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January 1
- Australia
- 1963 - Glenn Trimble, who played in two One Day International World Series Cup matches for Australia, is born in Brisbane.
- 2007 - Justin Langer (pictured right) announces his retirement from Test cricket.
- England
- 1997 - Graham Kersey, Surrey wicket keeper, dies in a car crash in Queensland.
- Pakistan
- 1928 - Khan Mohammad is born.
- West Indies
- 1944 - Charlie Davis, is born. In the 1970/71 home series against India, Davis scored 529 runs in 4 Tests at an incredible average of 132.25.[1]
January 2
- In Australia
- 1879 - Fred Spofforth (pictured) takes the first Test hat-trick against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1937 - The start of the third Test against England at Melbourne which included Don Bradman's knock of 270 which is rated by Wisden as the top test innings of all time
- In India
- 1979 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the only batsman to hit a century in each innings of a Test match three times
- In Bangladesh
- 1990 - Indian batsman Raman Lamba died after being hit on the head while fielding at short slip during a club match.
January 3
- West Indies
- 1949 - Everton Weekes' 101 in Calcutta completes a sequence of five consecutive Test innings centuries
January 4
- England
- 1975 - Mike Denness drops himself from the England side for the fourth Test against Australia at Sydney after scoring 65 runs in six innings
- Australia
- 1936 - Clarrie Grimmett (pictured), for Australia v South Africa at Cape Town takes his 190th Test wicket, setting a new career bowling record.
January 5
- Australia
- 1971 - The first One Day International was played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
January 6
- In India
- 1959 - Kapil Dev was born in Chandigarh.
- In Australia
- 2008 - India is beaten by 122 runs in the Second Test at Sydney, in a match marred by numerous umpiring errors and accusation of poor sportsmanship on both sides.
January 7
- Pakistan
- 1992 - Imran Khan retires from Test cricket
- India
- 1956 - Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy complete a record first-wicket partnership of 413 against New Zealand at Madras.[2]
- Australia
- 2011 - England beat Australia by an innings and 83 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground to clinch the 2010-11 Ashes series by 3-1.
January 8
- Australia
- 1901 - New South Wales makes 918 runs against South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Five batsmen make centuries.[3]
January 9
- England
- 1971 - Bob Willis makes his Test debut against Australia in Sydney[4]
- West Indies
- 1968 - Jimmy Adams is born
January 10
- New Zealand
- 1930 - NZ played their first Test against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth Test nation. Maurice Allom, bowling for England on the first day, takes four wickets in five balls, including a hat-trick, to reduce New Zealand to 21 for seven wickets. Allom is the first Test bowler to take a hat-trick on his Test debut.
January 11
- India
- 1973 - Rahul Dravid (pictured) is born at Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
- Pakistan
- 1959 - Hanif Mohammad, playing for Karachi against Bahawalpur, is run out going for his 500th run. His score of 499 beats the previous highest first-class score by 47 and remains the world record for 35 years.
January 12
- West Indies
- 1962 - Richie Richardson is born.
- India
- 1964 - Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs in the first Test between India and England at Madras.[5]
- Zimbabwe
- 1976 - Gavin Rennie is born
January 13
- Australia
- 1911 - South Africa's first Test win over Australia at Adeliade.[6]
- 1978 - The Australia national women's cricket team win the Women's Cricket World Cup for the first time in Hyderabad.[7]
January 14
- Australia
- 1933 - Bill Woodfull is struck over the heart during the third Test at Adelaide in the Bodyline series
- India
- 1978 - Australia wins the Women's Cricket World Cup with a victory over England at Hyderabad
- West Indies
- 1979 - Daren Ganga is born
January 15
- Australia
- 1895 - Albert Trott debuted for Australia at Adelaide Oval against England in the 3rd Ashes Test, taking 8-43. Trott's debut match also included knocks of 38* and 72* with the bat. He later also played for England.
- 1959 - Colin Cowdrey's century in the 3rd Test at Sydney takes 362 minutes - the slowest in Ashes history until Bob Woolmer's 394 minute record in 1975.
- England
- 1956 - Paul Parker is born.
January 16
- In South Africa
- 2004 – Graeme Smith and Herschelle Gibbs hit 301 for first wicket v West Indies at Centurion, making the highest first-wicket stand in SA v WI Tests
- In Australia
- 1993 - In the first final of the Benson & Hedges World Series Cup, Dean Jones insists that Curtly Ambrose remove his white wristbands as they distracted him. An incensed Ambrose promptly took a 5 wicket haul for just 32 runs.
- 1997 - Anthony Stuart takes as hat-trick against Pakistan in his 3rd and last Test appearance
- In the West Indies
- 1911 - Wicketkeeper Ivan Barrow is born in Jamaica. In 1933 Barrow became the first West Indian to make a century in a Test in England.
- 1956 - Wayne Daniel is born
January 17
- West Indies
- 1926 - Clyde Walcott is born.
- Pakistan
- 1925 - Pakistan's first captain Abdul Kardar is born
- England
- 1908 - Brian Valentine is born
January 18
- India
- 1972 – Vinod Kambli is born
January 19
- In Australia
- 1868 - Bob McLeod is born
- 1922 - Invincible Arthur Morris (pictured) is born. He was the first man to make a century in both innings of his first-class debut.
- 2004 - David Hookes dies after a brawl outside a Melbourne pub
- In India
January 20
- Scotland
- 1908 – Ian Peebles is born
- South Africa
- 1977 – Frog-in-a-blender bowler Paul Adams is born
- West Indies
- 1968 – Junior Murray is born
January 21
- Australia
- 1888 - Herbie Collins (pictured) is born.
- 1991 - England cricketers David Gower and John Morris are fined £1000 each after flying at low height in small Tiger Moth aircraft over the ground at Carrara where their team is playing Queensland.
- West Indies
- 1948 - A record 12 players debut in the first Test between West Indies and England at Barbados. Several, such as Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes and Jim Laker go on to considerable fame.[9]
January 22
- West Indies
- 1948 - England's Jim Laker took six wickets for 25 runs in nine overs on the second morning of his debut Test against West Indies at Bridgetown, finishing with seven for 103 in the innings.
- 1988 - Brian Lara (pictured) made his first-class debut for Trinidad & Tobago against the Leeward Islands. He made 14 and 22.
- Sri Lanka
- 1966 - Nishantha Ranatunga is born
January 23
- New Zealand
- 1971 – Adam Parore is born
- Australia
- 1976 - in his 66th and second last Test, renowned stonewaller Ian Redpath hits his first career six.[10]
January 24
- Zimbabwe
- 1970 – Neil Johnson is born
- South Africa
- 1950 – Australia win the third Test at Durban by 5 wickets after South Africa declined to enforce a follow on. [11]
January 25
- Australia
- 1980 - Hunter Poon (pictured), first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, dies in Brisbane aged 85.
- In South Africa
- 1957 - Hugh Tayfield bowled 137 balls without conceding a run in the 3rd Test against England at Kingsmead, Durban.[12]
January 26
- In Australia
- 1883 - The first Test played at the Association (later Sydney Cricket Ground) Cricket Ground, starts. [13]
- 1954 - Kim Hughes is born at Margaret River, Western Australia
- 1962 - Tim May is born
- 1963 - Simon O'Donnell is born
January 27
- New Zealand
- 1969 – Shane Thomson, 19 Tests and 56 ODIs, is born at Hamilton
- 1979 – Daniel Vettori is born at Auckland
- Sri Lanka
- 1974 – Chaminda Vaas is born at Mattumagala.
January 28
- Australia
- 1873 – Monty Noble (pictured) is born in Chinatown, Sydney
- England
- 1880 – Herbert Strudwick is born at Mitcham.
- West Indies
- 1935 – England captain Bob Wyatt, in a move that Wisden calls "amazing and inexplicable", reverses his team's batting order as they set out after lunch on the final day of the second Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad to score 325 to win. The move backfires and England are all out for 107 to lose by 217 runs.
January 29
- Australia
- 1966 - Bobby Simpson (pictured) and Bill Lawry put on then-record 244 for first wicket in fourth Test against England at Adelaide. England had been all out for 241 the previous day.
- Pakistan
- 1955 - Miran Bux (Miran Bakhsh) makes Test debut for Pakistan v India at Lahore aged 47 years and 284 days, the second oldest debutant of all time (after James Southerton).
- 2006 - India's Irfan Pathan takes a hat-trick with the last three balls of the first over in the third Test at Karachi.
- West Indies
- 1951 - Andy Roberts is born at Antigua.
January 30
- In Australia
- 1992 - Curtly Ambrose takes 7 wickets for 1 run in the fifth and deciding Test between the West Indies and Australia at the WACA Ground.
January 31
- In Australia
- 1944 - John Inverarity is born in Subiaco, Western Australia