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September 1
- Pakistan
- 1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistan's Test Cap No 1 who also played Test cricket for India, is born at Lahore
September 2
- England
- 1980 - Kim Hughes bats for all five days of the Centenary Test at Lord's, the third man to do so.
September 3
- England
- 1900 - Percy Chapman is born at Reading
September 4
- India
- 1977 - Ajit Agarkar born.
September 5
- England
- 1969 - Mark Ramprakash is born at Bushey, Hertfordshire
- West Indies
- 1954 - Richard Austin, World Series Cricketer and member of the Rebel West Indian side in South Africa, born.
- Zimbabwe
- 1972 - Guy Whittall, 46 Tests and 147 One-day Internationals, is born at Chipinge in Manicaland
September 6
- England
- 1961 - Somerset's Australian all-rounder Bill Alley completes 3,000 first-class runs in the English season, the last player to achieve this feat.
September 7
- West Indies
- 1976 - Wavell Hinds is born at Kingston, Jamaica
September 8
- England
- 1938 - Frank Woolley takes the final catch of his first-class cricket career, No 1018, to set the record for a non-wicketkeeping fielder. Woolley is playing for an England Past and Present XI against Sir Pelham Warner's XI in a festival match at Folkestone. It is Woolley's 978th first-class match in a career that began in 1906.
September 9
- Australia
- 1853 - Fred Spofforth born in Balmain, New South Wales.
- England
- 1959 - West Indian Test all-rounder Collie Smith dies at Stoke-on-Trent after being injured in a road accident three days earlier.
September 10
- England
- 1948 - Donald Bradman scores 153 in his final innings in England, a rain-hit match between the Australian touring team and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI at Scarborough.
- South Africa
- 1930 - Aubrey Faulkner dies.
- West Indies
- 1989 - Former West Indies Test captain Jeff Stollmeyer dies in hospital in Florida after being injured by intruders at his home at Port of Spain, Trinidad
September 11
- India
- 1911 - Lala Amarnath born.
- 1976 - Murali Kartik born.
- South Africa
- 2007 - Chris Gayle and Devon Smith set a world Twenty 20 International partnership record of 145 at Johannesburg.[1]
September 12
- England
- 1930 - Wilfred Rhodes takes the last of his record number of career first-class wickets – 4204 according to some sources, 4187 according to others (see Variations in first-class cricket statistics) – in his final first-class match, which is his 1110th, also a record. Rhodes is playing for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI against the Australians at Scarborough.
September 13
- Australia
- 1969 - Shane Warne is born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria
- South Africa
- 1963 - England batsman Robin Smith is born at Durban
September 14
- Australia
- 1919 - Gil Langley born.
- India
- 1963 - Robin Singh born.
- South Africa
- 1957 - Double international Kepler Wessels, the first man to play One-day International cricket for two countries, is born at Bloemfontein.
September 15
- England
- 1928 - Tich Freeman, playing for The Rest against the Champion County, Lancashire, at The Oval, has Dick Tyldesley stumped by Leslie Ames to record his 300th wicket of the English cricket season. Freeman takes four further wickets in Lancashire's second innings on Monday 17 September to finish with 304, at an average of 18.05 runs per wicket, the only player ever to take more than 300 wickets in a season.
September 16
- England
- 1961 - Percy Chapman dies at Alton, Hampshire, aged 61
September 17
- England
- 1940 - Peter Lever is born at Todmorden
September 18
- England
- 1970 - Darren Gough born.
- India
September 19
- India
- 1977 - Aakash Chopra born.
September 20
- Pakistan
- 1982 - Jalal-ud-Din takes the first One Day International hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Rod Marsh (bowled), Bruce Yardley (caught Wasim Bari) and Geoff Lawson (bowled), at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad.[2]
- India
- 1986 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to make 100 consecutive Test appearances, coming out to bat in the third day of the Tied Test at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras.
September 21
- West Indies
- 1901 - Learie Constantine is born in Trinidad and Tobago
September 22
- India
- 1986 - The first Test of the Australian tour to India at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium ends in a tie, the second Tied Test in history.
- Sri Lanka
- 1976 - Thilan Samaraweera is born in Colombo
September 23
- Pakistan
- 1971 - Moin Khan is born in Rawalpindi
September 24
- India
- 1950 - Mohinder Amarnath born.
September 25
- South Africa
- 1969 - Hansie Cronje is born at Bloemfontein
September 26
- England
- 1935 - Bob Barber is born at Withington, Manchester
September 27
- India
- 1981 - Lakshmipathy Balaji born.
September 28
- Australia
- 1975 - Stuart Clark is born at Sutherland, New South Wales
September 29
- South Africa
- 1876 - Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test player, born.
September 30
- Australia
- 1854 - The first cricket match is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- 1952 - Wayne Prior, World Series Cricketer, born.
