AI ANALYSIS · 22 SEPTEMBER
What 22 September Tells Us About Cricket
◈AI INSIGHTA look at how one Test dominates the milestones of 22 September while associate nations and T20 leagues fill out the rest of the calendar date.
22 September: One Test, a Global Game, and September Cricket
ONE TEST, FIVE MILESTONES
The 2016 India v New Zealand Test at the heart of this date is unusually crowded with career landmarks. Rohit Sharma reached 1000 Test runs, Ravindra Jadeja passed 500 Test runs and took his fifth Test five-wicket haul, Kannaur Rahul also brought up 500 Test runs, Ravichandran Ashwin reached 200 Test wickets, and Mark Craig reached 50 Test wickets. Ashwin (6/132) and Jadeja (5/73) both appear among the date's best bowling figures from the same match. Few single fixtures on this date carry that concentration of personal milestones across both batting and bowling for both sides at once.
THE ASSOCIATE NATIONS' WEEK
From 2022 onward, this date has repeatedly belonged to associate cricket: Tanzania v Uganda and England v Pakistan T20Is in 2022, Malaysia v Hong Kong, Bahrain v United Arab Emirates and Oman v Kuwait in 2023, and Mali v Cameroon, Malawi v Ghana and Tanzania v Lesotho in 2024. Waseem Yaqoob's 4/38 for Tanzania against Lesotho and Riazat Ali Shah's 98 for Tanzania against Uganda sit alongside debuts such as Abdul Malik's first ODI in 2024, showing how crowded the global T20I calendar has become on this date in recent years.
A RECURRING T20 LEAGUE FIXTURE
CPL and IPL cricket turns up on this date across several seasons: IPL fixtures in 2020 and 2021, and CPL matches in 2019, 2022 and 2025, including Guyana Amazon Warriors v Jamaica Tallawahs and St Kitts and Nevis Patriots v Trinbago Knight Riders in 2022. The 2020 IPL game at Sharjah, Rajasthan Royals 216/7 v Chennai Super Kings 200/6, produced three of the date's top T20 league scores from Samson, du Plessis and Smith, showing this slot in September regularly falls inside an active league window rather than a gap between them.
WRITTEN BY AI FROM CRICSTATS MATCH DATA · 21 SEP 2026
INTERNATIONAL MATCHES ON 22 SEPTEMBER
26 PLAYED| Year | Match | Format | Result |
|---|
| 2024 | Afghanistan v South Africa | ODIs | South Africa won by 7 wickets (with 102 balls remaining) |
| 2024 | Mali v Cameroon | T20Is | Cameroon won by 6 wickets (with 67 balls remaining) |
| 2024 | Malawi v Ghana | T20Is | Malawi won by 25 runs |
| 2024 | Tanzania v Lesotho | T20Is | Tanzania won by 122 runs |
| 2023 | Malaysia v Hong Kong | T20Is | Malaysia won by 23 runs |
| 2023 | Bahrain v United Arab Emirates | T20Is | Bahrain won by 3 runs |
| 2023 | Oman v Kuwait | T20Is | Oman won by 68 runs |
| 2023 | Australia v India | ODIs | India won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining) |
| 2022 | England v Pakistan | T20Is | Pakistan won by 10 wickets (with 3 balls remaining) |
| 2022 | Tanzania v Uganda | T20Is | Uganda won by 8 wickets (with 2 balls remaining) |
| 2019 | India v South Africa | T20Is | South Africa won by 9 wickets (with 19 balls remaining) |
| 2019 | Namibia v Papua New Guinea | ODIs | Namibia won by 4 wickets (with 10 balls remaining) |
| 2016 | India v New Zealand | Tests | India won by 197 runs |
| 2012 | Sri Lanka v South Africa | T20Is | South Africa won by 32 runs |
| 2012 | Australia v West Indies | T20Is | Australia won by 17 runs (D/L method) |
T20 LEAGUE MATCHES ON 22 SEPTEMBER
6 PLAYED| Season | Match | League | Result |
|---|
| CPL 2025 | TBA v TBA | CPL | Trinbago won by 3 wickets (with 12 balls remaining) |
| CPL 2022 | Guyana Amazon Warriors v Jamaica Tallawahs | CPL | 178/8 (20.0 ov) v 166/10 (19.5 ov) |
| CPL 2022 | St Kitts and Nevis Patriots v Trinbago Knight Riders | CPL | 163/6 (20.0 ov) v 156/7 (20.0 ov) |
| IPL 2021 | Delhi Capitals v Sunrisers Hyderabad | IPL | Delhi won by 8 wickets |
| IPL 2020 | Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings | IPL | 216/7 (20.0 ov) v 200/6 (20.0 ov) |
| CPL 2019 | St Lucia Kings v Trinbago Knight Riders | CPL | 99/4 (12.2 ov) v 81/2 (11.0 ov) |