Cricket History Timeline 2001

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Cricket History Timeline 2001 - Present

Year	Important events in Cricket	Cricket Series	Important tournaments	Indian captains	Indian records in internationals	World records	Indian domestic records	Indian domestic tournament winners	Player news	player deaths births
2001				Sourav Ganguly	5th wicket test partnership : 376 runs by VVS Laxman & Rahul Dravid vs Australia First Test match hat-trick by an Indian player : Harbhajan Singh (India vs Australia)	Youngest player to score test century : 114 by Mohammad Ashraful (17 year 61 days) from Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka match		Ranji Trophy : Railways Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : West Zone		Death of Sir Donald Bradman
2002				Sourav Ganguly	1st wicket ODI partnership : 258 runs by SC Ganguly & SR Tendulkar (India vs Kenya)	Highest Fourth Innings Total (Match lost) : 451 (New Zealand v England ) 7th wicket ODI partnership : 130 runs by HH Streak & A Flower (Zimbabwe vs England)		Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Railways Duleep Trophy : Elite C	Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka) takes his 400th Test wicket	Cricket-Bowling Poster Buy at AllPosters.com
2003	Twenty20 Cup, a 20-over-per-side evening tournament, inaugurated in England.		Australia beat India and won the ICC World Cup	Sourav Ganguly	7th wicket ODI partnership : 102 runs by AB Agarkar & HK Badani (India vs Australia)	Highest Fourth Innings Total (Match won) : 418-7 (West Indies v Australia )		Ranji Trophy : Mumbai Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : North Zone	Shane Warne is banned from cricket for a period of 1 year after testing positive to deuretics
2004	Bangladesh's first ODI win against India in their homeland by 15 runs (Dec 26) Bangladesh coach Woolmer celebrates the 15 runs win over India			Sourav Ganguly	Virender Sehwag Scored 309 against Pakistan. The only Indian batsman to make a triple century in Test cricket (March 29) 3rd wicket test partnership : 336 runs by Virender Sehwag & Sachin Tendulkar vs Pakistan India's highest test score 705-7 vs Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground 4th wicket test partnership : 353 runs by VVS Laxman & Sachin Tendulkar vs Australia 10th wicket ODI partnership : 64 runs by L Balaji & Harbhajan Singh (India vs England)	Highest Score at batting position no 2 in Test match : 380 by Mathew Hayden (Australia v Zimbabwe) Lara becomes the first man to score 400 in a Test innings Highest Score at batting position no 3 in Test match : 400 not out by Brian Lara (West Indies v England)		Ranji Trophy : Railways Irani Trophy : Rest of India Duleep Trophy : Central Zone	Steve Waugh retires from cricket (Jan 6) The Doosra (Off-Spinners leg-break) of Muttiah Muralitharan is banned.	Former Australian batsmen David Hookes dies Hookes struck five centuries from six innings, becoming one of countless players to strike a century in each innings of a first-class match.
2005	Australia take on the World XI in the ICC Super Series 2005. This is the first official series recognised by the ICC which is played between a country and a team comprising of many nationalities.		Indian Oil Cup 2005 in Sri Lanka. (Sri Lanka, India, West Indies.) Winners: Sri Lanka.	Sourav Ganguly Rahul Dravid	10th wicket test partnership : 133 runs by Z Khan & SR Tendulkar vs Bangladesh	Fastest Test fifty in Balls : Jaquas Kallis in 24 balls (South Africa v Zimbabwe) Highest Score at batting position no 11 in Test match : 75 by Z Khan (India v Bangladesh)		Ranji Trophy : Uttar Pradesh Irani Trophy : Railways Duleep Trophy : West Zone	Shane Warne becomes the first bowler to take 600 Test wickets.
2006	Wisden acquires the Hawk-Eye computerised ball-tracking system, which is used by the media in cricket and other sports Cricinfo Magazine aimed mainly at followers of Indian cricket is introduced	India in West Indies 2006 (May 18-Jun 30) : West Indies won the 5-ODI series by 4-1. India won the 4-Test series by 1-0. Tri series 2006 in Sri Lanka - Cancelled		Rahul Dravid	Most Sixes in an Inning : M Dhoni (10 Sixes) vs Sri Lanka at Jaipur 6th wicket ODI partnership : 158 runs by Yuvraj Singh & MS Dhoni (India vs Zimbabwe)	Highest Score at batting position no 4 in Test match : 374 by Jayawardene (Sri Lanka v South Africa) Highest score in ODI : Sri Lanka 443-9 vs Netherlands 3rd wicket test partnership : 624 runs by KC Sangakkara & DPMD Jayawardene (Sri Lanka vs South Africa) 1st wicket ODI partnership : 286 runs by WU Tharanga & ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka vs England)				Pakistan’s Wasim Raja, 54, dies on the cricket field after a heart attack (Aug 23, 2006) Vijay Mehra, 68, India’s youngest Test Cricketer before Sachin (Aug 25, 2006) Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, 80, dies (August 26, 2006) Walcott aggregated 3,788 runs in 44 Tests with 15 centuries and 14 fifties from 1948 to 60. His batting average of 56.68 stands at 10th position in the list of batsmen who scored 3000 runs or more in test cricket
2007		West Indies in India Jan 21-30 India won the series 3-1. Sri Lanka in India Feb 8-17 India won the series 2-1. India in Bangladesh May 10-15 India won the ODI series 2-0. May 18-29 Test series. India won the Test series 1-0 India in Ireland India beat Ireland 1-0. South Africa-India, India won the series 2-1 India in England July 19- Aug 13 India won the Test series 1-0 India lost the ODI Series 4-3 Australia in India Sep20-oct20 India lost the ODI Series 4-2.India won the Twenty20 1-0 Pakistan in India Nov 5- Dec12 India won the ODI Series 3-2 India won the Test Series 1-0	The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 in West Indies Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa Sep 13-24	Rahul Dravid		Yuvraj Singh hit Six sixes in an over against England In Twenty Twenty World cup 2007 Fastest Twenty20 Fifty by Yuvaraj Singh 52(12)b Smallest margin of victory Ireland, 1 run win over Netherlands
2008		India in Australia. Test Series Dec 29 2007- Feb-2 2008 India lost the series 2-1 CB Series in Australia. Feb -03 Mar-04 India won the CB series 2008 South Africa in India Cricket Series. Test Series-India drew South Africa 1-1		ODI: MS Dhoni Test: Anil Kumble


Year	Important events in Cricket	Cricket Series	Important tournaments	Indian captains	Indian records in internationals	World records	Indian domestic records	Indian domestic tournament winners	Player news	player deaths births