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December 30, 2001 - January 5, 2002
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30th December....
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1882:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Walter William Read played in 18 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1911:
England right-hand batsman Ernest James Smith played in 11 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1948:
Indian left-hand batsman Surinder Bhardwaj Amarnath, was born in Patiala. He played in 10 Tests and three ODIs.
1951:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1951:
Indian right-hand batsman and wicket-keeper Subhashchandra Pandhrinath Gupte played in 36 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1951:
Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Vijay Laxman Manjrekar played in 55 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1959:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Rodney John McCurdy, was born in Melbourne. He played in 11 ODIs.
1960:
India vs Pakistan in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1961:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: India beat England by 187 Runs.
1961:
England left-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Peter Howard Parfitt played in 37 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1967:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: Australia beat India by an innings and 4 Runs.
1968:
Australian left-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Adam Craig Dale, was born in Ivanhoe. He played in two Tests and 30 ODIs.
1972:
England left-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Christopher Middleton Old played in 46 Tests and 32 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1975:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Thirunavukarasu Kumaran, was born in Madras. He played in eight ODIs.
1977:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Sikander Bakht played in 26 Tests and 27 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1977:
Pakistan vs England in ODI, at Jinnah Park in Sialkot, Result: England beat Pakistan by 6 Wickets.
1977:
Pakistani left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Mohammad Iqbal Qasim played in 50 Tests and 15 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1977:
Pakistani right-hand batsman Haroon Rashid played in 23 Tests and 12 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1972:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: India beat England by 28 Runs.
1977:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: India beat Australia by 222 Runs.
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31st December....
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1881:
England left-hand batsman and left-arm fast bowler William Henry Scotton played in 15 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1881:
England right-hand batsman Arthur Shrewsbury played in 23 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1881:
Australian right-hand batsman and slow right-arm bowler George Giffen played in 31 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1893:
South African right-hand batsman James Manuel Blanckenberg, was born in Newlands, Cape Town. He played in 18 Tests.
1929:
England right-hand batsman Peter Barker Howard May, was born in Reading. He played in 66 Tests.
1948:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1948:
Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Ghulam Ahmed played in 22 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1958:
Indian right-hand batsman R. Surendranath played in 11 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1958:
Australian right-hand batsman Geoffrey Robert Marsh, was born in Northam. He played in 50 Tests and 117 ODIs.
1958:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: West Indies beat India by an innings and 336 Runs.
1964:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Winston Keithroy Matthew Benjamin, was born in All Saints. He played in 21 Tests and 85 ODIs.
1965:
Indian right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, was born in Madras. He played in nine Tests and 16 ODIs.
1966:
India vs West Indies in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: West Indies beat India by an innings and 45 Runs.
1966:
Indian right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Bishansingh Giansingh Bedi played in 67 Tests and 10 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1976:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Matthew James Hoggard, was born in Leeds. He played in five Tests and four ODI.
1981:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Imran Nazir, was born in Lahore. He played in five Tests and 35 ODIs.
1982:
Pakistan vs India in ODI, at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Result: India beat Pakistan by Faster scoring rate.
1984:
Indian right-hand batsman Mohammad Azizuddin Azharuddin played in 99 Tests and 334 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1984:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1990:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Gallage Pramodya Wickramasinghe played in 40 Tests and 132 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
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1st January....
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1885:
Australian right-hand batsman and slow right-arm bowler John Worrall played in 11; made his Test debut this day.
1898:
Australian right-hand batsman and medium pace bowler Montague Alfred Noble played in 42; made his Test debut this day.
1902:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Eiulf Peter Nupen, was born in Johannesburg. He played in 17 Tests.
1902:
Australian right-hand batsman and medium pace bowler Warwick Windridge Armstrong played in 50 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1902:
Australian right-hand batsman Reginald Alexander Duff played in 22 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1908:
England right-hand batsman John Berry Hobbs played in 61 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1910:
England right-hand batsman Herbert Strudwick played in 28 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1928:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Khan Muhammad, was born in Lahore. He played in 13 Tests.
1940:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Michael Henry Denness, was born in Bellshill. He played in 28 Tests and 12 ODIs.
1944:
West Indian right-hand batsman Charles Allan Davis, was born in Belmont. He played in 15 Tests.
1948:
Indian right-hand batsman Probir Khokar Sen played in 14 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1948:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: Australia beat India by 233 Runs.
1955:
Indian right-hand batsman Narendra Shankar Tamhane played in 21 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1955:
Pakistan vs India in Test, at Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Result: Draw.
1960:
Indian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Salim Aziz Durani played in 29 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1960:
India vs Australia in Test, at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, Result: Draw.
1960:
Indian right-hand batsman Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan played in 18 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1964:
Australian right-hand batsman Ian Ritchie Redpath played in 66 Tests and five ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1975:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Jeffery Robert Thomson played in 51 Tests and 50 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1975:
England right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Brian William Luckhurst played in 21 Tests and three ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1977:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: England beat India by 10 Wickets.
1977:
England right-hand batsman Derek William Randall played in 47 Tests and 49 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1982:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1987:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Phillip Anthony Jason DeFreitas played in 44 Tests and 103 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1987:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Gladstone Cleophas Small played in 17 Tests and 53 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1987:
England left-hand batsman Brian Christopher Broad played in 25 Tests and 34 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1989:
Pakistani left-hand batsman Saeed Anwar played in 55 Tests and 230 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1996:
Australia vs West Indies in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat West Indies by 1 Wickets.
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2nd January....
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1879:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler Alexander Chalmers Bannerman played in 28 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1886:
South African right-hand batsman Johan Wilhelm Zulch, was born in Lydenburg. He played in 16 Tests.
1906:
South African right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler George Aubrey Faulkner played in 25 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1906:
South African right-hand batsman Reginald Oscar Schwarz played in 20 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1906:
South African right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Sibley John Snooke played in 26 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1906:
South African right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Albert Edward Ernest Vogler played in 15 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1906:
South African right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Gordon Charles White played in 17 Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1959:
Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowlerv Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, was born in Purnea. He played in seven Tests and 25 ODIs.
1960:
Indian right-hand batsman Raman L.M. Lamba, was born in Meerut. He played in four Tests and 32 ODIs.
1964:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Rumesh Joseph Ratnayake, was born in Colombo. He played in 23 Tests and 70 ODIs.
1970:
England right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Ian David Kenneth Salisbury, was born in Northampton. He played in 15 Tests and four ODIs.
1971:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Aamer Nazir, was born in Lahore. He played in six Tests and nine ODIs.
1986:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.
1988:
Indian right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Ajay Kumar Sharma played in one Tests and 31 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1988:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Anthony Ian Christopher Dodemaide played in ten Tests and 24 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1988:
Australia vs India in ODI, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: India beat West Indies by 56 Runs.
1988:
Indian right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Woorkeri Venkat Raman played in 11 Tests and 27 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1988:
Indian right-hand batsman Sanjeev Kumar Sharma played in two Tests and 23 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1992:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.
1992:
Australian right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Shane Keith Warne played in 96 Tests and 167 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1993:
South Africa vs India in Test, at Newlands in Cape Town, Result: Draw.
1993:
South African right-hand batsman Daryll John Cullinan played in 70 Tests and 138 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1993:
West Indian right-hand batsman Junior Randalph Murray played in 31 Tests and 55 ODIs; made his Test debut this day .
1997:
South Africa vs India in Test, at Newlands in Cape Town, Result: South Africa beat India by 282 Runs.
1999:
New Zealand vs India in Test, at Seddon (WestpacTrust) Park in Hamilton, Result: Draw.
2000:
Australia vs India in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat India by an innings and 141 Runs.
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3rd January....
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1886:
Australian right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Arthur Alfred Mailey, was born in Waterloo, Sydney. He played in 21 Tests.
1932:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Jaswick Ossie Taylor, was born. He played in three Tests.
1963:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Aamer Malik, was born in Mandi Bahauddin. He played in 14 Tests and 24 ODIs.
1966:
Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Chetan Jagatram Sharma, was born in Ludhiana. He played in 23 Tests and 65 ODIs.
1969:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat West Indies by 10 Wickets.
1976:
Australia vs West Indies in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat West Indies by 7 Wickets.
1976:
Australian left-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Graham Neil Yallop played in 39 Tests and 30 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1983:
Pakistan vs India in Test, at Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad, Result: Pakistan beat India by 10 Wickets.
1987:
England vs West Indies in ODI, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: England beat West Indies by 19 Runs.
1988:
Australia vs New Zealand in ODI, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result: New Zealand beat Australia by 1 Runs.
1990:
Australia vs Pakistan in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result: Australia beat Pakistan by 7 Wickets.
1990:
Pakistani right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Mohammad Nadeem Ghauri played in one Tests and six ODIs.
1996:
West Indies vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Hobart, Result: West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 70 Runs.
1997:
Zimbabwe vs England in ODI, at Sports Club in Harare, Result: Zimbabwe beat England by 131 Runs.
1997:
Pakistan vs West Indies in ODI, at Wooloongabba in Brisbane, Result: West Indies beat Pakistan by 6 Wickets.
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4th January....
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1937:
Indian right-hand batsman R. Surendranath, was born in Meerut. He played in 11 Tests.
1942:
England right-hand batsman and slow left-arm bowler Michael John Smith, was born in Enfield. He played in five ODIs.
1975:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat England by 171 Runs.
1975:
Australian right-hand batsman Richard Bede McCosker played in 25 Tests and 14 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1980:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat England by 6 Wickets.
1980:
South African right-hand batsman and off break bowler Justin Lee Ontong, was born in Paarl. He played in seven ODIs.
1987:
Australia vs West Indies in ODI, at W.A.C.A. Ground in Perth, Result:West Indies beat Australia by 164 Runs.
1987:
India vs Sri Lanka in Test, at Baribati Stadium in Cuttack, Result: India beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 67 Runs.
1990:
Australia vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Result:Australia beat Sri Lanka by 73 Runs.
1991:
India vs Sri Lanka in ODI, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result:India beat Sri Lanka by 7 Wickets.
1991:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.
2000:
New Zealand vs West Indies in ODI, at Owen Delany Park in Taupo, Result:New Zealand beat West Indies by 7 Wickets.
2001:
New Zealand left-hand batsman Jacob David Philip Oram played in 17 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
2001:
Zimbabwian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler played in three ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
2001:
New Zealand vs Zimbabwe in ODI, at WestpacTrust Stadium in Wellington, Result: New Zealand beat Zimbabwe by 8 Wickets.
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5th January....
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1928:
Pakistani right-hand Imtiaz Ahmed, was born in Lahore. He played in 41 Tests.
1934:
Indian right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Cottari Subbanna Nayudu played in 11 Tests.
1934:
India vs England in Test, at Eden Gardens in Calcutta, Result: Draw.
1941:
Indian right-hand batsman Mansur Ali Khan Nawab of Pataudi, was born in Bhopal. He played in 46 Tests.
1941:
New Zealand right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Robert Smith Cunis, was born in Whangarei. He played in 20 Tests.
1948:
Indian right-hand batsman Parthasarthi Harischandra Sharma, was born in Alwar. He played in five Tests and two ODIs.
1951:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler John James Warr played in two Tests; made his Test debut this day.
1951:
Australia vs England in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Australia beat England by an innings and 13 Runs.
1958:
West Indian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Ezra Alphonsa Moseley, was born in Walronds. He played in two Tests and nine ODIs.
1962:
Sri Lankan right-hand batsman Don Sarda Brendon Priyantha Kuruppu, was born in Colombo. He played in four Tests and 54 ODIs.
1971:
England right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Michael Colin Cowdrey played in 114 Tests and one ODI; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England right-hand batsman and off break bowler Raymond Illingworth played in 61 Tests and three ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian left-hand batsman William Morris Lawry played in 67 Tests and one ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Graham Douglas McKenzie played in 60 Tests and one ODI; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England left-hand batsman John Hugh Edrich played in 77 Tests and 7 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler Alan Norman Connolly played in 29 Tests and one ODI; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman Ian Ritchie Redpath played in 66 Tests and five ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England right-hand batsman Geoffrey, OBE Boycott played in 108 Tests and 36 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman and leg break googly bowler Ian Michael Chappell played in 75 Tests and 16 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England right-hand batsman and right-arm fast bowler John Augustine Snow played in 49 Tests and nine ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman Kevin Douglas Walters played in 74 Tests and 28 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Keith Raymond Stackpole played in 43 Tests and six ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman Basil Lewis D'Oliveira played in 44 Tests and four ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England right-hand batsman and off break bowler Alan Philip Eric Knott played in 95 Tests and 20 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
England right-hand batsman and leg break bowler Keith William Robert Fletcher played in 59 Tests and 24 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Ashley Alexander Mallett played in 38 Tests and nine ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian left-hand batsman Rodney William Marsh played in 96 Tests and 92 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1971:
Australian right-hand batsman Gregory Stephen Chappell played in 87 Tests and 74 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1974:
New Zealand right-hand batsman Jeremy Vernon Coney played in 52 Tests and 88 ODIs; made his Test debut this day.
1974:
Australia vs New Zealand in Test, at Cricket Ground in Sydney, Result: Draw.
1981:
West Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Marlon Nathaniel Samuels, was born in Kingston. He played in 12 Tests and 29 ODIs.
1997:
India vs West Indies in ODI, at Municipal Ground in Rajkot, Result: West Indies beat India by 6 Wickets.
1988:
Indian right-hand batsman and off break bowler Sanjay Vijay Manjrekar played in 37 Tests and 74 ODIs; made his ODI debut this day.
1997:
Australia vs West Indies in ODI, at Wooloongabba in Brisbane, Result: West Indies beat Australia by 7 Wickets.
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