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March 1

Australia

March 2

England

March 3

Australia
  • 1937 - Australia complete the comeback by winning the fifth and decisive Ashes Test at Melbourne, taking the series 3-2 after having lost the first two matches to England. The decisive game is won in five days by an innings and 200 runs.
Pakistan

March 4

South Africa

March 5

In Australia
In South Africa
In Rhodesia

March 6

In Sri Lanka

March 7

West Indies
  • 1964 - Everton Weekes retires from first-class cricket. He scores 13 in his final innings, ending with 12,010 first-class runs at 55.34.

March 8

South Africa
Australia

March 9

India
West Indies

March 10

South Africa
  • 1970 - South Africa complete their first series whitewash with a win over Australia at Crusaders, Port Elizabeth. South Africa won the four Tests convincingly: by 170 runs, an innings and 129 runs, 307 runs, and 323 runs. However, the Test was the last played by South Africa until after the end of the apartheid era in 1991.
West Indies

March 11

In India
  • 1915 - Vijay Hazare is born in Sangli, Maharashtra. Hazare played in 30 Tests with an average of 47.65. He was also a useful right-arm medium pace bowler.[3]
  • 1949 - In the Ranji Trophy semi-final between Bombay and Maharashtra at Poona, a total 2,376 runs are scored for the loss of 38 wickets - a world record. The innings scores were 651, 407, 714 and 604. Bombay won the match by 354 runs[4]
In South Africa
In Pakistan
  • 1980 - On day four of the second Test at Faisalbad, all eleven Australians bowl, including wicket-keeper Rod Marsh who took a wicket.[5]
In Australia

March 12

South Africa
Australia

March 13

India
England
Australia

March 14

Australia

March 15

Australia
West Indies

March 16

Herschelle Gibbs
Herschelle Gibbs
Bangladesh
England
India
West Indies
Zimbabwe

March 17

Pakistan

March 18

Bob Woolmer
Bob Woolmer
Australia
Sri Lanka
  • 1992 - For the first time, England lose a Test to Sri Lanka in a one-off Test at Colombo.[7]
West Indies
  • 1935 - West Indies beat England by an innings and 161 runs in the fourth and final Test at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica to secure victory in a Test series for the first time, by two matches to one.
  • 2007 - Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer (pictured) is found dead in his hotel room during the 2007 Cricket World Cup amid speculation that he had been murdered. After several months of inquiries, police finally conceded that he had died of natural causes.

March 19

In South Africa
In New Zealand

March 20

South Africa

March 21

Australia
South Africa

References

March 22

In Australia
  • 1927 - George Thoms is born in Footscray, Victoria.
  • 1988 - Ian Botham is involved in an in-flight incident between Perth and Brisbane. He was charged by police and pleaded guilty to charges of assault and offensive behaviour. His contract with the Queensland Bulls was later terminated.
In New Zealand
  • 1915 - Fen Cresswell is born. Creswell died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1966.
  • 1995 - Sri Lanka has their first series win, after a drawn second Test at Dunedin.

March 23

In South Africa
In Australia

March 24

Australia
England

March 25

Australia

March 26

Pakistan

March 27

West Indies

March 28

India
New Zealand
  • 1951 - In an umpiring mixup, Alex Moir bowls two successive overs each side of the tea interval in the second Test against England at Wellington - the first person to do so since Warwick Armstrong at Old Trafford in 1921.
  • 1955 - New Zealand make the lowest Test score in history - 26 against England at Auckland.[11]
Australia
West Indies

March 29

Australia
England
  • 1871 - Tom Hayward, leading professional batsman from the years before the First World War and scorer of then-record tally of 3518 runs in the 1906 season, is born at Cambridge
New Zealand
South Africa
  • 1994 - Australian captain Allan Border retires after being out for 45 runs at Durban. Border held numerous career records: top run scorer (11,174 runs); most Test matches played (156); batted in more Test innings than any other player (265); captained Australia 93 times (all consecutive).

March 30

Australia
England
India
New Zealand

March 31

England