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03-10-2002 Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) becomes the
third batsman after Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar (both
Pakistan) to score three consecutive ODI centuries when
he makes 153 against Bangladesh at Potchefstroom, following
his 116 v Kenya and 116 ret. ill v India.
04-10-2002 Mark Waugh becomes the third Australian to
score 8000 Test runs
during the first Test against Pakistan at Colombo
09-10-2002 Carl Hooper becomes the sixth West Indian
to appear in 100 Tests in the third Test against India
at Mumbai.
10-10-2002 Rahul Dravid becomes the first Indian to
score centuries in four
consecutive Test innings when he makes 100* in the third
Test against West
Indies at Mumbai following his 115, 148 and 217 v England.
11-10-2002 Steve Waugh (Australia) becomes the second
player after Allan Border (Australia) to appear in 150
Tests in the second Test against Pakistan at Sharjah.
21-10-2002 Glenn McGrath becomes the second Australian
after Shane Warne, and eighth bowler overall, to take
400 Test wickets when he dismisses Waqar Younis during
the third Test against Pakistan at Sharjah.
06-11-2002 Anil Kumble becomes the first Indian to take
300 ODI wickets when he dismisses Marlon Samuels in
the match against West Indies at Jamshedpur.
08-11-2002 Gary Kirsten becomes the first South African
to score 6000 Test runs during the first Test against
Sri Lanka at Johannesburg.
11-11-2002 Inzamam-ul-Haq becomes the second Pakistani,
after Javed Miandad, to score 6000 Test runs during
the first Test against Zimbabwe at Harare.
24-11-2002 Alec Stewart becomes the fourth Englishman
to score 8000 Test runs during the second Test against
Australia at Adelaide.
27-11-2002 Andy Flower becomes the first Zimbabwean
to appear in 200 ODIs in the match against Pakistan
at Harare.
01-12-2002 Yousuf Youhana (Pakistan) completes an ODI
record of 405 runs before being dismissed during the
match against Zimbabwe at Harare
08-12-2002 Habibul Bashar becomes the first player to
score 1000 Test runs for Bangladesh during the first
Test against West Indies at Dhaka.
08-12-2002 Waqar Younis (Pakistan) becomes the second
bowler, after Wasim Akram (Pakistan), to take 400 ODI
wickets when he dismisses Jonty Rhodes in the match
against South Africa in Durban
16-12-2002 Mark Boucher becomes the first South African
and fifth wicket-keeper overall to take 200 ODI dismissals
when he catches Younis Khan in the match against Pakistan
at Paarl.
20/21-12-2002 India (99) and New Zealand (94) provide
the first instance of both team’s first innings
failing to reach 100 in Test cricket during the second
Test at Hamilton.
30-12-2002 Michael Vaughan (England) finishes 2002 having
scored 1481 Test runs (av 61.70) in the year, the third
highest aggregate in a calendar year, behind Viv Richards
(West Indies) 1710 in 1976 and Sunil Gavaskar (India)
1555 in 1979.
02-01-2003 Graeme Smith (151) and Herschelle Gibbs (228)
put on 368 for South Africa’s first wicket in
the 2nd Test against Pakistan at Cape Town, the highest
partnership for any wicket for South Africa, and the
fourth highest opening partnership in Test cricket.
03-01-2003 Steve Waugh (Australia) becomes the third
batsman to score 10000 Test runs, after Sunil Gavaskar
(India) 10122 and Allan Border (Australia) 11 174, during
his 102 against England in the fifth Test at Sydney.
04-01-2003 Yousuf Youhana (Pakistan) scores the second
fastest Test fifty ever off 27 balls in the second Test
against South Africa at Cape Town.
05-01-2003 South Africa completes a 2-0 series win over
Pakistan at Cape Town to claim the ICC Test Championship
Trophy from Australia.
13-01-2003 Muttiah Muralitharan becomes the first Sri
Lankan to take 300 ODI wickets when he dismisses James
Anderson in the match against England at Sydney
21-01-2003 Aravinda de Silva (Sri Lanka) becomes the
third player to score 9000 ODI runs during the match
against Australia at Melbourne.
10-02-2003 Craig Wishart scores Zimbabwe’s highest
ODI score of 172* in the ICC Cricket World Cup match
against Namibia at Harare. Zimbabwe makes its highest
ODI total of 340-2 in the match.
14-02-2003 Aravinda de Silva becomes the first Sri Lankan
to appear in 300 ODIs when he plays in the ICC CWC match
against Bangladesh at Pietermaritzburg.
14-02-2003 Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka) becomes the first
player to take a hat-
trick with the first 3 balls of the match in an ODI
during the ICC CWC match
against Bangladesh at Pietermaritzburg.
19-02-2003 Canada scores the lowest ever ODI total of
36 in the ICC CWC match against Sri Lanka at Paarl.
23-02-2003 John Davison (Canada) scores the fastest
ever ICC CWC century off 67 balls in the match against
West Indies at Centurion.
24-02-2003 Collins Obuya takes 5-24 against Sri Lanka
in the ICC CWC match at Nairobi, the best bowling figures
for Kenya in an ODI.
25-02-2003 Wasim Akram (Pakistan) becomes the first
bowler to take 500 ODI wickets when he dismisses Nick
Statham (Holland) in the ICC CWC match at Paarl.
27-02-2003 Adam Gilchrist (Australia) takes his 258th
dismissal in ODIs when he catches Melt van Schoor in
the ICC CWC match against Namibia at Potchefstroom to
pass Moin Khan’s (Pakistan) world record of 257
ODI dismissals, while on his way to a ICC CWC record
of six dismissals in an innings.
27-02-2003 Glenn McGrath (Australia) takes the best
ICC CWC bowling figures of 7-15 in the match against
Namibia at Potchefstroom
01-03-2003 Sachin Tendulkar (India) becomes the first
batsman to score 12000 ODI runs during the ICC CWC match
against Pakistan at Centurion.
02-02-2003 Australia become the first team to win 12
consecutive ODIs when
they beat England in the ICC CWC match at Port Elizabeth,
passing the 11 consecutive wins by West Indies 1984
and 1985.
03-02-2003 Feiko Kloppenburg (121) becomes the first
player to score an ODI century for Holland during the
ICC CWC match against Namibia at Bloemfontein.
07-03-2003 Javagal Srinath becomes India’s leading
wicket-taker in ODIs when he dismisses Peter Ongondo
in the ICC CWC match against Kenya at Cape Town and
takes his 309th wicket to pass Anil Kumble’s record
of 308.
11-03-2003 Shane Bond takes 6-23 against Australia in
the ICC CWC match at Port Elizabeth, the best bowling
figures for New Zealand in ODIs.
12-03-2003 Kenya becomes the first non-Test playing
country to qualify for an ICC CWC semi-final when it
beats Zimbabwe in the Super Six match at Bloemfontein.
23-03-2003 Australia scores its highest ODI total of
359-2 in the ICC CWC 2003 final at Johannesburg.
23-03-2003 Australia beat India by 125 runs in the ICC
CWC 2003 final at Johannesburg, becoming the first country
to win the ICC CWC on three occasions
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