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January 1

Justin Langer
Justin Langer
Australia
England
Pakistan
West Indies
  • 1944 - Charlie Davis, is born. In the 1970/71 home series against India, Davis scored 529 runs in 4 Tests at an incredible average of 132.25.[1]

January 2

Fred Spofforth
Fred Spofforth
In Australia
In India
  • 1979 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the only batsman to hit a century in each innings of a Test match three times
In Bangladesh
  • 1990 - Indian batsman Raman Lamba died after being hit on the head while fielding at short slip during a club match.

January 3

West Indies
  • 1949 - Everton Weekes' 101 in Calcutta completes a sequence of five consecutive Test innings centuries

January 4

England
  • 1975 - Mike Denness drops himself from the England side for the fourth Test against Australia at Sydney after scoring 65 runs in six innings
Australia
  • 1936 - Clarrie Grimmett (pictured), for Australia v South Africa at Cape Town takes his 190th Test wicket, setting a new career bowling record.

January 5

MCG
MCG
Australia

January 6

In India
In Australia
  • 2008 - India is beaten by 122 runs in the Second Test at Sydney, in a match marred by numerous umpiring errors and accusation of poor sportsmanship on both sides.

January 7

Pakistan
India
3-1 to England
3-1 to England
Australia

January 8

Australia

January 9

Bob Willis
Bob Willis
England
West Indies

January 10

New Zealand
  • 1930 - NZ played their first Test against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth Test nation. Maurice Allom, bowling for England on the first day, takes four wickets in five balls, including a hat-trick, to reduce New Zealand to 21 for seven wickets. Allom is the first Test bowler to take a hat-trick on his Test debut.

January 11

India
Pakistan
  • 1959 - Hanif Mohammad, playing for Karachi against Bahawalpur, is run out going for his 500th run. His score of 499 beats the previous highest first-class score by 47 and remains the world record for 35 years.

January 12

West Indies
India
  • 1964 - Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs in the first Test between India and England at Madras.[5]
Zimbabwe

January 13

Australia

January 14

Australia
India
West Indies

January 15

Albert Trott
Albert Trott
Australia
  • 1895 - Albert Trott debuted for Australia at Adelaide Oval against England in the 3rd Ashes Test, taking 8-43. Trott's debut match also included knocks of 38* and 72* with the bat. He later also played for England.
  • 1959 - Colin Cowdrey's century in the 3rd Test at Sydney takes 362 minutes - the slowest in Ashes history until Bob Woolmer's 394 minute record in 1975.
England

January 16

Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith
In South Africa
In Australia
  • 1993 - In the first final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, Dean Jones insists that Curtly Ambrose remove his white wristbands as they distracted him. An incensed Ambrose promptly took a 5 wicket haul for just 32 runs.
  • 1997 - Anthony Stuart takes as hat-trick against Pakistan in his 3rd and last Test appearance
In the West Indies

January 17

West Indies
Pakistan
England

January 18

India

January 19

In Australia
In India
  • 1977 - India is bowled out for 83 in the second innings of the 3rd Test against England in Madras, a record low innings score at the time[8]

January 20

Scotland
South Africa
West Indies

January 21

Herbie Collins
Herbie Collins
Australia
West Indies

January 22

Brian Lara
Brian Lara
West Indies
  • 1948 - England's Jim Laker took six wickets for 25 runs in nine overs on the second morning of his debut Test against West Indies at Bridgetown, finishing with seven for 103 in the innings.
  • 1988 - Brian Lara (pictured) made his first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago against the Leeward Islands. He made 14 and 22.
Sri Lanka

January 23

New Zealand
Australia
  • 1976 - in his 66th and second last Test, renowned stonewaller Ian Redpath hits his first career six.[10]

January 24

Zimbabwe
South Africa

January 25

Australia
  • 1980 - Hunter Poon (pictured), first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, dies in Brisbane aged 85.
In South Africa

January 26

In Australia

January 27

New Zealand
Sri Lanka

January 28

Monty Noble
Monty Noble
Australia
England
West Indies
  • 1935England captain Bob Wyatt, in a move that Wisden calls "amazing and inexplicable", reverses his team's batting order as they set out after lunch on the final day of the second Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad to score 325 to win. The move backfires and England are all out for 107 to lose by 217 runs.

January 29

Bob Simpson
Bob Simpson
Australia
Pakistan
West Indies

January 30

In Australia

January 31

In Australia