Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/March/March 8
- South Africa
- 1931 - Neil Adcock, spearhead of South Africa's new ball attack in 26 Tests in the 1950s and early 1960s, is born at Sea Point, Cape Town.
- Australia
- 1904 - Hugh Trumble took a hat-trick in the Fifth Test of the 1903–04 series against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, becoming the first bowler to take two hat-tricks in Test cricket.