Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/August/August 16

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Australia

• 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[1]

England

• 1860 - Lord Hawke, captain of both Yorkshire and England and one of the legendary mandarins of English cricket, is born at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire.