Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/October/October 9

India

• 1987 - Australia beat India by one run in a 1987 Cricket World Cup match - the closest margin in World Cup history.[1]

Pakistan

• 1976 - Peter Petherick becomes the second bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Javed Miandad, Wasim Raja and Intikhab Alam in the first Test in Lahore
• 1994 - Damien Fleming becomes the third bowler to take a hat trick on his Test debut when he takes the wickets of Aamer Malik, Inzamam ul-Haq and Salim Malik in the second Test at Rawalpindi.[2]