Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/June

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June 1

Australia

1943 - Ian King born. King remains one of the few Indigenous Australians to play first-class cricket.

England

1978 - Chris Old, bowling for England against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test at Edgbaston, takes four wickets in five balls, the middle (and non-wicket-taking) ball of the five being a no ball.
1985 - In making 322 against Warwickshire, Viv Richards became the first West Indian to make 300 runs in a day. The 300 came up off only 244 balls, including eight sixes and 42 fours.

New Zealand

1932 - New Zealand seamer, chairman of selectors and umpire Frank Cameron was born.

South Africa

2002 - Hansie Cronje died in a plane crash aged 32. Cronje captained South Africa in 53 matches and admitted to his involvement in match fixing in 2000.

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June 2

Australia

1965 - Steve Waugh was born in Sydney, shortly followed by his twin brother Mark. They were the first twins to play together in a Test match, something they would do 108 times.

England

1865 - English bowler George Lohmann was born. He took 112 wickets in 18 Tests, at an average of just 10.75.

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June 3

New Zealand

1928 - New Zealand captain and all-rounder John Reid was born. Of his 58 Tests as captain, New Zealand only won three - but these were their first three Test victories.

Pakistan

1966 - Wasim Akram was born. The left-arm fast bowler took 916 international wickets for Pakistan.

South Africa

1904 - Vincent Tancred dies.
1981 - Eric Dalton dies.

Zimbabwe

1961 - Kevin Arnott, the first Zimbabwean to face a ball in Tests and second to make a century, was born.

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June 4

Australia

1926 - Fred Spofforth dies.

England

1971 - In only his second Test match, Zaheer Abbas scored 274 against England at Edgbaston.
1993 - Shane Warne bowled the Ball of the Century to dismiss Mike Gatting during the first Test match of the 1993 Ashes series.

New Zealand

1915 - New Zealand captain and father of Richard, Walter Hadlee is born.

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June 5

Australia

1916 - The Invincible Sid Barnes was born. He averaged over sixty in Test cricket.

England

1912 - Eric Hollies, the man who prevented Bradman having a career average of 100, was born. Bradman needed only four runs for the achievement, but Hollies bowled him for a duck second ball.

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June 6

England

1994 - Brian Lara scored 501 not out for Warwickshire at Edgbaston, making the highest score in first-class cricket.

Pakistan

1943 - The Pakistani batsman Asif Iqbal was born in Hyderabad, India. He started his career as an opening bowler, but made his way into the middle order.

West Indies

1940 - Herbert Lance, the South African all-rounder nicknamed "Tiger" was born.

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June 7

England

1952 - 21-year-old debutant Fred Trueman took three wickets, helping reduce India to 0 for 4 at the start of their second innings at Headingley.
1988 - England drew the first Test in their summer of four captains.

South Africa

1964 - Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test player, dies.

West Indies

1894 - Karl Nunes, who would lead West Indies in their first Test match, was born.

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June 8

England

1932 - Ray Illingworth, the only English captain to regain The Ashes in Australia since the Bodyline series, was born at Pudsey.
1945 - England left-arm spinner Derek Underwood was born at Bromley. He was at his best on a sticky wicket and took 297 Test wickets.
1950 - West Indian spinners Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin made their Test debut at Old Trafford, sharing fifteen wickets in the match.

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June 9

Australia

1975: Andrew Symonds was born in Birmingham, UK. He would go on to hit the most sixes in a first-class innings (16) and match (20) and later play for the Australian national side.

England

1967 - Geoffrey Boycott made his highest Test score, 246 not out, but was dropped for the next match.
1983 - The third Cricket World Cup started, with Zimbabwe beating Australia in their first One-day International. Duncan Fletcher scored 69 not out and took four wickets.

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June 10

England

1986 - India make their first Test win in eleven attempts at Lord's
1991 - England make their first Test win against the West Indies at home in 22 years

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June 11

Australia

1954 - John Dyson is born in Kogarah, New South Wales

England

1907 - Northamptonshire is bowled out for 12 in 40 minutes by Gloucestershire at Gloucester in what is still the lowest score in county cricket and the third lowest first-class score of all time.[1]
1927 - The first ball-by-ball radio broadcast from Lord's is made on the first day of the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. Pelham Warner made the commentary.
1939 - Rachael Heyhoe-Flint is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.

West Indies

1951 - Collis King born.

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June 12

Australia

1956 - Terry Alderman is born at Subiaco in Western Australia

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June 13

New Zealand

1970 - New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns was born.

England

1953 - Alec Bedser took 14-99 in the first Test against Australia at Trent Bridge. These were the best bowling figures made by a bowler who was not on a winning team (the match was drawn).

India

1965 - Indian Maninder Singh was born. He made his debut against Pakistan aged 17 years 193 days, India's youngest Test crickter at the time.

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June 14

England

1984 - Andy Lloyd makes his debut against the West Indies at Edgebaston and is struck on the temple-guard of his helmet with a bouncer from Malcolm Marshall. He was hospitalised and never played for England again. Lloyd is the only Test Match opening batsman never to have been dismissed.

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June 15

England

1960 - Kent beat Worcestershire by an innings and 101 runs at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells. The first-class match is scheduled for three days but is completed in a single day, the last time this happens in a first-class game. Spinner Norman Gifford makes his first-class debut for Worcestershire and takes four Kent wickets (as well as batting twice in a day). Scorecard here.
1969 - Greg Chappell scores the first-ever century in the John Player's County League 40-over Sunday competition, making an unbeaten 128 for Somerset against Surrey at Brislington

Kenya

1969 - Maurice Odumbe born.

West Indies

1995 - Everton Weekes knighted for his services to cricket.

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June 16

England

1924 - South Africa are bowled out for 30, equalling the then Test record for a low score, in the first Test against England at Birmingham. Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate take all 10 wickets in 12.3 overs, with Extras contributing 11 of the 30 runs and Herbie Taylor top-scoring with just seven.
1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes complete a world record first-wicket stand of 555 playing for Yorkshire against Essex at Leyton. Sutcliffe makes 313 and Holmes is unbeaten on 224, made in 445 minutes. Yorkshire win the match by an innings and 313 runs.

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June 17

England

1930 - Nottinghamshire groundstaffer Sydney Copley was called in as a substitute fielder in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge and takes a spectacular catch to dismiss Stan McCabe off the bowling of Maurice Tate. England won the match by 93 runs.[2]
1999 - Australia and South Africa tie the second semi-final of the 1999 Cricket World Cup at Edgbaston [3]

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June 18

England

1958 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, dies at Montreux, Switzerland
1986 - Papua New Guinea beat Gibraltar by 369 runs in an ICC World Cup Qualifier match at the Cannock and Rugeley Cricket Club, Cannock, Staffordshire.[4]
2005 - 500-to-1 outsiders Bangladesh defeat Australia by 5 wickets in the 2nd match of the triangular ODI tournament at Sophia Gardens.

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June 19

England

1851 - Billy Midwinter, who played in the inaugural Test at Melbourne in 1876-77 and played in eight Tests for Australia and four for England, is born in Gloucestershire.
2002 - In a C&G Trophy limited overs match at The Oval, Surrey and Glamorgan hit an aggregate of 867 runs. Ali Brown for Surrey made 268 runs off 160 balls.[5]

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June 20

England

1999 - Australia wins the 1999 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's, London, beating Pakistan in the final.

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June 21

England

1975 - West Indies win the 1975 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia in the final played at Lord's London.

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June 22

England

2006 - Graeme Hick completes his 100th first class 100 for Worcestershire, only the eighth time a batsman has made 100 or more centuries for a single first-class team

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June 23

England

1916 - Leonard Hutton, opening batsman for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955 and the first professional captain of the team in modern times, is born at Pudsey in Yorkshire
1979 - West Indies win the 1979 Cricket World Cup, beating England in the final played at Lord's, London.

West Indies

1928 - Played its first Test match, against England.
1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan is born at Wakenaam Island, Guyana

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June 24

West Indies

1995 - Inshan Ali, slow left-arm bowler for West Indies in 12 Tests in the 1970s, dies at Port of Spain, Trinidad, aged 45.

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June 25

England

1921 - Charlie Macartney scores 345 runs in four hours as the Australians total 608 for seven on the first day of the match against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge. The score remained for 73 years as the highest number of runs hit by a cricketer in one day – it was beaten by Brian Lara's 380 runs on his way to the highest first-class score of 501 not out.
1983 - India wins the 1983 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's London, beating the West Indies in the final.

India

1932 - Played in their first Test match against England at Lord's becoming the sixth Test nation.

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June 26

England

1745 - The first recorded women's cricket match, between Bramley and Hambledon at Gosden Common near Guildford, Surrey.
1937 - England's Len Hutton makes his Test début against New Zealand at Lord's, making 0 and 1.[6] In his obituary, Wisden described him as "one of the greatest batsmen the game has produced in all its long history."

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June 27

Australia

1939 - Neil Hawke born.

England

1939 - West Indian George Headley becomes the first player to complete two centuries in a Test match at Lord's when he follows his first innings 106 with a second innings of 107. But England win the match by eight wickets.

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