Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/January/January 16
- In South Africa
- 2004 – Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs hit 301 for first wicket v West Indies at Centurion, making the highest first-wicket stand in SA v WI Tests
- In Australia
- 1993 - In the first final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, Dean Jones insists that Curtly Ambrose remove his white wristbands as they distracted him. An incensed Ambrose promptly took a 5 wicket haul for just 32 runs.
- 1997 - Anthony Stuart takes as hat-trick against Pakistan in his 3rd and last Test appearance
- In the West Indies
- 1911 - Wicketkeeper Ivan Barrow is born in Jamaica. In 1933 Barrow became the first West Indian to make a century in a Test in England.
- 1956 - Wayne Daniel is born