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.
1974 - Lawrence Rowe hits 302, the first triple century for the
West Indies in matches against
England, in the third Test of the 1973-74 series, played at
Bridgetown Oval. It was Rowe's first century outside Jamaica.
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.
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.
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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
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In South Africa
1910 - After 12 Tests, Jack Hobbs makes his first century, for England against South Africa at
Cape Town.
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.
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2013 - The Australian cricket team's selection panel suspends four players (vice-captain
Shane Watson, batsman
Usman Khawaja and fast bowlers
James Pattinson and
Mitchell Johnson) from the upcoming Test against
India due to their non-completion of an assignment.
1977 - The Centenary Test at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground commences. Remarkably, Australia won the match by 45 runs, exactly the same margin as the first Test match played in 1877.
March 13
India
1996 - In the semi-final of the 1996 Cricket World Cup at
Calcutta, the match is abandoned after crowds set fire to the stands and throw fruit at the players.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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).
1978 - Harold Gimblett, hard-hitting
England and
Somerset batsman whose
first-class debut in 1935 was the stuff of legends, died, committing suicide after years of depression and other health worries.