9th September...

1853:
Australian pace bowler Frederick Spofforth (18 Tests from 1877 to 1887; 94 wickets) was born.

1875:
Australian medium pacer Jack O'Connor (4 Tests from 1908 to 1909) was born.

1894:
Australian keeper-batsman Bert Oldfield (54 Tests from 1920 to 1937; 1427 runs and 78 catches & a record 52 stumpings) was born.

1941:
Indian all-rounder Syed Abid Ali (29 Tests from 1967 to 1974; 1018 runs and 47 wickets) was born.

1958:
Australian all-rounder Charlie Macartney (35 Tests from 1907 to 1926; 2131 runs and 45 wickets) died aged 72.

1959:
West Indian all-rounder OG "Collie" Smith (26 Tests from 1955 to 1959; 1331 runs and 48 wickets) died in a road accident in England, aged 26.

1963:
England's left-handed batsman Neil Fairbrother (10 Tests from 1987 to 1993) was born.

1969:
South African medium pacer Cecil "Dickie" Dixon (1 Test in 1914) died aged 78.

1981:
India's left-handed all-rounder Phiroz "PE" Palia (2 Tests from 1932 to 1936) died aged 71.

1994:
Playing in his 79th one-day match Sachin Tendulkar scored his first hundred (110) of his one-day international career, against Australia at the Khettarama Stadium at Colombo.

10th September...

1872:
England batsman Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji or "Ranji" (15 Tests from 1896 to 1902; 989 runs) was born in India.

1924:
England paceman Walter Lees (5 Tests in 1906; 26 wickets) died aged 48.

1930:
South African all-rounder Major George Faulkner (25 Tests from 1906 to 1924; 1754 runs and 82 wickets) died (suicide) at London, aged 48.

1962:
Zimbabwe pace bowler Charlie Lock (1 Test in 1995) was born.

1966:
England all-rounder Jim Langridge (8 Tests from 1933 to 1946) died aged 60.

1968:
England batsman Wilf Barber (2 Tests in 1935) died aged 67.

1972:
South African leg-spinner Sid Pegler (16 Tests from 1910 to 1924; 47 wickets) died aged 84.

1974:
Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Akram from 1995 was born.

1979:
Sri Lankan Test keeper-batsman Prasanna Jayawardene in 2000 was born.

1989:
West Indies captain and batsman Jeff Stollmeyer (32 Tests from 1939 to 1955; 2159 runs), died at Florida, USA aged 68. He was shot in the head by armed robbers at home in Trinidad.

1992:
Arjuna Ranatunga (48) became the first Sri Lankan batsman to aggregate 2000 runs in Tests, against Australia at Moratuwa.

1993:
South Africa beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 208 runs at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground to record its first Test overseas in 28 years!

1999:
Fielding at backward and deep square leg respectively, Steve Waugh (nose) and Jason Gillespie (right tibia) sustained fractures as in a horrific collision on the second day of the Test between Australia and Sri Lanka at Kandy. They had to be airlifted by helicopter to Colombo. Shane Warne as captain.

11th September...

1849:
Australian leg-break bowler William Cooper (2 Tests from 1881 to 1884) was born.

1874:
South African right hand batsman Charles Prince (1 Test in 1899) was born.

1907:
West Indian all-rounder Oscar Da Costa (5 Tests from 1930 to 1935) was born.

1911:
Indian captain and all-rounder Lala Amarnath (24 Tests from 1933 to 1952; 878 runs and 45 wickets) was born.

1912:
West Indian keeper-batsman Derek Sealy (11 Tests from 1930 to 1939; 478 runs) was born.

1948:
South African batsman Bertie Powell (1 Test in 1899) died aged 75.

1950:
Indian batsman Sorabji Colah (2 Tests from 1932 to 1933) died aged 47.

1976:
Indian Test left arm spinner Murali Kartik in 2000 was born.

1983:
India's Mohinder Amarnath won the third successive man-of-the-match award against Pakistan at Hyderabad. He had earlier won consecutive awards in the semi-final and final of the 1983 Prudential World Cup.

1985:
Sri Lankan keeper Amal Silva became the first to score a hundred (111) and take nine dismissals in the same match - against India at Colombo.

1985:
Sri Lanka gained its first ever Test win by 149 runs at P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo against India.

1999:
Sri Lanka beat Australia by six wickets at Kandy in Sanath Jayasuriya's first Test as captain.

12th September...

1913:
Indian born South African batsman Bob Stewart (1 Test in 1889) died aged 57.

1917:
South African fast bowler Bill Lundie (1 Test in 1914) died in Belgium during World War I, aged 29.

1924:
South African all-rounder 'Fish' Markham (1 Test in 1949) was born.

1932:
Pakistani batsman Waqar Hassan (21 Tests from 1952 to 1959; 1071 runs) was born at Amritsar, India.

1937:
West Indian fast bowler Wes Hall (48 Tests from 1958 to 1969; 192 wickets) was born.

1948:
Australian paceman Max Walker (34 Tests from 1972 to 1977; 138 wickets) was born.

1953:
South African all-rounder Frederick Kuys (1 Test in 1899) died aged 83.

1963:
West Indian all-rounder Ben Sealy (1 Test in 1933) died aged 64.

1968:
South African pace bowler Richard Snell (5 Tests from 1992 to 1994) was born.

1979:
England's left-handed batsman Denis Smith (2 Tests in 1935) died aged 72.

1979:
Indian left arm spinner Dilip Doshi on debut takes six wickets for 103 runs in 43 overs in his very first Test innings, against Australia at Madras.

1992:
Australian Mark Waugh bagged his second successive "pair" at Moratuwa against Sri Lanka to become the first specialist batsman in Test history to do so.

13th September...

1864:
England all-rounder Robert Cuttell (2 Tests in 1899) was born.

1876:
South African batsman Percy Twentyman-Jones (1 Test in 1902) was born.

1902:
England batsman Arthur Mitchell (6 Tests from 1933 to 1936) was born.

1963:
England batsman Robin Smith (62 Tests from 1988 to 1996; 4236 runs) was born in Durban.

1968:
Sri Lankan all-rounder Chandika Hathurusinghe (26 Tests from 1991 to 1999; 1274 runs and 17 wickets) was born.

1969:
Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne from 1992 was born.

1976:
New Zealand batsman Craig McMillan from 1997 was born.

1977:
English batsman (5 Tests from 1936 to 1939) and later Test umpire (in 18 Tests) Arthur Fagg died aged 62.

14th September...

1868:
South African all-rounder Arthur Seccull (1 Test in 1896) was born.

1884:
Aussie right-hander Dave Smith (2 Tests in 1912) was born.

1895:
England leg-spinner Charles "Father" Marriott (1 Test in 1933; 11 wickets) was born.

1905:
South African captain and batsman Herby Wade (10 Tests from 1935 to 1936) was born.

1911:
South African batsman Robert Harvey (2 Tests in 1936) was born.

1916:
Australian medium pacer Geff Noblet (3 Tests from 1950 to 1953) was born.

1919:
Australian keeper-batsman Gil Langley (26 Tests from 1951 to 1956; 98 dismissals) was born

1919:
Indian left arm medium pace Nyalchand Shah (1 Test in 1952) was born.

1956:
England pace bowler and now television commentator Paul Allott (13 Tests from 1981 to 1985) was born.

1957:
Left handed batsman for Australia (24 Tests from 1982 to 1985; 1761 runs) and captain for South African (16 Tests 1992 to 1994; 1027 runs) Kepler Wessels was born.

1958:
New Zealand captain and batsman Jeff Crowe (39 Tests from 1983 to 1990; 1601 runs) was born.

1959:
New Zealand's pace bowler Brendon Bracewell (6 Tests from 1978 to 1985) was born.

1959:
Sri Lankan pace bowler Saliya Ahangama (3 Tests in 1985) was born.

1963:
Indian all-rounder Robin Singh Sr (1 Test in 1998) was born in Trinidad, West Indies.

1965:
England all-rounder JW 'Jack" Hearne (24 Tests from 1911 to 1926; 806 runs and 30 wickets) died aged 74.

1966:
Pakistani left-handed batsman Aamer Sohail (47 Tests from 1992 to 2000; 2823 runs) was born.

1971:
England pace bowler Bill Copson (3 Tests from 1939 to 1947) died aged 63.

1983:
The Bangalore Test match was the first in which no-balls and wides were debited to bowlers' analyses.

1989:
New Zealand batsman Edwin McLeod (1 Test in 1930) died aged 88.

1992:
Indian pace bowler "Mantu" Banerjee (1 Test in 1948) died aged 73.

1999:
India beat West Indies at Toronto to win the DMC Cup 2-1.

15th September...

1903:
Indian batsman Syed Wazir Ali (7 Tests from 1932 to 1936) was born.

1904:
Australian off-spinning all-rounder Phil Lee (2 Tests from 1931 to 1933) was born.

1937:
West Indian batsman Joey Carew (19 Tests from 1963 to 1972; 1127 runs) was born.

1942:
Australian left-arm spinner Joe Travers (1 Test in 1902) died aged 71.

1946:
South African all-rounder and coach Mike Procter (7 Tests from 1967 to 1970; 226 runs and 41 wickets) was born.

1955:
Pakistani leg-spinner Abdul Qadir (67 Tests from 1977 to 1990; 1029 runs and 236 wickets) was born.

1956:
Australian John Maguire (3 Tests from 1983 to 1984) was born.

1961:
West Indian fast bowler Patrick Patterson (28 Tests from 1986 to 1992; 93 wickets) was born.

1964:
England paceman Steve Watkin (3 Tests from 1991 to 1993) was born.

1964:
South African batsman Robert Dower (1 Test in 1899) died aged 88.

1971:
New Zealand all-rounder Nathan Astle from 1996 was born.

1982:
Roy Dias scores 102 against India at Delhi to record Sri Lanka's first ODI hundred.

1984:
England batsman Jack Ikin (18 Tests from 1946 to 1955) died aged 66.

1989:
New Zealand captain and pace bowler Harry Cave (19 Tests from 1949 to 1958) died aged 66.

Compiled by:
Mohandas Menon

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