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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).