14 August in cricket
14 August
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On this day in 2023, Dhananjaya de Silva produced a stunning spell of controlled bowling in the Lanka Premier League, claiming 4 wickets for just 6 runs as Dambulla Aura tore into B-Love Kandy. Miserly and lethal in equal measure, it stands as one of the finest bowling figures ever recorded on August 14 in T20 cricket.
The date has long belonged to the Caribbean too. Back in 2014, Guyana Amazon Warriors' opening pair lit up the CPL against Jamaica Tallawahs, with Lendl Simmons striking 71 off 43 and Martin Guptill adding a fluent 66 from 46. More recently, in 2025, Waqar Khan matched the bowling brilliance with 4 for 22 for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots against the Antigua and Barbuda Falcons.
Best innings on 14 August
- Lendl Simmons 71 (43) vs Jamaica TallawahsCPL · 2014
- Martin Guptill 66 (46) vs Jamaica TallawahsCPL · 2014
- Karima Gore 61 (34) vs St Kitts and Nevis PatriotsCPL · 2025
- Denesh Ramdin 59 (35) vs St Kitts and Nevis PatriotsCPL · 2017
- Glenn Phillips 58 (40) vs St Lucia StarsCPL · 2018
Best bowling on 14 August
- Dhananjaya de Silva 4/6 vs B-Love KandyLPL · 2023
- Waqar Khan 4/22 vs Antigua and Barbuda FalconsCPL · 2025
- Matthew Forde 4/29 vs Antigua and Barbuda FalconsCPL · 2026
- Shamar Springer 3/13 vs St Lucia KingsCPL · 2026
- Lakshan Sandakan 3/19 vs South AfricaT20I · 2018
Matches on 14 August
- Antigua and Barbuda Falcons vs St Lucia Kings — St Lucia Kings won by 3 wicketsCPL · 2026
- Antigua and Barbuda Falcons vs St Kitts and Nevis Patriots — St Kitts and Nevis Patriots won by 6 wicketsCPL · 2025
- Dambulla Aura vs B-Love Kandy — Dambulla Aura won by 20 runsLPL · 2023
- New Zealand vs West Indies — West Indies won by 8 wicketsT20I · 2022
- St Lucia Stars vs Jamaica Tallawahs — Jamaica Tallawahs won by 6 wicketsCPL · 2018
- South Africa vs Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka won by 3 wicketsT20I · 2018
- St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Trinbago Knight Riders — Trinbago Knight Riders won by 4 wicketsCPL · 2017
- South Africa vs New Zealand — South Africa won by 6 wicketsT20I · 2015
- Jamaica Tallawahs vs Guyana Amazon Warriors — Guyana Amazon Warriors won by 10 wicketsCPL · 2014
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.