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June 1

Australia
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
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.

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.

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

June 4

Australia
England
New Zealand

June 5

Australia
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.

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

June 7

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

June 8

England

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

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

June 11

Australia
England
West Indies

June 12

Australia
Pakistan

June 13

New Zealand
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.

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.

June 15

England
Kenya
West Indies

June 16

England

June 17

England

June 18

England

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]

June 20

Dickie Bird
Dickie Bird
England
India
South Africa

June 21

Wilfred Rhodes
Wilfred Rhodes
England
New Zealand

June 22

Graeme Hick
Graeme Hick
England
  • 2006 - Graeme Hick (pictured) completes his 100th first class century for Worcestershire, only the eighth time a batsman has made 100 or more centuries for a single first-class team.
Australia

June 23

Lord's
Lord's
England
West Indies

June 24

West Indies

June 25

Charlie Macartney
Charlie Macartney
England
  • 1921 - Charlie Macartney (pictured) 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.
India

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.[9] In his obituary, Wisden described him as "one of the greatest batsmen the game has produced in all its long history."

June 27

Australia
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.
South Africa

June 28

George Challenor
George Challenor
West Indies
Australia
Pakistan
England
South Africa

June 29

Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar
Australia
England
Ireland
  • 2007 - Sachin Tendulkar (pictured), reaches 15,000 runs in ODI cricket, the first and only cricketer to do so.
West Indies

June 30

Sanath Jayasuriya
Sanath Jayasuriya
England
Sri Lanka
India
South Africa