8th April...

1865:
England all-rounder Ted Wainwright (5 Tests from 1893 to 1898) was born.

1876:
South African fast bowler George Shepstone (2 Tests from 1896 to 1899) was born.

1889:
England batsman Henry Jupp (2 Tests in 1877) died aged 47.

1902:
England all-rounder Arthur Wellard (2 Tests from 1937 to 1938) was born.

1914:
West Indian off-spinner John Cameron (2 Tests in 1939) was born.

1938:
Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Farooq (7 Tests from 1960 to 1965) was born.

1938:
South Africa left-arm spinner Harold Baumgartner (1 Test in 1913) died in Ghana, aged 54.

1963:
England captain and keeper-batsman Alec Stewart since 1990 in over 100 Test matches, was born

1963:
South African pace bowler Len Tuckett (1 Test in 1914) died aged 77.

1965:
England pace bowler Jack Durston (1 Test in 1921) died aged 71.

1967:
West Indian fast bowler Kenny Benjamin (26 Tests from 1992 to 1998; 92 wickets) was born.

1984:
India beat Sri Lanka by 10 wickets at Sharjah in the inaugural Asia Cup.

1995:
England pace bowler Maurice Allom (5 Tests from 1930 to 1931) died aged 89.

9th April...

1848:
England batsman Francis MacKinnon (1 Test in 1879) was born.

1867:
Australian pace bowler Percie Charlton (2 Tests in 1890) was born.

1946:
England keeper-batsman Alan Knott (95 Tests from 1967 to 1981; 4389 runs and 269 dismissals) was born.

1972:
New Zealand's openers Glenn Turner and Terry Jarvis put on 387 runs for the first wicket in 540 minutes against West Indies at Georgetown - still the highest partnership for the opening wicket against the West Indies in Tests.

1989:
Pace bowler Malcolm Marshall became West Indies' highest wicket taker when he captured his 310th wicket - at Bridgetown against India. He went past the tally of 309 wickets of off-spinner Lance Gibbs.

1995:
At 21 years 350 days Sachin Tendulkar - against Sri Lanka at Sharjah - during his unbeaten innings of 112 became the youngest batsman to score 3000 runs one-day internationals.

1865:
Mohammad Azharuddin scores an unbeaten 153 not out against Zimbabwe at Cuttack. He along with Ajay Jadeja (116 not out) put on a record 275 (unbeaten) for the fourth wicket, which is was then the best partnership for any wicket in an ODI match.

1999:
India beat England at Sharjah as Ajay Jadeja takes three wickets in one over.

10th April...

1914:
Australian batsman CL 'Jack' Badcock (7 Tests from 1936 to 1938) was born.

1923:
South African all-rounder John Watkins (15 Tests from 1949 to 1957; 612 runs and 29 wickets) was born.

1927:
England captain and batsman Ivo Bligh (4 Tests in 1882-83) died aged 68.

1930:
Pakistani all-rounder Shujauddin Butt (19 Tests from 1954 to 1962; 395 runs and 20 wickets) was born.

1930:
England all-rounder Wilfred Rhodes's last day of his Test career against West Indies at Kingston at the age of 52 years 165 days - still the oldest to appear in a Test match.

1986:
The inaugural Australasia Cup tournament began at Sharjah when India beat New Zealand by three wickets.

1987:
Pakistan beat India by 8 wickets and with 8.2 overs to spare, although the former needed to win in 17.2 overs to take the Sharjah Cup, thus allowing England to win the title on a superior run-rate.

1988:
England all-rounder and pace bowler Cliff Gladwin (8 Tests from 1947 to 1949) died aged 72.

1990:
West Indies beat England by 164 runs to gain their ninth consecutive victory at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown.

11th April...

1854:
Australian captain and batsman Hugh Massie (9 Tests from 1881 to 1885) was born.

1856:
England captain and batman and Arthur Shrewsbury (23 Tests from 1881 to 1893; 1277 runs) was born.

1918:
South African batsman Arthur 'Okey' Ochse (2 Tests in 1889) died aged 48 in France (World War I)

1921:
West Indian captain and batsman Jeff Stollmeyer (32 Tests from 1939 to 1955; 2159 runs) was born.

1955:
This was the first Test match to be played at the Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain on a turf wicket when West Indies played Australia. On the first day a record crowd of 28,000 witnessed the match.

1957:
West Indian batsman Everton Mattis (4 Tests in 1981) was born.

1969:
Zimbabwean batsman Gavin Briant (1 Test in 1993) was born.

1972:
Glenn Turner scores 259 against West Indies at Georgetown, then the highest by a New Zealander in Tests.

1973:
Australia beat West Indies by ten wickets at Georgetown to take a two-nil lead and win its second series in the Caribbean.

1986:
Australian left-arm spinner Ray Bright led his team against Pakistan at Sharjah in the Australasia Cup.

1992:
West Indies inflicted South Africa's only ten-wicket loss in one-dayers at Port of Spain.

12th April...

1894:
England pace bowler Fred Barratt (5 Tests from 1929 to 1930) was born.

1911:
South African pace bowler Geoff Chubb (5 Tests in 1951; 21 wickets) was born.

1917:
Indian captain and all-rounder Vinoo Mankad (44 Tests from 1946 to 1959; 2109 runs and 162 wickets) was born.

1948:
West Indian left-arm spinner Raphick Jumadeen (12 Tests from 1972 to 1979) was born.

1865:
Pakistani left-arm pace bowler Kabir Khan (4 Tests in 1994-95) was born.

1976:
India set a target of 403 runs beat West Indies at Port of Spain by six wickets, to become the second team in Test history, after Australia (in 1948) to win a match after being set over 400 runs to win in the fourth innings of a Test match.

1978:
Australia beat West Indies by 2 wickets off the last possible ball at Castries, St Lucia to tie the one-day series one-all. 42-year-old Australian captain Bobby Simpson won the man of the match award.

1990:
Viv Richards against St. John's against England became West Indies' most capped player while appearing in his 111th Test. He went past Clive Lloyd's tally of 110 Test matches.

1992:
Phil Simmons (104) scored his third hundred in four innings as West Indies clean swept South Africa three-nil against South Africa.

13th April...

1867:
All-rounder Sammy Woods for Australia (3 Tests in 1888) and England (3 Tests in 1896) was born.

1912:
Australian pace bowler Morris Sieves (3 Tests in 1936-37) was born.

1962:
West Indian fast bowler Lester King, on his Test debut against India at Kingston, claimed the first five Indian wickets in his first four overs of his career.

1976:
Zimbabwe pace bowler Everton Matambanadzo since 1996 was born.

1983:
Sri Lankan keeper Guy de Alwis equals the ODI record of five catches at Colombo as the home team beat Australia by 2 wickets.

1984:
India, led by Sunil Gavaskar, won the first Asia Cup tournament at Sharjah.

1994:
England beat the West Indies by 208 runs to inflict the home side's only second defeat at Bridgetown in 30 Tests since 1935.

1994:
India beat the United Arab Emirates by 71 runs in the first match of the Australasia Cup tournament. This was the UAE's inaugural official one-day match.

1997:
West Indies all-rounder EAV 'Foffie' Williams (4 Tests from 1939 to 1948) died aged 83.

14th April...

1870:
Australian captain and batsman Syd Gregory (58 Tests from 1890 to 1912; 2282 runs) was born.

1876:
South African captain and keeper Murray Bisset (3 Tests from 1899 to 1910) was born.

1904:
West Indian all-rounder Lionel Birkett (4 Tests in 1930-31) was born.

1905:
Australian left-handed batsman Jack "Slinger" Nitschke (2 Tests in 1931) was born.

1916:
Indian pace bowler CR Rangachari (4 Tests in 1948) was born.

1925:
Indian batsman G.Kischenchand (5 Tests from 1947 to 1952) was born in Karachi.

1931:
West Indian batsman Bruce Pairaudeau (13 Tests from 1953 to 1957) was born.

1947:
Australian paceman Bob Massie (6 Tests from 1972 to 1973; 31 wickets, including 16 on debut) was born.

1960:
South African all-rounder and off-spinner Pat Symcox (20 Tests from 1993 to 1998; 741 runs and 37 wickets) was born.

1964:
New Zealand all-rounder Herbie McGirr (2 Tests in 1930) died aged 72.

1965:
Australian pace bowler Craig McDermott (71 Tests from 1984 to 1996; 291 wickets and also 940 runs) was born.

1965:
Former West Indian all-rounder Gerry Gomez and then a Test selector, was pressed into services as a Test umpire, after the appointed umpire CP Kippins, was forced to withdraw at the insistence of the British Guiana Umpires Association who had rejected the appointment of HB de Jordan of Barbados in the Georgetown Test match against Australia.

1985:
West Indian Viv Richards became the first batsman in ODI history to reach 4000 runs - against New Zealand at Berbice.

1989:
West Indian pace bowler Lance Pierre (1 Test in 1948) died aged 67.

1990:
West Indian Gordon Greenidge emulated Pakistani Javed Miandad by becoming the second batsman in Test history to score hundreds in their first and 100th Test match - against England at St John's.

1995:
India won the fifth edition of the Asia Cup by defeating Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the final Sharjah. This was India's fourth Asian title in as many attempts.

1996:
The Sharjah Cricket Stadium, UAE became the first international venue to stage 100

matches when India played South Africa in the Sharjah Cup.

2000:
Pakistani pace bowler Niaz Ahmed (2 Tests from 1967 to 1969) died aged 54.

Compiled by
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