10th June....

1912:
South Africa were bundled out for a paltry 58 in just 90 minutes against England at Lord's. Also for the first time in Test history extras (17) top-scored in an innings.

1938:
Walter Hammond playing in his 66th Test match of his career was captaining England for the first time in 1938 - against Australia at Nottingham.

1938:
English opening batsman Charlie Barnett (126) reaches 98 before lunch on the first day against Australia at Nottingham.

1942:
Australian batsman Ross Gregory (2 Tests in 1937) died in Assam, India, aged 26, during the 2nd World War.

1947:
South African off-spinner Norman Reid (1 Test in 1921) died, aged 56.

1969:
South African all-rounder Pieter Strydom (2 Tests in 2000) was born

1972:
Sri Lankan paceman Eric Upashantha (1 Test in 1999) was born.

11th June....

1907:
Northamptonshire were dismissed for a paltry total of 12 runs by Gloucestershire at Gloucester.

1908:
England's left-arm slow bowler George Paine (4 Tests in 1935; 17 wickets) was born.

1927:
English all-rounder and pace bowler William Attewell (10 Tests from 1884 to 1892) died, a day before his 65th birthday.

1935:
Pakistani leg-break bowler SF Rehman (1 Test in 1958) was born in India.

1938:
Dennis Compton at 20 years 19 days became England's youngest century maker when he scored 102 against Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.

1942:
Sri Lankan all-rounder and leg-spinner Somachandra De Silva (12 Tests from 1982 to 1984; 406 runs and 37 wickets) was born.

1947:
England made 551 in the second innings against South Africa at Nottingham - then the highest ever total by a Test team following-on.

1947:
Alan Melville (189 and 104 not out) became the first South African to score a hundred in each innings of a Test match - against England at Nottingham.

1951:
West Indian all-rounder Collis King (9 Tests from 1976 to 1980; 418 runs) was born.

1951:
Sri Lankan batsman Mithra Wettimuny (2 Tests in 1983) was born.

1954:
Australian opener John Dyson (30 Tests from 1977 to 1984; 1359 runs) was born.

1971:
New Zealand left-handed batsman Mark Richardson since 2000 was born.

1975:
Pakistani Javed Miandad made his international debut at the age of 17 yrs 364 days against the West Indies at Birmingham in the World Cup.

1975:
India defeated East Africa in the World Cup by 10 wickets at Leeds to record its first win in a ODI match.

1978:
New Zealand's paceman Daryl Tuffey since 2000 was born.

12th June....

1860:
Australian batsman 'Jack' Edwards (3 Test in 1888) was born.

1861:
English all-rounder and pace bowler William Attewell (10 Tests from 1884 to 1892) was born.

1902:
England's Archie MacLaren during his innings of 47 against Australia at Lord's became Test cricket's then highest run scorer with 1401 runs. He bettered the previous record aggregate of 1366 runs by Australian Syd Gregory who interestingly had also appeared in this match could not bat in either innings due to rain.

1926:
The opening Test match of the Ashes series at Nottingham had to be abandoned with just 50 minutes of play possible on the opening day.

1930:
Aussie opener Jim Burke (24 Tests from 1951 to 1959; 1280 runs) was born.

1934:
Australia beat England at Nottingham by 238 runs - its only victory between 1928 to 1938 without a Bradman hundred.

1935:
Australian teenage prodigy and their youngest captain Ian Craig (11 Tests from 1953 to 1958) was born.

1939:
South African pace bowler and ball-chucker Geoff Griffin (2 Tests in 1960) was born.

1948:
Dominica born West Indian pace bowler and all-rounder Norbert Phillip (9 Tests from 1978-1979) was born.

1956:
Australian paceman Terry Alderman (41 Tests from 1981 to 1990-91; 170 wickets) was born.

1957:
Pakistan's captain and its greatest batsman Javed Miandad (124 Tests from 1976 to 1993; 8832 runs) was born.

1959:
Pakistani paceman Jalal-ud-din (6 Tests from 1982 to 1985) who claimed ODI's first hat-trick in 1982.

1961:
New Zealand batsman Rod Latham (4 Tests from 1992 to 1993) was born.

1964:
England's off-spinner Peter Such in the 1990s was born in Scotland today.

1973:
At Nottingham against England, New Zealand needing 479 runs to win were all out for 440 - then the second-highest total in the fourth innings of any Test match.

1976:
Zimbabwean all-rounder Ray Price since 1999 was born.

1983:
West Indian pace bowler Winston Davis captures seven wickets for 51 runs against Australia at Leeds in the World Cup - to become the first bowler in ODI history to take seven wickets in a match.

1999:
New Zealand beat India by 5 wickets at Nottingham to qualify for the World Cup semi-final.

13th June....

1879:
English batsman George Gunn (15 Tests from 1907 to 1930; 1120 runs), was born.

1887:
English wicket-keeper Neville Tufnell (one Test in 1910) was born in Simla, India.

1888:
Australian all-rounder Roy Minnett (9 Tests from 1911 to 1912) was born.

1905:
Indian batsman KS Duleepsinhji, who appeared for England (12 Tests from 1929 to 1931; 995 runs) was born.

1921:
England's Frank Woolley makes 93 in the second innings against Australia at Lord's after scoring 95 in the first.

1938:
Australian Stan McCabe (232 in 235 minutes; 1 six and 34 fours) plays Test cricket's greatest innings - against England at Nottingham.

1939:
Australian pace bowler Arthur Coningham, (1 Test in 1894) died aged 75. He claimed a Test wicket off his very first ball.

1944:
English fast bowler Chris Heseltine (2 Tests in 1896) died aged 74.

1953:
England's pace bowler Alec Bedser captures 14-99 against Australia at Nottingham.

1955:
England's Godfrey Evans became the first Test wicket-keeper to take 150 dismissals - against South Africa at Nottingham.

1965:
Indian Left-arm spinner Maninder Singh (35 Tests from 1982 to 1993; 88 wickets) was born.

1970:
Kiwi all-rounder Chris Cairns since 1989 was born.

1970:
Australian all-rounder Shaun Young (1 Test in 1997) was born.

1982:
Australian all-rounder Ken "Slasher" Mackay (37 Tests from 1956 to 1963; 1507 runs and 50 wickets) died aged 56.

1999:
Although Australia beat South Africa by five wickets at Leeds, both teams qualify for the semi-final of the World Cup.

14th June....

1902:
Heavy rains completely wash out the Lord's Test between England and Australia. Only 105 minutes of play was possible on the first day.

1907:
England's lob bowler George (GHT) Simpson-Hayward (5 Tests in 1910, 23 wickets) was born.

1894:
Australian all-rounder Bob McLeod (6 Tests from 1891 to 1893) died aged 39.

1909:
Leicestershire's all-rounder John King, playing in his only Test match - against Australia at Lord's at the age of 38, top-scored with 60, in the first innings.

1923:
English opener Donald Smith (3 Tests in 1957) was born.

1921:
England lost its seventh consecutive Test match against Australia in the Lord's Test match.

1924:
England's opening batsman Hebert Sutcliffe made his Test debut - against South Africa at Birmingham. He made 64. Interestingly throughout his Test career spanning 54 Tests and 84 innings, his career batting average never went below 60 runs. He becomes the only batsman in Test history to do so.

1924:
George Parker, an expatriate fast bowler from Cape Town, then playing for Eccleshill in the Bradford League in England, made his Test debut for South Africa against England at Birmingham. He went on to take six wickets in the only innings he got to bowl. Interestingly Parker never appeared in any first-class cricket matches in South Africa.

1929:
Australian left-handed all-rounder Alan Davidson (44 Tests from 1953 to 1963; 1328 runs and 186 wickets) was born.

1938:
Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 144 at Nottingham - his 13th hundred against England - then maximum by a batsman in the Ashes series.

1949:
England captain FG Mann against New Zealand at Leeds, missed the fastest Test fifty when he declared his team's innings with his individual score on 49 not out, which was made in just 24 minutes!

1977:
South African opener Boeta Dippenaar since 1999 was born.

1979:
Canada were dismissed for 45 by England at Manchester in the World Cup. Chris Old (4-8) and Bob Willis (4-11) were the destroyers.

1987:
Australian batsman Les Favell (19 Tests from 1954 to 1961; 757 runs) died aged 57.

2000:
Sri Lanka was playing its 100th Test match - against Pakistan at Colombo. Arjuna Ranatunga became the only player in Test history to appear both in his country's inaugural and 100th Tests.

15th June...

1874:
South Africa's left arm spinner George Rowe (5 Tests from 1895 to 1902) was born.

1914:
English all-rounder and captain Allan.Steel, (13 Tests, 600 runs, 29 wkts from 1880 to 1888) died aged 55.

1924:
Pakistani all-rounder MEZ Ghazali, (2 Tests in 1954) was born.

1937:
India wicket-keeper Kumar Shri Indrajitsinhji (4 Tests in 1964 to 1969) was born.

1943:
English batsman Ciss Parkin (10 Tests for England 1920 to 1924), died aged 57.

1946:
Roger Tolchard, English wicket-keeper-batsman (4 Tests in 1976-77) was born.

1955:
Australia recorded its highest ever Test score of 758-8 against the West Indies at Kingston.

1961:
West Indian leg-spinner OC "Tommy" Scott (8 Tests from 1928 to 1931) died, aged 67.

1969:
Kenya's ODI captain Maurice Odumbe was born.

1985:
English all-rounder Percy Fender (13 Tests from 1920 to 1929) died, aged 92.

1985:
English left-arm pace bowler Len Hopwood (2 Tests in 1934) died, aged 81.

1986:
Indian left-arm slow bowler Keki Tarapore (1 Test in 1948) died in an accident, aged 75.

1987:
South African pace bowler John Cochran (1 Test in 1930) died, aged 77.

2000:
The Birmingham Test match between England and West Indies was the 1500th Test match to be played since March 1877.

2000:
West Indian Courtney Walsh became the first bowler to take 450 Test wickets - against England at Birmingham.

16th June....

1880:
English off-spinner James Southerton (2 Tests in 1877) died aged 52. He became the first Test cricketer to die.

1906:
Australian all-rounder Alan Fairfax (10 Tests from 1928 to 1931) was born..

1914:
England's wicket-keeping batsman Billy Grifffith (3 Tests from 1947 to 1949) was born.

1924:
England pace bowler and all-rounder Maurice Tate playing in his first Test match took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled.

1924:
South Africans were dismissed for 30 in just 48 minutes by England at Birmingham.

1927:
English batsman Tom Graveney (79 Tests from 1951 to 1969) was born.

1932:
Yorkshire's Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes put on a record 555 for the first wicket against Essex at Leyton. It was then the highest partnership for any wicket in first-class cricket history.

1961:
Australian batsman Robbie Kerr (2 Tests in 1985) was born.

1963:
Pakistani paceman Mohsin Kamal (9 Tests from 1983 to 1994) was born.

1968:
West Indian off-spinner Nehemiah Perry (4 Tests in 1999) was born.

1979:
Associate ICC member Sri Lanka upset India at Manchester by 47 runs in the World Cup. The first defeat for a Test nation in ODI history.

1993:
Australian captain and batsman Lindsay Hassett (43 Tests from 1938 to 1953; 3073 runs) died aged 79.

1999:
Pakistan defeat New Zealand at Manchester by nine wickets in the first semi-final of the World Cup.

2000:
Wasim Akram claims his 400th Test wicket in his 96th Test match - against Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo.

Compiled by
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