Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries
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January
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.
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.
January 3
- West Indies
- 1949 - Everton Weekes' 101 in Calcutta completes a sequence of five consecutive Test innings centuries
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.
January 5
- Australia
- 1971 - The first One Day International was played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
January 9
- England
- 1971 - Bob Willis makes his Test debut against Australia in Sydney
- West Indies
- 1968 - Jimmy Adams is born
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.
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.
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.
- Zimbabwe
- 1976 - Gavin Rennie is born
January 13
- Australia
- 1911 - South Africa's first Test win over Australia at Adelaide.
- 1978 - The Australia national women's cricket team win the Women's Cricket World Cup for the first time in Hyderabad.
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
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.
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
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
January 18
- India
- 1972 – Vinod Kambli is born
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
January 26
- In Australia
- 1883 - The first Test played at the Association (later Sydney Cricket Ground) Cricket Ground, starts.
- 1954 - Kim Hughes is born at Margaret River, Western Australia
- 1962 - Tim May is born
- 1963 - Simon O'Donnell is born
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.
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.
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.
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.
January 31
- In Australia
- 1944 - John Inverarity is born in Subiaco, Western Australia
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
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 9
- Australia
- 1970 - Glenn McGrath is born
- England
February 10
- In Australia
- 1937 - Australian opener and captain and later commentator Bill Lawry was born on this day in Thornbury, Victoria.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- In South Africa
- 1896 - South Africa is bowled out for 30 runs in their second innings by England at Port Elizabeth
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
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.
February 17
- Australia
- 1882 - First Test match staged at the Sydney Cricket Ground started.
- 1936 - Barry Jarman born.
- New Zealand
- Sri Lanka
- 1982 - Played in their first Test match
- 1996 - Won the World Cup hosted by India/Sri Lanka/Pakistan
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.
February 19
- England
- 1891 - Off-spinning all-rounder Farmer White, fleetingly England's Test captain in the 1920s, is born at Holford, Somerset
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
February 26
- Pakistan
- 1955 - First-ever Test match is staged at the National Stadium, Karachi
- West Indies
- 1925 - Everton Weekes is born
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.
February 28
- New Zealand
February 29
- England
- 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.
