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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
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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   The ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 in West Indies
   
   
   
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


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