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December 1
- India
- 1980 - Mohammad Kaif is born
- England
- 1940 - Mike Denness is born
- Sri Lanka
- 1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga is born
December 2
- Australia
- 2006 - Paul Collingwood scores 206 for England in the second Ashes Test at Adelaide, the first English double-century in Australia in 70 years. But Australia still win the match by six wickets.
- South Africa
- 1906 - Eric Dalton born.
- India
- 2009 - Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai hosts its 18th Test match, the third Test match of the series between India and Sri Lanka. This was the longest interval between hosting of two successive tests at the same venue - a period of 36 years, 9 months and 21 days. India made their highest test score of 726 for 9 and won the match by an innings.
December 3
- England
- 1905 - Leslie Ames, wicketkeeper-batsman in 47 Tests for England is born at Elham, Kent
December 4
- West Indies
- 1999 - Sylvester Clarke, fast bowler, dies aged 44.
December 5
- New Zealand
- 1970 - Matthew Horne is born at Takapuna, Auckland
December 6
- In England
- 1949 - Peter Willey is born at Sedgefield in County Durham
- 1977 - Andrew Flintoff is born in Preston, Lancashire
December 7
- Australia
- 1948 - Donald Bradman's Testimonial match at Melbourne ends with the scores level between invitation sides led by Bradman and by Lindsay Hassett. Under the then rules, the match is declared a tie. Bradman himself made his final, 117th, first-class century in the first innings.
December 8
- Australia
- 2006 - Damien Martyn, on the winning side for Australia in the first two Ashes Tests of the 2006-07 series, announces his sudden and immediate retirement from all forms of cricket
December 9
- Australia
- 1960 - At the Brisbane Cricket Ground, Australia and West Indies begin the Test match that will become, five days later, the first Tied Test.
December 10
- Australia
- 1847 - Harry Boyle, who played in 12 of the first 17 Test matches, is born at Sydney
December 11
- In Australia
- 1970 - the WACA Ground hosts its first Test: Australia v the Marylebone Cricket Club. Future captain Greg Chappell makes his Test debut. The match ends in a draw.[1]
- West Indies
- 1954 - Sylvester Clarke born.
December 12
- India
- 1981 - Yuvraj Singh is born.
December 13
- Australia
- 1946 - Sid Barnes and Don Bradman set a still-standing 5th-wicket Test partnership of 405 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground.[2]
December 14
- In Australia
- 1960 - In the first Test of the West Indies tour at the Gabba, Ian Meckiff is run out on the last ball and the match ends in a tie, the first Tied Test in history.
- In the Channel Islands
- 1991 - John Arlott, journalist and commentator known as "the voice of cricket", dies at his home on Alderney at the age of 77
December 15
- Australia
- 1976 - Dennis Lillee causes an uproar by using an aluminium bat on the second day of the 1st Ashes Test at the WACA Ground. English captain Mike Brearley complained and after an animated discussion with the umpires, Lillee grudgingly threw the metal bat away and accepted a willow bat.
December 16
- England
- 1882 - Jack Hobbs is born.
- 1969 - Craig White is born at Morley, West Yorkshire.
- West Indies
- 1952 - Joel Garner is born.
December 17
- Australia
- 1927 - Bill Ponsford beats his own world record score for a first-class innings, making 437 out of Victoria's total of 793 in the match against Queensland at Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- 1946 - On day four of the 2nd Ashes Test at Sydney, Sid Barnes (pictured) is famously out while on 234, equalling Don Bradman's record which had been set just one over before. Barnes later admitted throwing away his wicket: "It wouldn't be right for someone to make more runs than Sir Donald Bradman". The pair had also set a world record fifth wicket partnership of 405 which still stands.
- South Africa
- 1881 - Aubrey Faulkner born.
December 18
- India
- 1948 - B. B. Nimbalkar is left stranded on 443 not out, nine short of then record first-class score, when Kathiawar concede Ranji Trophy first round match to Maharashtra.
December 19
- Australia
- 1974 - Ricky Ponting is born in Launceston, Tasmania.
- New Zealand
- 1916 - Former Test captain Merv Wallace is born.
December 20
- United States of America
- 1948 - C. Aubrey Smith, England Test captain in 1888–89 and later a Hollywood film star, dies aged 85 in Beverly Hills.
- 1968 - Learie Constantine is awarded a life peerage, becoming the first black man to sit in the House of Lords. He takes the title of Baron Constantine of Maraval in Trinidad and Nelson in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
December 21
- In Australia
- 1923 - Hunter Poon, first Australian of Chinese background to play first-class cricket, makes his debut for Queensland, against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- England
- 1963 - Jack Hobbs (Sir John Berry Hobbs), who scored more first-class runs than any other player, dies at Hove, Sussex at the age of 81.
December 22
- India
- 1947 - Dilip Doshi, 33 Tests and 112 wickets for India, all after the age of 30, is born at Rajkot, Gujarat
- Ireland
- 1989 - Samuel Beckett, two first-class matches for University of Dublin, died aged 83.
December 23
- England
- 1894 - Arthur Gilligan, England captain in nine Tests in the early 1920s, is born at Denmark Hill, London
- South Africa
- 1957 - Ian Craig (pictured) takes to the field as the new Captain of Australia at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. At 21, Craig was the ever youngest Australian captain.[3]
December 24
- England
- 1932 - Colin Cowdrey, the first cricketer to be raised to the peerage for services to cricket, is born in India
December 25
- Australia
- 2000 - Neil Hawke died.
- England
- 1984 - Alastair Cook is born at Gloucester
December 26
- Australia
- 1926 - Victoria hit a world record 1107 runs against New South Wales on day three of a Sheffield Shield match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Victoria won the match by an innings and 656 runs.[4]
- 1928 - Alan Kippax (pictured) (260) and Hal Hooker (62) set a world first-class last-wicket partnership record of 307 at the MCG for New South Wales against Victoria.[5] The stand lasted just under five hours.
- England
- 1967 - Sydney Barnes, 189 wickets in 27 Test matches for England, dies aged 94 at Chadsmoor, Staffordshire.
- West Indies
- 1935 - Rohan Kanhai is born at Port Mourant, British Guiana.
December 27
- England
- South Africa
- 1948 - Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook put on 359 for England's first wicket against South Africa in Johannesburg, still the highest England first-wicket partnership of all time
- West Indies
- 1925 - Glendon Gibbs, Test cricketer and administrator, born.
December 28
- Australia
- 1889 - Albert Hartkopf (pictured) is born in North Fitzroy, Victoria. Hartkopf had a long first-class career, playing cricket for Victoria and Australia from 1911/12 until 1928/29. He also played Australian rules football for Melbourne University Football Club between 1908 and 1914.
- Pakistan
- 1941 - Intikhab Alam is born at Hoshiarpur, India
December 29
- Australia
- 1960 - David Boon is born at Launceston, Tasmania
December 30
- Pakistan
- 1981 - Faisal Iqbal is born in Karachi
December 31
- England
- West Indies
- 1980 - During the Fourth Test between Pakistan and the West Indies at the Multan Cricket Stadium (pictured), after being pelted with oranges, Sylvester Clarke throws a brick into the crowd, seriously injuring a spectator.