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August 1

In India
In England

August 2

South Africa

August 3

England

August 4

India

August 5

India

August 6

England
  • 1965 - Wicketkeeper and captain Alan Smith, playing for Warwickshire against Essex at Clacton, responds to a bowling crisis for his side by taking off his pads and bowling himself. He takes four wickets in 34 balls before conceding a run, including a hat-trick.

August 7

England

August 8

W. G. Grace
W. G. Grace
Australia
England
  • 1914 - WG Grace played his last match in club cricket at the age of 66 for Eltham at home to Northbrook.
  • 1965 - Angus Fraser born. Fraser twice took eight wickets in a Test innings in the West Indies.
  • 1987 - Pakistan's innings of 708, the highest in their Test history at The Oval came to an end.
  • 1909 - Bill Voce was born. Voce was one of the attack bowlers in the 1932-33 Bodyline Series.
India
Pakistan

August 9

England
New Zealand
South Africa

August 10

England

August 11

Australia

August 12

England
West Indies

August 13

Johnny Mullagh
Johnny Mullagh
Australia
Pakistan

August 14

Don Bradman
Don Bradman
Australia
England

August 15

West Indies

August 16

Indoor first: Docklands Stadium
Indoor first: Docklands Stadium
Australia
England

August 17

Bangladesh

August 18

England

August 19

England

August 20

England
  • 1935 - South Africa draw the fifth and final Test of the series against England at The Oval and so win a series in England for the first time on their fifth tour
South Africa

August 21

Australia
England

August 22

Australia

August 23

England

August 24

England

August 25

Pakistan

August 26

West Indies

August 27

Don Bradman
Don Bradman
Australia
England
  • 1968 - England win the fifth and final Test of The Ashes series to square the rubber with six minutes to spare after a final day in which The Oval is flooded by a lunchtime storm. Mopping up by staff and spectators enables play to resume with 75 minutes left and five wickets to get. Derek Underwood took four of them to finish with seven for 50.
  • 1973 - Gary Sobers takes six catches at Lord's, a record for a non-wicketkeeper in a Test
  • 1979 - Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes off Somerset's Dennis Breakwell at Taunton.

August 28

Australia
England

August 29

England

August 30

England
  • 1921 - The England XI led by Archie MacLaren inflict the first defeat of the season on the Australians, who had earlier won eight Ashes Tests in a row. MacLaren had maintained throughout the 1921 summer that he could pick a team of amateur cricketers to beat the Australians; when his side was all out for just 43 in the first innings, that seemed unlikely, but they recovered to win by 28 runs.

August 31

India