16th September....

1863:
Australian all-rounder John Trumble (7 Tests from 1884 to 1886; 243 runs and 10 wickets) was born.

1877:
South African paceman Robert Graham (2 Tests in 1899) was born.

1885:
English keeper Dick Young (2 Tests in 1907-08) was born in Dharwar, India.

1932:
England batsman and later coach Micky Stewart (father of Alec Stewart) (8 Tests from 1962 to 1964) was born.

1954:
Australian keeper Roger Woolley (2 Tests from 1983 to 1984) was born.

1959:
South African keeper-batsman Dave Richardson (42 Tests from 1992 to 1998; 1359 runs and 152 dismissals) was born.

1961:
England captain and left-handed batsman Percy Chapman (26 Tests from 1924 to 1931; 925 runs) died aged 61.

1966:
Sri Lankan left-handed batsman Asanka Gurusinha (41 Tests from 1985 to 1996; 2452 runs) was born.

1974:
Scottish born England all-rounder Gavin Hamilton (1 Test in 1999) was born. Also appeared for Scotland in the 1999 World Cup.

1996:
The first official international match to be played in North America took place at Toronto, Canada when India met Pakistan in the Sahara Cup.

17th September....

1862:
Australian batsman Ken Burn (2 Tests in 1890) was born.

1908:
South African paceman Ernest Bock (1 Test in 1935) was born.

1909:
South African keeper Frank "Nipper" Nicholson (4 Tests from 1935 to 1936) was born.

1924:
New Zealand batsman Les Watt (1 Test in 1955) was born.

1940:
England fast bowler Peter Lever (17 Tests from 1970 to 1975; 41 wickets) was born.

1943:
England leg-spinner Dick Tydesley (7 Tests from 1924 to 1930) died aged 46.

1982:
The first official Test between neighbours India and Sri Lanka began at Madras, as Gavaskar set an unfortunate Test record by losing his ninth consecutive toss.

1994:
India wins the first Singer World Series Cup in Sri Lanka by defeating the host by 6 wickets.

18th September....

1892:
England off-spinner Sam Staples (3 Tests in 1928) was born.

1937:
West Indian batsman AT "Alfie" Roberts (1 Test in 1956) was born.

1940:
New Zealand batsman BAG "Bruce" Murray (13 Tests from 1968 to 1971; 598 runs) was born.

1958:
England all-rounder Derek Pringle (30 Tests from 1982 to 1992; 695 runs and 70 wickets) was born in Nairobi, Kenya.

1958:
West Indian fast bowler Winston Davis (15 Tests from 1983 to 1988; 45 wickets) was born.

1960:
England batsman John Evans (1 Test in 1921) died aged 71.

1970:
English pace bowler Darren Gough from 1994 and with over 200 Tests wickets was born.

1985:
Kapil Dev became India's highest wicket-taker when he claimed his 267th victim surpassing BS Bedi's 266 wickets; against Sri Lanka at Kandy.

1986:
India's Sunil Gavaskar became the first player in Test history to make 100 consecutive Test appearances; against Australia at Madras.

1997:
For the first time in Test cricket history three sets of brothers (Andy & Grant Flower, Gavin & John Rennie and Paul & Brian Strang) appeared for the same team - Zimbabwe against New Zealand at Harare.

19th September....

1924:
Australian batsman "Alick" Bannerman (28 Tests from 1879 to 1893; 1108 runs) died aged 70.

1927:
South African batsman Dick Westcott (5 Tests from 1954 to 1958) was born.

1953:
Australian pace bowler Wayne Clark (10 Tests from 1977 to 1979; 44 wickets) was born.

1970:
England leg-spinner GTS (Greville) Stevens (10 Tests from 1922 to 1930) died aged 69.

1974:
Bangladesh's Test captain Naimur Rahman was born.

1982:
Indian born New Zealand all-rounder Ted Badcock (7 Tests from 1929 to 1933) died aged in Australia aged 85.

1983:
After 27 minutes of confusion concerning regulations governing the number of overs to be bowled on the final day of the Bangalore Test, India's Sunil Gavaskar (then on 87) was allowed to continue his innings after the Pakistan had initially left the field. He duly completed his 28th Test hundred off the first ball of the last of the mandatory 20 overs.

1986:
A dehydrated Dean Jones scored career best 210 for Australia against India at Madras.

1995:
Sri Lanka becomes the first team from the sub-continent to win a Test in Pakistan, when it won the Faisalabad Test by 42 runs.

1997:
Indian left-handed batsman Ambar Roy (4 Tests in 1949) died aged 52.

1997:
New Zealand's Stephen Fleming became the fifth fielder to hold five catches in a Test innings - against Zimbabwe at Harare.

20th September....

1861:
Australian batsman Walter Giffen (3 Tests from 1887 to 1892) was born.

1921:
Indian batsman Pananmal H Punjabi (5 Tests in 1955) was born at Karachi.

1931:
Australian batsman Sam Morris (1 Test in 1985) died aged 76. He remains the only "black" to appear in Tests for Australia.

1944:
Indian batsman Ramesh Saxena (1 Test in 1967) was born.

1951:
New Zealand left-arm spinner Stephen Boock (30 Tests from 1978 to 1989; 74 wickets) was born.

1963:
Pakistani keeper Anil Dalpat Sonavaria (9 Tests from 1984 to 1985) was born. He was the first "Hindu" to appear in Tests for Pakistan.

1968:
Pakistani batsman Ijaz Ahmed from 1987 in over 50 Tests and over 3000 runs was born.

1982:
Pakistani Jalaluddin claims a hat-trick against Australia at Hyderabad - the first to do so in One-day international match.

21st September....

1893:
Australian batsman CE "Nip" Pellew (10 Tests from 1920 to 1921) was born.

1901:
West Indian paceman and all-rounder Learie Constantine (18 Tests from 1928 to 1939; 635 runs and 58 wickets) was born.

1922:
England batsman Tom Armitage (2 Tests in 1877) died in Chicago, USA, aged 74.

1959:
England's pace bowler Richard Ellison (11 Tests from 19854 to 1986) was born.

1963:
West Indian fast bowler Curtly Ambrose (98 Tests from 1988 to 2000; 1439 runs and 405 wickets) was born.

1971:
Zimbabwe leg-spinner Adam Huckle (8 Tests from 1997 to 1998) was born.

1971:
England batsman John Crawley (29 Tests from 1994 to 1999, 1329 runs) was born.

1979:
West Indian left-handed batsman Chris Gayle was born.

1997:
Grant Flower (104 and 151) became the first Zimbabwean to score hundreds in each innings of a Test match - against New Zealand at Harare.

1997:
New Zealand's Stephen Fleming became the fourth fielder to hold seven catches in a Test match - against Zimbabwe at Harare.

22nd September....

1880:
England batsman GF "Fred" Grace (1 Test in 1880) died aged 29 (lung infection)

1902:
Indian batsman Sorabji Colah (2 Tests from 1932 to 1933) was born.

1953:
South African batsman William Brann (3 Tests from 1922 ro 1923) died aged 54.

1962:
Australian left-arm pace bowler Chris Matthews (3 Tests from 1986 to 1988) was born.

1962:
New Zealand captain and batsman Martin Crowe (77 Tests from 1982 to 1995; a record 5444 runs) was born.

1963:
South African all-rounder Fred le Roux (1 Test in 1914) died aged 81.

1976:
Sri Lankan all-rounder Thilan Samaraweera was born.

1982:
Duleep Mendis scores 105 in each innings against India at Madras to become the first Sri Lankan to record hundreds in each innings of a Test match.

1986:
The Madras Test between India and Australia ends in tie - the only second such result in Test history.

1997:
Set to score 403 runs in a minimum of 110 overs, New Zealand made 304-8 to draw the Harare Test match against Zimbabwe.

1999:
Glenn McGrath became the fourth Australian bowler to take a wicket off the very first ball of a Test match when he had Jayasuriya caught slips at Galle. Jayasuriya incidentally became the first Sri Lankan batsman to be dismissed "first-ball".

2000:
Zimbabwe's part-time bowler Grant Flower was no-balled for throwing by Australian umpire Darrell Hair on the last day of the Bulawayo Test match against New Zealand. Flower was withdrawn from the attack.

Compiled by:
Mohandas Menon

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