September 5, 1970 - When Mohammad Rafique made his test debut, like the 10 other players who were part of Bangladesh's maiden test match against India at the Banglabandhu International Stadium in Dhaka in November
-and-nicky-boje-(r)-celebrate.jpg "South Africa's Lance Klusener (L) and Nicky Boje (R) celebrate after Klusener caught England's Andrew Flintoff for 25")
September 4, 1971 - Klusener's terrific success rate at finishing matches won him several admirers across the world.
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September 3, 1990 - The first time one saw Mohammed Shami in action, it was easy to make out that the youngster was a cut above the rest
September 2, 1988 - Ishant Sharma first made headlines when he moved the ball both ways at pace in just his fourth test match against Australia at Perth.
September 1, 1996 - Nick Knight couldn't replicate his white-ball success in tests, but when on song, he was a devastating ODI opener.
August 30, 2016 - After two relatively low-scoring ODIs on the Pakistan tour of England in 2016, England pulled out all stops in the third match of the series on a batting beauty at Trent Bridge.
August 31, 1944 - For most of the years during which West Indies dominated world cricket, Clive Lloyd was at the centre of it all, marshalling his troops to a tee.
August 28, 1983 - When Lasith Malinga first burst onto the international scene in 2004, it was his action which stood out.
August 27, 1974 - In 2006, Yousuf scored 1,788 runs from 11 test matches at an average of 99.33 with 9 hundreds, breaking Sir Vivian Richards' 30-year-old record and became the player to score the most runs in a calendar year ever.
August 26, 2008 - 5/23 against South Africa remains Broad's only 5-wicket haul in ODI cricket.
August 25, 2019 - The second test of The Ashes 2019 ended in a draw but Australia were still much better poised in the series, having won the Ashes opener comprehensively.
August 23, 1974 - Revisiting Zaheer Abbas' classic knock of 240 on his 2nd test tour of England which brought him the moniker of Asian Bradman.
August 22, 2011 - The World Cup euphoria behind them, having won the 2011 WC final on April 2 against Sri Lanka, India were off to a tour of England, comprising 4 test matches, 5 ODIs and one T20I in July.
August 21, 2016 - Southern Vipers rendered themselves immortal in the history of the women's game by winning the inaugural edition of the Women's Cricket Super League.
August 20, 2006 - Generally, the result on the scorecard, depicts that the team has either won or lost. On a rare occasion, the result shows the match to be tied or decided by the D/L method.
August 19, 1953 - As Bill Edrich and Denis Compton made their way towards the pavilion, the crowd spilt over onto the Kennington Oval. England had done the improbable, earning a chapter in the annals of cricket history.
August 18, 2014 - It's never easy to let go, but the pinch in Jayawardene's case was reduced after Sri Lanka won their first World Cup title after 1996 with a T20 World Cup victory against India
August 17, 1972 - The trouble with Habibul Bashar was that despite bringing up frequent half-centuries, he failed to convert them into three figures. Bashar, who made 3,026 runs from 50 test matches at an average of over 30,
August 16, 1974 - West Indian batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is born
August 15, 1992 - The 1992 ODI World Cup did not pan out well for Sri Lanka as the team managed to win just two matches in the tournament.
August 14, 1962 - Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja was born on the same date as Pakistan's Independence Day
August 13, 1975 - The period between 1999 and 2004 was Akhtar's most successful phase in ODI cricket,
.jpg "Sir Viv Richards")
August 12, 1991 - Even the best of teams suffer when a top player says goodbye to the game. And when three big names call it a day together, the void is too big to fill.
August 11, 2005 - This was Warne's 126th test match and the leggie played just 18 more matches after this, taking an additional 100+ test wickets.
August 10, 2007 - Kumble's tally of 619 test wickets from 132 matches, the third-highest in the history of the game,
August 9, 1983 - Just a month after former captain Hamilton Masakadza decided to hang his boots in September 2019, he was appointed the director of cricket (DoC) for Zimbabwe Cricket.
August 8, 1990 - At 30, Williamson still has a long way to go, and with 6,476 runs from 80 test matches, there is no doubt that by the time he decides to hang his boots, he will break a lot more records.
August 7, 2005 - When Steve Harmison outfoxed Michael Clarke, the last recognised Australian batsman, on what turned out to be the last ball of day 3....
August 6, 1984 - Few could hit the ball as effortlessly as Jesse Ryder did in his international career which lasted from 2008 to 2014.
August 5, 1969 - The image of Venkatesh Prasad showing Aamer Sohail the way to the pavilion after rearranging his stumps in the 1996 World Cup clash between India and Pakistan is still fresh in the minds of many cricket lovers.
August 4, 1976 - When you see the England women's cricket team holding aloft the ODI World Cup trophy at the Lord's balcony after beating India by 9 runs in the final of the 2017 WC...
August 3, 2005 - India, Sri Lanka and West Indies were part of a tri-series in 2005 hosted by Sri Lanka, called the Indian Oil Cup.
August 2, 2003 - The South Africa tour of England in 2003 meant a lot for a lot of people.
August 1, 1924 - This is the answer to a popular cricket quiz question: Sir Frank Worrell is the first Black captain of West Indies to be appointed for a full series.
July 31, 1956- In the first innings, Laker picked up 7 wickets for just 8 runs in 22 balls to finish with figures of 16.4-4-37-9.
July 30, 1982 - James Anderson, who turns 38 today, is well poised to become the first seamer to take 600 test wickets
July 29, 2006 - There was genuine friendship on display when Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene shared the field...
July 28, 1936 - Sobers' 26 centuries from 160 Test innings may pale in comparison to Kallis' 45, another great all-rounder, but the South African took 280 innings to score those
-with-team-mate-jacques-kallis.jpg "South Africa's Jonty Rhodes (R) with team mate Jacques Kallis")
July 27, 1969 - Stats show Jonty Rhodes' Test average to be 35.6 and ODI average as 35.11, but that is hardly the case.....
July 26, 1971 - If there are two matches which define Khaled Mahmud's career, it is the Bangladesh upset against Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup and their one-wicket loss against the same opponents in the third Test of the Bangladesh tour of Pakistan in 2003 at Multan.
July 24, 1947 - It was in 1971 that the world first took notice of a tall, lean and bespectacled youth from Pakistan.
July 23, 2017 - When India and England met in their first encounter in the 2017 women's 50-over World Cup, it was India all the way.
July 22, 2010 - Some things are just written in the stars. They are bound to happen. It's destiny.
July 21, 1981 - When Australia arrived on the English shores in 1981, the home team had not won a Test in 10 matches.
July 20, 2018 - The 304-run partnership between Imam-ul-Haq, who was dismissed on 113 off 122 balls, and Fakhar Zaman became the highest ODI partnership
July 19, 1979 - The manner in which Dilhara Fernando drifted to cricket was unique.
July 18, 1996 - Mandhana's best performance on the big stage came in the 2018 T20 World Cup where she was the third-highest scorer with 178 runs from 5 matches
July 16, 1973 - It is hardly a surprise that Shaun Pollock, who had cricket running through his DNA, ended up becoming a cricketer to die for.
July 14, 2019 - The final of the 2019 World Cup may be remembered for the wrong reasons, but the hard-fought match between England and New Zealand was surely worthy of a final.
July 13, 2002 - In the period between January 31, 1999 and July 13, 2002, India lost nine consecutive ODI finals, five of which came while chasing.
July 11, 2015 - Ashes 2013-14 had been a disaster for England as they were whitewashed 0-5.....
July 10, 1949 - Gavaskar is the first batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs.
July 9, 1982 - 1982 was a year of football more than cricket, but Botham's fastest double century against India at The Oval was one of the sporting highlights of the year.
July 8, 1972 - Ganguly's captaincy record is much better than his predecessors with 21 victories and 13 losses from 49 Test matches.
July 7, 1981 - MS Dhoni led India to the top of the Test rankings and oversaw India's 4-0 whitewash against Australia at home
-celebrates-with-his-team-mates-.jpg "South African blower Makhaya Ntini (3rd L) celebrates with his team mates")
July 6, 1977 - Makhaya Ntini is not an ordinary cricketer. His story is not an ordinary story.
July 5, 2001 - 427 runs were scored on day one of the first Ashes Test in 2001.....
--tillakaratne-dilshan-(l),-sanath-jayasuriya,--mahela-jayawardene-and-chamara-silva-.jpg "Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (C) Tillakaratne Dilshan (L), Sanath Jayasuriya, Mahela Jayawardene and Chamara Silva")
July 4, 2006 - Sri Lanka broke the record for the highest ODI total with 443/9 against Netherlands in 2006,
-and-harbhajan-singh.jpg "India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni (L) and Harbhajan Singh")
July 3, 1980 - When former Indian batsman Navjot Singh Sidhu faced Harbhajan Singh for the first time
July 2, 2008 - This was a year before the Lahore terrorist attack took place and cricket was still blooming in Pakistan.
July 01, 2019 - It is an uncanny similarity that two youngsters, both playing their ninth ODI and with no three-figure score under their belt,
June 30, 1969 - Jayasuriya sits proudly at the 4th spot in the list of highest run-scorers in ODI cricket just behind Sachin Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara and Ricky Ponting with 13,430 runs.
June 29, 2007 - What's remarkable is that after almost one and a half decades of Tendulkar achieving the feat,
June 28, 1985 - You think of Wahab Riaz, and almost instinctively, three spells come to mind.
June 27, 1980 - Love him or hate him, but you cannot ignore him. The expression doesn't fit many better than Kevin Pietersen, who divided opinion sharply, on and off the field.
June 26, 1995 - Figures of 19.3-5-43-7 in the second innings against West Indies at Lord's not only brought Dominic Cork the Man of the Match award
24 June, 2014 - Sri Lanka had tried thrice but failed each time. When they toured England in 2014
June 23, 1979 - After West Indies became the first-ever ODI champions by beating Australia by 17 runs in the 1975 Prudential World Cup, the team had little difficulty in storming into the finals of the next edition....
June 22, 1996 - Two youngsters walked down the stairs of Lord's, making their Test debuts, on a chilly morning. One stroked a superb ton, the other fell just short......
June 20, 1999 - Australia lost their second match of the 1999 Cricket World Cup against New Zealand by 5 wickets and conceded another defeat against Pakistan in their third match
June 19, 2020 - Despite England slowing down in the last five overs and missing the ambitious 500-run mark by 19 runs, the Eoin Morgan-led side made history with the highest ODI total of 481
June 17, 1999 - With just nine required to win off the last over, Klusener hit back to back boundaries off Damien Fleming on the first two deliveries. Then the choke happened.....
June 16, 1999 - How do you play a fullish, in-swinging delivery which pitches outside the off stump and comes back sharply to knock back your leg pole?
-.jpg "June 13, 2018 – Afghanistan's cricket team captain Asghar Stanikzai (L) and Afghanistan's National Team Manager Shir Agha Hamkar address a news conference")
June 15, 2018 - If one just keeps harping on about how momentous an occasion this was for Afghanistan and how much it meant to the players and the nation, the significance of the match may still not hit home.
une 14, 1984 - Malcolm Marshall had a peculiar action. He ran to the crease like a hot knife through butter....
June 13, 1999 - After Gibbs dropped Steve Waugh's catch, that in effect took Australia to the final, Waugh, as he writes in his autobiography, Out of My Comfort Zone......
June 12, 1957 - Javed Miandad's Test average never went below 50 all through his career. Miandad has the best of 280*, which is one of his six double centuries, the most by any Pakistan batsman.
June 11, 1999 - HK Olonga st Moin Khan, AG Huckle st Moin Khan, M Mbangwa lbw - Saqlain Mushtaq bagged the 2nd ever hat-trick in a World Cup and became only the 2nd player to take a hat-trick twice in ODIs after compatriot Wasim Akram.
June 10 , 2012 - Ramdin, who had been recalled to the side, was in poor form in the series and had managed scores of 6, 43, 1 and 6 in his last four innings.
June 09, 1987 - When Mushfiqur Rahim made his Test debut in 2005 against England at Lord's, he was only 16. This made him the youngest player to play a Test match at the Home of Cricket.
June 7, 1975 - If there is only one stat you want to know about New Zealand's tearaway pacer Shane Bond.....
June 6, 1988 - While Rahane averages more than 45 in away Test matches with 7 centuries and 15 half-centuries, only 4 of his 11 Test tons have come at home.
June 5, 2009 - As Netherlands qualified for the 2009 T20 World Cup, many of the Dutch players took a two-week leave from work to play the tournament....
.jpg "England v Australia - Headingley, Leeds, Britain - August 25, 2019 England's Ben Stokes and Jack Leech celebrate winning the Test")
June 4, 1991 - With the holes that Ben Stokes has managed to dig himself into over his international career, the easiest thing for a mere mortal would have been was to simply lose one's way.....
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June 3, 1966 - Not many will argue against the fact that Wasim Akram is the greatest left-arm fast bowler to take the cricket field ever.
.jpg "Australia's Steve Smith")
June 2, 1989 - When Steve Smith was banned for 12 months in the wake of the Newlands ball tampering scandal, many feared that he might never be the batsman he was
