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April 1
- England
- 1957 - David Gower is born at Tunbridge Wells
- New Zealand
- 1973 - Stephen Fleming is born at Christchurch
April 2
- Australia
- 1981 - Michael Clarke is born at Liverpool, New South Wales
- India
- 2011 - India won the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai.
April 3
- England
- 2010 - English first-class cricket season scheduled to begin: earliest start ever for first-class matches in England
- West Indies
- 1930 - Sabina Park at Kingston, Jamaica, becomes the fourth West Indian Test match venue when it hosts the fourth match of the inaugural series against England. It is the 23rd Test match ground worldwide. The match runs for nine days but is still left as a draw.
- 1930 - Andy Sandham makes 325 for England at Sabina Park, the first Test Triple century in history.[1]
April 4
- England
- 1930 - Andrew Sandham scored the first Test triple-century against the West Indies at Sabina Park.
- India
- 1933 - Bapu Nadkarni is born.
April 5
- England
- 1921 - Les Jackson, Derbyshire fast-medium bowler whose two Test appearances were separated by a dozen years and who took 143 wickets in 1958 at less than 11 runs apiece, is born at Whitwell, Derbyshire.
April 6
- Australia
- 1991 - Bill Ponsford, who twice broke the world record for the highest first-class score, dies aged 90.
- Bangladesh
- 2014 - Sri Lanka win the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, beating India in the final played at Mirpur.
- India
- 1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar born in Rajapur, Maharashtra.
April 7
- Australia
- 1882 - Bert Ironmonger, second oldest Test player and fourth oldest Test debutant, is born at Pine Mountain, Queensland
April 8
- England
- 1902 - Arthur Wellard, Somerset all-rounder, smiter of more than 500 sixes in his first-class career (which included two Tests), is born at Southfleet in Kent
- 1963 - Alec Stewart is born at Merton
April 9
- Bangladesh
- 2006 - The Fatullah Osmani Stadium in Fatullah becomes the fifth Test cricket venue in Bangladesh when it stages the first Test against Australia. It is the 93rd Test match ground worldwide. Bangladesh lead by 158 on the first innings, but the Australians recover to win the match by three wickets.
April 10
- Australia
- 1914 - Tasmanian Jack Badcock is born. Badcock made his first-class debut at the age of 15, the second youngest Australian to do so. Noted for making some large scores, he played for Tasmania and South Australia and in 1936 made 325 for South Australia against Victoria. Other big knocks included 271 in 1938-39 and 274 in 1939-40. He only played in seven Tests, including five on a tour of England in 1938. He managed only 160 runs in 12 Test innings, and that included a century (118) but no scores at all in double figures.
- West Indies
- 1979 - The last day of the 5th Supertest between the West Indies and Australia at Antigua. The match was the final fixture in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket series held between 1977 and 1979.
April 11
- England
- 1856 - Arthur Shrewsbury is born
- 1913 - The Nevill Ground is destroyed in the only suffragette arson attack on a cricket ground.
April 12
- India
- 1917 - Vinoo Mankad is born at Jamnagar
- West Indies
- 2004 - Brian Lara completes innings of 400 not out, the highest score in Test cricket, in the fourth Test between West Indies and England at St John's, Antigua. Lara becomes the first player to regain the record for the highest Test score, having held it before when he made 375 against the same opposition on the same ground 10 years earlier.
April 13
- Ireland
- 1906 - Samuel Beckett, two first class matches for University of Dublin, born.
- South Africa
- 1895 - First class debut of Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test cricketer.
April 14
- Australia
- 1947 - Bob Massie, 16 wickets on his Test debut for Australia against England at Lord's in 1972 – the most wickets in a Test by an Australian – is born at Subiaco, Western Australia
- South Africa
- 1876 - Sir Murray Bisset, South African captain who later served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, born.
April 15
- Australia
- 1845 - Australia's first captain, Dave Gregory is born, in Fairy Meadow, New South Wales
April 16
- England
- 1948 - The Australian team arrives in Tilbury, and becomes the first team to complete a tour undefeated. They become known as the Invincibles.
- 1981 - Eric Hollies, who bowled Sir Donald Bradman for a duck in Bradman's final Test innings, dies aged 68.
- Pakistan
- 1963 - Saleem Malik, who played in 103 Tests and 283 One-day Internationals, is born in Lahore.
April 17
- Sri Lanka
- 1972 - Muttiah Muralitharan is born at Kandy
- West Indies
- 1978 - In the second innings of the fourth Test in Trinidad against Australia, Derick Parry takes 5 for 15 including four bowled, contributing to Australia's collapse of 94 all out and the West Indies winning the Frank Worrell Trophy.[2]
April 18
- West Indies
- 1958 - Malcolm Marshall is born at Bridgetown, Barbados
- 1994 - Brian Lara completes innings of 375, then the highest score in Test cricket, in the fifth Test between West Indies and England at St John's, Antigua. Lara will become the first player to regain the record for the highest Test score on the same ground 10 years later, with a score of 400 not out.
- India
- 2008 - the first Twenty 20 match of the 2008 Indian Premier League is played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Kolkata win by 140 runs.
April 19
- Australia
- 1975 - Jason Gillespie is born at Darlinghurst, New South Wales
- England
- 1873 - Sydney Barnes is born at Smethwick
- 1933 - Dickie Bird (pictured) is born at Barnsley
April 20
- England
- 1912 - David Townsend, the last player to play Test cricket for England without ever playing for one of the first-class counties, is born at Norton, County Durham
April 21
- India
- 1945 - Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, 57 Tests as a player and 73 as an umpire, is born at Madras, (now Chennai)
April 22
- Sri Lanka
- 1983 - The Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy becomes the second Test venue in Sri Lanka and the 54th in the world when it hosts the match with Australia.
April 23
- England
April 24
- India
- 1973 - Sachin Tendulkar born. Nicknamed the 'Little Master', Tendulkar is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of the game. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman, and the greatest One-day international batsman.
April 25
- In England
April 26
- West Indies
- 1985 - Future New Zealand captain Ken Rutherford makes his Test debut at Barbados. His first 6 scores in Tests were 0, 0, 4 (an edge through the slips), 0, 2 & 5.
April 27
- England
- 1969 - The John Player's County League 40-over Sunday competition began in England, with wins for Essex, Glamorgan, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Surrey and Warwickshire.
- 1999 - Cyril Washbrook, Lancashire and England opening batsman before and after the Second World War, dies aged 84.
April 28
- South Africa
- 1997 - Former Derbyshire batsman Ashley Harvey-Walker is shot dead in a bar in Johannesburg by a gunman who calls out his name and then shoots when Harvey-Walker stands up.
- West Indies
- 2007 - Australia wins the 2007 Cricket World Cup played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, beating Sri Lanka in the final.
April 29
- England
- 1948 - Don Bradman is dismissed by spin bowler Peter Jackson for 107, the first time on four tours of England that Bradman has not opened the tour with a double century against Worcestershire
- India
- 1979 - Ashish Nehra born in Delhi.
April 30
- Australia
- 1964 - Ian Healy, wicketkeeper in 119 Tests and 168 One-day internationals for Australia is born in Brisbane