28th - Australia whitewashed India 0-4 in Australia, giving India their second consecutive whitewash overseas after the 0-4 drubbing in England. It continued Australia's impressive rise up the ICC rankings after the Ashes nightmare.
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February
6th - Pakistan whitewashed the then #1 Test side England 3-0 in Dubai
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14th - Sri Lanka and India tied their first ODI in 131 ODIs. Virat Kohli became the fastest Indian to 3000 ODI runs
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28th - A Virat Kohli special of 133 off 86 balls gave India an unlikely win, the highlight being smashing Lasith Malinga for 24 runs in an over
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March
9th - Rahul Dravid retired from Tests, ending his international career spanning 16 years
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16th - Sachin Tendulkar became the first man in history to score 100 international centuries
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18th - Virat Kohli continued to break records, this time scoring 183 vs Pakistan, the highest score in the Asia Cup, and successfully chased 329, making it the highest successful run chase by India
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22nd - Pakistan won the Asia cup for the second time in 12 years. Bangladesh ended up as runners-up, after having defeated WC finalists India and Sri Lanka, and just losing to Pakistan by 2 runs
14th - Daryl Tuffey retired from international cricket due to fitness issues, ending a career spanning 12 years
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15th - Kumar Sangakkara won big at the LG ICC Awards, winning the ICC Cricketer of the year, ICC Test Cricketer of The Year, and the LG People's Choice Award. Virat Kohli won the ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year.
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26th - Simon Taufel, one of the world's greatest umpires, announced his retirement from all international umpiring at the end of the World T20
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October
7th - West Indies won their first World T20 and their major ICC title since 30 years
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29th - New Zealand won the second Test and drew the series vs Sri Lanka, their first Test win in Sri Lanka since 1998 November
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December
3rd - Ricky Ponting retired from international cricket, ending a 17 year career. South Africa won 1-0 vs Australia in a hard-fought Test series, continued their impressive record of never having lost an away series since 2006
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7th - Brendon McCullum took over the captaincy in all three formats from Ross Taylor, who was sacked by NZC, which later led to an apology
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17th - England won 2-1 in the Test series in India, ending a 28 year wait
26th - Kumar Sangakkara became the joint-fastest to 10,000 Test runs with Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar
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27th - Michael Clarke surpassed Ricky Ponting's record of most runs in a calendar year (by an Australian), scoring 1595 runs
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29th - Tony Greig, one of cricket's most passionate commentators, passed away after fighting lung cancer
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That ends 2012, a year filled with many retirements, milestones, and special moments for many teams. Happy advanced New Year!
last updated: 1/1/13
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Author: Sai Ram
Sai Ram is the founder of The Cricket Diary, an avid manga reader, an animeaholic, a Federer/tennis fan, a football (soccer) fan, a passionate blogger, but most of all, a die-hard cricket fan - you knew that of course.
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