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April 1

England
New Zealand

April 2

Australia
India

April 3

England
  • 2010 - English first-class cricket season scheduled to begin: earliest start ever for first-class matches in England
West Indies
  • 1930 - Sabina Park at Kingston, Jamaica, becomes the fourth West Indian Test match venue when it hosts the fourth match of the inaugural series against England. It is the 23rd Test match ground worldwide. The match runs for nine days but is still left as a draw.
  • 1930 - Andy Sandham makes 325 for England at Sabina Park, the first Test Triple century in history.[1]

April 4

England
India

April 5

England

April 6

Australia
Bangladesh
India

April 7

Bert Ironmonger
Bert Ironmonger
Australia

April 8

England

April 9

Bangladesh
  • 2006 - The Fatullah Osmani Stadium in Fatullah becomes the fifth Test cricket venue in Bangladesh when it stages the first Test against Australia. It is the 93rd Test match ground worldwide. Bangladesh lead by 158 on the first innings, but the Australians recover to win the match by three wickets.

April 10

Jack Badcock
Jack Badcock
Australia
  • 1914 - Tasmanian Jack Badcock is born. Badcock made his first-class debut at the age of 15, the second youngest Australian to do so. Noted for making some large scores, he played for Tasmania and South Australia and in 1936 made 325 for South Australia against Victoria. Other big knocks included 271 in 1938-39 and 274 in 1939-40. He only played in seven Tests, including five on a tour of England in 1938. He managed only 160 runs in 12 Test innings, and that included a century (118) but no scores at all in double figures.
West Indies

April 11

England

April 12

India
West Indies
  • 2004 - Brian Lara completes innings of 400 not out, the highest score in Test cricket, in the fourth Test between West Indies and England at St John's, Antigua. Lara becomes the first player to regain the record for the highest Test score, having held it before when he made 375 against the same opposition on the same ground 10 years earlier.

April 13

Ireland
South Africa

April 14

Australia
South Africa

April 15

Australia

April 16

The Invincibles arrive
The Invincibles arrive
England
Pakistan

April 17

Sri Lanka
West Indies
  • 1978 - In the second innings of the fourth Test in Trinidad against Australia, Derick Parry takes 5 for 15 including four bowled, contributing to Australia's collapse of 94 all out and the West Indies winning the Frank Worrell Trophy.[2]

April 18

West Indies
India

April 19

Dickie Bird
Dickie Bird
Australia
England

April 20

England

April 21

India

April 22

Sri Lanka

April 23

England
  • 1986 - Jim Laker dies. Laker was most famous for a 1956 Ashes Test at Old Trafford, in which he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia.

April 24

India

April 25

C. B. Fry
C. B. Fry
In England

April 26

West Indies

April 27

England

April 28

South Africa
West Indies

April 29

England
  • 1948 - Don Bradman is dismissed by spin bowler Peter Jackson for 107, the first time on four tours of England that Bradman has not opened the tour with a double century against Worcestershire
India

April 30

Australia