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June 1
- Australia
- 1943 - Ian King born. King remains one of the few Indigenous Australians to play first-class cricket.
- 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
- 1932 - New Zealand seamer, chairman of selectors and umpire Frank Cameron was born.
- 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
- 1904 - Vincent Tancred dies.
- 1981 - Eric Dalton dies.
- Zimbabwe
- 1961 - Kevin Arnott, the first Zimbabwean to face a ball in Tests and second to make a century, was born.
June 4
- Australia
- 1926 - Fred Spofforth dies.
- England
- 1971 - In only his second Test match, Zaheer Abbas scored 274 against England at Edgbaston.
- 1993 - Shane Warne bowled the Ball of the Century to dismiss Mike Gatting during the first Test match of the 1993 Ashes series.
- New Zealand
- 1915 - New Zealand captain and father of Richard, Walter Hadlee is born.
June 5
- Australia
- 1916 - The Invincible Sid Barnes was born. He averaged over sixty in Test cricket.
- 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
- 1940 - Herbert Lance, the South African all-rounder nicknamed "Tiger" was born.
June 7
- England
- 1952 - 21-year-old debutant Fred Trueman took three wickets, helping reduce India to 0 for 4 at the start of their second innings at Headingley.
- 1988 - England drew the first Test in their summer of four captains.
- South Africa
- 1964 - Charles Llewellyn, South Africa's first non-white Test player, dies.
- West Indies
- 1894 - Karl Nunes, who would lead West Indies in their first Test match, was born.
June 8
- England
- 1932 - Ray Illingworth, the only English captain to regain The Ashes in Australia since the Bodyline series, was born at Pudsey.
- 1945 - England left-arm spinner Derek Underwood was born at Bromley. He was at his best on a sticky wicket and took 297 Test wickets.
- 1950 - West Indian spinners Alf Valentine and Sonny Ramadhin made their Test debut at Old Trafford, sharing fifteen wickets in the match.
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
- 1967 - Geoffrey Boycott made his highest Test score, 246 not out, but was dropped for the next match.
- 1983 - The third Cricket World Cup started, with Zimbabwe beating Australia in their first One-day International. Duncan Fletcher scored 69 not out and took four wickets.
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
- 1954 - John Dyson is born in Kogarah, New South Wales
- England
- 1907 - Northamptonshire is bowled out for 12 in 40 minutes by Gloucestershire at Gloucester in what is still the lowest score in county cricket and the third lowest first-class score of all time.[1]
- 1927 - The first ball-by-ball radio broadcast from Lord's is made on the first day of the match between Middlesex and Nottinghamshire. Pelham Warner made the commentary.
- 1939 - Rachael Heyhoe-Flint is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.
- West Indies
- 1951 - Collis King born in Christ Church, Barbados.
June 12
- Australia
- 1956 - Terry Alderman is born at Subiaco, Western Australia. In the 1981 England tour, he took 42 Test wickets, the biggest haul in a series since Jim Laker's 46 in 1956 and the fourth-highest total of all time.
- Pakistan
- 1957 - Javed Miandad is born at Karachi, West Pakistan.
June 13
- New Zealand
- 1970 - New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns was born.
- 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
- 1909 - The Imperial Cricket Conference, forerunner of the International Cricket Council, founded at Lord's with representatives from England, Australia and South Africa.
- 1960 - Kent beat Worcestershire by an innings and 101 runs at the Nevill Ground, Tunbridge Wells. The first-class match is scheduled for three days but is completed in a single day, the last time this happens in a first-class game. Spinner Norman Gifford makes his first-class debut for Worcestershire and takes four Kent wickets (as well as batting twice in a day). Scorecard here.
- 1969 - Greg Chappell scores the first-ever century in the John Player's County League 40-over Sunday competition, making an unbeaten 128 for Somerset against Surrey at Brislington
- Kenya
- 1969 - Maurice Odumbe born.
- West Indies
- 1995 - Everton Weekes knighted for his services to cricket.
June 16
- England
- 1924 - South Africa are bowled out for 30, equalling the then Test record for a low score, in the first Test against England at Birmingham. Arthur Gilligan and Maurice Tate take all 10 wickets in 12.3 overs, with Extras contributing 11 of the 30 runs and Herbie Taylor top-scoring with just seven.
- 1932 - Herbert Sutcliffe and Percy Holmes complete a world record first-wicket stand of 555 playing for Yorkshire against Essex at Leyton. Sutcliffe makes 313 and Holmes is unbeaten on 224, made in 445 minutes. Yorkshire win the match by an innings and 313 runs.
June 17
- England
- 1930 - Nottinghamshire groundstaffer Sydney Copley was called in as a substitute fielder in the first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge and takes a spectacular catch to dismiss Stan McCabe off the bowling of Maurice Tate. England won the match by 93 runs.[2]
- 1999 - Australia and South Africa tie the second semi-final of the 1999 Cricket World Cup at Edgbaston[3]
June 18
- England
- 1958 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, dies at Montreux, Switzerland
- 1986 - Papua New Guinea beat Gibraltar by 369 runs in an ICC World Cup Qualifier match at the Cannock and Rugeley Cricket Club, Cannock, Staffordshire.[4]
- 2005 - 500-to-1 outsiders Bangladesh defeat Australia by 5 wickets in the 2nd match of the triangular ODI tournament at Sophia Gardens.
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
- England
- 1996 - Umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird's last Test begins at Lord's, London. Sourav Ganguly makes his debut in this Test and scores a century, while Rahul Dravid, also on debut, is dismissed for 95. Jack Russell scores a century, the first by an English wicketkeeper in 44 years.
- 1999 - Australia wins the 1999 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's, London, beating Pakistan in the final.
- India
- 1939 - Ramakant Desai is born
- South Africa
- 1954 - Allan Lamb is born. Lamb played Test cricket for England because of South Africa's ban due to Apartheid. He has over 100 ODI caps and also played for Western Province, Northamptonshire and Orange Free State.
June 21
- England
- 1901 - Nottinghamshire bowled out for 13 at Trent Bridge by Yorkshire, Wilfred Rhodes (pictured) taking 6 for 4
- 1937 - John Edrich is born
- 1975 - West Indies win the 1975 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia in the final played at Lord's London.[6]
- 1981 - Australia win the first Test of what was to be one of the most fascinating Ashes series.[7]
- 1997 - England bowled out for 88 by Australia at Lord's, London, their lowest total there since 1888.[8]
- 2009 - Pakistan win the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, beating Sri Lanka in the final played at Lord's London.
- New Zealand
- 1954 - Jeremy Coney is born.
June 22
- 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
- 1994 - Marnus Labuschagne is born
June 23
- England
- 1916 - Leonard Hutton, opening batsman for England in 79 Test matches between 1937 and 1955 and the first professional captain of the team in modern times, is born at Pudsey in Yorkshire
- 1979 - West Indies win the 1979 Cricket World Cup, beating England in the final played at Lord's, London.
- West Indies
- 1928 - Played its first Test match, against England.
- 1980 - Ramnaresh Sarwan is born at Wakenaam Island, Guyana
June 24
- West Indies
- 1995 - Inshan Ali, slow left-arm bowler for West Indies in 12 Tests in the 1970s, dies at Port of Spain, Trinidad, aged 45.
June 25
- 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
- 1932 - Played in their first Test match against England at Lord's becoming the sixth Test nation.
- 1983 - India wins the 1983 Cricket World Cup played at Lord's London, beating the West Indies in the final.
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
- 1939 - Neil Hawke is born in Cheltenham, South Australia. Hawke was an all-round sportsman who played cricket for Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia and Australian rules football for Port Adelaide, East Perth and West Torrens.
- 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
- 1980 - Kevin Pietersen is born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.
- 1983 - Dale Steyn is born in Phalaborwa, South Africa.
June 28
- West Indies
- 1888 - George Challenor (pictured) is born
- 1934 - Roy Gilchrist is born
- Australia
- 1915 - Victor Trumper dies
- Pakistan
- 1970 - Mushtaq Ahmed is born
- England
- 1969 - John Hampshire makes a test century on debut at Lord's, the first Englishman to do so.
- South Africa
- 1928 - Peter Heine, who famously shared the new ball with Neil Adcock for the South Africa in the 1950s, is born.
June 29
- Australia
- 1939 - Alan Connolly is born.
- 1947 - Jeff Moss, Test batting average of 60.00, born.
- England
- 1950 - At Lord's West Indies win a test in England for the first time, with spinners Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine taking 18 wickets.
- 1965 - Paul Jarvis is born.
- Ireland
- 2007 - Sachin Tendulkar (pictured), reaches 15,000 runs in ODI cricket, the first and only cricketer to do so.
- West Indies
- 1939 - Ron Headley, son of George Headley and father of Dean Headley, is born.
June 30
- England
- 1899 - Jack Hearne, takes the first hat trick in Test cricket in England, dismissing Australians Clem Hill, Syd Gregory and Monty Noble in a match at Headingley[10]
- 1924 - England become the first team to score 500 runs in a single day's play, as they score 503/2 in a match versus South Africa at Lord's [11]
- 1930 - Don Bradman, scores 254 versus England at Lord's in his first test innings there, as Australia reach 720/6.[12]
- 1933 - M. J. K. Smith, who captained England in exactly half of his 50 Tests, is born in Leicester
- Sri Lanka
- 1969 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) is born in Matara
- India
- 1941 - John Jameson, the English cricketer who faced the first ball in World Cup history, is born in Bombay (now Mumbai)
- 1973 - Dodda Ganesh is born.
- South Africa
- 1941 - Peter Pollock, the South African fast bowler and selector, father of Shaun, is born in Pietermaritzburg