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August 1
- In India
- In England
- 1961 - Richie Benaud takes 5 wickets for 12 runs at old Trafford, saving the Ashes series for Australia.[1]
- 1993 - The England women's cricket team win the Women's Cricket World Cup, their first win since the 1st World Cup in 1973.
August 2
- South Africa
- 1887 - Tommy Ward, Test wicketkeeper before and after the First World War, is born at Rawalpindi, then in India
August 3
- England
- 2000 - Michael Atherton and Alec Stewart both win their 100th Test caps in the match against West Indies at Manchester
August 4
- India
- 1931 - Naren Tamhane is born at Mumbai
August 5
- India
- 1969 - Venkatesh Prasad is born at Bangalore
August 6
- England
- 1965 - Wicketkeeper and captain Alan Smith, playing for Warwickshire against Essex at Clacton, responds to a bowling crisis for his side by taking off his pads and bowling himself. He takes four wickets in 34 balls before conceding a run, including a hat-trick.
August 7
- England
- 1970 - Leading Test match umpire Syd Buller collapses and dies during a break for rain in a match between Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire at Edgbaston.
- 1997 - Brothers Adam and Ben Hollioake make their Test debut in the same match, in the fifth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.
August 8
- Australia
- 1889 - Jack Ryder was born.
- England
- 1914 - WG Grace played his last match in club cricket at the age of 66 for Eltham at home to Northbrook.
- 1965 - Angus Fraser born. Fraser twice took eight wickets in a Test innings in the West Indies.
- 1987 - Pakistan's innings of 708, the highest in their Test history at The Oval came to an end.
- 1909 - Bill Voce was born. Voce was one of the attack bowlers in the 1932-33 Bodyline Series.
- India
- 1940 - Dilip Sardesai born.
- Pakistan
- 1977 - Mohammad Wasim born.
August 9
- England
- 1992 - David Gower is bowled out for 1 by Waqar Younis in his last innings.
- 1965 - South Africa wins the Trent Bridge Test, its last until 1994.
- 1926 - Denis Atkinson born.
- New Zealand
- 1897 - Ted Badcock born.
- South Africa
- 1946 - Ernie Vogler dies.
August 10
- England
- 1999 - Former England captains Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting are sacked as Test selectors following the team's poor performances in the 1999 World Cup and the Test series against New Zealand
August 11
- Australia
- 1965 - Bill Woodfull, Australian captain during the Bodyline controversy in 1932-33, dies aged 67 while playing golf at Tweed Heads, New South Wales
August 12
- England
- 1902 - Gilbert Jessop scores 104 runs in 77 minutes as England wins the Fifth Test of the 1902 Test series against Australia by one wicket. The Test would become known as Jessop's Match
- West Indies
- 1969 - Stuart Williams, 31 Tests as a hard-hitting opening batsman but only one century, is born on the island of Nevis
- 1976 - Pedro Collins is born at Boscobelle, Barbados
August 13
- Australia
- 1841 - Johnny Mullagh, star of the Australian Aboriginal cricket team during their tour of England in 1868, born near Harrow, Victoria.
- Pakistan
- 1975 - Shoaib Akhtar is born at Rawalpindi
August 14
- Australia
- 1891 - Johnny Mullagh, star of the 1868 Australian Aboriginal cricket team tour of England, dies, aged 50, near Harrow, Victoria.
- England
- 1948 - Don Bradman is famously bowled for a duck on day-one of the 5th Test in the 1948 tour of England, Bradman's farewell tour.
August 15
- West Indies
- 1951 Jim Allen, West Indian World Series Cricketer, born.
August 16
- Australia
- 1950 - Jeff Thomson is born at Greenacre, New South Wales.
- 2000 - the first ever international cricket match played indoors is a One Day International between South Africa and Australia at Colonial Stadium (now called Docklands Stadium), Melbourne. Australia won the match by 94 runs.
- England
- 1860 - Lord Hawke, captain of both Yorkshire and England and one of the legendary mandarins of English cricket, is born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
August 17
- Bangladesh
- 1972 - Habibul Bashar is born at Nagakanda, Kushtia province
August 18
- England
- 1875 - The present Somerset County Cricket Club was formed at a meeting at Torquay in Devon, the only one of the county clubs in English cricket to be formed outside its own boundaries
- 1920 - Godfrey Evans is born at Finchley, Middlesex.
August 19
- England
- 1939 - West Indian fast bowler Tyrell Johnson takes the wicket of Walter Keeton with his first delivery in Test cricket in the match between England and West Indies at The Oval.
- 1953 - England win the fifth and final Test of the series to regain The Ashes from Australia for the first time since the Bodyline series of 1932-33. Victory by eight wickets in the match at The Oval follows four drawn matches.
August 20
- England
- 1935 - South Africa draw the fifth and final Test of the series against England at The Oval and so win a series in England for the first time on their fifth tour
- South Africa
- 1865 - Bernard Tancred, member of the first South African Test side, born at Port Elizabeth.
August 21
- Australia
- 1975 - Simon Katich is born at Middle Swan, Western Australia
- England
- 1914 - Doug Wright is born at Sidcup, Kent
August 22
- Australia
- 1897 – Bill Woodfull is born at Maldon, Victoria
- 1956 – Peter Taylor (Peter who?) is born
August 23
- England
- 1972 - Mark Butcher is born at Croydon, Surrey
August 24
- England
- 1948 - Glamorgan beat Hampshire by an innings and 115 runs at Bournemouth and so win the County Championship, the first time it has been won by a non-English county
August 25
- Pakistan
- 1957 - Sikander Bakht is born in Karachi
August 26
- West Indies
- 1930 - Joe Solomon is born at Port Mourant, Berbice, Guyana
August 27
- Australia
- 1908 - Don Bradman (pictured) is born
- England
- 1968 - England win the fifth and final Test of The Ashes series to square the rubber with six minutes to spare after a final day in which The Oval is flooded by a lunchtime storm. Mopping up by staff and spectators enables play to resume with 75 minutes left and five wickets to get. Derek Underwood took four of them to finish with seven for 50.
- 1973 - Gary Sobers takes six catches at Lord's, a record for a non-wicketkeeper in a Test
- 1979 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes off Somerset's Dennis Breakwell at Taunton.
August 28
- Australia
- 1913 - Lindsay Hassett is born at Newtown, Victoria
- England
- 1980 - The Centenary Test at Lord's commences. The match ended in a draw.
August 29
- England
- 1842 - Alfred Shaw, who bowled the first ever ball in a Test match, is born at Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire
August 30
- England
- 1921 - The England XI led by Archie MacLaren inflict the first defeat of the season on the Australians, who had earlier won eight Ashes Tests in a row. MacLaren had maintained throughout the 1921 summer that he could pick a team of amateur cricketers to beat the Australians; when his side was all out for just 43 in the first innings, that seemed unlikely, but they recovered to win by 28 runs.
August 31
- India
- 1969 - Javagal Srinath is born at Mysore, Karnataka.