14th January...
1898: Australian left-hander Joe Darling (178) became the first batsman in              Test history to score two hundreds in the same series - against
             England at Adelaide. During his innings he also became the first
             batsman to hit a six in Tests.
1901: West Indian left-arm slow bowler George Gladstone
             (1 Test in 1930) was born.
1920: New Zealand paceman Donald Beard (4 Tests from 1952 to 1956)              was born.
1937: England fast bowler Ken Higgs (15 Tests from 1965 to 1968; 71
             wickets) was born.
1959: England batsman Paul Terry (2 Tests in 1984) was born in
             Osnabruck, Germany.
1969: England pace bowler Martin Bicknell (2 Tests in 1993) was born.
1971: Australian opener Bill Lawry (60 not out) carried his bat throughout
             the innings against England at Sydney - to become the first captain
             in Test history to do so twice.
1975: Pace bowler Andy Roberts (12-121) against India at Madras
             became first West Indian bowler to take 12 wickets in a Test match.
1977: Left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi became the first Indian bowler
             to take 200 Test wickets - against England at Madras.
1979: West Indian batsman Darren Ganga since 1998 was born.

15th January...
1856: England's left-handed batsman William Scotton (15 Tests from
             1881 to 1887, 510 runs) was born.
1895: Australian pace bowler Albert Trott takes 8-43 against England at
             Adelaide - the best performance by a bowler on Test debut.
1895: Australia beat England at Adelaide by 382 runs - Test cricket's first              victory by a margin excess of 300 runs.
1904: Australian Clem Hill became the first batsman in Test history to
             aggregate of 2000 runs - against England at Adelaide.
1908: Debutant Roger.Hartigan & Clem.Hill (160 at number 9) put on a
             record 243 for the eight-wicket - at Adelaide against England.
1956: England batsman Paul Parker (1 Test in 1981) was born at
             Bulawayo (now Zimbabwe)
1960: England batsman Tim Curtis (5 Tests from 1988 to 1989) was born.
1962: India's win by 128 runs at Madras provided its first ever Test series              victory against England.
1967: England keeper Richard Blakey (2 Tests in 1993) was born.
1975: New Zealand leg-spinner Greg Loveridge (1 Test in 1996) was
             born.
1983: Pakistanis Mudassar Nazar and Javed Miandad put on a record
             451 runs for the third wicket against India at Hyderabad (Pak).
1988: Indian keeper Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsmen at
             Madras - a Test record, while leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani takes a              record 16-136 on debut in the match.
1989: England's left-handed batsman Wilf Slack (3 Tests in 1986) died
             while batting at Gambia, Africa aged 34.

16th January...
1855: England batsman Alexander Webbe (1 Test in 1879) was born.
1876: England pace bowler Claude Buckenham (4 Tests in 1910,
             21 wickets) was born.
1907: England captain and pace bowler Alfred Shaw (7 Tests from
             1877 to 1882) died aged 64.
1911: West Indian keeper-batsman Ivan Barrow (11 Tests from 1930
             to 1939) was born.
1931: For the first time the England team in the Durban Test against South              Africa were represented by eleven different counties.
1956: West Indian fast bowler Wayne Daniel (10 Tests from 1976 to 1984;              36 wickets) was born.
1998: West Indian all-rounder Lionel Birkett (4 Tests in 1930-31)
             died aged 92.
1998: Muthiah Muralitharan became the first Sri Lankan to take 150 Test
             wickets - against Zimbabwe at Colombo.

17th January...
1908: England batsman Bryan Valentine (7 Tests from 1933 to 1939)
             was born.
1913: Indian batsman Yadavendra Singh - the Yuvraj of Patiala (1
             Test in 1934) was born.
1925: Indian (3 Tests in 1946) and Pakistani captain and all-rounder
             (3 Tests from 1952 to 1958; 847 runs and 21wickets) Abdul Hafeez
             Kardar was born.
1926: West Indian all-rounder and keeper Clyde Walcott (44 Tests
             from 1948 to 1960; 3798 runs, avg. 56.69; 53 catches and 11
             stumpings and 11 wickets) was born.
1928: Australian batsman Ken Archer (5 Tests from 1950 to 1951)
             was born.
1933: Australian left-arm pace bowler John Hodges (2 Tests in 1877)
             died aged 77.
1936: Australian Clarrie Grimmett became the first bowler in Test
             history to take 200 wickets - against South Africa at Johannesburg.
1939: Pakistani paceman Antao D'Souza (6 Tests from 1959 to
             1962) was born in Goa, India.
1955: Pakistani Hanif Mohammad (142) recorded his first Test
             hundred of his career - at Bahawalpur against India.
1985: India's Mohammad Azharuddin (103 not out) records his
             second successive Test hundred since debut - against England at
             Madras.

18th January...
1916: England pace bowler Alec Coxon (1 Test in 1948) was born.
1923: The first Test match at Kingsmead, Durban was staged between
             South Africa and England.
1972: Indian left-handed batsman Vinod Kambli (17 Tests
             from 1993 to 1995; 1084 runs, avg. 54.20) was born.
1961: India's 539-9 decl. against Pakistan at Madras was then its highest
             ever Test score.
1977: Imran Khan takes 12 for 165 at Sydney as Pakistan gains its first
             win in Australia.
1978: Geoff Boycott captains England for the first time by default against
             Pakistan at Karachi.
1998: For the first time Sri Lanka won a Test by scoring over 300 runs in
             the fourth innings when it beat Zimbabwe by five wickets while
             chasing 326 runs at Colombo.
1999: South Africa beat the West Indies by 351 runs at Centurion
             to inflict the latter its first ever series 'whitewash' of five-nil.
2000: For the first time in Test history teams (South Africa and England at
             Centurion) forfeited their innings.

19th January...
1868: Australian medium pacer Bob McLeod (6 Tests from 1892 to
             1893) was born.
1894: West Indian all-rounder Leslie Walcott (1 Test in 1930) was born.
1922: Australian left-handed batsman Arthur Morris (46 Tests from 1946
             to 1955; 3533 runs, avg. 46.49) was born.
1930: South African keeper-batsman Johnny Waite (50 Tests from 1951
             to 1965; 2405 runs and 141 dismissals) was born.
1933: Australian captain Bill Woodfull (73 not out against England at
             Adelaide) became the first opening batsman to carry his bat his
             throughout an innings on two separate occasions.
1954: England's left-arm spinner Tony Lock became the second
             bowler to be no-balled for throwing in a Test match - against West
             Indies at Kingston.
1977: England beat India at Madras by 200 runs to win it first Test
             series in India since 1934. Also for the first time India had lost three
             Tests in a row at home.

20th January...
1883: England's Billy Bates takes Test cricket's second hat-trick -
             against Australia at Melbourne. It was also the first by an
             Englishman in Tests.
1908: England's leg-spinner Ian Peebles (13 Tests from 1927 to 1931;
             45 wickets) was born in Scotland.
1911: West Indian batsman Cyril Merry (2 Tests in 1933) was born.
1921: For the first time in Test history - six hundreds - were scored in a
             Test match, at Adelaide in the Ashes series.
1921: Australian leg-spinner Arthur Mailey (302 runs) against England
             at Adelaide - became the first bowler to concede 300 runs in a Test
             match.
1931: West Indian keeper Ivan Barrow against Australia at Brisbane
             became the first wicket-keeper to be dismissed twice stumped
             in the same Test match.
1954: England pace bowler Fred Root (3 Tests in 1926) died aged 63.
1954: Australian captain and left-handed batsman Warren Bardsley (41
             Tests from 1909 to 1926; 2469 runs) died aged 71.
1968: West Indian keeper-batsman Junior Murray (31 Tests from 1993 to
             1999; 917 runs and 99 dismissals) was born.
1977: South African left-arm chinaman bowler Paul Adams since 1995
             with nearly 100 wickets was born.
1987: England batsman Tom Dollery (4 Tests from 1947 to 1950)
             died aged 72.

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