Cricket History Timeline 2001 - 2010 |
| 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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| 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 |
Dravid (180) and VVS Laxman (281) script one of the greatest comeback victories in the history of the game, adding 376 runs for the fifth wicket in India's second innings (follow-on), vs Australia at Kolkata | 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 Rahul Dravid scores four centuries on a trot - 115, 148, 217 against England and an unbeaten 100 against West Indies |
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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)
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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
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| 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 (1 series), Rahul Dravid (4 series) Virender Sehwag (1 Test) |
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 (1 series) T20: Virender Sehwag (1) |
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) |
Pakistans Wasim Raja, 54, dies on the cricket field after a heart attack (Aug 23, 2006) Vijay Mehra, 68, Indias youngest Test Cricketer before Sachin (Aug 25, 2006) Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, 80, dies (August 26, 2006)
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| 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 India wins Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa Sep 13-24 |
Test: Rahul Dravid (2 series), Anil Kumble (2 series) T20, ODI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
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 |
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| 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 |
T20, ODI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni Test: Anil Kumble (3 series), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (3 series) |
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| 2009 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni Test: Virender Sehwag (1 Test) |
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| 2010 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni Test: Virender Sehwag (1 Test) |
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