December 09 - 15 2001

1910:
Australia vs South Africa in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat South Africa by an innings and 114 Runs.

1916:
Australian right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Colin Leslie McCool, was born in Paddington, Sydney. He played in 14 Tests.

1932:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Joseph Titus Partridge, was born in Bulawayo. He played in 11 Tests.

1948:
Indian right-hand batsman slow right-arm bowler Pahelam Ratanji Umrigar played in 59 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1948:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, Result: Draw.

1960:
West Indian left-hand batsman Patrick Douglas Lashley played in four Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1960:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at Wooloongabba in Brisbane, Result: Draw.

1960:
West Indian right-hand batsman Cameron Wilberforce Smith played in five Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1979:
Australia vs West Indies in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: West Indies beat Australia by 80 Runs.

1980:
India vs New Zealand in ODI, at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, Result: India beat New Zealand by 5 Runs.

1981:
India vs England in Test, at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, Result: Draw.

1983:
Australia vs Pakistan in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Draw.

1989:
Pakistan vs India in Test, at Jinnah Park in Sialkot, Result: Draw.

1990:
Australia vs England in ODI, at W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth, Result: Australia beat England by 6 Wickets.

1992:
South African left-hand batsman and left-arm fast bowler Brett Nolan Schultz played in one ODI and nine Tests; made his ODI debut this day.

1992:
South Africa vs India in ODI, at Crusaders Ground, St Georges Park in Port Elizabeth, Result: South Africa beat India by 6 Wickets.

1993:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Michael Jonathon Slater played in 42 ODI and 74 Tests; made his ODI debut this day.

1993:
Australia vs South Africa in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: South Africa beat Australia by 7 Wickets.

1993:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler Glenn Donald McGrath played in 140 ODI and 78 Tests; made his ODI debut this day.

1993:
Pakistan vs Zimbabwe in Test, at Cricket Stadium in Rawalpindi, Result: Pakistan beat Zimbabwe by 52 Runs.

1997:
Australia vs South Africa in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: South Africa beat Australia by 45 Runs.

1999:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Mornantau Hayward played in 19 ODIs and eight Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1999:
South Africa vs England in Test, at Crusaders Ground, St Georges Park in Port Elizabeth, Result: Draw.

1870:
Australian left-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Thomas Robert McKibbin, was born in Raglan, Bathurst. He played in five Tests.

1941:
England right-hand batsman and left-arm fast bowler Ivor Jeffrey Jones, was born in Dafen. He played in 15 Tests.

1965:
Australia vs England in Test, at Wooloongabba in Brisbane, Result: Draw.

1965:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Kevin Douglas Walters played in 74 Tests and 28 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1974:
New Zealand right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Christopher Stewart Martin, was born in Christchurch. He played in eight Tests and seven ODIs.

1982:
Australia vs England in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat England by 8 Wickets.

1982:
Pakistan vs India in Test, at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Result: Draw.

1983:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: West Indies beat India by an innings and 46 Runs.

1983:
West Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Roger Andrew Harper played in 25 Tests and 105 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1984:
Pakistan vs New Zealand in Test, at National Stadium in Karachi, Result: Draw.

1988:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Aaqib Javed played in 22 Tests and 163 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1988:
India vs New Zealand in ODI, at Indira Priyadarshini Stadium in Visag, Result: India beat New Zealand by 4 Wickets.

1988:
Indian right-hand batsman Vakkadai Biksheswaran Chandrasekhar played in seven ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1988:
West Indies vs Pakistan in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: West Indies beat Pakistan by 89 Runs.

1991:
Australia vs India in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Hobart, Result: Australia beat India by 8 Wickets.

1992:
Australia vs Pakistan in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Hobart, Result: Tie.

1994:
West Indies vs India in Test, at Punjab C.A. Stadium,Mohali in Mohali, Result: West Indies beat India by 243 Runs.

1994:
South Africa vs Pakistan in ODI, at New Wanderers in Johannesburg, Result: South Africa beat Pakistan by 7 Wickets.

1994:
Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Aashish Rakesh Kapoor played in four Tests and 17 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1998:
Pakistan vs Zimbabwe in Test, at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Result: Draw.

1998:
South Africa vs West Indies in Test, at Crusaders Ground, St Georges Park in Port Elizabeth, Result: South Africa beat West Indies by 178 Runs.

1999:
Australia vs India in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat India by 285 Runs.

1903:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Edward George Arnold played in ten Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1903:
England right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet played in seven Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1903:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: England beat Australia by 5 Wickets.

1903:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Reginald Erskine Foster played in eight Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1903:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Albert Edward Relf played in 13 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1929:
Indian right-hand batsman and wicket-keeper Subhashchandra Pandhrinath Gupte, was born in Mumbai. He played in 36 Tests.

1934:
Indian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Salim Aziz Durani, was born in Kabul. He played in 29 Tests.

1946:
Australian right-hand batsman Richard Bede McCosker, was born in Inverell. He played in 25 Tests and 14 ODIs.

1953:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Neil Amwin Treharne Adcock played in 26 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1953:
South Africa vs New Zealand in Test, at Kingsmead in Durban, Result: South Africa beat New Zealand by an innings and 58 Runs.

1954:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Sylvester Theophilus Clarke, was born in Lead Vale. He played in 11 Tests and 10 ODIs.

1963:
New Zealand left-hand batsman Mark John Greatbatch, was born in Auckland. He played in 41 Tests and 84 ODIs.

1970:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Peter Lever played in 17 Tests and 10 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1970:
Australia vs England in Test, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: Draw.

1970:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Gregory Stephen Chappell played in 87 Tests and 74 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1972:
Zimbabwian right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Murray William Goodwin, was born in Salisbury. He played in 19 Tests and 71 ODIs.

1974:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Ferozshah Kotla Ground in Delhi, Result: West Indies beat India by an innings and 17 Runs.

1979:
Australia vs England in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: England beat Australia by 72 Runs.

1981:
Australia vs Pakistan in Test, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: Pakistan beat Australia by an innings and 82 Runs.

1985:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Mervyn Gregory Hughes played in 53 Tests and 33 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1987:
Australia vs New Zealand in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Draw.

1987:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Carl Llewellyn Hooper played in 90 Tests and 197 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1987:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Result: Draw.

1987:
Australian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Timothy Brian Alexander May played in 24 Tests and 47 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1988:
Australia vs Pakistan in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat Pakistan by 9 Wickets.

1988:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Mark Edward Waugh played in 119 Tests and 237 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1990:
New Zealand right-hand batsman Bryan Andrew Young played in 35 Tests and 74 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1990:
Australia vs New Zealand in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: Australia beat New Zealand by 39 Runs.

1992:
South Africa vs India in ODI, at Centurion Park in Centurion, Result: India beat South Africa by 4 Wickets.

1994:
South Africa vs New Zealand in ODI, at Centurion Park in Centurion, Result: South Africa beat New Zealand by 81 Runs.

1997:
South Africa vs New Zealand in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Hobart, Result: South Africa beat New Zealand by 1 Runs.

1997:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Matthew Valentine Fleming played in 11 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1997:
England vs India in ODI, at Sharjah C.A. Stadium, U.A.E, Result: England beat India by 7 Runs.

1998:
Australia vs England in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat England by 205 Runs.

1999:
Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Queen's Club in Bulawayo, Result: Tie.

2000:
India vs Zimbabwe in ODI, at Green Park in Kanpur, Result: India beat Zimbabwe by 9 Wickets.

1884:
England right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler John Briggs played in 33 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1884:
Australia vs England in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: England beat Australia by 8 Wickets.

1884:
England left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Robert Peel played in 20 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1887:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Nigel Esme Haig , was born in Kensington, London. He played in five Tests.

1904:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler James Alexander Joseph Christy, was born in Pretoria. He played in ten Tests.

1925:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Dattatraya Gajanan Phadkar, was born in Kolhapur, Pune. He played in 31 Tests.

1947:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.

1930:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler George Copeland Grant played in 12 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1930:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat West Indies by 10 Wickets.

1947:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.

1947:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Dattatraya Gajanan Phadkar plaed in 31 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1952:
India vs Pakistan in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.

1958:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Green Park in Kanpur, Result: West Indies beat India by 203 Runs.

1958:
West Indian right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Joseph Stanislaus Solomon played in 27 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1959:
India vs Australia in Test, at Ferozshah Kotla Ground in Delhi, Result: Australia beat India by an innings and 127 Runs.

1960:
Sri Lankan left-hand batsman Sampathawaduge Amal Rohitha Silva, was born in Moratuwa. He played in nine Tests and 20 ODIs.

1964:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Matthew Valentine Fleming, was born in Macclesfield. He played in 11 ODIs.

1969:
India vs Australia in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Australia beat India by 10 Wickets.

1973:
Australian left-hand batsman and leg break bowler Michael James Di Venuto, was born in Hobart. He played in nine ODIs.

1975:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: West Indies beat Australia by an innings and 87 Runs.

1977:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman Arachchige Chintaka Gunawardene, was born in Colombo. He played in two Tests and 11 ODIs.

1978:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler James Kabatha Kamande, was born in Muranga. He played in ten ODIs.

1980:
Australia vs New Zealand in Test, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: Australia beat New Zealand by 8 Wickets.

1981:
Indian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Yuvraj Singh, was born in Chandigarh. He played in 28 ODIs.

1984:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Manoj Prabhakar played in 39 Tests and 130 ODIs.

1984:
India vs England in Test, at Ferozshah Kotla Ground in Delhi, Result: England beat India by 8 Wickets.

1985:
Bangladeshi right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Mohammad Sharif, was born in Narayan Ganj. He played in five Tests and four ODIs.

1986:
Australian right-hand batsman Gregory Charles Dyer played in six Tests and 23 ODIs; made his Tests debut this day.

1986:
Australia vs England in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Draw.

1988:
India vs New Zealand in ODI, at Baribati Stadium in Cuttack, Result: India beat New Zealand by 5 Wickets.

1991:
Sri Lankan right-arm fast bowler Gallage Pramodya Wickramasinghe played in 40 Tests and 132 ODIs; made his Tests debut this day.

1991:
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka in Test, at Jinnah Park in Sialkot, Result: Draw.

1999:
Zimbabwe vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Queen's Club in Bulawayo, Result: Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 13 Runs.

1901:
England right-hand batsman Sydney Francis Barnes played in 27 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1901:
England right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Colin Blythe played in 19 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1901:
England right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Leonard Charles Braund played in 23 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1907:
England right-hand batsman George Gunn played in 15 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1907:
Australian right-hand batsman Hanson Carter played in 28 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1907:
Australian right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Charles George Macartney played in 35 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1907:
Australian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Vernon Seymour Ransford played in 20 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1913:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler James Manuel Blanckenberg played in 18 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1961:
India vs England in Test, at Ferozshah Kotla Ground in Delhi, Result: Draw.

1961:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Mansur Ali Khan Nawab of Pataudi played in 46 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1966:
West Indian left-hand batsman and right-arm medium Clive Hubert Lloyd played in 110 Tests and 87 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1966:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, Result: West Indies beat India by 6 Wickets.

1966:
Indian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Ajit Laxman Wadekar played in 37 Tests and two ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1970:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and off break bowler Basit Ali, was born in Karachi. He played in 19 Tests and 50 ODIs.

1974:
Australia vs England in Test, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: Australia beat England by 9 Wickets.

1985:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Mervyn Gregory Hughes played in 53 Tests and 33 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1985:
Australian right-hand batsman Geoffrey Robert Marsh played in 50 Tests and 117 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1985:
Australia vs India in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Draw.

1985:
Australian left-hand batsman and left-arm fast medium Bruce Anthony Reid played in 27 Tests and 61 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1992:
New Zealand right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Michael Barry Owens played in eight Tests and one ODI; made his Test debut this day.

1992:
Australia vs Pakistan in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat Pakistan by 8 Wickets.

1992:
South Africa vs India in ODI, at New Wanderers in Johannesburg, Result: South Africa beat India by 6 Wickets.

1894:
England left-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Archibald Campbell MacLaren played in 35 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1894:
Australian left-hand batsman Joseph Darling played in 34 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1894:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Francis Adams Iredale played in 14 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1894:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: England beat Australia by 10 Runs.

1894:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler Ernest Jones played in 19 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1894:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Charles Edward McLeod played in 17 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1917:
West Indian right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Wilfred Ferguson, was born in Longdenville. He played in eight Tests.

1935:
Australian right-hand batsman and slow left-arm chinaman bowler Leslie O'Brien Fleetwood-Smith played in ten Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1935:
Australian left-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Ernest Leslie McCormick played in 12 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1938:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Charles Christopher Griffith, was born in Pie Corner. He played in 28 Tests.

1951:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath played in eight Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1951:
India vs England in Test, at Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai, Result: Draw.

1977:
England left-hand batsman and left-arm medium pace bowler Brian Charles Rose played in nine Tests and two ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1977:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm leg break googly bowler Abdul Qadir played in 67 Tests and 104 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1979:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman Lindamlilage Prageeth Chamara Silva, was born in Panadura. He played in eight ODIs.

1979:
England left-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Graham Roy Dilley played in 41 Tests and 36 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1991:
India vs West Indies in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: India beat West Indies by 10 Runs.

1993:
South African left-hand batsman Gary Kirsten played in 77 Tests and 161 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1995:
South African all-rounder Jacques Henry Kallis played in 54 Tests and 135 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1995:
South Africa vs England in Test, at Kingsmead in Durban, Result: Draw.

1996:
India vs South Africa in ODI, at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Result: India beat South Africa by 74 Runs.

1997:
India vs Pakistan in ODI, at Sharjah C.A. Stadium, U.A.E, Result: Pakistan beat India by 4 Wickets.

2000:
India vs Zimbabwe in ODI, at Municipal Ground, Rajkot, Result: India beat Zimbabwe by 39 Runs.

1911:
England right-hand batsman and left-arm fast medium bowler Frank Rowbotham Foster played in 11 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1911:
England left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Charles Philip Mead played in 17 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1911:
England right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler John William Hearne played in 24 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1911:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler Roy Baldwin Minnett played in nine Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1914:
Australian right-hand batsman and left-arm medium bowler Ernest Raymond Herbert Toshack, was born in Cobar. He played in 12 Tests.

1930:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Alimuddin, was born in Ajmer. He played in 25 Tests.

1933:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Nanik Bhardwaj Amarnath played in 24 Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1933:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler Thackersey Vijaysingh Madhavji Merchant played in ten Tests; made his Test debut this day.

1933:
India vs England in Test, at Gymkhana Ground in Mumbai, Result: England beat India by 9 Wickets.

1959:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler Rashid Khan, was born in Karachi. He played in four Tests and 29 ODIs.

1959:
Australian left-hand batsman and off break bowler Gregory Richard John Matthews, was born in Newcastle. He played in 33 Tests and 59 ODIs.

1962:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman and off break bowler Charith Panduka Senanayake, was born in Colombo. He played in three Tests and seven ODIs.

1963:
Kenyan left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Asif Karim, was born in Mombasa. He played in 30 ODIs.

1966:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm off break bowler Carl Llewellyn Hooper , was born in Georgetown. He played in 90 Tests and 197 ODIs.

1978:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Malcolm Denzil Marshall played in 81 Tests and 136 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

1978:
India vs West Indies in Test, at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, Result: Draw.

1988:
India vs New Zealand in ODI, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Indore, Result: India beat New Zealand by 53 Runs.

1988:
Australia vs West Indies in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: West Indies beat Australia by 34 Runs.

1991:
Australia vs India in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat India by 6 Wickets.

1992:
Indian right-hand batsman Vijay Yadav played in one Tests and 19 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1992:
South Africa vs India in ODI, at Goodyear (Springbok) Park in Bloemfontein, Result: South Africa beat India by 8 Wickets.

1994:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler John Paul Crawley played in 29 Tests and 13 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1995:
New Zealand right-hand batsman Craig Murray Spearman played in 19 Tests and 51 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1995:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Christopher Eric Wilfred Silverwood played in five Tests and seven ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.

1996:
Australia vs Pakistan in ODI, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Pakistan beat Australia by 12 Runs.

2000:
West Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Marlon Nathaniel Samuels played in 12 Tests and 24 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.

2000:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at Oval in Adelaide, Result: Australia beat West Indies by 5 Wickets.

2000:
South Africa vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Crusaders Ground, St Georges Park in Port Elizabeth, Result: South Africa beat Sri Lanka by 4 Wickets.

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