Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/September

Template:SeptemberCalendar2025Source These are the selected anniversaries for September that appear on the Cricket portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.

September 1

England

1955 – Surrey's 23rd County Championship victory of the season is a record. They win the match against Derbyshire inside two days. They lose their five other Championship matches, and so go through the whole season without drawing a single match
1961 – Hampshire defeat Derbyshire by 140 runs at Bournemouth to become County Champions for the first time

Pakistan

1908 – Amir Elahi, Pakistan's Test Cap No 1 who also played Test cricket for India, is born at Lahore

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September 2

England

1980 - Kim Hughes bats for all five days of the Centenary Test at Lord's, the third man to do so.

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September 3

England

1900 - Percy Chapman is born at Reading

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September 4

India

1977 - Ajit Agarkar born.

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September 5

England

1969 - Mark Ramprakash (pictured) is born at Bushey, Hertfordshire

West Indies

1954 - Richard Austin, World Series Cricketer and member of the Rebel West Indian side in South Africa, born.

Zimbabwe

1972 - Guy Whittall, 46 Tests and 147 One-day Internationals, is born at Chipinge in Manicaland

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September 6

India

1990 - Chethan Gaikwad Bill Alley completes 25 years.

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September 7

India

1990 - Chetan Gaikwad is born at Bangalore, Karnataka

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September 8

England

1938 - Frank Woolley takes the final catch of his first-class cricket career, No 1018, to set the record for a non-wicketkeeping fielder. Woolley is playing for an England Past and Present XI against Sir Pelham Warner's XI in a festival match at Folkestone. It is Woolley's 978th first-class match in a career that began in 1906.

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September 9

Australia

1853 - Fred Spofforth, the "Demon", born in Balmain, New South Wales.

England

1959 - West Indian Test all-rounder Collie Smith dies at Stoke-on-Trent after being injured in a road accident three days earlier.

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September 10

England

1948 - Donald Bradman scores 153 in his final innings in England, a rain-hit match between the Australian touring team and H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI at Scarborough.

South Africa

1930 - Aubrey Faulkner dies.

West Indies

1989 - Former West Indies Test captain Jeff Stollmeyer dies in hospital in Florida after being injured by intruders at his home at Port of Spain, Trinidad

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September 11

India

1911 - Lala Amarnath born.
1976 - Murali Kartik born.

South Africa

2007 - Chris Gayle and Devon Smith set a world Twenty 20 International partnership record of 145 at Johannesburg.[1]

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September 12

England

1930 - Wilfred Rhodes takes the last of his record number of career first-class wickets – 4204 according to some sources, 4187 according to others (see Variations in first-class cricket statistics) – in his final first-class match, which is his 1110th, also a record. Rhodes is playing for H. D. G. Leveson-Gower's XI against the Australians at Scarborough.

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September 13

Australia

1969 - Shane Warne (pictured) is born in Upper Ferntree Gully, Victoria

South Africa

1963 - England batsman Robin Smith is born at Durban

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September 14

Australia

1919 - Gil Langley born.

India

1963 - Robin Singh born.

New Zealand

1959 - Brendon Bracewell born.

South Africa

1957 - Double international Kepler Wessels, the first man to play One-day International cricket for two countries, is born at Bloemfontein.

Pakistan

1957 - Double international yawar inam, the first man to play One-day International cricket for two countries, is born at karachi

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September 15

England

1928 - Tich Freeman, playing for The Rest against the Champion County, Lancashire, at The Oval, has Dick Tyldesley stumped by Leslie Ames to record his 300th wicket of the English cricket season. Freeman takes four further wickets in Lancashire's second innings on Monday 17 September to finish with 304, at an average of 18.05 runs per wicket, the only player ever to take more than 300 wickets in a season.

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September 16

England

1961 - Percy Chapman dies at Alton, Hampshire, aged 61

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September 17

England

1940 - Peter Lever is born at Todmorden

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September 18

England

1970 - Darren Gough born.

India

1986 - Australia and India complete the second Tied Test at Chennai.

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September 19

India

1977 - Aakash Chopra born.

South Africa

2007 - Yuvraj Singh (pictured) hits six sixes off Stuart Broad, becoming the first player to hit six sixes in an international Twenty20 match.

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September 20

Pakistan

1982 - Jalal-ud-Din takes the first One Day International hat-trick in history, with the wickets of Rod Marsh (bowled), Bruce Yardley (caught Wasim Bari) and Geoff Lawson (bowled), at Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad.[2]

India

1986 - Sunil Gavaskar becomes the first man to make 100 consecutive Test appearances, coming out to bat in the third day of the Tied Test at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Madras.

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September 21

West Indies

1901 - Learie Constantine (pictured) is born at Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago.
1963 - Curtly Ambrose is born at Swetes, Antigua and Barbuda.

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September 22

India

1986 - The first Test of the Australian tour to India at M. A. Chidambaram Stadium ends in a tie, the second Tied Test in history.

New Zealand

1962 - Martin Crowe is born in Auckland.

Sri Lanka

1976 - Thilan Samaraweera is born in Colombo.

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September 23

Pakistan

1971 - Moin Khan is born in Rawalpindi

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September 24

India

2007 - India won the inaugural ICC World Twenty20, beating Pakistan in the final by 5 runs at South Africa.
2020 - Dean Jones passed away after collapsing in a hotel in Mumbai.

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