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March 1
- Australia
- 1921 - Australia win fifth Test against England at Sydney by nine wickets, completing the first 5-0 whitewash in The Ashes' history.
March 2
- England
- 1977 - Andrew Strauss is born
March 3
- Australia
- 1937 - Australia complete the comeback by winning the fifth and decisive Ashes Test at Melbourne, taking the series 3-2 after having lost the first two matches to England. The decisive game is won in five days by an innings and 200 runs.
- Pakistan
- 1970 - Inzamam-ul-Haq is born
March 4
- South Africa
- 1967 - Daryll Cullinan is born
March 5
- In Australia
- 1951 - Rodney Hogg is born in Richmond, Victoria
- In South Africa
- 1963 - Zimbabwean Eddo Brandes is born in Port Shepstone, Natal
- In Rhodesia
- 1971 - Mike Procter hits his sixth consecutive century in first-class cricket, for Rhodesia against Western Province at Salisbury
March 6
- In Sri Lanka
- 1996 - Sri Lanka make 398 for 5 off 50 overs against Kenya in a 1996 Cricket World Cup match at Kandy, a record ODI score at that time.[1]
March 7
- West Indies
- 1952 - Viv Richards is born in St John's, Antigua.
- 1964 - Everton Weekes retires from first-class cricket. He scores 13 in his final innings, ending with 12,010 first-class runs at 55.34.
March 8
- South Africa
- 1931 - Neil Adcock, spearhead of South Africa's new ball attack in 26 Tests in the 1950s and early 1960s, is born at Sea Point, Cape Town.
- Australia
- 1904 - Hugh Trumble took a hat-trick in the Fifth Test of the 1903–04 series against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, becoming the first bowler to take two hat-tricks in Test cricket.
March 9
- India
- 1985 - Parthiv Patel born.
- West Indies
- 1974 - Lawrence Rowe hits 302, the first triple century for the West Indies in matches against England, in the third Test of the 1973-74 series, played at Bridgetown Oval. It was Rowe's first century outside Jamaica.
March 10
- South Africa
- 1970 - South Africa complete their first series whitewash with a win over Australia at Crusaders, Port Elizabeth. South Africa won the four Tests convincingly: by 170 runs, an innings and 129 runs, 307 runs, and 323 runs. However, the Test was the last played by South Africa until after the end of the apartheid era in 1991.
- West Indies
- 1974 - Lawrence Rowe makes 302 against England, at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown.[2]
March 11
- In India
- 1915 - Vijay Hazare is born in Sangli, Maharashtra. Hazare played in 30 Tests with an average of 47.65. He was also a useful right-arm medium pace bowler.[3]
- 1949 - In the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Bombay and Maharashtra at Poona, a total 2,376 runs are scored for the loss of 38 wickets - a world record. The innings scores were 651, 407, 714 and 604. Bombay won the match by 354 runs[4]
- In South Africa
- 1910 - After 12 Tests, Jack Hobbs makes his first century, for England against South Africa at Cape Town.
- In Pakistan
- 1980 - On day four of the second Test at Faisalbad, all eleven Australians bowl, including wicket-keeper Rod Marsh who took a wicket.[5]
- In Australia
- 1967 - Andrew Zesers, two Limited Overs Internationals, born.
- 2008 - Cricket Australia and the Pakistan Cricket Board announce that the tour of Pakistan by the Australia national cricket team has been postponed due to security issues.
- 2013 - The Australian cricket team's selection panel suspends four players (vice-captain Shane Watson, batsman Usman Khawaja and fast bowlers James Pattinson and Mitchell Johnson) from the upcoming Test against India due to their non-completion of an assignment.
March 12
- South Africa
- 1889 - South Africa played in their first Test match, against England at Port Elizabeth, becoming the third Test nation.
- 2006 - South Africa chased 434 against Australia in a record breaking ODI.
- Australia
- 1977 - The Centenary Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground commences. Remarkably, Australia won the match by 45 runs, exactly the same margin as the first Test match played in 1877.
March 13
- India
- 1996 - In the semi-final of the 1996 Cricket World Cup at Calcutta, the match is abandoned after crowds set fire to the stands and throw fruit at the players.
- England
- 1859 - The Honourable Ivo Bligh is born in Westminster, London
- Australia
- 1977 - David Hookes hits five fours off one over on day-two of the Centenary Test at the MCG
March 14
- Australia
- 1938 - John Gleeson was born in Kyogle, New South Wales
- 1963 - Bruce Reid was born in Osborne Park, Western Australia
March 15
- Australia
- 1877 - The first ever Test match commences between Australia and England, played at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Charles Bannerman becomes the first player to score a Test century. Allen Hill takes the first-ever Test wicket and James Southerton becomes the oldest-ever Test debutant at 49 years and 119 days.
- West Indies
- 1953 - Colin Croft born in Demerara, British Guiana.
March 16
- Bangladesh
- 2012 - Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first cricketer to score 100 international centuries, when he made 114 against Bangladesh at Mirpur.
- England
- 1906 - All-round sportsman Maurice Turnbull is born in Cardiff, Wales
- India
- 1910 - The Nawab of Pataudi Senior is born in Pataudi, Punjab
- West Indies
- 2007 - In a 2007 Cricket World Cup match at Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, Herschelle Gibbs becomes the first person to hit six sixes off one over in an international cricket match.[6]
- Zimbabwe
- 1974 - Heath Streak is born in Bulawayo
March 17
- Pakistan
- 1996 - Sri Lanka wins the 1996 Cricket World Cup played in Lahore, beating Australia in the final.
March 18
- Australia
- 1877 - Clem Hill is born in Hindmarsh, South Australia.
- Sri Lanka
- West Indies
- 1935 - West Indies beat England by an innings and 161 runs in the fourth and final Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica to secure victory in a Test series for the first time, by two matches to one.
- 2007 - Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer (pictured) is found dead in his hotel room during the 2007 Cricket World Cup amid speculation that he had been murdered. After several months of inquiries, police finally conceded that he had died of natural causes.
March 19
- In South Africa
- 1948 - Vintcent van der Bijl is born in Cape Town
- In New Zealand
- 1952 - Warren Lees is born in Dunedin
March 20
- South Africa
- 1973 - Nicky Boje is born in Bloemfontein.
March 21
- Australia
- 1854 - Alick Bannerman is born in Paddington, New South Wales.
- 1876 - Jack Saunders is born in Toorak, Victoria.
- 1938 - Grahame Thomas is born in Croydon Park, New South Wales.
- South Africa
- 1994 - Steve Waugh takes 5 wickets for 28 runs on the last day of the Second Test at Newlands in Cape Town. Australia won the match by 9 wickets.[1]
References
March 22
- In Australia
- 1927 - George Thoms is born in Footscray, Victoria.
- 1988 - Ian Botham is involved in an in-flight incident between Perth and Brisbane. He was charged by police and pleaded guilty to charges of assault and offensive behaviour. His contract with the Queensland Bulls was later terminated.
- In New Zealand
- 1915 - Fen Cresswell is born. Creswell died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1966.
- 1995 - Sri Lanka has their first series win, after a drawn second Test at Dunedin.
March 23
- In South Africa
- 2003 - Australia wins the 2003 Cricket World Cup played at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, beating India in the final.
- In Australia
- 2002 - Ben Hollioake dies in a car crash in Perth, Western Australia
March 24
- Australia
- 1885 - Umpire Jack Hodges refuses to resume after tea on the third day following disputes by England players.[8]
- 1961 - Dean Jones is born in Coburg, Victoria
- 1979 - Kim Hughes' first match as captain of the Australian cricket team at the WACA Ground against England.[9]
- England
- 1985 - Norman Gifford makes his One Day International debut at the age of 44
March 25
- Australia
- 1992 - Pakistan wins the 1992 Cricket World Cup played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, beating England in the final.
March 26
- Pakistan
- 1970 - Test batsman Zaheer Abbas is given out for 0 for hitting the ball twice on the first day of the Ayub Trophy final between Pakistan International Airlines A and Karachi Blues.
March 27
- West Indies
- 1991 - an effigy of Trinidadian umpire Clyde Cumberbatch is burnt in the stands at Guyana during the Second Test of the Frank Worrell Trophy.[10]
March 28
- India
- 1968 - Future England captain Nasser Hussain is born in Madras.
- New Zealand
- 1951 - In an umpiring mixup, Alex Moir bowls two successive overs each side of the tea interval in the second Test against England at Wellington - the first person to do so since Warwick Armstrong at Old Trafford in 1921.
- 1955 - New Zealand make the lowest Test score in history - 26 against England at Auckland.[11]
- Australia
- 1995 - The Queensland Bulls win their first Sheffield Shield after 68 years of trying.
- West Indies
- 2007 - In an ICC World Cup match, Sri Lankan Lasith Malinga is the first bowler to take four wickets from four balls, at Providence Stadium, Georgetown (neutral venue). His wickets were Shaun Pollock (bowled), Andrew Hall (caught Upul Tharanga), Jacques Kallis (caught Kumar Sangakkara) and Makhaya Ntini (bowled).
March 29
- Australia
- 1921 - Invincible Sam Loxton is born at Albert Park, Victoria
- 1979 - opener Andrew Hilditch is given out handled the ball at the non-striker's end after accidentally intercepting the ball and handing it to Sarfraz Nawaz at the WACA Ground.[12]
- England
- 1871 - Tom Hayward, leading professional batsman from the years before the First World War and scorer of then-record tally of 3518 runs in the 1906 season, is born at Cambridge
- New Zealand
- 1951 - New Zealand captain Geoff Howarth is born in Auckland
- South Africa
- 1994 - Australian captain Allan Border retires after being out for 45 runs at Durban. Border held numerous career records: top run scorer (11,174 runs); most Test matches played (156); batted in more Test innings than any other player (265); captained Australia 93 times (all consecutive).
March 30
- Australia
- 1908 - Leg spin bowler Chuck Fleetwood-Smith is born in Stawell, Victoria
- 1927 - Wicket-keeper Wally Grout is born in Mackay, Queensland
- England
- 1940 - Spin bowler Norman Gifford is born in Ulverston, Lancashire
- India
- 1993 - Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
- 1994 - Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
- New Zealand
- 1997 - Canterbury make 777 runs in the first innings of the Shell Cup final against Otago.
March 31
- England
- 1978 - Harold Gimblett, hard-hitting England and Somerset batsman whose first-class debut in 1935 was the stuff of legends, died, committing suicide after years of depression and other health worries.