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.

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

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

Australia

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

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.

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]

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).

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).

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.

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.

England

• 1957 - David Gower is born at Tunbridge Wells

New Zealand

• 1973 - Stephen Fleming is born at Christchurch

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.

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]

England

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

India

• 1933 - Bapu Nadkarni is born.

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.

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.

Australia

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

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

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.

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.

England

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

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.

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.

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.

Australia

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

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.

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]

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.

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

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

India

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

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.

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.

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.

In England

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Australia

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

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

Australia

• 1910 - Laurie Nash born.

West Indies

• 1969 - Brian Lara is born at Cantaro, Trinidad

Australia

• 1955 - David Hookes is born

England

• 2000 - Godfrey Evans dies, aged 78.

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]

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

England

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

Sri Lanka

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

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

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

Zimbabwe

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

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

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

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

Australia

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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]

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.

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.

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.

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]

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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]

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

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]

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.

India

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

New Zealand

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

England

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

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

South Africa

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

India

• 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni born.

South Africa

• 1875 - Vincent Tancred born.

India

• 1972 - Sourav Ganguly born.

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.

India

• 1949 - Sunil Gavaskar born.

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.

India

• 1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar born.

Australia

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

England

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

Sri Lanka

• 1967 - Hashan Tillakaratne is born in Colombo

South Africa

• 1977 - Andre Nel is born at Germiston

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]

Australia

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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.

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]

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.

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".

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.

South Africa

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

England

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

India

• 1931 - Naren Tamhane is born at Mumbai

India

• 1969 - Venkatesh Prasad is born at Bangalore

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

West Indies

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

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.

Bangladesh

• 1972 - Habibul Bashar is born at Nagakanda, Kushtia province

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.

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.

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.

Australia

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

England

• 1914 - Doug Wright is born at Sidcup, Kent

Australia

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