9 August in cricket
9 August
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On This Day, the Universe Boss reminded everyone why he remains cricket's greatest T20 showman. On 8 September 2018, Chris Gayle blasted 86 from 65 balls for the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots against the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the CPL, anchoring a memorable knock. On the same day, Guyana's Shimron Hetmyer answered with a blistering 79 off just 45 deliveries, a duel of destructive intent between the two sides.
The date also belongs to Shakib Al Hasan, whose spellbinding 4 for 9 for Bangladesh against Australia in a 2021 T20I ranks among the finest bowling displays.
Earlier CPL memories include Kevin O'Brien's 70 (2013) for Trinbago Knight Riders and Ben Laughlin's tidy 3 for 7 in 2014.
Best innings on 9 August
- Chris Gayle 86 (65) vs Guyana Amazon WarriorsCPL · 2018
- Andries Gous 82 (51) vs Antigua and Barbuda FalconsCPL · 2026
- Shimron Hetmyer 79 (45) vs St Kitts and Nevis PatriotsCPL · 2018
- Kevin O'Brien 70 (47) vs Guyana Amazon WarriorsCPL · 2013
- George Worker 62 (38) vs ZimbabweT20I · 2015
Best bowling on 9 August
- Shakib Al Hasan 4/9 vs AustraliaT20I · 2021
- Ben Laughlin 3/7 vs Trinbago Knight RidersCPL · 2014
- Mohammad Saifuddin[lord] 3/12 vs AustraliaT20I · 2021
- M Matthew 3/15 vs Jamaica TallawahsCPL · 2014
- Odean Smith 3/20 vs Trinbago Knight RidersCPL · 2017
Matches on 9 August
- St Lucia Kings vs Antigua and Barbuda Falcons — St Lucia Kings won by 4 runsCPL · 2026
- Bangladesh vs Australia — Bangladesh won by 60 runsT20I · 2021
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Guyana Amazon Warriors — Guyana Amazon Warriors won by 6 wicketsCPL · 2018
- Trinbago Knight Riders vs Jamaica Tallawahs — Jamaica Tallawahs won by 4 wicketsCPL · 2017
- Zimbabwe vs New Zealand — New Zealand won by 80 runsT20I · 2015
- Trinbago Knight Riders vs Antigua Hawksbills — Antigua Hawksbills won by 5 wicketsCPL · 2014
- Jamaica Tallawahs vs St Lucia Zouks — St Lucia Zouks won by 7 wicketsCPL · 2014
- Trinbago Knight Riders vs Guyana Amazon Warriors — Trinbago Knight Riders won by 3 runsCPL · 2013
Coverage & definitionsCricsheet ball-by-ball · matches played on this date (UTC) · data through 24 October 2026Show ▾
Source. Ball-by-ball data from Cricsheet. New matches are loaded from Cricsheet twice a day (10:00 and 22:00 UTC), typically a day or two after a match is published there.
Internationals. T20 internationals are included only when both teams are ICC full members. Fixtures against Associate nations (e.g. Netherlands, Scotland, Nepal, USA) are not in the dataset, so international totals for players who faced them are lower than their full career figures. Afghanistan men's internationals are absent for a different reason: Cricsheet has withheld every match involving the Afghanistan men's team since 14 November 2024, so none of them can be loaded. Every full member's totals are lower by the matches they played against Afghanistan, and Afghanistan men's players do not appear at all. Afghanistan women's matches are unaffected.
Leagues. Leagues: IPL, BBL, PSL, CPL, SA20, MLC, ILT20, BPL, LPL, WBBL, WPL — full history of each. Domestic T20 competitions outside this list (e.g. the Blast, SMAT, Super Smash) are not included.
Exclusions. Super overs are excluded from every total. A match abandoned without a ball bowled has no ball-by-ball file and is not in the dataset, even where a toss took place and official records credit the named players with an appearance. M can therefore sit one or two below a player's official career figure. Match appearances (M) come from the playing XI in each match file, so a match where a player neither batted nor bowled still counts as an appearance. Where M is missing, that player's appearances have not been loaded yet.
"Best" innings and spells are ranked by runs and by wickets then runs conceded; a quiet date here is only quiet within this dataset.