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October 1
- England
- 1900 - Tom Goddard, the fifth highest wicket-taker in first-class cricket with 2,979 wickets, is born at Gloucester
October 2
- Australia
October 3
- Australia
- 1921 - Ray Lindwall is born at Mascot, New South Wales
October 4
- South Africa
- 1931 - Basil D'Oliveira, who played 44 Tests for England having been unable to play first-class cricket in his native country because of the apartheid regime, is born at Cape Town
October 5
- Australia
- 1940 - Bob Cowper is born
October 6
- In Australia
- 1930 - Richie Benaud is born in Penrith, New South Wales
October 7
- India
- 1978 - Zaheer Khan born.
- South Africa
- 1876 - Louis Tancred, South African captain for three Tests, born.
- Sri Lanka
- 2012 - West Indies win the 2012 ICC World Twenty20, beating Sri Lanka in the final played at Colombo.
October 8
- West Indies
- 1945 - Vanburn Holder is born at Deans Village, Saint Michael Parish, Barbados
October 9
- India
- 1987 - Australia beat India by one run in a 1987 Cricket World Cup match - the closest margin in World Cup history.[1]
- Pakistan
- 1976 - Peter Petherick becomes the second bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja and Intikhab Alam in the first Test in Lahore
- 1994 - Damien Fleming becomes the third bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Aamer Malik, Inzamam ul-Haq and Salim Malik in the second Test at Rawalpindi.[2]
October 10
- New Zealand
- 1922 - Harry Cave is born at Wanganui
- 1936 - Artie Dick is born at Middlemarch
- 1949 - Lance Cairns is born at Picton
October 11
- India
- 1972 - Sanjay Bangar is born at Beed, Maharashtra
October 12
- India
- 1946 - Ashok Mankad is born at Mumbai
October 13
- South Africa
- 1964 - Fanie de Villiers is born at Vereeniging, Transvaal
October 14
- Sri Lanka
- 1976 - Tillakaratne Dilshan is born at Kalutara
October 15
- In South Africa
- 1910 - Xen Balaskas is born in Kimberley
October 16
- Pakistan
- 1952 - Played in its first Test match, against India at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi.
- South Africa
- 1975 - Jacques Kallis is born at Pinelands, Cape Town.
October 17
- India
- 1970 - Anil Kumble (pictured) is born at Bangalore.
- New Zealand
- 1917 - Martin Donnelly is born at Ngaruawahia, Waikato.
- Sri Lanka
- 1965 - Aravinda de Silva is born at Colombo.
October 18
- Canada
- 1978 - Former England all-rounder Frank Woolley dies aged 91 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Zimbabwe
- 1992 - played in its first Test match.
October 19
- In Australia
- 1900 - Batsman Bill Ponsford is born in North Fitzroy, Victoria. Ponsford broke his own world record for the highest first-class score.
October 20
- India
- 1963 - Navjot Singh Sidhu born in Patiala, Punjab, India.
- 1978 - Virender Sehwag born in Delhi.
- South Africa
- 1966 - Allan Donald born in Bloemfontein.
October 21
- Australia
- 1971 - Damien Martyn is born at Darwin, Northern Territory
October 22
- New Zealand
- 1999 - Martin Donnelly dies.
October 23
- England
- 1900 - Douglas Jardine, controversial England captain on the Bodyline tour, is born at Bombay, India
- 1915 - W. G. Grace dies
October 24
- South Africa
- 1931 - Sir Murray Bisset, South African captain who later served as Governor of Southern Rhodesia, dies.
October 25
- Australia
- 1982 - David Hookes scores the fastest first-class century in terms of deliveries faced (34)
- England
- 1929 - Peter Loader is born at Wallington, Surrey
October 26
- New Zealand
- 1965 - Ken Rutherford is born in Dunedin
October 27
- Australia
- 1964 - Mark Taylor is born at Leeton, New South Wales
- India
- 1984 - Irfan Pathan is born at Baroda, Gujarat.
- Sri Lanka
- 1977 - Kumar Sangakkara is born at Matale.
- Australia
- 1986 - David Warner is born at Paddington, New South Wales.
October 28
- Australia
- 2002 - Mark Waugh is dropped from Australia's squad for The Ashes series and announces his immediate retirement from international cricket
October 29
- Australia
- 1971 - Matthew Hayden is born.
- England
- 1915 - Dennis Brookes is born. Brookes played for Northamptonshire from 1934 to 1959 (as captain from 1954 to 1957), was President of the club from 1982 to 1984 and the gates at the Abington Avenue End of Northampton's County Ground are named after him.
- 1974 - Michael Vaughan (pictured) is born. Vaughan captained England to more Test wins than any of his predecessors.
October 30
- England
- 1936 - Teddy Wynyard, the only Test cricketer to have scored a goal in the FA Cup Final, dies aged 75.
- West Indies
- 1962 - Courtney Walsh is born at Kingston, Jamaica.
- Zimbabwe
- 2006 - Zimbawean Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen allegedly sets fire to the pavilion at the Harare Sports Club.
October 31
- India
- 1987 - Chetan Sharma takes the first Cricket World Cup hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Ken Rutherford, Ian Smith and Ewen Chatfield at Vidarbha Cricket Ground, Nagpur. All three were bowled.[3]