4th February...
1884:
South African batsman Rolland Beaumont (5 Tests from 1912 to 1914) was born.
1893:
England pace bowler Abe Waddington (2 Tests in 1920-21) was born.
1895:
South African pace bowler Izak Buys (1 Test in 1922) was born.
1929:
Australian teenager Archie Jackson scores a brilliant 164 (318 minutes, 15 fours) against England at Adelaide on debut.
1935:
Pakistani batsman Wallis Mathias (21 Tests from 1955 to 1962; 783 runs) was born.
1948:
Indian leg-spinner and all-rounder Rakesh Shukla (1 Test in 1982) was born.
1989:
Australian Dean Jones scores 216 (538 minutes, 346 balls, 16 fours) against West Indies at Adelaide.
1989:
West Indian bowlers concede a record 40 no-balls against Australia at Adeliade.
1990:
Playing in his 80th Test match New Zealand's Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test wicket (of Sanjay Manjrekar) against India at Christchurch - the first bowler in Test history to do so.
1991:
New Zealand's Andrew Jones and Martin Crowe put on a world record partnership of 467 runs for the third wicket against Sri Lanka at Wellington. Crowe scores 299.
1995:
Zimbabwe defeat Pakistan by an innings and 64 runs at Harare to gain its first ever Test win. It was Zimbabwe's 11th Test and it came within three years of their introduction to Test cricket.
5th February...
1876:
England's left-arm pace bowler HI "Sailor" Young (2 Tests in 1899) was born.
1882: South African all-rounder FL Le Roux (1 Test in 1914) was born.
1882:
South African all-rounder Gordon White (17 Tests from 1906 to 1912; 872 runs and 9 wickets) was born.
1889:
England batsman Patsy Hendren (51 Tests from 1920 to 1935; 3525 runs, avg. 47.64) was born.
1889:
England batsman Ernest Tydesley (14 Tests from 1921 to 1929; 990 runs) was born.
1939:
England batsman Brian Luckhurst (21 Tests from 1970 to 1974; 1298 runs) was born.
1960:
South African batsman Louis Stricker (13 Tests from 1910 to 1912) died aged 75.
1970:
Australian left-handed batsman Darren Lehmann since 1998 was born.
1976:
Home team Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies when the former won the sixth and last Test at Melbourne by 165 runs. For the first time West Indies lost five matches in a Test series.
1979:
England left-handed batsman Eddie Paynter (20 Tests from 1931 to 1939; 1540 runs, avg. 59.23) died aged 77.
1984:
New Zealand beat England by an innings and 132 runs at Christchurch within three day. England failed to include a specialist spin bowler for the only third time in their Test history.
1993:
England's left-arm spinner Jack Young (8 Tests from 1947 to 1949) died aged 80.
1981:
West Indian all-rounder Marlon Samuels since 2000 was born.
6th February...
1868:
Australian all-rounder Syd Callaway (3 Tests from 1892 to 1895) was born.
1873:
All-rounder Alberto Trott - for Australia (3 Tests in 1895) and England (2 Tests in 1899) was born in Australia.
1886:
England wicket-keeper EJ "Tiger" Smith (11 Tests from 1911 to 1913) was born.
1903:
New Zealand's pace bowler John Dunning (4 Tests from 1933 to 1937) was born.
1911:
South African batsman AW "Dooley" Briscoe (2 Tests from 1935 to 1938) was born.
1916:
Australian left-handed batsman Jack Barrett (2 Tests in 1890) died aged 49.
1919:
South African all-rounder Lindsay Tuckett (9 Tests from 1947 to 1949) was born.
1931:
England fast bowler Freddie Trueman (67 Tests from 1952 to 1965; 307 wickets) was born.
1947:
England's Dennis Compton (147 and 103 not out) and Australian Arthur Morris (122 and 124 not out) - at Adelaide provided the first occasion that a batsman on each side had done this in the same Test match.
1948:
Don Bradman playing in his last Test innings at home tore a muscle under his left ribs and retired at his individual score of 57 against India at Melbourne.
1953:
At 17 years 239 days Ian Craig becomes the youngest Australian to appear in a Test match - against South Africa at Melbourne.
1963:
England all-rounder David Capel (15 Tests from 1987 to 1990) was born.
1964:
Australian off-spinner Colin Miller since 1998 was born.
1964:
England keeper WL 'Tich' Cornford (4 Tests in 1930) was born.
1969:
West Indian leg-spinner Rajindra Dhanraj (4 Tests from 1994 to 1996) was born.
1970:
South African Graeme Pollock score 274 (in 417 minutesm 1 five and 43 fours) against Australia at Durban.
1971:
Australian left-arm spinner Brad Hogg (1 Test in 1996) was born.
1995:
Australian Greg Blewett (115) scores his second successive hundred since debut - against England at Perth.
1997:
Left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori at 18 years 10 days becomes New Zealand's youngest to make an appearance in Tests - against England at Wellington.
7th February...
1857:
England keeper Alfred Lyttelton (4 Tests from 1880 to 1884) was born.
1911:
Australian batsman Harry Graham (6 Tests from 1893 to 1896) died in Dunedin, New Zealand aged 40.
1921:
South African all-rounder and off-spinner Athol Rowan (15 Tests from 1947 to 1951; 290 runs and 54 wickets) was born.
1940:
England's left-handed all-rounder Francis "Stork" Ford (5 Tests from 1894 to 1895) died aged 73.
1948:
Left-hander Neil Harvey (153) at 19 years 121 days - against India at Melbourne - still remains the youngest Australian to score a Test hundred.
1962:
England batsman Arthur Carr (11 Tests from 1922 to 1929) died aged 69.
1972:
England batsman Aftab Habib (2 Tests in 1999) was born.
1979:
West Indian batsman Faoud Bacchus scored 250 against India at Kanpur.
1999:
Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble emulates English off-spinner Jim Laker as he captures all ten Pakistani wickets for 74 runs in the second innings at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi.
8th February...
1936:
Indian all-rounder Manohar Hardikar (2 Tests in 1958) was born.
1944:
England batsman Clem Wilson (2 Tests in 1899) died aged 68.
1947:
Australia left-arm pace bowler JB 'Sam' Gannon (3 Tests from 1977 to 1978) was born.
1963:
Indian captain and batsman Mohammad Azharuddin (99 Tests from 1984 to 2000; 6215 runs) was born.
1970:
West Indian pace bowler Cameron Cuffy since 1994 was born.
1973:
South African captain and batsman Herbie Taylor (42 Tests from 1912 to 1932; 2936 runs) died aged 83.
1973:
Mushtaq Mohammad (201) and Asif Iqbal (175) put a record 350 runs (in 275 minutes) for the fourth wicket - against New Zealand at Dunedin - then Pakistan's highest partnership for any wicket in Tests.
1976:
Bangladesh keeper Khaled Masud 'Pilot' was born.
1991:
Pakistan's off-spinner Miran Bux (2 Tests in 1955) died aged 83.
1994:
Playing in his 130th Test match India's Kapil Dev claims the wicket of Sri Lankan Hashan Tillkeratne at Ahmedabad to take his 432nd wicket and become Test cricket's highest wicket-taker.
9th February...
1855:
England batsman John Shuter (1 Test in 1888) was born.
1859:
England batsman Maurice Read (17 Tests from 1882 to 1893) was born.
1860:
Australian batsman Frank Walters (1 Test in 1885) was born.
1878:
England keeper Leonard Moon (4 Tests in 1906) was born.
1882:
South African keeper Tom Campbell (5 Tests from 1910 to 1912) was born in Scotland.
1917:
Australian left-arm pace bowler Frank Allan (1 Test in 1879) died aged 67.
1922:
England off-spinner Jim Laker (46 Tests from 1948 to 1959; 193 wickets, including a 10-53 in an innings) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire.
1929:
West Indian pace bowler Lennox 'Bunny' Butler (1 Test in 1955) was born.
1957:
Pakistani batsman Qasim Omar (26 Tests from 1983 to 1986; 1502 runs) was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
1964:
Hanumant Singh scores 105 for India against England at Delhi on debut.
1970:
Australian pace bowler Glenn McGrath since 1993 with over 300 wickets was born.
1979:
England pace bowler and all-rounder CIJ 'Jim' Smith (5 Tests from 1935 to 1937) died aged 72.
1998:
West Indian left-handed batsman Kenneth 'Bam Bam" Weekes died in New York, USA, aged 86.
10th February...
1847:
England captain and batsman AN 'Monkey' Hornby (3 Tests from 1879 to 1884) was born.
1862:
South African left-arm pace bowler Bill 'Gobo' Ashley (1 Test in 1889) was born.
1884:
Australian all-rounder and leg-spinner Herbie 'Ranji' Hordern (7 Tests from 1911 to 1912; 254 runs and 46 wickets) was born.
1910:
New Zealand batsman Paul Whitelaw (2 Tests in 1933) was born.
1912:
England's Jack Hobbs and Wilfred Rhodes put on 323 for the first wicket against Australia at Melbourne - the first ever partnership of over 250 runs in Test history.
1920:
England keeper Don Brennan (2 Tests in 1951) was born.
1941:
England batsman and now an international umpire Jackie Hampshire (8 Tests from 1969 to 1975; 403 runs) was born.
1948:
England all-rounder Ewart Astill (9 Tests from 1927 to 1930) died aged 59.
1957:
Indian batsman Pranab Roy (2 Tests in 1982) was born.
1962:
West Indian left-handed batsman Clayton Lambert (5 Tests in 1991 to 1998) was born.
1972:
Australian pace bowler Michael Kasprowicz since 1996 was born.
1973:
Pakistani Mushtaq Mohammad (201 and 5-49) - against New Zealand at Dunedin becomes the only second all-rounder in Test history to do the rare double of 200-runs and five-wickets in an innings of the same Test match.
1981:
Australian Dennis Lillee becomes his country's highest wicket-taker when he claimed his 249th wicket - against India at Melbourne.
1981:
India came close to forfeiting the Melbourne Test match when skipper Sunil Gavaskar had so vehemently disagreed with an lbw decision urged his partner Chetan Chauhan to leave the field with him. However the Indian team manager met the players at the gate and ordered Chauhan to continue his innings.
1982:
Indian keeper KR Meherhomji (1 Test in 1936) died aged 70.
1989:
Pakistani pace bowler Aaqib Javed makes his Test debut at the age of 16 years 189 days - against New Zealand at Wellington.
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