January 1 down the years

Mayhem in Queenstown

Corey Anderson blasts a hundred from 36 balls

January 2 down the years

The Demon strikes three times

Spofforth takes Test cricket's first hat-trick

January 3 down the years

Ben and Jonny's excellent adventure

Stokes and Bairstow make a mountain against South Africa

January 4 down the years

The shortest Test

India beat South Africa in four innings over 107 overs

January 5 down the years

Birth of a one-eyed Tiger

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi makes his entrance

January 6 down the years

Kapil swings in

An all-time great is born

January 7 down the years

Victory in Oz

India's first Test series win in Australia

January 8 down the years

There's more where McGrath came from

The birth of Josh Hazlewood

January 9 down the years

The perils of captaincy

The first player to captain a Test team to seven consecutive defeats

January 10 down the years

Trumper's solo onslaught

An Australian legend makes a classic double-century in Adelaide

January 11 down the years

The Wall

Rahul Dravid is born, and Hanif Mohammad falls one short of 500

January 12 down the years

Captain calypso

A glorious West Indian captain is born

January 13 down the years

Quick, quick Snow

Australia crumble at the SCG, and New Zealand lose comprehensively in their first Test

January 14 down the years

Just not cricket

Bodyline reaches the height of its infamy in Adelaide

January 15 down the years

India hand Sri Lanka a pasting

An ODI win by over 300 runs

January 16 down the years

Australia pummel England in Hobart

The end of another one-sided Ashes

January 17 down the years

The third of three

Clyde Walcott is born, and Gavaskar and Solkar open with the ball

January 18 down the years

AB goes ape

The fastest one-day hundred

January 19 down the years

A fortress falls

India win in Brisbane to beat Australia 2-1

January 20 down the years

Frog in a blender

Paul Adams is born. And an Englishman takes three in three for the first time

January 21 down the years

Flight of fancy

When David Gower buzzed a cricket field in a Tiger Moth

January 22 down the years

Brief but brutal

Barry Richards' seven-week Test career

January 23 down the years

Glued to the wicket

Hanif Mohammad's 16-hour Barbados marathon

January 24 down the years

Neil Harvey's patient 151

South Africa are ground down in Durban

January 25 down the years

Che's quiet revolution

Birth of Pujara and debuts of Mark Waugh, Richie Benaud, Surinder Amarnath and Wasim Akram

January 26 down the years

The first one-run win in Test cricket

An Australia-West Indies classic in Adelaide

January 27 down the years

Hello, Harry Potter

A bespectacled New Zealand left-arm spinner is born

January 28 down the years

Shamar strikes Australia down

A West Indian newbie gives his team a fairytale win at the Gabba

January 29 down the years

A Sabina Park farce

A 62-ball Test in Jamaica

January 30 down the years

A Canberra classic

One of the greatest women's Tests of them all

January 31 down the years

Nailbiter in Chennai

Tendulkar and Saqlain star in an India-Pakistan classic