What 13 November Tells Us About Cricket

The 2015 Australia v New Zealand Test alone supplies four of the biggest scores listed for this date: Ross Taylor's 290, David Warner's 253, Kane Williamson's 166 and Steven Smith's 138, plus milestones for Taylor, Warner and Adam Voges. The same pattern turns up in other years. The 2012 Bangladesh v West Indies Test produced Shiv Chanderpaul's 203 and Denesh Ramdin's 126 alongside Sohag Gazi's 6/74 and Tino Best's 5/24, and the 2001 Sri Lanka v West Indies Test gave both Brian Lara's 178 and Kumar Sangakkara's 140 plus two separate Muralitharan hauls. On 13 November, single Tests repeatedly stack several landmark contributions together rather than spreading them across different fixtures.

WBBL cricket turns up on 13 November in six different seasons: 2019/20, 2021/22, 2022/23 (twice), 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. The teams change, but the date itself sits reliably inside the WBBL calendar year after year, with the Hobart and Melbourne venues each hosting matches more than once. It is one of the few fixtures on this list that recurs almost every year rather than appearing once and vanishing, making 13 November a dependable point in the Australian women's domestic season.

The international list for this date tilts towards smaller cricket nations in its most recent years. 2025 alone brings Indonesia v Timor-Leste, Indonesia v Myanmar and Hong Kong v Qatar, following 2024 fixtures between Myanmar and Indonesia, and Netherlands and Oman. Alongside the earlier Ashes-era and subcontinent Tests, these matches show the same date now carrying a second, separate layer of cricket: short T20I fixtures involving associate members, run well away from the leading Test and ODI nations that dominated 13 November in 1952, 1959, 1981, 2001 and 2015.