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October 1
- England
- 1900 - Tom Goddard, the fifth highest wicket-taker in first-class cricket with 2,979 wickets, is born at Gloucester
October 2
- Australia
October 3
- Australia
- 1921 - Ray Lindwall is born at Mascot, New South Wales
October 4
- South Africa
- 1931 - Basil D'Oliveira, who played 44 Tests for England having been unable to play first-class cricket in his native country because of the apartheid regime, is born at Cape Town
October 5
- Australia
- 1940 - Bob Cowper is born
October 6
- In Australia
- 1930 - Richie Benaud is born in Penrith, New South Wales
October 7
- India
- 1978 - Zaheer Khan born.
- South Africa
- 1876 - Louis Tancred, South African captain for three Tests, born.
October 8
- West Indies
- 1945 - Vanburn Holder is born at Deans Village, Saint Michael Parish, Barbados
October 9
- India
- 1987 - Australia beat India by one run in a 1987 Cricket World Cup match - the closest margin in World Cup history.[1]
- Pakistan
- 1976 - Peter Petherick becomes the second bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja and Intikhab Alam in the first Test in Lahore
- 1994 - Damien Fleming becomes the third bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Aamer Malik, Inzamam ul-Haq and Salim Malik in the second Test at Rawalpindi.[2]
October 10
- New Zealand
- 1922 - Harry Cave is born at Wanganui
- 1936 - Artie Dick is born at Middlemarch
- 1949 - Lance Cairns is born at Picton
October 11
- India
- 1972 - Sanjay Bangar is born at Beed, Maharashtra
October 12
- India
- 1946 - Ashok Mankad is born at Mumbai
October 13
- South Africa
- 1964 - Fanie de Villiers is born at Vereeniging, Transvaal
October 14
- Sri Lanka
- 1976 - Tillakaratne Dilshan is born at Kalutara
October 15
- In South Africa
- 1910 - Xen Balaskas is born in Kimberley
October 16
- Pakistan
- 1952 - Played in its first Test match, against India at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.[3]
October 17
- India
- 1970 - Anil Kumble born.
- New Zealand
- 1917 - Martin Donnelly born.
October 18
- Canada
- 1978 - Former England all-rounder Frank Woolley dies aged 91 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Zimbabwe
- 1992 - played in its first Test match.
October 19
- In Australia
- 1900 - Batsman Bill Ponsford is born in North Fitzroy, Victoria. Ponsford broke his own world record for the highest first-class score.
October 20
- India
- 1978 - Virender Sehwag born.
October 21
- Australia
- 1971 - Damien Martyn is born at Darwin, Northern Territory
October 22
- New Zealand
- 1999 - Martin Donnelly dies.
October 23
- England
- 1900 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, is born at Bombay, India
- 1915 - W. G. Grace dies
October 24
- South Africa
- 1931 - Sir Murray Bisset, South African captain who later served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, dies.
October 25
- England
- 1929 - Peter Loader is born at Wallington, Surrey
October 26
- New Zealand
- 1965 - Ken Rutherford is born in Dunedin
October 27
- India
- 1984 - Irfan Pathan born.
October 28
- Australia
- 2002 - Mark Waugh is dropped from Australia's squad for The Ashes series and announces his immediate retirement from international cricket
October 29
- England
- 1974 - Michael Vaughan is born. Vaughan captained England to more Test wins than any of his predecessors.
October 30
- England
- 1936 - Teddy Wynyard, the only Test cricketer to have scored a goal in the FA Cup Final, dies aged 75.
- West Indies
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh is born at Kingston, Jamaica.
- Zimbabwe
- 2006 - Zimbawean Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen allegedly sets fire to the pavilion at the Harare Sports Club.
October 31
- India
- 1987 - Chetan Sharma takes the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield at Vidarbha Cricket Ground, Nagpur. All three were bowled.[4]
