Cricket in History (Part 2)

Events 101 - 200 of 943

• 1912-05-28 Australian cricket spin bowler Jimmy Matthews takes 2 hat-tricks on same day in Triangular Tournament v South Africa at Old Trafford (3/16, 3/38); only player to achieve the feat

• 1918-12-26 1st day of 1st-class cricket in Aust after WW I (Vic v NSW)
• 1920-08-18 1st class cricket debut of Walter Hammond
• 1920-08-26 Surrey cricket all-rounder Percy Fender scores 100 in 35 minutes [113no] in a county match vs Northamptonshire at the County Ground, Northampton
• 1920-12-20 Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut v England SCG
• 1920-12-31 Victorian all-rounder Roy Park makes Test cricket debut for Australia v England in 2nd Test in Melbourne; bowled by Harry Howell for a first ball 'golden duck' in his first and only Test innings
• 1921-02-15 Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 v England, Australian Test Cricket rec
• 1921-03-01 Spin bowler Arthur Mailey takes 5 for 119 (record 36 wickets for series) to lead Australia to a 9 wicket 5th Test win over England in Sydney; first ever, 5-0 Ashes cricket series win for Australia
• 1922-12-16 NSW all out for 786 against South Australia Cricket

• 1924-06-14 Test Cricket debuts of English players Herbert Sutcliffe and Maurice Tate in 1st Test England v South Africa at Edgbaston
• 1924-06-28 Test cricket umpire debut for Frank Chester, v South Africa at Lord's

• 1925-01-01 Australian cricketer Bill Ponsford becomes the first batsman to score a century in each of his first 2 Tests when he hits 128 against England in the 2nd Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by 81 runs
• 1925-01-05 England cricket openers Herbert Sutcliffe (176) and Jack Hobbs (154) display heroics in their 1st innings but the tourists sink to an 81 run defeat in the 2nd Test against Australia in Melbourne; Sutcliffe also adds 127 in the England 2nd innings
• 1925-01-08 England cricket opening batsman Herbert Sutcliffe follows his 1st innings 176 with 127 in the 2nd innings but his team cannot avoid an 81 run defeat to Australia in the 2nd Test in Melbourne
• 1925-02-27 Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 & 6-37 v England
• 1925-12-21 Test batsman Hunter "Stork" Hendry scores career best unbeaten 325 for Victoria against New Zealand in drawn tour match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
• 1926-08-18 England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
• 1926-12-11 Leo O'Connor is unbeaten on 143 as Queensland wins their first Sheffield Shield match by 5 wickets vs NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
• 1927-05-28 Hammond scores his 1,000th cricket run of the season after 22 days

• 1927-12-17 Australian cricketing prodigy Don Bradman scores 118 in his 1st-class debut for NSW against South Australia at the Adelaide Oval
• 1927-12-24 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 & took 5-36 v S Af
• 1928-05-31 Charlie Hallows scores his 1,000th run of Cricket season
• 1928-06-23 Commencement of West Indies cricket's first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord's
• 1928-07-27 Kent cricket leg-spinner Tich Freeman becomes only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before end of July
• 1928-09-15 Kent leg-spinner Alfred "Tich" Freeman takes 2-102 and 4-75 for Rest of England vs Lancashire to become the only bowler to take 300 wickets (304) in an English cricket season
• 1928-11-01 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores 133 not out in NSW 2nd innings v Queensland in Brisbane; follows his 131 in the Blues' 1st innings
• 1928-11-30 Australian cricket legend Don Bradman makes an inauspicious Test debut; scores 18 & 1 vs England in 1st Test in Brisbane; dropped to 12th man for 2nd Test
• 1929-01-03 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman follows up a 1st innings of 79 to score 112 in 3rd Test v England in Melbourne; his 1st of 29 Test centuries
• 1929-01-25 Future Australian cricket captain Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 340 for NSW v Victoria (488 mins, 38 fours); then highest individual score in a Sheffield Shield match
• 1929-02-04 Archie Jackson scores 164 in Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
• 1929-03-13 20-year-old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 123 in 5th Test vs England at MCG; his second Test century
• 1929-08-28 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent v Middlesex at Lord's; his 100th first-class hundred
• 1930-01-06 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 452 not out for New South Wales v Queensland in Sydney; then world record individual score in a first-class match; runs scored in 415 minutes
• 1930-01-10 New Zealand's 1st game of Test cricket is held in Christchurch, NZ. Englishman Maurice Allom takes a Test hat-trick.

• 1930-01-24 John Mills scores New Zealand's 1st Test century in cricket, sharing a record 276 run opening stand with Stewie Dempster
• 1930-02-25 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley completes twin tons (114 & 112) in 3rd Test win against England at Georgetown, British Guiana
• 1930-02-26 West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
• 1930-04-04 England cricket batsman Andy Sandham ends Day 2 of 4th Test against West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica unbeaten on 309; 1st triple century in Test history; out for 325
• 1930-04-04 Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149)
• 1930-04-05 England cricketers dismissed for then record 849 v West Indies in 4th Test in Kingston, Jamaica; Andy Sandham out for 325
• 1930-04-10 Brilliant West Indian cricket batsman George Headley scores patient 223 in drawn 4th Test against England at Kingston, Jamaica
• 1930-04-12 4th Test Cricket WI v England ends in a draw after nine days
• 1930-04-12 Wilfred Rhodes ends Test Cricket career aged 52 years 165 days
• 1930-05-01 Cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 236 for Australia v Worcestershire in his first 1st class innings in England
• 1930-05-05 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores an unbeaten 185 in a tour match for Australia v Leicestershire at Aylestone Road, Leicester
• 1930-05-24 21-year-old Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 252 not out in a tour match for Australia v Surrey at Kennington Oval, London
• 1930-05-31 Don Bradman batting for Australia v Hampshire at Southampton is 47 not out at stumps, bringing his aggregate to 1,001 runs, the first cricket touring overseas batsman to complete 1,000 runs by end of May
• 1930-06-01 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman cracks 191 in tour match v Hampshire at Southampton; Bradman smashes 26 fours in 240 minutes
• 1930-06-17 Continuing a rich vein of form Australian cricket icon Don Bradman scores 131 in 1st Test v England at Trent Bridge, Nottingham
• 1930-06-30 Australian cricket maestro Don Bradman sets up a 7 wicket victory with a patient 254 in 2nd Test v England at Lord's; 'The Don' hits 25 fours off 376 balls
• 1930-07-11 21-year-old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman is 105 at lunch, 220 at tea, and 309 at stumps on the first day in 3rd Test vs England at Leeds; goes on to 334
• 1930-07-12 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman is out for 334 in drawn 3rd Test vs England at Headingley, Leeds; innings 383 minutes, 46 x 4's
• 1930-08-20 A week before his 22nd birthday Australian cricket's batting genius Don Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test win over England at The Oval in London
• 1930-08-22 Australian cricket slow-medium bowler Percy Hornibrook takes 7-92 as England dismissed for 251 in an innings defeat in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia regain Ashes, 2-1
• 1930-12-15 Occasional leg-spin bowler Don Bradman takes his 1st of only 2 Test cricket wickets when he traps West Indian batsman Ivan Barrow lbw for 27 in the 1st Test in Adelaide
• 1930-12-20 Cricketer Learie Constantine scores 100 runs in 52 mins West Indies v Tasmania (10x4, 1x6, 1x5) [1]
• 1931-01-16 Australian cricket batting prodigy Don Bradman scores 223 v West Indies in 3rd Test in Brisbane; most runs scored by a player in a Test match in Australia in one day
• 1931-03-04 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1
• 1931-11-28 Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 226 in his first Test appearance v South Africa in 1st Test in Brisbane
• 1931-12-07 After scoring 226 in 1st Test in Brisbane, Don Bradman belts 219 for NSW against the visiting South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground
• 1932-02-01 Australian cricket's master batsman Don Bradman scores 299 not out in 10 wicket 4th Test win vs South Africa in Adelaide; runs out of partners going for 300
• 1932-02-12 49-year-old Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger captures 5-6 as South Africa dismissed for 36 in 5th Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by an innings & 72 runs; series 5-0
• 1932-02-15 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an innings in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
• 1932-06-16 Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorkshire v Essex
• 1932-06-25 Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's, London (England initially rattled but go on to win)
• 1932-07-04 Don Bradman scores a North American record 260 v Western Ontario in Guelph during Australian cricket team's Goodwill Tour of North America
• 1932-07-07 Australian cricket batsman supreme Don Bradman scores a double century during a Goodwill Tour in Montreal, Canada
• 1932-07-12 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm

• 1932-12-02 Australia ends Day 1 of controversial 'Bodyline' cricket series v England at 290/6 in Sydney; Stan McCabe 127no (finishes at 187no); notorious England fast bowler Harold Larwood takes 4 wickets; England wins by 10 wickets
• 1932-12-20 50-year-old Australian cricket Test spinner Bert Ironmonger captures 7-13 as Queensland dismissed for 74; Victoria wins by an innings & 139 runs in Melbourne
• 1933-01-02 Don Bradman holds off England's hostile pace bowling to score an unbeaten 103 leading Australia to a 111 run victory in the 2nd 'Bodyline' Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
• 1933-01-16 Cricket's Bodyline Tour: Australian batsman Bert Oldfield's skull fractured by delivery bowled by Englishman Harold Larwood during the third test in Adelaide
• 1933-01-17 Australian cricket batting champion Don Bradman takes only his 2nd Test wicket; bowls England's Walter Hammond for 85 during 338-run 3rd Test defeat in Adelaide
• 1933-02-16 England cricket team regains the Ashes against Australia, thanks to "bodyline" tactics
• 1933-04-01 England cricket batsman Wally Hammond smashes 34 fours, 10 sixes in a Test record unbeaten 336 in the drawn 2nd Test against New Zealand in Auckland
• 1933-12-17 Bryan Valentine (136) and Lala Amarnath (102no) score centuries on their Test Cricket debut on Day 3 of 1st Test between England and India at Bombay
• 1934-01-26 Australian cricket batting icon Don Bradman scores 128 in just 96 minutes for NSW v Victoria in Sydney; smashes 17 x fours, 4 x sixes
• 1934-01-30 Former Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days as Victoria draws with NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground
• 1934-05-28 Jack Hobbs scores his 197th (or 199th) and last 1st class cricket century at 51 years and 163 days of age [1]

• 1934-07-23 Australian cricket batting legend Don Bradman completes 304 in drawn 4th Test vs England at Leeds; 430 minutes, 43 x fours, 2 x sixes
• 1934-08-18 Don Bradman (244) and Bill Ponsford (205 no) put on 451 in world record partnership for Australia on Day 1 of 5th cricket Test win against England at the Oval
• 1934-08-20 Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings
• 1934-08-22 Australian cricket spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett takes 5-64 as England dismissed for 145 in 5th Test at The Oval; Australia wins by 562 runs to regain Ashes, 2-1
• 1934-09-04 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone
• 1934-12-28 First ever Women's cricket international begins England vs Australia in Australia
• 1935-03-15 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
• 1935-05-14 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
• 1935-05-18 English batsman Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on his County Cricket debut for Somerset CCC vs Essex at Frome
• 1935-06-26 Surrey's former England Test cricket batsman Andy Sandham scores his 100th first class century (103) v Hampshire at Basingstoke
• 1935-12-14 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban
• 1935-12-18 Don Bradman scores 117 in his debut Sheffield Shield cricket match for South Australia in an innings & 5 run win over his old team, New South Wales
• 1936-01-02 Australian master batsman Don Bradman scores 357 (424 minutes, 40 fours) for South Australia v Victoria in a Sheffield Shield match in Melbourne; his 5th 300+ score in first-class cricket
• 1936-03-02 Australian cricket's batting maestro Don Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes (46 fours, 4 sixes) in South Australia's innings and 349 run win over Tasmania

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Birthdays 101 - 200 of 2,053

• 1865-09-30 Bonnor Middleton, South African cricket fast bowler (6 Tests, 24 wickets; Western Province), born in Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, England (d. 1913)
• 1865-11-01 Monty Bowden, English cricket wicketkeeper and captain (2 Tests; youngest England captain at 23 years, 144 days), born in Stockwell, Surrey (d. 1892)
• 1865-12-27 Harry Butt, English cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 2 dismissals; Sussex CCC, MCC), born in London, England (d. 1928)
• 1866-01-31 Henry Forster, British politician (Governor-General of Australia 1920-25) and cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89), born in Catford, England (d. 1936)
• 1866-03-20 Robert Poore, Irish cricket batsman (3 Tests for South Africa; Hampshire), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1938)
• 1866-06-08 Hylton Philipson, English cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests, 11 dismissals), born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England (d. 1935)
• 1866-08-05 Harry Trott, Australian cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 143, 29 wickets; Victoria CA), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1917)
• 1866-11-28 Dick Lilley, English cricket wicket-keeper (35 Tests from 1896 to 1909), born in Holloway Head, Warwickshire, England (d. 1929)
• 1867-04-13 Sammy Woods, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests Australia, 3 England, 1 x 50, 10 wickets; Somerset CCC) and rugby union flanker (13 caps England, 5 as captain), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1931)
• 1867-05-03 Jack Hearne, English cricket spin bowler (12 Tests, 49 wickets; England's first hat-trick vs Australia 1899), born in Chalfont St Giles, England (d. 1944)
• 1867-05-10 Jim Kelly, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905), born in Port Melbourne, Australia (d. 1938)
• 1867-05-12 Hugh Trumble, Australian cricket spin bowler and captain (32 Tests, 141 wickets; 2 x Test hat-tricks), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1938)
• 1867-05-21 J. J. Ferris, Australian cricket fast bowler (9 Tests, 61 wickets, BB 7/37; NSWCA, Gloucestershire CCC), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1900)
• 1867-06-19 Frank Iredale, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99), born in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia (d. 1926)
• 1867-07-24 Fred Tate, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 2 wickets; Sussex CCC) and coach (Derbyshire CCC), born in Brighton, England (d. 1943)
• 1867-10-06 Victor Barton, English cricket batsman (1 Test, HS 23; Kent CCC, Hampshire CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (Southampton), born in Netley, England (d. 1906)

• 1868-01-19 Bob McLeod, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 12 wickets, BB 5/53; Victoria), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1907)
• 1868-02-06 Syd Callaway, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 5/37, HS 41; NSW CA, Canterbury [NZ]), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1923)
• 1868-03-25 Bill Lockwood, English cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 43 wickets, BB 7/71, 1 x 50; Surrey CCC), born in Nottingham, England (d. 1932)
• 1868-04-05 Flooi Du Toit, South African cricketer (one Test South Africa 1892), born in Jacobsdal, Orange Free State (d. 1909)
• 1869-07-11 Percy McAlister, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests; Big Six cricket dispute 1912), born in Williamstown, Australia (d. 1938)
• 1869-08-31 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1890-93) and Scottish rugby union player, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1919)
• 1869-09-30 Ernie Jones, Australian cricket fast bowler (19 Tests, 64 wickets; first bowler to be called for throwing in a Test), born in Auburn, South Australia (d. 1943)
• 1869-12-07 Frank Laver, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 37 wickets, BB 8/31) and baseball player (first Australian national team), born in Castlemaine, Australia (d. 1919)
• 1869-12-29 Bill Howell, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (18 Tests, 49 wickets, BB 5/81; NSWCA), born in Penrith, Australia (d. 1940)
• 1870-03-11 Arthur E Ochse, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests; Transvaal), born in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa (d. 1918)
• 1870-04-14 Syd Gregory, Australian cricket batsman and captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1929)
• 1870-05-27 Lionel Palairet, British cricket batsman (2 Tests; Somerset CCC, Oxford Uni CC), born in Grange-over-Sands, Lancashire, England (d. 1933)
• 1870-08-11 Tom Richardson, England cricket fast bowler (14 Tests, 88 wickets, BB 8/94; Surrey CCC), born in Byfleet, England (d. 1912)
• 1870-08-18 Hugh Bromley-Davenport, England cricketer, born in Chelford, Cheshire, England (d. 1954)
• 1870-11-21 Joe Darling, Australian cricket batsman and captain (34 Tests, 21 as captain; 3 x 100s, TS 178; South Australia CA), born in Glen Osmond, Australia (d. 1946)

• 1870-11-21 Stanley Jackson, English cricketer (captain of England, governor of Bengal), born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, Yorkshire, England (d. 1947)
• 1870-11-29 Harry Graham, Australian cricketer (107 on Test debut Aust v Eng 1893), born in Melbourne, Victoria (d. 1911)
• 1870-12-10 Tom McKibbin, Australian cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 17 wickets; NSW CA), born in Bathurst, Australia (d. 1939)
• 1871-01-09 Charles Kortright, English cricketer described at the time of his death as "probably the fastest bowler in the history of the game", born in Fryerning, Essex, England (d. 1952)
• 1871-03-19 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), born in Berry Brow, Yorkshire, England (d. 1921)
• 1871-03-24 Leslie Gay, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test; Cambridge Uni, Hampshire CCC) and soccer goalkeeper (3 caps; Cambridge Uni), born in Brighton, Sussex (d. 1949)
• 1871-03-29 Tom Hayward, English cricket batsman (35 Tests, 3 x 100; HS 137; Surrey CCC), born in Cambridge (d. 1939)
• 1871-08-01 John Lester, American cricket all-rounder (Gentlemen of Philadelphia CC), born in Penrith, England (d. 1969)
• 1871-12-01 Archie MacLaren, English cricket batsman and captain (35 Tests; 424 Lancashire v Somerset 1895), born in Manchester, England (d. 1944)
• 1872-03-17 Douglas Carr, England cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 7 wickets; Kent CCC), born in Cranbrook, England (d. 1950)
• 1872-03-17 Willie Quaife, English cricket batsman (7 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC, Warwickshire CCC), born in Newhaven, England (d. 1951)
• 1872-04-25 C. B. Fry, English cricket batsman (26 Tests, 2 x 100s; Sussex, Hampshire), born in Croydon, England (d. 1956)
• 1872-08-16 Arthur Jones, England cricket all-rounder and captain (12 Tests, 3 wickets, 15 catches; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Shelton, England (d. 1914)
• 1872-09-10 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman (15 Tests, 989 runs @ 44.95, 2 x 100s) and politician (Maharaja of Nawanagar), born in Sadodar, Kathiawar, India (d. 1933)
• 1872-10-08 Albert Knight, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Leicestershire CCC), born in Leicester, England (d. 1946)

• 1873-01-28 Monty Noble, Australian cricket all-rounder (42 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 133, 121 wickets, BB 7/17; NSW), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1940)
• 1873-04-19 Sydney Barnes, English cricket fast bowler (27 Tests, 189 wickets, BB 9/103); Warwickshire CCC, Lancashire CCC, Staffordshire CCC), born in Smethwick, England (d. 1967)
• 1873-05-08 Henry Leveson-Gower, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Surrey CCC, Oxford University CC), born in Titsey Place, Surrey, England (d. 1954)
• 1873-10-02 Sir Pelham Warner, English cricket batsman, tour manager and administrator (15 Tests; MCC chairman of selectors), born in The Hall, Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 1963)
• 1873-10-19 Bart King, American cricket pioneer (North America's greatest all-rounder; helped develop art of swing bowling), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1965)
• 1873-11-22 Johnny Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (31 Tests, 4 x 100, 9 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), born in Worsley, England (d. 1930)
• 1874-04-26 Biddy Anderson, South African cricket batsman (1 Test as captain; Western Province) and rugby union centre (3 Tests), born in Kimberley, South Africa (d. 1926)
• 1874-05-19 Gilbert Jessop, English cricket batsman (18 Tests; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1898), born in Cheltenham, England (d. 1955)
• 1874-06-26 Albert Relf, English cricket all-rounder (13 Tests, 1 x 50, 25 wickets, BB 5/85; Sussex CCC, Auckland CA), born in Burwash, East Sussex, England (d. 1937)
• 1874-07-04 David Denton, English cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 104; Yorkshire CCC), born in Wakefield, England (d. 1950)
• 1874-11-07 Joseph Willoughby, South African cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96), born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England (d. 1952)
• 1875-01-01 Frank Druce, English cricket batsman (5 Tests, 1 x 50; Surrey CCC), born in London, England (d. 1954)
• 1875-04-02 William Donne, English cricket batsman, (Olympic gold 1900) and administrator (President England Rugby Football Union), born in Wincanton, England (d. 1934)
• 1875-04-27 Frederick Fane, English cricket batsman (14 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 143; Essex CCC, Oxford University CC, London County CC), born in Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1960)
• 1875-05-04 Reggie Schwartz, English cricket spin bowler (20 Tests South Africa, 55 wickets, BB 6/47) and rugby union fly half (3 Tests England), born in London, England (d. 1918)
• 1875-06-07 George Simpson-Hayward, English cricket spin bowler (5 Tests, 23 wickets @ 18.26; last great underarm bowler; Cambridge University CC, Worcestershire CCC), born in Stoneleigh, England (d. 1936)
• 1875-09-09 Jack O'Connor, Australian cricket fast bowler (4 Tests, 13 wickets, BB 5/40; NSW CA, SA CA), born in Boorowa, Australia (d. 1941)
• 1875-10-18 Len Braund, English cricket all-rounder (23 Tests, 3 x 100, 47 wickets; Surrey CCC, Somerset CCC), born in Clewer, Berkshire, England (d. 1955)
• 1875-12-25 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), born in Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, England (d. 1924)

• 1876-04-09 George Shepstone, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests; Transvaal), born in Pietermaritzberg, Natal, South Africa (d. 1940)
• 1876-04-14 Murray Bisset, South African cricket wicket-keeper and captain (3 Tests, 3 dismissals; Western Province), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1931)
• 1876-05-03 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricket fast bowler (20 Tests, 26 wickets), born in Young, Australia (d. 1931)
• 1876-05-03 E. B. Dwyer, Australian-born cricketer (Sussex), born in Redfern, Australia (d. 1912)
• 1876-07-19 John Gunn, English cricket medium pace bowler (6 Tests, 18 wickets, BB 5/76; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Hucknall, England (d. 1963)
• 1876-09-26 Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer (South African lefty all-rounder 1896-1912), born in Pietermaritzberg, Natal (d. 1964)
• 1876-10-07 Louis Tancred, South African cricket batsman (14 Tests, 2 x 50; Transvaal), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1934)
• 1876-11-06 Ernie Hayes, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Surrey CCC, Leicestershire CCC), born in London, England (d. 1953)
• 1876-11-07 Charlie Townsend, English cricketer, born in Bristol (d. 1958)
• 1876-11-07 Ted Arnold, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05), born in Withycombe Raleigh, Devon (d. 1942)
• 1876-11-28 Bert Vogler, South African cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 64 wickets, BB 7/94, 2 x 50; Natal, Transvaal; MCC), born in Swartwater, South Africa (d. 1946)
• 1877-03-18 Clem Hill, Australian cricket batsman and captain (49 Tests, 7 x 100, HS 191; South Australia CA), born in Adelaide, Australia (d. 1945)
• 1877-07-19 Arthur Fielder, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), born in Plaxtol, Tonbridge, Kent (d. 1949)
• 1877-10-04 Razor Smith, English cricket spin bowler (245 first class matches, Surry CCC), born in Oxford, England (d. 1946)
• 1877-10-13 Bernard Bosanquet, English cricketer (pioneer of googly), born in Bulls Cross, Enfield, Middlesex, England (d. 1936)
• 1877-10-29 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (Yorks & Eng SLA, played Tests 1899-1930), born in Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, England (d. 1973)

• 1878-02-08 Leonard Moon, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, Cambridge University CC, Middlesex CCC), born in London, England (d. 1916)
• 1878-03-15 Sammy Carter, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 65 dismissals; NSWCA), born in Northowram, England (d. 1948)
• 1878-04-07 Maitland Hathorn, South African cricketer (12 tests 1901-11), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1920)
• 1878-04-16 R. E. Foster, English cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 287 on debut 1903; Worcestershire CCC) and soccer forward (5 caps; Corinthian FC, Old Malvernians FC; only man to captain England in both sports), born in Malvern, England (d. 1914)
• 1878-08-17 Reggie Duff, Australian cricket batsman (23 Tests; 104 on debut), born in Sydney, Australia (d. 1911)
• 1878-10-17 Barlow Carkeek, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (6 Tests, 6 dismissals; Victoria), born in Walhalla, Australia (d. 1937)
• 1879-01-25 Dave Nourse, South African cricket all-rounder (45 Tests, 1 x 100, 41 wickets; Natal, Transvaal, Western Province), born in South Norwood, England (d. 1948)
• 1879-03-25 Rockley Wilson, English cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 3 wickets; Cambridge University, Yorkshire CCC), born in Bolsterstone, England (d. 1957)
• 1879-05-22 Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21), born in Kyneton, Australia (d. 1947)
• 1879-05-30 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (outstanding slow lefty pre-WWI), born in Deptford (d. 1917)
• 1879-06-13 George Gunn, English cricket batsman (15 Tests, 2 x 100, 7 x 50, HS 122no; Nottinghamshire CCC), born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1958)
• 1879-08-07 Johannes Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 3/64; London County, Transvaal, Western Province), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1931)
• 1880-01-28 Herbert Strudwick, English cricket wicketkeeper (28 Tests, 73 dismissals; Surrey CCC), born in Mitcham, England (d. 1970)
• 1880-08-17 Percy Sherwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper and captain (13 Tests, 1 x 100, 36 dismissals; Transvaal), born in Isipingo, South Africa (d. 1948)
• 1880-10-21 Reggie Spooner, English cricket batsman (10 Tests; dual cricket/rugby union international), born in St Helens, Lancashire (d. 1961)
• 1881-02-01 Tip Snooke, South African cricket all-rounder and captain (26 Tests, 35 wickets), born in St Mark's, Eastern Cape, South Africa (d. 1966)
• 1881-02-08 (William) Crickett Smith, American ragtime, and jazz cornetist and trumpeter (James Reese Europe's Clef Club; Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolics; Louis Mitchell's Jazz Kings), and bandleader, born in Emporia, Kansas (d. 1944)
• 1881-04-23 Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets, BB 6/50; Natal, Transvaal), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1952)

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Deaths 101 - 200 of 1,198

• 1918-04-20 Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
• 1918-10-17 Gordon White, cricketer (WW I Superb South African batsman 1905-12), dies
• 1918-11-18 Reggie Schwartz, English cricket spin bowler (20 Tests South Africa, 55 wickets, BB 6/47) and rugby union fly half (3 Tests England), dies from Spanish flu at 43
• 1918-11-26 Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
• 1919-04-30 Henry Wood, English cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 134no; Kent CCC, Surrey CCC), dies at 65
• 1919-07-31 Dick Barlow, English cricket all-rounder (17 Tests, 2 x 50, 34 wickets, BB 7/40; Lancashire CCC), dies at 68
• 1919-08-04 Dave Gregory, Australian cricket batsman (Australia's 1st Test captain; 3 Tests; NSW CA), dies at 74
• 1919-08-20 Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1890-93) and Scottish rugby union player, dies at 49
• 1919-09-24 Frank Laver, Australian cricket medium pace bowler (15 Tests, 37 wickets, BB 8/31) and baseball player (first Australian national team), dies of a cerebral haemorrhage at 49
• 1919-10-02 Ernest Halliwell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests), dies at 55
• 1919-10-28 Ted Wainwright, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Yorkshire CCC), dies at 54
• 1920-05-17 Maitland Hathorn, South African cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests South African 1901-11), dies at 42
• 1920-07-05 John Shuter, cricketer (scored 28 in only Test for England 1888), dies
• 1920-12-21 Claude Tozer, Australian doctor and cricketer (dashing NSW batsman), shot to death by a patient at 30
• 1921-01-19 William Gunn, English cricket batsman (11 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 102no; Nottinghamshire CCC) and soccer winger (2 caps; Notts County FC), dies at 62
• 1921-02-12 Charles Leslie, English cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83), dies at 59

• 1921-02-27 Schofield Haigh, English cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 24 wickets, BB 6/11; Yorkshire CCC), dies from a stroke at 49
• 1921-04-29 Arthur Mold, English cricket fast bowler (England 3 Tests; 1,673 1st class wickets), dies at 57
• 1921-07-02 Edwin Evans, Australian cricket spin bowler (6 Tests; 7 wickets), dies at 72
• 1921-11-17 John McLaren, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1912), dies
• 1921-12-13 Frederick Martin, cricketer (14 wkts in 2 Tests for Eng 1890-92), dies
• 1922-09-21 Tom Armitage, English cricketer (took part 1st two cricket test match England played), dies at 74
• 1923-03-16 George Bean, English cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Sussex CCC), dies from pneumonia at 59
• 1923-05-30 Charles Fichardt, cricketer (South African batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96), dies
• 1923-06-26 Edward Rae, cricketer (introduced cricket into Russian Lapland), dies
• 1923-10-12 A P "Bunny" Lucas, cricketer (five Tests for England 1879-82), dies
• 1923-11-25 Syd Callaway, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 5/37, HS 41; NSW CA, Canterbury [NZ]), dies at 55
• 1924-03-25 John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
• 1924-04-16 Jack Board, English cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies at 57
• 1924-04-24 George Street, English cricket wicket-keeper (1 Test, 1 dismissal; Surrey CCC, MCC), dies in a road accident at 34
• 1924-05-19 Billy Zulch, cricketer (South African batsman scored 2 Test centuries), dies

• 1924-08-17 Tom Kendall, Australian cricket slow bowler (2 Tests, 14 wickets in Australia's 1st 2 Tests, BB 7/55), dies at 72
• 1924-09-10 Walter Lees, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests, 26 wickets), dies at 48
• 1924-09-19 Alick Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (28 Tests, 8 x 50s; NSW 1876–94), dies at 70
• 1924-10-05 Tom Campbell, South African cricket wicket keeper (5 Tests, 8 dismissals), dies in a railway accident at 42
• 1925-08-03 William Bruce, Australian cricketer (drowns 14 Tests for Australia 1885-95), commits suicide by drowning at 61
• 1925-12-17 A. N. Hornby, English cricket batsman and captain (3 Tests; Lancashire CCC) and rugby union utility back & captain (9 Tests; Lancashire CRFC), dies at 78
• 1926-03-11 Biddy Anderson, South African cricket batsman (1 Test as captain; Western Province) and rugby union centre (3 Tests), dies at 51
• 1926-04-15 Frank Iredale, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies at 58
• 1926-05-20 Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for England 1892), dies

• 1926-11-01 Wilfred Flowers, English cricket all-rounder (8 Tests; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 69
• 1927-04-10 Ivo Bligh, British noble (8th Earl of Darnley) and cricket batsman (4 Tests; first England captain v Australia 1882-83), dies at 68
• 1927-05-09 Tommy Routledge, South African cricketer (4 Tests for South Africa 1892-96), dies at 60
• 1927-06-11 William Attewell, English cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies at 65
• 1927-07-21 J. J. Lyons, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Australia), dies at 64
• 1927-08-05 Thomas Groube, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test; Victoria CA), dies at 69
• 1927-11-29 George Giffen, Australian cricket all-rounder (31 Tests, 1 x 100, 6 x 50, HS 161, 103 wickets, BB 7/117; SA CA), dies at 68
• 1927-12-21 Jack Saunders, cricketer (79 wickets-14 Tests for Aust 1902-08), dies
• 1928-04-05 Roy Kilner, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1924-26), dies at 38
• 1928-09-25 Karl Schneider, Australian cricketer (South Aust batsman), dies of leukemia at 23
• 1928-10-16 Septimus Kinneir, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies
• 1928-12-21 Harry Butt, English cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 2 dismissals; Sussex CCC, MCC), dies at 62
• 1929-02-17 Maurice Read, English cricket batsman (17 Tests, 2 x 50; Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1890; Surrey CCC), dies at 70
• 1929-05-21 V P F A Royle, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1879), dies
• 1929-06-02 Charles Coventry, cricketer (13 runs in 2 Tests Eng v S Af 1889), dies
• 1929-08-01 Syd Gregory, Australian cricket batsman and captain (58 Tests, 4 x 100, 8 x 50, HS 201; NSW CA), dies at 59
• 1929-08-25 Frederick Burton, Australian cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies at 63
• 1929-10-21 Owen Dunell, South African cricket batsman (South Africa's 1st Test captain; 2 Tests), dies at 73
• 1929-10-25 James Lillywhite, English cricket slow bowler (1st England Test captain; 2 Tests, 8 wickets; Sussex CCC) and umpire (6 Tests 1881–99), dies at 87
• 1929-11-09 Nicolaas Theunissen, South African cricket break bowler (2nd Test 1889), dies
• 1929-11-17 Dick Lilley, English cricket wicket-keepe (92 dismissals in 35 Tests 1896-1909), dies at 62
• 1929-12-09 Willis Cuttell, English cricket spin bowler (2 Tests, 6 wickets; Lancashire CCC), dies at 66
• 1930-03-06 William Milton, British cricket all-rounder (3 Tests South Africa, 2 wickets) and rugby union centre (2 Tests England), dies at 75
• 1930-06-11 George Alexander, British cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies at 79
• 1930-06-12 Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
• 1930-07-14 William Hare Ashley, South African cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies at 68
• 1930-08-20 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests; first centurion in Test history 165* 1877), dies at 79
• 1930-09-10 Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricket all-rounder (25 Tests, 4 x 100s, TS 204; Transvaal), dies from self inflicted gas poisoning at 48
• 1930-11-11 William Whysall, British cricketer (4 Tests for England 1924-30), dies at 43
• 1930-11-27 Johnny Tyldesley, English cricket batsman (31 Tests, 4 x 100, 9 x 50, HS 138; Lancashire CCC), dies at 57
• 1930-12-09 Jim Slight, cricketer (represented Australia at Oval 1880), dies
• 1930-12-19 Johnny Douglas, English cricket all-rounder, captain (23 Tests, 1 x 100, 45 wickets; Essex CCC) and boxer (Olympic gold middleweight 1908), dies by drowning at 48
• 1931-04-25 Bert Hopkins, Australian cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 509 runs), dies at 56
• 1931-04-30 Sammy Woods, Australian cricket all-rounder (3 Tests Australia, 3 England, 1 x 50, 10 wickets; Somerset CCC) and rugby union flanker (13 caps England, 5 as captain), dies at 64
• 1931-07-07 Johannes Kotze, South African cricket fast bowler (3 Tests, 6 wickets, BB 3/64; London County, Transvaal, Western Province), dies from heart failure at 51
• 1931-07-16 Charles Studd, English cricket all-rounder (5 Tests; Middlesex) and missionary (Cambridge Seven), dies from untreated gallstones at 70
• 1931-09-20 Sam Morris, Australian cricket all-rounder (1 Test; 1st black & of West Indian origin to rep. Australia in a Test; Victoria CA), dies at 76
• 1931-10-24 Murray Bisset, South African cricket wicket-keeper and captain (3 Tests, 3 dismissals; Western Province), dies at 55
• 1931-11-02 Henry Musgrove, Australian cricket batsman (1 Test 1885), dies at 72
• 1932-03-24 George Harris, (4th Baron Harris), English cricket batsman and captain (4 Tests, 1 x 50; Kent CCC), dies at 81
• 1932-04-26 Bill Lockwood, English cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 43 wickets, BB 7/71, 1 x 50; Surrey CCC), dies at 64
• 1932-07-09 Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies
• 1932-08-01 Arnold Fothergill, English cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 8 wickets. BB 4/19; Somerset CCC, MCC), dies at 77
• 1932-12-28 Jack Blackham, Australian cricket wicketkeeper (35 Tests, 4 x 50s, 61 dismissals; Victoria CA), dies at 78
• 1933-01-17 John Hodges, Australian cricket fast bowler (2 Tests [first 2 played], 6 wickets; Victoria), dies at 77
• 1933-02-16 Archie Jackson, Australian cricket batsman (8 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 164; NSWCA), dies from tuberculosis at 23
• 1933-03-27 Lionel Palairet, British cricket batsman (2 Tests; Somerset CCC, Oxford Uni CC), dies at 62
• 1933-04-02 Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman (15 Tests, 989 runs @ 44.95, 2 x 100s) and politician (Maharaja of Nawanagar), dies at 60
• 1933-05-29 Frank Sugg, English cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for England 1888) and footballer, dies at 71
• 1933-11-15 Affie Jarvis, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (11 Tests, 18 dismissals; South Australia), dies at 73
• 1933-12-09 Morice Bird, cricketer (scored 280 runs in 10 Tests for England), dies
• 1934-03-24 William Donne, English cricket batsman, (Olympic gold 1900) and administrator (President England Rugby Football Union), dies at 58
• 1934-07-07 Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
• 1934-07-28 Louis Tancred, South African cricket batsman (14 Tests, 2 x 50; Transvaal), dies at 57
• 1934-08-05 Neville Quinn, South African cricket fast bowler (12 Tests, 35 wickets), dies of heart failure at 26
• 1935-01-10 Charlie McGahey, Australian cricketer (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
• 1935-03-03 Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
• 1935-06-30 Bill Brockwell, English cricketer (British all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies at 70
• 1935-10-11 Frank Mitchell, cricketer (2 Tests for Eng then 3 for South Africa), dies

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