future captain Graham Gooch is born. He is regarded as the most prolific run scorer ever, and was the last English batsman to score a triple century.
1994 - Mike Atherton uses dirt to tamper with the ball in a match against South Africa at Lord's. Called in to explain his actions, he lies to match referee Peter Burge. He later admits to ball-tampering and lying, and is fined £2000 as a result.

Sri Lanka

2008 - The umpire review system is trialled for the first time in a match between Sri Lanka and India at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

South Africa

1949 - All rounder Clive Rice, South Africa's first captain after re-admission is born.

West Indies

1972 - Floyd Reifer is born. He later captained of an understrength team fielded by the West Indies against Bangladesh after the first XI had made themselves unavailable due to a pay dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board.

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July 24

Australia

1986 - Laurie Nash dies aged 76.

Pakistan

1947 - Batsman Zaheer Abbas is born.

England

1958 - Ted Dexter, Ray Illingworth and Raman Subba Row make their test debut as England beats New Zealand by an innings and 13 runs, thus becoming the first side to win the opening four Tests of a series in England.

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July 25

England

1939 - Wally Hammond becomes the first non-wicketkeeper to take 100 Test catches when he catches George Headley off the bowling of Bill Copson in the second Test between England and West Indies at Manchester.

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July 26

England

1924 - Jack MacBryan fields for two-and-three-quarter hours for England in the fourth Test against South Africa at Manchester. The rest of the three-day Test is then rained off and MacBryan, a specialist batsman, neither bowls nor bats – and is never picked again for a Test match.
1949 - Brian Close makes his Test debut, a record for the youngest Englishman to do so, at 18 years and 149 days old.
1956 - Jim Laker takes 10-53 against Australia at Manchester, a bowling record.[72]

Sri Lanka

2006 - Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene set a world record 624 run Test partnership at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, Colombo. [73]

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July 27

Australia

1955 - Allan Border is born in Sydney, New South Wales. Border held numerous career records including: top run scorer (11,174 runs); most Test matches played (156); batted in more Test innings than any other player (265); captained Australia 93 times (all consecutive).

England

1937 - New Zealand's Jack Cowie takes 10 wickets for 140 runs in the second Test against England at Old Trafford, the first 10-wicket haul in Test cricket for New Zealand and the only one for another 40 years.
1948 - Australia, led by an unbeaten 173 by captain Donald Bradman, hit 404 for three wickets to win the fourth Ashes Test from England at Leeds, then the highest score in a fourth innings to win a Test match. The century is Bradman's last in Tests. The attendance of 158,000 was the highest for any cricket match on English soil and the takings were 34,000 pounds. The attendance remains a record for a Test in England.

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July 28

South Africa

1934 - Louis Tancred, captain for three Tests, dies.

West Indies

1936 - Garry Sobers, a dominant figure in 1960s cricket, is born at Bridgetown, Barbados.

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July 29

Pakistan

1963 - Azeem Hafeez is born in Jhelum, Punjab. Azeem was born with two fingers missing on his right (non-bowling) hand.

Zimbabwe

2005 - Hamilton Masakadza becomes the first black African to make debut Test century, at Harare against the West Indies.[74]

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July 30

England

1914 - Albert Trott commits suicide in Middlesex by shooting himself. Trott played for both Australia and England and is the only man to hit a ball over the pavilion at Lord's.
1889 - Charlie Absolom dies in Trinidad when he was accidentally buried by a misplaced load of sugar whilst loading at Port of Spain.

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July 31

Australia

1912 - Key Invincible, Bill Brown is born. Brown died on 16 March 2008 at the age of 95 years, 229 days, making him the oldest living Australian Test cricketer immediately prior to his death.

East Africa

1949 - Frasat Ali, East Africa's leading Limited Overs International run scorer, born.

England

1975 - Greying, bespectacled David Steele, after getting lost on his way out to bat in his first Test innings for England at Lord's, makes a gritty 50 and is hailed in the press as a hero "like the bank clerk that went to war".

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August

August 1

In India

1955 - Arun Lal born.

In England

1961 - Richie Benaud takes 5 wickets for 12 runs at old Trafford, saving the Ashes series for Australia.[75]
1993 - The England women's cricket team win the Women's Cricket World Cup, their first win since the 1st World Cup in 1973.

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August 2

South Africa

1887 - Tommy Ward, Test wicketkeeper before and after the First World War, is born at Rawalpindi, then in India

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August 3

England

2000 - Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart both win their 100th Test caps in the match against West Indies at Manchester

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August 4

India

1931 - Naren Tamhane is born at Mumbai

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August 5

India

1969 - Venkatesh Prasad is born at Bangalore

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August 6

England

1965 - Wicketkeeper and captain Alan Smith, playing for Warwickshire against Essex at Clacton, responds to a bowling crisis for his side by taking off his pads and bowling himself. He takes four wickets in 34 balls before conceding a run, including a hat-trick.

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August 7

England

1970 - Leading Test match umpire Syd Buller collapses and dies during a break for rain in a match between Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston.
1997 - Brothers Adam and Ben Hollioake make their Test debut in the same match, in the fifth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

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August 8

Australia

1889 - Jack Ryder was born.

England

1914 - WG Grace played his last match in club cricket at the age of 66 for Eltham at home to Northbrook.
1965 - Angus Fraser born. Fraser twice took eight wickets in a Test innings in the West Indies.
1987 - Pakistan's innings of 708, the highest in their Test history at The Oval came to an end.
1909 - Bill Voce was born. Voce was one of the attack bowlers in the 1932-33 Bodyline Series.

India

1940 - Dilip Sardesai born.

Pakistan

1977 - Mohammad Wasim born.

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August 9

England

1992 - David Gower is bowled out for 1 by Waqar Younis in his last innings.
1965 - South Africa wins the Trent Bridge Test, its last until 1994.
1926 - Denis Atkinson born.

New Zealand

1897 - Ted Badcock born.

South Africa

1946 - Ernie Vogler dies.

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August 10

England

1999 - Former England captains Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting are sacked as Test selectors following the team's poor performances in the 1999 World Cup and the Test series against New Zealand

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August 11

Australia

1965 - Bill Woodfull, Australian captain during the Bodyline controversy in 1932-33, dies aged 67 while playing golf at Tweed Heads, New South Wales

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August 12

England

1902 - Gilbert Jessop scores 104 runs in 77 minutes as England wins the Fifth Test of the 1902 Test series against Australia by one wicket. The Test would become known as Jessop's Match

West Indies

1969 - Stuart Williams, 31 Tests as a hard-hitting opening batsman but only one century, is born on the island of Nevis
1976 - Pedro Collins is born at Boscobelle, Barbados

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August 13

Australia

1841 - Johnny Mullagh, star of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team during their tour of England in 1868, born near Harrow, Victoria.

Pakistan

1975 - Shoaib Akhtar is born at Rawalpindi

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August 14

Australia

1891 - Johnny Mullagh, star of the 1868 Australian Aboriginal cricket team tour of England, dies, aged 50, near Harrow, Victoria.

England

1948 - Don Bradman is famously bowled for a duck on day-one of the 5th Test in the 1948 tour of England, Bradman's farewell tour.

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August 15

West Indies

1951 Jim Allen, West Indian World Series Cricketer, born.

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August 16

Australia

1950 - Jeff Thomson is born at Greenacre, New South Wales.
2000 - the first ever international cricket match played indoors is a One Day International between South Africa and Australia at Colonial Stadium (now called Docklands Stadium), Melbourne. Australia won the match by 94 runs.

England

1860 - Lord Hawke, captain of both Yorkshire and England and one of the legendary mandarins of English cricket, is born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

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August 17

Bangladesh

1972 - Habibul Bashar is born at Nagakanda, Kushtia province

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August 18

England

1875 - The present Somerset County Cricket Club was formed at a meeting at Torquay in Devon, the only one of the county clubs in English cricket to be formed outside its own boundaries
1920 - Godfrey Evans is born at Finchley, Middlesex.

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August 19

England

1939 - West Indian fast bowler Tyrell Johnson takes the wicket of Walter Keeton with his first delivery in Test cricket in the match between England and West Indies at The Oval.
1953 - England win the fifth and final Test of the series to regain The Ashes from Australia for the first time since the Bodyline series of 1932-33. Victory by eight wickets in the match at The Oval follows four drawn matches.

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August 20

England

1935 - South Africa draw the fifth and final Test of the series against England at The Oval and so win a series in England for the first time on their fifth tour

South Africa

1865 - Bernard Tancred, member of the first South African Test side, born at Port Elizabeth.

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August 21

Australia

1975 - Simon Katich is born at Middle Swan, Western Australia

England

1914 - Doug Wright is born at Sidcup, Kent

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August 22

Australia

1897 – Bill Woodfull is born at Maldon, Victoria
1956 – Peter Taylor (Peter who?) is born

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August 23

England

1972 - Mark Butcher is born at Croydon, Surrey

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August 24

England

1948 - Glamorgan beat Hampshire by an innings and 115 runs at Bournemouth and so win the County Championship, the first time it has been won by a non-English county

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August 25

Pakistan

1957 - Sikander Bakht is born in Karachi

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August 26

West Indies

1930 - Joe Solomon is born at Port Mourant, Berbice, Guyana

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August 27

Australia

1908 - Don Bradman (pictured) is born

England

1968 - England win the fifth and final Test of The Ashes series to square the rubber with six minutes to spare after a final day in which The Oval is flooded by a lunchtime storm. Mopping up by staff and spectators enables play to resume with 75 minutes left and five wickets to get. Derek Underwood took four of them to finish with seven for 50.
1973 - Gary Sobers takes six catches at Lord's, a record for a non-wicketkeeper in a Test
1979 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes off Somerset's Dennis Breakwell at Taunton.

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August 28

Australia

1913 - Lindsay Hassett is born at Newtown, Victoria

England

1980 - The Centenary Test at Lord's commences. The match ended in a draw.

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August 29

England

1842 - Alfred Shaw, who bowled the first ever ball in a Test match, is born at Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire

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August 30

England

1921 - The England XI led by Archie MacLaren inflict the first defeat of the season on the Australians, who had earlier won eight Ashes Tests in a row. MacLaren had maintained throughout the 1921 summer that he could pick a team of amateur cricketers to beat the Australians; when his side was all out for just 43 in the first innings, that seemed unlikely, but they recovered to win by 28 runs.

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August 31

India

1969 - Javagal Srinath is born at Mysore, Karnataka.

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September

September 1

England

1955 – Surrey's 23rd County Championship victory of the season is a record. They win the match against Derbyshire inside two days. They lose their five other Championship matches, and so go through the whole season without drawing a single match
1961 – Hampshire defeat Derbyshire by 140 runs at Bournemouth to become County Champions for the first time

Pakistan

1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistan's Test Cap No 1 who also played Test cricket for India, is born at Lahore

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September 2

England

1980 - Kim Hughes bats for all five days of the Centenary Test at Lord's, the third man to do so.

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September 3

England

1900 - Percy Chapman is born at Reading

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September 4

India

1977 - Ajit Agarkar born.

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September 5

England

1969 - Mark Ramprakash (pictured) is born at Bushey, Hertfordshire

West Indies

1954 - Richard Austin, World Series Cricketer and member of the Rebel West Indian side in South Africa, born.

Zimbabwe

1972 - Guy Whittall, 46 Tests and 147 One-day Internationals, is born at Chipinge in Manicaland

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September 6

India

1990 - Chethan Gaikwad Bill Alley completes 25 years.

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September 7

India

1990 - Chetan Gaikwad is born at Bangalore, Karnataka

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September 8

England

1938 - Frank Woolley takes the final catch of his first-class cricket career, No 1018, to set the record for a non-wicketkeeping fielder. Woolley is playing for an England Past and Present XI against Sir Pelham Warner's XI in a festival match at Folkestone. It is Woolley's 978th first-class match in a career that began in 1906.

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September 9

Australia

1853 - Fred Spofforth, the "Demon", born in Balmain, New South Wales.

England

1959 - West Indian Test all-rounder Collie Smith dies at Stoke-on-Trent after being injured in a road accident three days earlier.

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September 10

England

1948 - Donald Bradman scores 153 in his final innings in England, a rain-hit match between the Australian touring team and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI at Scarborough.

South Africa

1930 - Aubrey Faulkner dies.

West Indies

1989 - Former West Indies Test captain Jeff Stollmeyer dies in hospital in Florida after being injured by intruders at his home at Port of Spain, Trinidad

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September 11

India

1911 - Lala Amarnath born.
1976 - Murali Kartik born.

South Africa

2007 - Chris Gayle and Devon Smith set a world Twenty 20 International partnership record of 145 at Johannesburg.[76]

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September 12

England

1930 - Wilfred Rhodes takes the last of his record number of career first-class wickets – 4204 according to some sources, 4187 according to others (see Variations in first-class cricket statistics) – in his final first-class match, which is his 1110th, also a record. Rhodes is playing for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI against the Australians at Scarborough.

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September 13

Australia

1969 - Shane Warne (pictured) is born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria

South Africa

1963 - England batsman Robin Smith is born at Durban

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September 14

Australia

1919 - Gil Langley born.

India

1963 - Robin Singh born.

New Zealand

1959 - Brendon Bracewell born.

South Africa

1957 - Double international Kepler Wessels, the first man to play One-day International cricket for two countries, is born at Bloemfontein.

Pakistan

1957 - Double international yawar inam, the first man to play One-day International cricket for two countries, is born at karachi

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September 15

England

1928 - Tich Freeman, playing for The Rest against the Champion County, Lancashire, at The Oval, has Dick Tyldesley stumped by Leslie Ames to record his 300th wicket of the English cricket season. Freeman takes four further wickets in Lancashire's second innings on Monday 17 September to finish with 304, at an average of 18.05 runs per wicket, the only player ever to take more than 300 wickets in a season.

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September 16

England

1961 - Percy Chapman dies at Alton, Hampshire, aged 61

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September 17

England

1940 - Peter Lever is born at Todmorden

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September 18

England

1970 - Darren Gough born.

India

1986 - Australia and India complete the second Tied Test at Chennai.

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September 19

India

1977 - Aakash Chopra born.

South Africa

2007 - Yuvraj Singh (pictured) hits six sixes off Stuart Broad, becoming the first player to hit six sixes in an international Twenty20 match.

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September 20

Pakistan

1982 - Jalal-ud-Din takes the first One Day International hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Rod Marsh (bowled), Bruce Yardley (caught Wasim Bari) and Geoff Lawson (bowled), at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad.[77]

India

1986 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to make 100 consecutive Test appearances, coming out to bat in the third day of the Tied Test at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras.

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September 21

West Indies

1901 - Learie Constantine (pictured) is born at Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago.
1963 - Curtly Ambrose is born at Swetes, Antigua and Barbuda.

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September 22

India

1986 - The first Test of the Australian tour to India at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium ends in a tie, the second Tied Test in history.

New Zealand

1962 - Martin Crowe is born in Auckland.

Sri Lanka

1976 - Thilan Samaraweera is born in Colombo.

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September 23

Pakistan

1971 - Moin Khan is born in Rawalpindi

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September 24

India

2007 - India won the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, beating Pakistan in the final by 5 runs at South Africa.
2020 - Dean Jones passed away after collapsing in a hotel in Mumbai.

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September 25

South Africa

1969 - Hansie Cronje is born at Bloemfontein

West Indies

1949 - Inshan Ali, 12 Tests, born in Trinidad and Tobago.

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September 26

England

1935 - Bob Barber is born at Withington, Manchester

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September 27

India

1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji is born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

New Zealand

1981 - Brendon McCullum is born in Dunedin, Otago.

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September 28

Australia

1975 - Stuart Clark is born at Sutherland, New South Wales
1978 - Ben Edmondson is born in Southport, Queensland

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September 29

South Africa

1876 - Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test player, born.

West Indies

1934 - Lance Gibbs is born at Georgetown, British Guiana.

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September 30

Australia

1854 - The first cricket match is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1952 - Wayne Prior, World Series Cricketer, is born at Salisbury, South Australia.

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October

October 1

England

1900 - Tom Goddard, the fifth highest wicket-taker in first-class cricket with 2,979 wickets, is born at Gloucester

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October 2

Australia

1965 - Tom Moody is born at Adelaide

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October 3

Australia

1921 - Ray Lindwall is born at Mascot, New South Wales

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October 4

South Africa

1931 - Basil D'Oliveira, who played 44 Tests for England having been unable to play first-class cricket in his native country because of the apartheid regime, is born at Cape Town

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October 5

Australia

1940 - Bob Cowper is born

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October 6

In Australia

1930 - Richie Benaud is born in Penrith, New South Wales

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October 7

India

1978 - Zaheer Khan born.

South Africa

1876 - Louis Tancred, South African captain for three Tests, born.

Sri Lanka

2012 - West Indies win the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, beating Sri Lanka in the final played at Colombo.

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October 8

West Indies

1945 - Vanburn Holder is born at Deans Village, Saint Michael Parish, Barbados

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October 9

India

1987 - Australia beat India by one run in a 1987 Cricket World Cup match - the closest margin in World Cup history.[78]

Pakistan

1976 - Peter Petherick becomes the second bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja and Intikhab Alam in the first Test in Lahore
1994 - Damien Fleming becomes the third bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Aamer Malik, Inzamam ul-Haq and Salim Malik in the second Test at Rawalpindi.[79]

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October 10

New Zealand

1922 - Harry Cave is born at Wanganui
1936 - Artie Dick is born at Middlemarch
1949 - Lance Cairns is born at Picton

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October 11

India

1972 - Sanjay Bangar is born at Beed, Maharashtra

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October 12

India

1946 - Ashok Mankad is born at Mumbai

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October 13

South Africa

1964 - Fanie de Villiers is born at Vereeniging, Transvaal

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October 14

Sri Lanka

1976 - Tillakaratne Dilshan is born at Kalutara

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October 15

In South Africa

1910 - Xen Balaskas is born in Kimberley

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October 16

Pakistan

1952 - Played in its first Test match, against India at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.

South Africa

1975 - Jacques Kallis is born at Pinelands, Cape Town.

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October 17

India

1970 - Anil Kumble (pictured) is born at Bangalore.

New Zealand

1917 - Martin Donnelly is born at Ngaruawahia, Waikato.

Sri Lanka

1965 - Aravinda de Silva is born at Colombo.

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October 18

Canada

1978 - Former England all-rounder Frank Woolley dies aged 91 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Zimbabwe

1992 - played in its first Test match.

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October 19

In Australia

1900 - Batsman Bill Ponsford is born in North Fitzroy, Victoria. Ponsford broke his own world record for the highest first-class score.

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October 20

India

1963 - Navjot Singh Sidhu born in Patiala, Punjab, India.
1978 - Virender Sehwag born in Delhi.

South Africa

1966 - Allan Donald born in Bloemfontein.

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October 21

Australia

1971 - Damien Martyn is born at Darwin, Northern Territory

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October 22

New Zealand

1999 - Martin Donnelly dies.

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October 23

England

1900 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, is born at Bombay, India
1915 - W. G. Grace dies

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October 24

South Africa

1931 - Sir Murray Bisset, South African captain who later served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, dies.

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October 25

Australia

1982 - David Hookes scores the fastest first-class century in terms of deliveries faced (34)

England

1929 - Peter Loader is born at Wallington, Surrey

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October 26

New Zealand

1965 - Ken Rutherford is born in Dunedin

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October 27

Australia

1964 - Mark Taylor is born at Leeton, New South Wales

India

1984 - Irfan Pathan is born at Baroda, Gujarat.

Sri Lanka

1977 - Kumar Sangakkara is born at Matale.

Australia

1986 - David Warner is born at Paddington, New South Wales.

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October 28

Australia

2002 - Mark Waugh is dropped from Australia's squad for The Ashes series and announces his immediate retirement from international cricket

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October 29

Australia

1971 - Matthew Hayden is born.

England

1915 - Dennis Brookes is born. Brookes played for Northamptonshire from 1934 to 1959 (as captain from 1954 to 1957), was President of the club from 1982 to 1984 and the gates at the Abington Avenue End of Northampton's County Ground are named after him.
1974 - Michael Vaughan (pictured) is born. Vaughan captained England to more Test wins than any of his predecessors.

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October 30

England

1936 - Teddy Wynyard, the only Test cricketer to have scored a goal in the FA Cup Final, dies aged 75.

West Indies

1962 - Courtney Walsh is born at Kingston, Jamaica.

Zimbabwe

2006 - Zimbawean Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen allegedly sets fire to the pavilion at the Harare Sports Club.

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October 31

India

1987 - Chetan Sharma takes the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield at Vidarbha Cricket Ground, Nagpur. All three were bowled.[80]

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November

November 1

India

1974 - V. V. S. Laxman born.

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November 2

Australia

1877 - Victor Trumper is born

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November 3

New Zealand

1900 - Roger Blunt born.
1959 - Vaughan Brown born.
1964 - Bryan Young born.

India

1999 - Rajeev Nayyar completes the longest first class innings, 16 hours 55 minutes (1015 minutes) for Himachal Pradesh against Jammu & Kashmir in the Ranji Trophy. He made 271 off 728 balls.

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November 4

England

1870 - Derbyshire County Cricket Club is founded in a meeting held at the Guildhall, Derby. The county's first first-class match comes six months later.

India

1988 - India national cricket team Captain Virat Kohli was born.

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November 5

England

1901 - Eddie Paynter, who averaged almost 60 runs per innings in 20 Tests for England, is born at Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire

Australia

- Australia beat West Indies in the Final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai to claim the title for the first time.

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November 6

Australia

1931 - Eddie Gilbert dismisses Don Bradman for a duck.
1956 - Graeme Wood born.

New Zealand

1921 - Geoff Rabone born.

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November 7

New Zealand

1980 - James Franklin is born at Wellington

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November 8

Australia

1976 - Brett Lee is born at Wollongong, New South Wales

India

1987 - Australia wins the 1987 Cricket World Cup played at Eden Gardens, beating England in the final.

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November 9

Pakistan

1986 - After being bowled out for 53 in the first Test, the West Indies defeat Pakistan in the second Test at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore by an innings and 10 runs.[81]

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November 10

In India

1991 - The South African cricket team played its first sanctioned match since 1970 (and its first ever One Day International) against India in Calcutta.

In Bangladesh

2000 - played its first Test match.

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November 11

England

1930 - Dodger Whysall, an England Test batsman only three months earlier, dies of septicaemia two weeks after injuring himself by slipping on a dance floor in Nottingham

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November 12

South Africa

1910 - Dudley Nourse is born at Durban

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November 13

Australia

1858 - Percy McDonnell, captain of Australia in six of his 19 Tests, is born at Kensington in west London

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November 14

Australia

1971 - Adam Gilchrist is born.

India

1976 - Hemang Badani is born.

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November 15

New Zealand

1903 - Stewie Dempster, the highest average for Test batsmen with 10 or more innings (apart from Bradman, of course), is born at Wellington

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November 16

Pakistan

1989 - Sixteen year old Sachin Tendulkar makes his Test debut on day 2 of the 1st Test at National Stadium, Karachi and makes 15 runs.[82]
1969 - Waqar Younis (Urdu: وقار یونس) is born in Vehari, Punjab, Pakistan.

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November 17

New Zealand

1923 - Bert Sutcliffe, left-handed batsman who made the two highest scores by a New Zealander (which are also the two highest ever in New Zealand), is born at Ponsonby, New Zealand

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November 18

India

1993 - Zimbabwe tie with India in a Hero Cup One Day International match at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Indore.[83]

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November 19

England

1841 - Harry Jupp, who played in the first two Test matches, is born at Dorking

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November 20

New Zealand

1971 - Dion Nash is born in Auckland

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November 21

Australia

1870 - Joe Darling is born in Glen Osmond, South Australia

England

1870 - Stanley Jackson is born in Leeds

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November 22

Sri Lanka

1970 - Marvan Atapattu is born at Kalutara

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November 23

South Africa

1911 - Bernard Tancred, member of South Africa's inaugural Test team (pictured), dies.

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November 24

England

1955 - Ian Botham born.

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November 25

Australia

1885 - The Western Australian Cricket Association is formally established
1915 - Invincible, Ron Hamence is born in Hindmarsh, South Australia. Following the death of Bill Brown on 16 March 2008, Hamence became Australia's oldest surviving Test cricketer.

Pakistan

1952 - Imran Khan was born.

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November 26

West Indies

1967 - Ridley Jacobs is born at Swetes Village, Antigua

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November 27

India

1950 - At the age of 72, Raja Maharaj Singh is the oldest person to make a first-class cricket debut and to play first-class cricket. Jim Laker bowled him for 4 runs.[84]
1983 - Desmond Haynes is given out handled the ball in the fourth Test at Bombay.[85]

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November 28

Australia

1919 - Keith Miller is born at Sunshine, Victoria

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November 29

Australia

1927 - George Giffen dies at Parkside, South Australia

Pakistan

1977 - Younis Khan born

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November 30

New Zealand

1946 - Ken Wadsworth, wicketkeeper in 33 Tests who died of skin cancer aged just 29, was born in Nelson, New Zealand

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December

December 1

India

1980 - Mohammad Kaif is born

England

1940 - Mike Denness is born

Sri Lanka

1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga is born

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December 2

Australia

2006 - Paul Collingwood scores 206 for England in the second Ashes Test at Adelaide, the first English double-century in Australia in 70 years. But Australia still win the match by six wickets.

South Africa

1906 - Eric Dalton born.

India

2009 - Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai hosts its 18th Test match, the third Test match of the series between India and Sri Lanka. This was the longest interval between hosting of two successive tests at the same venue - a period of 36 years, 9 months and 21 days. India made their highest test score of 726 for 9 and won the match by an innings.

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December 3

England

1905 - Leslie Ames, wicketkeeper-batsman in 47 Tests for England is born at Elham, Kent

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December 4

West Indies

1999 - Sylvester Clarke, fast bowler, dies aged 44.

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December 5

New Zealand

1970 - Matthew Horne is born at Takapuna, Auckland

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December 6

In England

1949 - Peter Willey is born at Sedgefield in County Durham
1977 - Andrew Flintoff is born in Preston, Lancashire

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December 7

Australia

1948 - Donald Bradman's Testimonial match at Melbourne ends with the scores level between invitation sides led by Bradman and by Lindsay Hassett. Under the then rules, the match is declared a tie. Bradman himself made his final, 117th, first-class century in the first innings.

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December 8

Australia

2006 - Damien Martyn, on the winning side for Australia in the first two Ashes Tests of the 2006-07 series, announces his sudden and immediate retirement from all forms of cricket

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December 9

Australia

1960 - At the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Australia and West Indies begin the Test match that will become, five days later, the first Tied Test.

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December 10

Australia

1847 - Harry Boyle, who played in 12 of the first 17 Test matches, is born at Sydney

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December 11

In Australia

1970 - the WACA Ground hosts its first Test: Australia v the Marylebone Cricket Club. Future captain Greg Chappell makes his Test debut. The match ends in a draw.[86]

West Indies

1954 - Sylvester Clarke born.

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December 12

India

1981 - Yuvraj Singh is born.

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December 13

Australia

1946 - Sid Barnes and Don Bradman set a still-standing 5th-wicket Test partnership of 405 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[87]

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December 14

In Australia

1960 - In the first Test of the West Indies tour at the Gabba, Ian Meckiff is run out on the last ball and the match ends in a tie, the first Tied Test in history.

In the Channel Islands

1991 - John Arlott, journalist and commentator known as "the voice of cricket", dies at his home on Alderney at the age of 77

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December 15

Australia

1976 - Dennis Lillee causes an uproar by using an aluminium bat on the second day of the 1st Ashes Test at the WACA Ground. English captain Mike Brearley complained and after an animated discussion with the umpires, Lillee grudgingly threw the metal bat away and accepted a willow bat.

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December 16

England

1882 - Jack Hobbs is born.
1969 - Craig White is born at Morley, West Yorkshire.

West Indies

1952 - Joel Garner is born.

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December 17

Australia

1927 - Bill Ponsford beats his own world record score for a first-class innings, making 437 out of Victoria's total of 793 in the match against Queensland at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1946 - On day four of the 2nd Ashes Test at Sydney, Sid Barnes (pictured) is famously out while on 234, equalling Don Bradman's record which had been set just one over before. Barnes later admitted throwing away his wicket: "It wouldn't be right for someone to make more runs than Sir Donald Bradman". The pair had also set a world record fifth wicket partnership of 405 which still stands.

South Africa

1881 - Aubrey Faulkner born.

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December 18

India

1948 - B. B. Nimbalkar is left stranded on 443 not out, nine short of then record first-class score, when Kathiawar concede Ranji Trophy first round match to Maharashtra.

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December 19

Australia

1974 - Ricky Ponting is born in Launceston, Tasmania.

New Zealand

1916 - Former Test captain Merv Wallace is born.

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December 20

United States of America

1948 - C. Aubrey Smith, England Test captain in 1888–89 and later a Hollywood film star, dies aged 85 in Beverly Hills.
1968 - Learie Constantine is awarded a life peerage, becoming the first black man to sit in the House of Lords. He takes the title of Baron Constantine of Maraval in Trinidad and Nelson in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

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December 21

In Australia

1923 - Hunter Poon, first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, makes his debut for Queensland, against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

England

1963 - Jack Hobbs (Sir John Berry Hobbs), who scored more first-class runs than any other player, dies at Hove, Sussex at the age of 81.

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December 22

India

1947 - Dilip Doshi, 33 Tests and 112 wickets for India, all after the age of 30, is born at Rajkot, Gujarat

Ireland

1989 - Samuel Beckett, two first-class matches for University of Dublin, died aged 83.

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December 23

England

1894 - Arthur Gilligan, England captain in nine Tests in the early 1920s, is born at Denmark Hill, London

South Africa

1957 - Ian Craig (pictured) takes to the field as the new Captain of Australia at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. At 21, Craig was the ever youngest Australian captain.[88]

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December 24

England

1932 - Colin Cowdrey, the first cricketer to be raised to the peerage for services to cricket, is born in India

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December 25

Australia

2000 - Neil Hawke died.

England

1984 - Alastair Cook is born at Gloucester

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December 26

Australia

1926 - Victoria hit a world record 1107 runs against New South Wales on day three of a Sheffield Shield match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Victoria won the match by an innings and 656 runs.[89]
1928 - Alan Kippax (pictured) (260) and Hal Hooker (62) set a world first-class last-wicket partnership record of 307 at the MCG for New South Wales against Victoria.[90] The stand lasted just under five hours.

England

1967 - Sydney Barnes, 189 wickets in 27 Test matches for England, dies aged 94 at Chadsmoor, Staffordshire.

West Indies

1935 - Rohan Kanhai is born at Port Mourant, British Guiana.

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December 27

England

1994 - Peter May dies

South Africa

1948 - Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook put on 359 for England's first wicket against South Africa in Johannesburg, still the highest England first-wicket partnership of all time

West Indies

1925 - Glendon Gibbs, Test cricketer and administrator, born.

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December 28

Australia

1889 - Albert Hartkopf (pictured) is born in North Fitzroy, Victoria. Hartkopf had a long first-class career, playing cricket for Victoria and Australia from 1911/12 until 1928/29. He also played Australian rules football for Melbourne University Football Club between 1908 and 1914.

Pakistan

1941 - Intikhab Alam is born at Hoshiarpur, India

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December 29

Australia

1960 - David Boon is born at Launceston, Tasmania

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December 30

Pakistan

1981 - Faisal Iqbal is born in Karachi

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December 31

England

1929 - Peter May is born

West Indies

1980 - During the Fourth Test between Pakistan and the West Indies at the Multan Cricket Stadium (pictured), after being pelted with oranges, Sylvester Clarke throws a brick into the crowd, seriously injuring a spectator.

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