06th August

2015 Stuart Broad career-best 8/15 bowled out Australia for 60 in Ashes. The last time OZ was bowled out for lower or equal to 60 was way back in 1888. This was their lowest score in Ashes in the last 127 years. Broad also completed his 300th wicket when he dismissed Rogers for a duck. This day in 2012 also he bagged five wickets in the drawn Leeds test against Proteas.

The only test cricketer to have lived 100 years ,Norman Gordon was born.

2016 Dilruwan Perera six wickets haul handed Australia 229 runs defeat. The match also witnessed Herath hat-trick and Dimuth Karunaratne joining the elite list of batsmen to be out on the first ball of a Test match.

Iqbal Qasim, only Pakistan left arm spinner to bag 100 plus test wickets was born.

1998 England South Africa series was poised at 1-1 after host winning the Trent Bridge test. Mark Butcher scored his maiden test century in the opening day of fifth test, the knock turned out to be crucial as England won match by 23 runs to win their first five match series since 1986 Ashes.

1999 Peter Such 72 balls duck was second longest duck in test history at that time.

Sri Lanka Cricket team piled up 952 runs -highest ever score in a Test inning. Nilesh Kulkarni scalped wicket off his very first ball in debut test, also test debut of Mahela Jayawardene.Earlier in the match  Sanath Jayasuriya became the first batsman to score a triple century in Asia. He went on to score 340 on the following day and put on world record 576 runs for the second wicket with Mahanama.

New Zealand opener Jesse Ryder was born, his 46 ball hundred remains the second-fastest ODI ton by Kiwis batsman, fastest and then world record 36 ball hundred was also scored in the same match. Corey Anderson slammed 36 balls hundred in the Queenstown New Year Day match.

Cricketer turned commentator Simon Doull is born.

1992 Wasim Akram reverse swing demolished the England batting lineup in the opening day of the fifth and final test. The Pakistan gloveman Rashid Latif made his test debut. Pakistan went on to win the test and series 2-1. It was also the last test for David Gower, Derek Pringle, and Yorkshire Mallender. Waqar Younis took 22 wickets at 25.31, and Wasim Akram 21 at 22.00 both were players of the series.

The famous Edgbaston test of 2005, Shane Warne bowled out England for 182 runs in their second innings. The leg spinner finished his spell with six wickets for 46 runs. He almost took Oz home with his batting performance also scoring 42 before being hit wicket. England won by just 2 runs to level series 1-1.

2017 The left armer Ravindra Jadeja series winning five wickets haul against Sri Lanka.

2006 Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf triple-century stand was not enough as the team succumbed in the fourth inns to lose test. The 538 runs in the second inns of the match was then the highest score in a losing cause, a record better by Bangladesh in 2012.

2014 Younis Khan majestic 177 vs Sri Lanka