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2000 Brian Statham, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009, dies in Stockport, England, of leukemia, at age 69

1997 Graham Kersey, cricket wicket keeper, dies in car crash

1996 India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in cricket 1st inning

1996 Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win

1996 Start of 1st Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England

1996 Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India

1996 Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup

1996 Mohammad Wasim scores 109 on Test Cricket debut, Pakistan vs. New Zealand Lahore

1996 Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai vs. Saurashtra

1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever

1996 Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 years 238 days

1996 Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq gets cricket Test record 313 for 8th wkt

1996 Wasim Akram scores cricket 257 vs. Zimbabwe at Sheikhupura, 12 sixes

1996 Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent vs. Hampshire

1996 David Sales makes 210 on 1st class cricket debut for Northants vs. Worcs

1996 Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator, dies at 85

1996 Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test cricket debut

1996 Habib and Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics vs. Worcs

1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs New Zealand at Port-Of-Spain

1996 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld vs. Vic)

1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107* and 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory

1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi

1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 vs. Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup vs. Kenya

1996 Tendulkar scores 137 for Ind vs. SL in Cricket World Cup, but still lose

1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup

1996 Freddie Stocks, cricket (cent on debut and wkt on 1st ball, Notts), dies

1996 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup vs. India

1996 Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya

1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, vs. New Zealand, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47

1996 Cyril Poole, cricket (Notts 1946-62, England 1951-52 in 3 Tests), dies

1996 Last day of Test cricket for David Boon

1996 Tommy Mitchell, cricket (Derbyshire leg-spin, 5 Tests for Eng), dies

1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria

1995 Boon completes his 21st Test Cricket century (110 vs. SL, MCG)

1995 Paul Adams becomes South Africa's youngest Test Cricket player, 18 years 340 ds

1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Australia vs. Sri Lanka, WACA)

1995 Jack Russell takes 11 catches in Test Cricket vs. South Africa, a record

1995 Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies

1995 Last day of Test cricket for Martin Crowe

1995 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province vs. N Transvaal

1995 Meyrick Pringle takes cricket hat-trick in England tour game at Soweto

1995 Lord Home of Hirsel, cricket (Middlesex player later British PM), dies

1995 Troy Dixon scores cricket century on 1st-class debut for Qld vs. W Prov

1995 Earliest 1st-class cricket in Australia season (Qld vs. Western Prov)

1995 Sri Lanka complete 2-1 Test Cricket series win in Pakistan from 0-1

1995 Last day of Test Cricket for Richie Richardson

1995 Lara completes 7th Test Cricket century, 179 at The Oval

1995 Lara completes 6th Test Cricket century, 152 at Trent Bridge

1995 Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win vs. WI

1995 Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford

1995 Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for England 1926-34), dies at 91

1995 Charles Rowe, cricket (scored 0 in only Test for New Zealand vs. Australia 1946), dies

1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah

1995 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1995 Queensland beat S Australia to win 1st ever cricket Sheffield Shield

1995 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting

1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket

1995 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning

1995 Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket

1994 Shane Warne takes a hat-trick vs. England at cricket MCG

1994 Boon completes his 20th Test Cricket century (131 vs. Eng, MCG)

1994 Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64

1994 Charles Fortune, South African cricket commentator, dies

1994 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland vs. NSW, SCG)

1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain

1994 Last day of Test cricket for Allan Border

1994 Last day of Test cricket for Kapil Dev

1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432

1993 Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 vs. New Zealand, Hobart)

1993 India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12

1993 Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW vs. New Zealand

1993 Daryll Cullinan hits 337* for Transvaal, SAf 1st-class cricket record

1993 Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley

1993 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham

1993 Denis Tomlinson, South Africa cricket leg-spinner, dies

1993 Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. Australia

1993 Boon completes 16th Test Cricket century, 101 at Trent Bridge

1993 Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* vs. England at Lord's

1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123

1993 Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (England in 4 Tests 1930-34), dies

1993 Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews

1993 Brian Lara completes 277 vs. Australia at cricket SCG

1992 Last day of Test Cricket for Michael Whitney

1992 Sri Lanka's third-ever Test Cricket victory (v New Zealand by 9 wkts)

1992 David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 vs. WI at Brisbane

1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban)

1992 Test Cricket debut of Muttiah Muralitharan, vs Australia at Colombo

1992 Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL vs. Australia)

1992 Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 vs. Australia

1992 Last day of Test Cricket for David Gower

1992 Last day of test cricket for Ian Botham and Allan Lamb

1992 Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown)

1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final

1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar

1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India

1992 David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 vs. India at Perth

1992 Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan

1992 Boon completes 11 Test Cricket century, 129* vs. India at Sydney

1991 Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, vs. Australia at the Gabba

1991 Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies

1991 South Africa's 1st cricket international since 1970 - one-day vs. India

1991 Test Cricket debut of Mike Whitney versus England at Old Trafford

1991 Last day in Test Cricket for Viv Richards, Dujon and Marshall

1991 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, vs. West Indies at Headingley

1991 Haryana beat Bombay in the Ranji Cricket Trophy final by 2 runs

1991 Last day of Test cricket for Gordon Greenidge

1991 Gordon Greenidge scores 223 vs. Aus, his last Test Cricket knock at home

1991 Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* vs. WI at Kingston

1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. New Zealand (119 and 102)

1991 Andrew Jones scores twin Test Cricket tons vs. Sri Lanka (122 and 100*)

1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton

1991 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide

1990 Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak vs. WI), scores 0 and 0

1990 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 minutes in county cricket, world record

1990 Last day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee

1990 Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 to end his Test Cricket career with 431 wkts

1990 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies

1990 Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown

1990 Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient

1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup

1990 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps

1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)

1989 ODI debut for Mark Taylor and Sanath Jayasuriya at cricket MCG

1989 Michael Bevan scores cricket century on 1st-class debut (114 SA vs. WA)

1989 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket play at Bellerive Oval, Hobart (v SL)

1989 David Boon scores 200 vs. New Zealand at cricket WACA

1989 Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record

1989 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi

1989 Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup

1989 Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1989 Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes

1989 C L R James, cricket writer (distinguished Trinidadian), dies

1989 Frank Easton, cricket wicketkeeper (NSW 1933-39), dies

1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings and 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. New Zealand age 16 years 189 days

1989 Start 1st Test Cricket, New Zealand vs. Pak, washed out

1989 Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore

1989 Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket

1988 Javed Miandad scores his 19th Test Cricket century (v Aus, Faisalabad)

1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, vs. Australia

1988 Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi

1988 Graeme Hick scores his 1,000th run of 1st-class cricket season

1988 1st four-day games in County Cricket Championship commence

1988 Test Cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, WI vs. Pakistan, Georgetown

1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut

1988 David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* vs. England at Sydney

1988 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago vs. Leeward Is

1988 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs. Transvaal

1987 David Boon's 5th Test Cricket century, 143 vs. New Zealand at Brisbane

1987 Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup

1987 West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup vs. Sri Lanka

1987 Imran Khan takes 300th Test Cricket wicket, only Pakistani to do so

1987 Richard Hadlee makes highest Test Cricket score of 151* (v Sri Lanka)

1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand )

1987 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria

1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes and Joel Garner

1987 New Zealand beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket

1987 Gavaskar becomes 1st cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

1986 India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket

1986 1st-class cricket debut of Andy Flower, ZCU Presidents XI vs. Young WI

1986 India vs. Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie

1986 David Boon's 3rd Test cricket century, 122 vs. India at Madras

1986 Ian Botham takes world-record 356th Test Cricket wkt (v New Zealand, The Oval)

1986 Viv Richards century off 56 balls vs. England in Antigua Test Cricket

1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs. Guyana

1986 Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland

1985 Test Cricket debut of Steve Waugh, vs. India at the MCG

1985 R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane

1985 Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas

1985 Sri Lanka score their 1st Test Cricket victory, by 149 runs vs. India

1985 England regain Cricket Ashes by beating Australia at The Oval

1985 Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies

1985 Jack Robertson, South Africa cricket spinner (3 Tests vs. Australia 1935-36), dies

1985 Viv Richards scores 300 in a day on the way to 322 vs. Warwicks cricket

1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)

1985 NSW wins cricket Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by 1 wicket

1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"

1985 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup

1985 Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins

1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados

1985 Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies

1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs. Eng)

1985 Don Brennan, cricket wicketkeeper (England in 2 Tests 1951), dies

1984 Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, vs. England at Calcutta

1984 Viv Richards scores 208 in Test Cricket at MCG

1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG

1984 Allan Border's 1st Test Cricket match as captain (v WI Adelaide)

1984 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad

1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain

1984 Limited-over International cricket debut for Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand

1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)

1984 Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket

1984 Australia all out 76 vs. West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21

1984 1st-class cricket debut for Brian McMillan, Transvaal B vs. N Tvl B

1984 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test

1984 Viv Richards hits 189* (170 balls) vs. England, ODI cricket record

1984 India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah

1984 Border scores 100* vs. WI Trinidad after 98* in 1st cricket innings

1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird

1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal

1984 Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee

1984 Darryl Cullinan, 16, scores his 1st first-class cricket century

1983 Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236* vs. WI

1983 Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs. Pakistan at cricket MCG

1983 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG

1983 George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI captain), dies

1983 Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI vs. India Bombay

1983 Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan at WACA

1983 Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, vs. India Jullundur

1983 Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies

1983 New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England

1983 India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1983 Winston Davis takes 7-51 in Cricket World Cup match vs. Australia

1983 Zimbabwe win their 1st one-day cricket international, vs. Australia

1983 V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies

1983 David Hookes scores his only Test Cricket century, 143* vs. Sri Lanka

1983 Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)

1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy

1982 England defeat Australia by three runs at cricket MCG

1982 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 vs. England)

1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215

1982 David Hookes scores Cricket century in 34 balls 43 minutes, SA vs. Victoria

1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka vs. India

1982 Frank Nicholson, South African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies

1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs. Sri Lanka at Lahore

1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century

1982 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)

1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs. Australia Wellington, run out 9

1982 J K Irani, cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests for India 1947-48), dies

1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, vs. England

1982 Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket), dies

1982 K R Meher-Homji, cricket wk (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies

1981 One of the great day's Test Cricket at the MCG Australia vs. WI

1981 Phiroz Edulji Palia, cricket (2 Tests for India, 29 runs and 0-13), dies

1981 Dirk Wellham scores 103 on Test Cricket debut, vs. England at Lord's

1981 Test cricket debut of Terry Alderman, vs. England at Trent Bridge

1981 Maurice Fernandes, cricket captain (WI in 1st Test win, 1930 vs. Eng), dies

1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy

1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249

1980 Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 vs. WI Lahore

1980 Jim Parks Sr, Kent cricket all-rounder (only Test for England), dies

1980 McCosker (168) and Dyson (152) make 319 opening stand cricket, NSW vs. WA

1980 Clarrie Grimmett, cricket (36 Tests for Australia, 216 wickets), dies

1980 Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket vs. Pakistan

1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs. Pak cricket draw

1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs. Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft

1980 Botham a century and 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay

1980 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

1980 J P Duminy, cricket (30 runs at 5 and 1 wkt at 39 in 3 Test S Af), dies

1979 Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at Kanpur

1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international

1979 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia vs. WI at SCG

1979 Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies

1979 E J "Tiger" Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper 1911 - 1914, dies

1979 Doug Meintjes, South Africa cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies

1979 West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1979 Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset

1979 Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup vs. England, in 40 3 overs

1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"

1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad

1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes

1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed

1979 C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies

1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs. England at the MCG

1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore

1978 Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park

1978 Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, vs. England at the Gabba

1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time

1978 Ian Botham takes 8-34 vs. Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling

1978 Cricket Test debut of David Gower, vs. Pakistan, Edgbaston, scores 58

1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston

1978 WI all set to lose cricket test vs. Australia at Kingston till riots end game

1978 Basil Williams scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, vs. Australia Georgetown

1978 George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies

1978 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI vs. Australia)

1978 Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 vs. New Zealand Christchurch

1978 England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott captain)

1978 Eddie Gilbert, cricket (Aboriginal Qld quick got Don for a duck), dies

1977 Test Cricket debut of Abdul Qadir, vs. England at Lahore

1977 Reg Perks, England cricket pace bowler (1938-39), dies

1977 England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Australia

1977 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham vs. Australia Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings

1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877

1977 Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft and Joel Garner vs. Pakistan Bridgetown

1976 John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. India Delhi

1976 Sadiq and Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand

1976 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)

1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Brian Close, aged 45

1976 Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley vs. West Indies (0 and 17)

1976 Everton Matambanadzo, Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler, vs. Pakistan 1996

1976 New Zealand scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs. India

1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath

1976 Harry Elliott, England cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests 1927-34), dies

1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs. WI Adelaide

1975 Gary Cosier scores 109 vs. West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut

1975 A crowd of 85661 attends the 1st day of the Aust-WI MCG Test Cricket

1975 G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as captain vs. WI

1975 Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI vs. Australia Brisbane

1975 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad

1975 Viv Richards out for 291 vs. England at Cricket Oval

1975 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, vs. Australia, out for a pair

1975 West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1975 Gary Gilmour takes 6-14 in Cricket World Cup semi vs. England

1975 One-day international cricket debut, Javed Miandad age 17 years 364 days

1975 Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, vs. WI Cricket World Cup

1975 Azhar Mahmood, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani ODI 1996

1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, vs. Pakistan Lahore

1975 Chaminda Vaas, brilliant Sri Lankan cricket pace bowler, 1994-

1974 Viv Richards scores 1st Test Cricket ton 192 vs. India 20 fours 6 sixes

1974 Greenidge scores 107 in 2nd innings of Test Cricket debut vs. India

1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore

1974 Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan vs. England at The Cricket Oval

1974 India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 minutes

1974 Last day of Test cricket for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai

1974 Ian and Greg Chappell score cricket

1974 Ian and Greg Chappell make 264 partnership vs. New Zealand cricket at Wellington

1973 Zahid Fazal, Pakistani cricket batsman, occasional Tests since 1992

1973 1st one-day Cricket international for WI (v Eng) - lose by 1 wicket

1973 Stan Worthington, English cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1930-36), dies

1973 Shane Lee, cricket all-rounder, NSW and Somerset, Australian ODI 1995-

1973 Frank Hayes scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. WI as England lose

1973 Nixon A. McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler, ODI 1996

1973 Test Cricket umpiring debut of H D "Dickie" Bird vs. New Zealand at Leeds

1973 Close finish at Trent Bridge, New Zealand Cricket need 479 to win, all out 440

1973 Glenn Turner scores his 1,000th cricket run of English season

1973 Doug Walters' best Test Cricket bowling, 5-66 vs. WI Georgetown

1973 Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies

1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs. Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket

1973 Kennedy Otieno, Kenya cricket wicket-keeper, 85 vs. Australia 1996 World Cup

1973 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut vs. Pakistan, his only Test Cricket

1973 Lulama Masikazana, cricket wicket-keeper, Kwazulu for E Province

1973 Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs. Pakistan, Wellington

1973 Rahul Dravid, cricket batter, prolific Karnataka, Tests for India 96

1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker vs. Pakistan at MCG

1972 England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at Delhi

1972 Troy Corbett, cricket pace bowler, Victorian lefty since 1994-95

1972 Adrian Van Troost, fast cricket bowler, Somerset and Holland

1972 Sidney Pegler, cricket leg spinner (leading South Africa prior to WWI), dies

1972 Ian and Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings

1972 Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies

1972 Bob Massie takes 16 wickets (8-84 and 8-53) on Test cricket debut vs. Eng

1972 Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler, Test vs. England 1996

1972 Bryan Strang, cricket pace bowler, brother of Paul Zimbabwe 1995-

1972 Test Cricket debut of Tony Greig, vs. Australia at Old Trafford (57/62)

1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket

1972 Glenn Turner (259) and Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand vs. WI

1972 Alvin Kallicharran scores 100* in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. New Zealand

1972 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI vs. New Zealand Kingston, 214 and 100

1971 Heath Te-Ihi-O-Te-Rangy Davis, cricket bowler, New Zealand open vs. England 1994

1971 Lisle Nagel, Australian cricket opening bowler (1932), dies

1971 Adam Gilchrist, cricket wicket-keeper, hard-hit Australian ODI 1996

1971 Shakeel Ahmed, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper, v West Indies 1993

1971 Zaheer Abbas scores Cricket 274 at Edgbaston, 544 minutes 38 fours

1971 Test Cricket debut of Imran Khan, vs. England at Edgbaston (5, 0-36, 0-19)

1971 Gavaskar scores 1st of his 34 Test Cricket tons, 116 at Georgetown

1971 George Wood, England cricket wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies

1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, vs. West Indies at Port-of-Spain

1971 Edward van der Merwe, cricket keeper (South Africa in 2 Tests in 30's), dies

1971 England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win

1971 Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia vs. England

1971 Jim A J Christy, cricket (10 Tests for S Af, 638 runs at 34 33), dies

1971 Adam Parore, cricket wicket-keeper, New Zealand, 1st Maori Test centurion

1970 Would have been start of Australia/England Test Cricket at MCG, washed out

1970 Test Cricket debut of Gregory Stephen Chappell

1970 Arshad Laiq, cricket all-rounder, United Arab Emirates World Cup 1996

1970 Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh vs. England, Brisbane

1970 Chamara Dunusinghe, cricket wicketkeeper, Sri Lanka 1995

1970 Brett Schultz, cricket pace bowler, South African Test

1970 Pubudu Dissanayake, Sri Lanka cricket wicket-keeper 1993

1970 Damien Fleming, Australia cricket pace bowler, hat-trick on Test debut

1970 Ruwan Kalpage, cricket off-spinner, Sri Lankan

1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six

1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban

1970 Dean Headley, cricket, grandson of George, England ODI quick 1996

1970 Probir Sen, cricket (20 catch and 11 stumpings, 14 Tests for Ind), dies

1969 Mark Dekker, Zimbabwe cricket opening batsman, 1993-

1969 Romesh Kaluwitharana, cricket, big-hit SL batsman, ton on Test debut

1969 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia Kanpur

1969 Michael Owens, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand Test

1969 Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together

1969 Hansie Cronje, cricket captain, solid South African batsman

1969 Vivek Razdan, cricket pace bowler, Indian Test 1989-90

1969 Simon Doull, cricket medium pacer, New Zealand

1969 Errol Stewart, South African cricket wicket-keeper, limited-over 1993

1969 Jonty Rhodes, South African cricket batsman, brilliant fielder

1969 John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut vs. WI at Lord's

1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. New Zealand

1969 Mark Atkinson, cricket wicket-keeper, Tasmanian batsman

1969 Rajindra Dhanraj, Trinidad cricket leg-spinner, WI 1994-95

1969 Shane Thomson, New Zealand cricket off-spin all rounder, since 1990

1969 Fred Price, cricket wicket-keep (England, vs. Australia Headingley 1938), dies

1968 Andy Caddick, English cricket pace bowler, New Zealand 1993

1968 Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman, Holland 1996 World Cup

1968 Maurie Sievers, cricket medium-pacer (Austral vs. England 1936-37), dies

1968 Tim Neilsen, cricket wicket-keeper, South Australian 1991

1968 Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder, 1996 World Cup

1968 Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler, 96 World Cup

1968 Imtiaz Abbasi, UAE cricket wicket-keeper, World Cup 1996

1968 Chris Pringle, New Zealand cricket pace bowler, since 1990

1967 Naeem Akhtar, Rawalpindi cricket medium-pacer, 10-28 vs Peshawar 1995

1967 Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper, West Indian ODI 1996

1967 Freddie Martin, cricket WI batsman, (9 Tests 486 runs 1 century), dies

1967 Stanley Coen, cricket (2 Tests for S Af, hs 41 not out, avg 50), dies

1967 Sid Emery, cricket leg-spinner (NSW and Aus, 5 wkt in 1912 series), dies

1966 Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India vs. WI Calcutta, 2-92

1966 Murphy Logo Su'a, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand left-arm of Samoan parents

1966 S J "Tip" Snooke, South Africa cricket all-rounder (26 Tests 1905-23), dies

1966 Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, vs. WI Trent Bridge, wicketless

1966 Meyrick Pringle, cricket pace bowler, South African

1966 Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler, Zimbabwe ODI

1966 Gavin Robertson, NSW cricket off-spin all-rounder, Australia ODI-Pak 1994

1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset

1966 Phillip De Freitas, cricket pace bowler, in Dominica England 1986-95

1966 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK

1966 Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand since 1987

1966 Nishantha Ranatunga, cricket, bro of Arjuna Sri Lankan ODI allrounder

1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs. England at the Gabba

1965 Pinnaduwage Aravinda De Silva, cricket, Sri Lanka's greatest batsman

1965 Tom Moody, cricket batsman, Australian 1989-92 Ton in 26 minutes

1965 Willie Watson, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand

1965 Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies

1965 Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, vs. New Zealand at Lord's

1965 West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

1965 Zahid Sadiq, born in Kenya, cricketer, right-handed batsman, played for Surrey County Cricket Club, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, England

1965 Craig McDermott, cricket pace bowler, tireless Austr since 1984

1965 Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player

1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand vs. India in 1st Test Cricket innings

1965 Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler, South African Test

1965 Tich Freeman, cricket (3776 FC wickets leg-spin, 304 in 1928), dies

1964 David Tikolo, Kenyan cricket batsman, 1996 World Cup

1964 Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, vs. Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31

1964 Soren Henriksen, Denmark cricket all-rounder, 86-94 ICC, Lancs 85-86

1964 Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings vs. Pakistan

1964 Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut vs. Australia

1964 Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs. Australia

1964 Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings

1964 Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval

1964 Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)

1964 Salim Raza, UAE cricket all-rounder, 1996 World Cup

1964 Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48

1964 Ian Healy, cricket wicket-keeper, Australian since 1988

1964 R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28), dies

1964 End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career

1964 Milton Small, cricket pace bowler, WI vs. Australia 1984

1964 W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests vs. New Zealand 1930), dies

1964 C R Browne, cricket leg-spinner (WI in 4 Tests, 6 wkts), dies

1963 Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba

1963 Ashley De Silva, Sri Lankan Cricket wicketkeeper 1993

1963 David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper, 3 Tests 1992

1963 Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC vs. E African XI

1963 W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy

1963 Jack Russell, superb England cricket wicket-keeper, 36 Tests 1988-94

1963 Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies

1963 Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket

1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson

1963 Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler, Glamorgan and Holland

1962 Sadanand Viswanath, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, v Sri Lanka 1985-86

1962 Devastating 8 for 6 spell by Gibbs gives WI cricket victory over India

1962 Nawab of Pataudi captains India cricket vs. WI age 21 years 77 days

1961 Chandrakant Pandit, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, late 80's

1961 Test Cricket debut of William Morris Lawry, vs. England at Edgbaston, 57

1961 Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies

1961 Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever

1961 Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days

1961 Joey Benjamin, cricket pace bowler, in St. Kitts England in 1994

1961 Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies

1960 Australia vs. West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie

1960 Gopal Sharma, Indian cricket off-spinner, 2 Tests 1984-85

1960 Vinodhan John, cricket pace bowler, Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84

1960 Iain Butchart, cricket all-rounder, Zimbabwe, Test vs. Pak 1995

1959 Charles Jones, cricket batsman (WI in 4 Tests 1930-35, 63 runs), dies

1959 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs. Australia Test Cricket at Karachi

1959 Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler, Test vs. New Zealand 1986, no wkts

1959 O'Neil Gordon Collie Smith, WI cricket all-rounder, dies in car crash

1959 Wes Hall takes Pakistani cricket hat-trick at Lahore

1959 Michael Roy Whitney, cricket, great NSW and Aussie lefty quick 1981-92

1959 Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper, Sri Lankan mid 80s

1959 Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi)

1959 Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi

1959 Kapil Dev, India's cricket player

1958 Test Cricket debut for Wes Hall, vs. India at Bombay

1958 Charles Macartney, cricket (35 Tests 1907-26, 2131 runs 45 wkts), dies

1958 Jack Richards, English cricket wicket-keeper, mid-80's

1958 Test Cricket debuts against New Zealand for Dexter, Illingworth and Subba Row

1958 C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England vs. New Zealand Headingley

1958 Ashraf Ali, cricket wicket-keeper, Pakistani mid-80s

1958 Derek Kallicharran, cricket all-rounder, Guyana, USA 1994 ICC Trophy

1958 Gary Sobers 365* vs. Pak, 614 min, 38 fours, best Cricket before Lara

1958 West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl vs. Pakistan

1958 Wayne B. Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper, Australia

1958 West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

1958 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain

1957 Test Cricket debut for Wally Grout and Bobby Simpson vs. South Africa

1957 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley

1957 Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey vs. Northants

1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai vs. England at Edgbaston

1957 Ian Smith, cricket wicket-keeper, New Zealand of the 80's

1957 Thelston Payne, cricket wicket-keeper, WI 1986

1956 England retain cricket Ashes, Jim Laker 46 wickets in the series

1956 Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lanka cricket opener, 190 vs. England Lords 1984

1956 Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper, WI 1981-91, their most successful

1956 Farrukh Zaman, lefty cricket spinner, bowled 10 overs Pak vs. New Zealand 1976

1956 Asoka De Silva, cricket leg-spinner, Sri Lanka in 10 Tests 1985-91

1956 T. A. Sekar, Indian cricket pace-bowler, 2 Tests 1982-83 little impact

1956 New Zealand bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win

1956 Steve Randell, Tasmanian cricket Test umpire, international panel

1956 Desmond Haynes, cricket, WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history

1955 Malcolm Jarvis, cricket lefty paceman, Zimbabwe's 1st Test side

1955 Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India vs. New Zealand

1955 Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 vs. New Zealand

1955 Allan Border, cricket captain, Australia

1955 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester

1955 Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder, early 80's

1955 Test Cricket debut of Ken Barrington, vs. South Africa, Trent Bridge

1955 Liaqat Ali, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani in six Tests 1975-79

1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown

1955 Sobers starts run of 85 Test Cricket appearances for WI uninterrupted

1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut WI vs. Australia, Kingston

1955 New Zealand cricket all out for 26 vs. England at Eden Park

1955 Pakistan vs. India 5 Test Cricket series ends in a 0-0 draw

1954 Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey vs. Australia at Gabba

1954 Bharat Reddy, cricket wicket-keeper, India 1979

1954 Ray "Candles" Bright, Australian cricket slow-left armer, 1977-86

1954 Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days

1954 Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 years 352, then world record

1954 Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton

1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers vs. England at Kingston

1954 Steve Rixon, Australian cricket wicket-keeper, 1977-85

1954 Michael Holding, cricket fast bowler, Whispering Death-Awesome for WI

1953 England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0

1953 Larry Gomes, dependable WI cricket left-handed batsman, 1976-87

1953 Test Cricket debut of Alan Davidson at Trent Bridge

1953 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie

1952 Joel Garner, born in Christ Church, Barbados, right-handed, fast bowler, nicknamed 'Big Bird', West Indian cricketer, played 1979 Cricket World Cup, 1983 Cricket World Cup

1952 R H Shodhan scores 110 on Test Cricket debut vs. Pakistan, Calcutta

1952 Pakistan's 1st Test Cricket win Fazal Mahmood 12 wkts vs. India

1952 Hanif Mohammad scores twin 100s vs. N Zone (Ind) his 1st fc cricket tons

1952 John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner, 1978-95, captain 1988

1952 Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman, 1979

1952 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman vs. India at Headingley

1952 Warren Lees, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper, late 70's

1952 Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record)

1952 Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for Ind), dies

1951 West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket

1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide

1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore

1951 Vijay Merchant scores 154 vs. England in his last Test Cricket innings

1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Raymond Illingworth

1951 Neville Tufnell, cricket wicket keeper (Test for England 1910), dies

1951 Richard Hadlee, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, cricket bowler, 431 wickets

1951 Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies

1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs. New Zealand Christchurch

1950 Alan Turner, Aussie cricket left-handed opener, World Cup ton 1975

1950 Test Cricket debut of Ramadhin and Valentine (8-104 1st inn) vs. England

1950 Sam Staples, cricket pace bowler (3 Tests 1927-28), dies

1950 Laker takes 14-12-2-8 in Test Cricket trial

1950 Douglas Carr, England cricket leg-spinner (Test 1909), dies

1950 Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper, in one Test vs. New Zealand 1976

1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg

1949 Leslie Gay, cricket wicket-keeper/goalkeeper (England in 1890's), dies

1949 Arthur Fielder, England cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), dies

1949 Test Cricket debut of Brian Close aged 18 years 149 days

1949 Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder, WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991

1949 Dennis Lillee, Australian cricket fast bowler, 1971-84

1949 Sunil Gavaskar, Indian cricket player, opener, 10122 Test runs

1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30

1949 Eddie Hemmings, cricket off-spinner, immense England

1949 Sunil Wettimuny, cricket, Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups

1948 Max Walker, Australian cricket player

1948 Bradman scores 153 in his last 1st-class cricket innings in England

1948 Bradman's last Test Cricket innings

1948 England all out for 52 vs. Australia at Cricket Oval

1948 Bradman's 29th and last Test Cricket century, part of winning 3-404

1948 Bradman is out for a duck, but Australia win Test Cricket anyway

1948 Bradman scores 138 in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1948 Hanson Carter, cricket (28 Tests for Australia, caught 44 stumped 21), dies

1948 Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper, Pakistan's most successful

1948 Vintcent Van der Bijl, Natal cricket bowler, superb 2m of 70's and 80's

1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team vs. Western Australia

1948 Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings

1948 Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140

1948 Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain

1948 Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30), dies

1948 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia

1948 Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner, 1 Test India vs. Sri Lanka 1982

1948 Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. WI Barbados

1947 Dhiraj Parsana, cricket pace bowler, Indian vs. WI 1978-79

1947 Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test vs. India at the Gabba

1947 India cricket all out for 58 vs. Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2

1947 Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA vs. Victoria

1947 Nelson Betancourt, cricket wicketkeeper (WI Test 1930), dies at 42

1947 Alan Ward, England cricket pace bowler, 1969 - 1976

1947 Chetan Chauhan, Indian cricket opener, Gavaskar's partner for a while

1947 Pollamani Krishnamurthy, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, 1971 WI tour

1947 Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies

1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (vs. New Zealand, Christchurch)

1947 Test Cricket debut of Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand vs. England at Christchurch

1947 Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket

1947 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket

1947 Fred Barratt, cricket (5 wkts at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30), dies

1947 Australia vs. England at MCG drawn in 6 days, 1st cricket draw in Australia since 1882

1946 Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket vs. England at the Gabba

1946 Ken Wadsworth, cricket keeper, New Zealand dashing batsman

1946 Ramnath Parkar, cricket batsman, Indian in 2 Tests vs. England 1972-73

1946 Alec Bedser takes 7-49 vs. India on 1st day of his 1st Test cricket

1946 Joe Humphries, cricket wicket keeper (3 Tests for England 1907-08), dies

1946 S Venkataraghavan, cricket, Indian off-spinner, Test ump, ICC referee

1946 Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper, 1967-81

1946 Australia beats New Zealand in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day

1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 and 3-19)

1946 1st Test Cricket between Australia and New Zealand

1946 Test Cricket debuts of Lindwall, Miller and Tallon

1946 Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket off-spinner, 14 Tests 1969-83

1946 Desmond Lewis, WI cricket batsman/keeper, avg 86.33 in 3 Tests

1945 Australia Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts

1945 Australia Services draw second Victory Test Cricket vs. India at Calcutta

1945 Niaz Ahmed, cricketer, 1st and last East Pakistani to play Test cricket

1945 Tony Mann, Australia cricket leggie, 1977 century as nightwatchman vs. India

1945 England defeat Australia Services by 6 wkts in 5th Victory Test Cricket

1945 Keith Miller scores 110 in the 4 Victory Test Cricket at Lord's

1945 Barry Richards, extraordinary cricket batsman, 4 Tests for South Africa

1945 Geoff Dymock, Australian cricket left-arm pace bowler, 1974-80

1945 Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets

1945 Barry Dudleston, cricket umpire

1945 Ashley "Rowdy" Mallett, Australian cricket off-spinner, 1968-80

1945 England win the second Victory test cricket at Bramall Lane by 41 runs

1945 Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's by 6 wickets

1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord's

1945 Start of the 1st Victory Test Cricket between England and Australia Services

1944 Rodney Redmond, New Zealand cricket, opener scored century in Test vs. Pak 1973

1944 David O'Sullivan, New Zealand cricket left-arm spinner, in 11 Tests 1973-76

1944 Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler, WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets

1944 Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire

1944 Terry Jarvis, New Zealand cricket opener, 387 partnership w/Turner vs. WI 1972

1944 Eric Freeman, Australian cricket pace bowler, late 60's

1944 Keith Fletcher, cricket captain, Essex and England

1944 Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper, 1975 World Cup

1944 C T B Turner, cricket (17 Tests 1886-95, 101 wkt All time great), dies

1943 Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper, WI early 70's

1943 Ian Chappell, Australian cricket player, batsman 1964-80

1943 Barrie Leadbeater, cricket umpire

1943 Shafqat Rana, Pakistani cricket batsman, 5 Tests 1964-69

1943 Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper, West Indian 1963-80

1942 Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricket left-arm spinner, 19 Tests 1964-73

1941 Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricket leg-spinner, 1959-77

1941 Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years

1941 Graeme Corling, Australian cricket fast bowler, 1964 England tour

1941 Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler, New Zealand in 10 Tests in the 1960's

1940 Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies

1940 Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman, England, belated faced WI in 1976

1940 Mervyn Kitchen, cricket umpire

1940 Pat Trimborn, cricket pace bowler, South African in 4 Tests 1966-70

1940 Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper, Australian between Grout and Marsh

1939 Bradman scores 267 SA vs. Vic, world record 34th double cricket century

1939 Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler, 1961-62 series vs. New Zealand

1939 Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years

1939 Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricket off-spinner, 12 Tests 1958-62

1939 Headley scores a cricket century in each innings vs. England at Lord's

1939 Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist

1938 Paul Gibb scores 106 on Test Cricket debut vs. South Africa

1938 Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs. South Africa

1938 John Sparling, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, 11 Tests 1958-64

1938 Arthur Fagg completes 244 and 202 in the same cricket game for Kent

1938 Would be start of Eng/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout

1938 Cyril Mitchley, cricket wicket-keeper, Transvaal, later Test umpire

1938 Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler, early 60s

1938 Bradman scores 102* in drawn 2nd Test cricket at Lord's

1938 Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge

1938 Great Cricket innings of 232 by Stan McCabe vs. England at Trent Bridge

1938 Compton scores 1st Test Cricket ton (102 vs. Australia) aged 20 years 19 days

1938 Bill Edrich scores his 1,000th run of cricket season, all at Lord's

1938 Glen Hall, cricket leg-spinner, South African in one Test vs. England 1964

1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Australia vs. MCC, 349 minutes, 35 fours 1 six

1938 Cyril Christiani, cricket wicket keep (WI 1935), dies of malaria at 24

1938 Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, 1961-75

1937 O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia

1937 Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies

1937 John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler, 1964-72

1937 V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler, early 1960's

1937 Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner, took 2-116 at 16 in only Test

1937 Test cricket debut of Len Hutton vs. New Zealand at Lord's, scores 0 and 1

1937 Kenneth Palmer, cricket umpire

1937 John Ward, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper, 8 Tests 1964 - 1968

1937 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs. England in 223 minutes

1937 "Barlow" Carkeek, Australia cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series), dies

1937 Bradman scores 123 SA vs. Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket

1937 Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket vs. England

1936 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80

1936 Queensland cricket all out for 49 vs. Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17

1936 Alan Smith, cricket wicket-keeper, England1962-63 Aust-New Zealand tour

1936 Bradman scores 212 in 202 minutes in a cricket testimonial game

1936 Art Dick, cricket wicket-keeper, New Zealand of 60's

1936 Harold "Dusty" Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler, 1959

1936 Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge U vs. MCC

1936 Tommy Ward, South African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted

1936 John Harris, British cricket player

1936 Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager

1936 Henry Forster, cricket (Hants and Oxford U, Governor-General of Australia), dies

1935 Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia

1935 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith vs. South Africa, Durban

1935 Fred Rumsey, England, cricket lefty pace bowler, 5 Tests 1964-65

1935 H B "Jock" Cameron, South Africa cricket captain (v England 1935, age 30), dies

1935 Jimmy Binks, cricket wicket-keeper, England twice vs. India 1964

1935 George Varnals, South African cricket batsman, England 1964-65

1935 Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer, 5 Tests 1964-65

1935 William Brockwell, cricket (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies

1935 Donald Thompsett, cricket umpire

1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs. England at Kingston

1934 Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes

1934 Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match

1934 Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 minutes, 32 fours 1 six

1934 Reg Scarlett, WI cricket off-spinner, 3 Tests 1960

1934 Alfred Scott, WI cricket leg-spinner, son of O C, Test 0-140

1934 Chandu Borde, cricket batsman, 55 Tests for India 1959-67

1934 Ivor Mendonca, WI cricket wicket-keeper, 2 Tests 1962

1934 Munir Malik, Pakistani cricket pace bowler, 3 Tests 1959-62

1934 Ivan Madray, WI cricket leg-spin all rounder, 2 Tests 3 runs 0-108

1934 38th U.S. Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA

1934 Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days

1934 Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University!

1933 B H Valentine scores 133 on Test Cricket debut, England vs. India at Bombay

1933 Lala Amarnath scores century on Test Cricket debut (went on to 118)

1933 Tom Dewdney, cricket pace bowler, WI of 50's

1933 Brian Booth, cricketer, dual Australian cricket/hockey international

1933 Cammie Smith, WI cricket opening batsman, 1960-62

1933 Len Coldwell, cricket bowler, England medium-fast in 7 Tests 1962-64

1932 Bradman out for a duck vs. England at cricket MCG

1932 Colin Cowdrey, English cricket player

1932 Geoff Lawson, Australian cricket player

1932 Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings

1932 Mickey Stewart, manager, England Cricket Team

1932 Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies

1932 Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal

1932 Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, vs. England at Lord's

1932 Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks vs. Essex

1932 Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa), dies

1932 John Bond, cricket umpire

1932 Mahmood Hussain, Pakistani cricket swing bowler, 68 wkts in 27 Tests

1932 Gavin Stevens, cricket, Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour

1932 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time

1932 Raman Subba Row, CEO, Test/County Cricket Board

1931 Bradman scores 112 Australia vs. South Africa at cricket SCG

1931 Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, vs. South Africa

1931 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day

1931 Narendra Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicketkeeper, 1950's

1931 Johnny Martin, Australian cricket left-arm chinaman bowler, 60's

1931 Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts

1931 Fred Trueman, Fiery Fred, English cricket player

1930 Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes WI vs. Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5)

1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)

1930 J T Tyldesley, cricket (1661 runs in 31 Tests for England 1898-1909), dies

1930 Alan Moss, cricket pace bowler, England during 50's

1930 Richie Benaud, cricket captain, great Aussie leg-spinner, commentator

1930 Australia regain Ashes on 6th day of 5th Cricket Test

1930 Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval

1930 Bradman out for 334 in Test Cricket at Headingley, 383 minutes, 46 fours

1930 Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge

1930 Brian Statham, born in Gorton, England, cricketer, 20th century's leading fast bowler, inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, 2009

1930 Bradman scores cricket 191 Australia vs. Hampshire, 240 minutes, 26 fours

1930 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season

1930 Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player

1930 Roy Marshall, cricket opener, prolific Hampshire only 4 Tests for WI

1930 4th Test Cricket WI vs. England ends in a draw after nine days

1930 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days

1930 Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century

1930 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)

1930 G R Sunderam, cricket pace bowler, 2 Tests India vs. New Zealand 1955-56

1930 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England

1930 George Headley completes twin tons in Test Cricket vs. England (114 and 112)

1930 Clarence Skelton Wimble, cricket (score pair in Test for S Af), dies

1930 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, New Zealand vs. England, Wellington

1930 John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper, great South African

1929 Doug Ford, cricket wicket-keeper, successful NSW of 50's

1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st

1929 Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG

1929 Nicolaas Theunissen, South Africa cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies

1929 Trevor McMahon, New Zealand cricket wicketkeeper, v India and Pak 1955-56

1929 Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper, 1953-56

1929 Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler, great WI

1929 Bradman scores 123 Australia vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton

1929 Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs. England at Adelaide

1928 Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887

1928 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man

1928 Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 and 1 vs England

1928 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season

1928 Gerry Alexander, cricket wicketkeeper, WI of 50s and 60s

1927 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 vs. S Af

1927 Cricket 1st-class debut of Don Bradman, NSW vs. South Australia

1927 John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, president, MCC

1927 Thomas W. "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman, 50's and 60's

1927 William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies

1927 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

1927 Sid O'Linn, cricketer, soccer for South Africa 1947, cricket 1960

1927 Israr Ali, cricket pace bowler, Pakistani in 4 Tests 1952-59

1926 Queensland win their 1st Sheffield Shield cricket match, vs. NSW

1926 Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler, 9 Tests 1952-56

1926 P G "Nana" Joshi, cricket wicketkeeper, Indian during 1950's

1926 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0

1926 Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's

1926 Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper, India in late 40's/early 50's

1926 Len Maddocks, cricket wicket-keeper, Australian mid-50's

1925 Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman, 18 Tests during 1950's

1925 Frank Chamberlain, CEO, Test and County Cricket Board

1925 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 and 6-37 vs. England

1925 Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player

1925 Ian Smith, cricket leg-spinner, South Africa 1947-58 avg 64.08

1925 Ralph Legall, cricket wicket-keeper, WI vs. India 1954

1924 Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings

1924 Tony MacGibbon, New Zealand cricket fast bowler, took 70 wickets in 1950's

1924 Derek Shackleton, England cricket pace bowler, 50's

1924 Test cricket ump debut for Frank Chester, vs. South Africa at Lord's

1924 Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate vs. South Africa

1924 Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper, New Zealand vs England 1954-55

1924 George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies

1924 Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (England in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies

1924 Lloyd Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, American author, wrote children's fantasy novels, 'Cricket' magazine creator

1923 Trevor Bailey, England, cricket all-rounder, batted and ran

1923 Syd Callaway, cricket all-round (3 Tests for Australia 1891-95), dies

1923 Hirulal Gaekwad, cricket all-rounder, Test for India 1952-53

1923 Jahangir Khan Irani, cricket wicketkeeper for India, 1947-8 Australia tour

1923 Fred Ridgway, England cricket pace bowler, 1951-52 Indian tour

1923 Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler, 1949-52

1922 NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket

1922 Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicketkeeper, 2 Tests 1952

1922 Bill Johnston, cricket pace bowler, mighty Australian lefty post-war

1922 James C "Jim" Laker, Bradford England, cricket off spinner

1921 Jack Wilson, cricket slow left-armer, Test for Australia 1956

1921 Arthur Mold, British cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies

1921 Les Jackson, cricket bowler, England twice, 1949 and 1961

1921 Australia Cricket team complete 5-0 drubbing of England

1921 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec

1921 Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for England including a century), dies

1920 Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket India, vs. England at MCG

1920 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs. England SCG

1920 [Thomas] Godfrey Evans, English cricket keeper, 1950's

1920 Mohammad Aslam Khokhar, cricket, Pak bat scored 16 and 18 in only test

1919 Dick Spooner, England, cricket wicketkeeper, Godfrey Evans' shadow

1919 John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Australia one Test 1895, one catch), dies

1919 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies

1919 Henry Wood, England cricket wicket keeper (in 4 Tests 1888-92), dies

1918 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Australia after WW I (Vic vs. NSW)

1918 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's

1917 Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg-spinner, West Indian of post-WWII years

1917 George Mann, captain English cricket team

1917 Ron Saggers, cricket wicket-keeper, effective NSW and Aussie late 40's

1917 William Shalders, South Africa cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies

1916 Claude Newberry, South Africa cricket All-rounder (v England 1913-14), dies

1915 Jack Iverson, Australian cricket mystery spinner, late 40's

1915 Norman Yardley, English cricket captain, late 40's

1914 Ernie Toshack, cricket pace bowler, Aussie left-arm post-WWII

1914 Last day of club cricket for W G Grace at age 66 He made 69

1914 Billy Wade, cricket wicket-keeper, South African in 11 Tests 1938-50

1914 R E Foster, only dual England captain at cricket and soccer, dies

1914 John Arlott, cricketer, the doyen of cricket commentators and writers

1912 Jack Walsh, NSW/Leicestershire cricket china bowler, didn't rep Australia

1912 Jackie Matthews takes 2 cricket hat-tricks same day Australia vs. South Africa

1912 Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50

1912 Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies

1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture

1912 England regains cricket's Ashes

1912 Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs. Australia at MCG

1911 Norman Gordon, South Africa cricket pace bowler, against England 1938-39

1911 Baqa Jilani, Indian cricket fast bowler, Test 1936

1911 Ken Farnes, cricket bowler, fast England in pre-WW II years

1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214

1910 Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator

1910 Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies

1910 Denis Moloney, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, 1937 England tour

1910 Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Australia 1886-88), dies

1910 16th U.S. Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA

1909 Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex vs. Gloucs

1909 Eric Quail Davies, cricket pace bowler, 5 Tests for South Africa 1935-39

1909 Ronnie Grieveson, South Africa cricket keeper/batsman, 2 Tests vs. England 1939

1909 John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler, one Test 1931

1909 Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies

1909 Charlie Walker, South Australia cricket wicket-keeper, toured but no Tests

1908 Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper, 1938 England tour

1908 Queensland beat NSW by 171 runs for their 1st cricket win at Gabba

1908 Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler

1908 Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England

1908 W H V "Hopper" Levett, cricket keeper, England in 1 Test in Calcutta

1907 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Australia's early Tests), dies

1907 13th U.S. Golf Open: Alec Ross shoots a 302 at Philadelphia Cricket Club PA

1907 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia

1906 A J "Sandy" Bell, South Africa cricket fast bowler, 16 Tests 1929-35

1906 Alexander Matheson, New Zealand cricket pace bowler, 2 Tests 1930-31

1905 Jock Cameron, South African cricket keeper, captain

1905 Latest day of 1st-class cricket in an Australia season (NSW vs. Qld)

1905 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey vs. Gentlemen (18 and 28)

1904 Jim Christy, righty cricket batter, Transvaal, Queensland and South Africa

1904 Vincent Tancred, cricket (Bernard and Louis bro, Test for S A), suicide

1904 Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper, New Zealand's 1st Test, later Northants

1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match

1904 England regains cricket Ashes taking a 3-1 series lead vs. Australia

1903 Reg Foster completes 287 England vs. Australia on Test Cricket debut

1903 Patrick McShane, cricket player/ump (1884-85 Ashes series), dies

1902 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket between South Africa and Australia

1902 Learie [Nicholas] Constantine, Trinidad cricket player

1902 Trumper a century before lunch 4th Test Cricket vs. England

1902 Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji vs. Australia, at Old Trafford

1902 Australia won the one and only Test Cricket played at Sheffield

1902 Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket lefty pace bowler, 1932-33, later knighted

1902 Australia Cricket all out 36 vs. England, Edgbaston, their lowest ever

1901 George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper, England late 20's early 30's

1900 Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games

1900 Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris

1900 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Massachusetts, and won by U.S. 2 days later

1900 Gilbert Jessop hits his 2nd 100 before lunch in same cricket match

1900 Maurice Leyland, prolific cricket left-handed batsman, England

1900 Tom Hayward scores 1,000th cricket run of season (sets record 1074)

1899 Perc Hornibrook, Australian cricket left-arm bowler, 20's

1899 Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* vs. England, Lord's

1899 W G Grace's last day of Test cricket aged 50 years 320 days

1899 Cricket test debut of Wilfred Rhodes and Victor Trumper in Grace's last

1899 Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (England vs. South Africa Johannesburg)

1897 John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies

1896 George Giffen is 1st to complete 1000/100 double, in 30th Test Cricket

1896 Ranjitsinhji completes 154* on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia, Old Trafford

1896 Yorkshire Cricket all out for 887 against Warwickshire

1895 H G "Nummy" Deane, South African cricket Test captain, 1927-31

1895 Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs vs. Somerset at Taunton

1895 W. G. Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days

1895 Charlie Hallows, cricket batsman, Lancs played for England 1921 - 1928

1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2

1894 England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket

1894 Test Cricket debut of Joe Darling, Ernie Jones, Archie MacLaren

1893 Jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler, took 60 wickets for South Africa

1893 Harry Graham scores 107 on cricket debut Australia vs. England, Lord's

1893 Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket

1893 Arthur Carr, cricket captain, England vs. Australia 1926

1892 Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA vs. NSW

1892 Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan

1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs. South Africa (Cape Town)

1892 Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England vs. South Africa 1889), dies at 26

1891 Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner, 1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair

1891 J. W. Hearne, cricket leg-spinner, all-rounder for England in 24 Tests

1891 Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Australia tour), dies

1890 Would be start of England/Australia Test Cricket at Old Trafford Washout

1890 Jack Barrett carries his cricket bat for Australia at Lord's (67)

1890 Andrew Sandham, cricketer, Test cricket's 1st triple centurion

1890 1st NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game

1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town vs. England

1888 Arthur Richardson, Australian cricket batsman, 20's

1888 A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner, legend for Kent and England

1888 Neville Cardus, cricketer, doyen of cricket writers

1886 W G Grace made his highest Test Cricket score, vs. AuAustraliast, The Oval

1884 Fred Morley, cricket lefty quick (16 wkts in 4 Tests for Eng), dies

1884 Bill Murdoch scores 1st Test Cricket double-century, 211 at The Oval

1884 1st double-century stand in Test cricket, McDonnell/Murdoch 207 Australia

1884 1st Test Cricket match played at Lord's

1884 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out

1883 J M M "Mick" Commaille, cricketer, dual South African cricket/soccer rep

1882 John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted, 1953

1882 Australia beat England by 7 runs "Death of English cricket"

1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground

1882 Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper, 5 Tests 1909-12

1880 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket in England, vs. Australia at The Oval

1880 W G Grace scores 152 in debut Test Cricket innings, vs. Australia The Oval

1879 J J Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler, 1902-07

1878 Edward Pooley completes record 8 stumpings in a cricket match

1878 Australians Cricket 41 and 12-1 defeat MCC 33 and 19

1878 A. W. "Dave" Nourse, cricketer, "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket

1877 Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Australia vs. England MCG

1877 Charles Bannerman completes 1st Test cricket century, 165 vs. Eng

1877 Commencement of 1st Test Cricket, Australia vs. England at MCG

1874 Austin Diamond, cricket non-Test captain, NSW batsman 1899-1919, Australia

1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds

1871 Charles Kortright, British cricket player

1870 Tom Richardson, legendary England cricket fast bowler, 1893-98

1869 Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler, marvellous Australia at turn of century

1869 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian

1868 Australia Aboriginal Cricket tour of England begins vs. Surrey Gentlemen

1867 Hugh Trumble, cricket off-spinner, great Australia at turn of century

1867 Jim Kelly, cricket wicket-keeper, Australian 1896-1905

1867 Sammy Woods, cricket bowler, Australia and England Rugby wing-forward

1866 Arthur Frederick Augustus "Dick" Lilley, cricket keeper, England

1865 1st class cricket debut of Dr. W. G. Grace

1854 Bill Murdoch, cricketer, great pioneer of Australian Test cricket

1851 Charles Bannerman, Aussie cricket batsman, 1st centurion

1851 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston

1845 Allen Hill, cricketer, took the 1st wicket in Test cricket

1844 Canada defeat USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international

1841 Unaarrimin, cricketer, played cricket as Johnny Mullagh

1751 1st American cricket match is played


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