It came into prominence because of the Indian Cricket League's inaugural Twenty20 tournament.

* 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England.

The inaugural edition of Playfair Cricket Annual in 1948 coincided with the centenary of Grace's birth and carried a tribute which spoke of Grace as " King in his own domain " and his " Olympian personality ".

When the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame was created in Melbourne in 1996, Bradman was made one of its 10 inaugural members.

The newly founded club played its inaugural match against an Upton Cricket Club XI on one of Farmer John Wright's fields, which was situated at the top of Penny's Hill, on Teignmouth Road on the site of modern Parkhurst Road.

* 10 – 11 June — Sussex CCC plays its inaugural first-class match versus Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) at Lord's

In 1878 the inaugural first class cricket match at the Sydney Cricket Ground was played between New South Wales and Victoria.

The club was a founding member of the Bassetlaw Cricket league in 1904, their inaugural match was against Whitwell Colliery.

Border was one of the 55 inaugural inductees of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

More recently, Hammond was one of the inaugural inductees into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, launched in January 2009, and was selected by a jury of cricket journalists as a member of England's all-time XI in August 2009.

In 2005, Lloyd offered his patronage to Major League Cricket for their inaugural Interstate Cricket Cup in the United States, to be named the Sir Clive Lloyd Cup.

Founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club, Lancashire have played at Old Trafford since then and, in 1865, played their inaugural first-class match, beating Middlesex at Old Trafford.

She was the International Cricket Council's inaugural Female Player of the Year in 2006.

A statue of Wills was erected outside of the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 2002, and he was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

The long wait finally ended in 1941 when St George defeated Eastern Suburbs 31 – 14 at the Sydney Cricket Ground to take their inaugural First Grade premiership.

Following his retirement, he joined the Indian Cricket League, captaining the Hyderabad Heroes in the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 competition.

This status was reflected when Miller was made one of the ten inaugural members of the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

He died in Adelaide in 1980, but was posthumously inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996 as one of the ten inaugural members.

In 1909, club rugby league officially began, with W. Evans scoring the inaugural try before backing up with another as North Brisbane beat Toombul 8-0 at the Brisbane Cricket Ground, although Valleys were the first premiers.

Mahela is the Recipient of International Cricket Council's " Captain of the Year 2006 " inaugural award, Captain of the " World One-Day International Team of the Year 2006 ", Captain of the " Spirit of Cricket Award 2007 " Team, Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2007, Record holder for the highest score ( 374 runs ) by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket.

As of December 2007, he is playing for the Mumbai Champs team in the inaugural 20 / 20 Tournament of the newly formed Indian Cricket League ( ICL ).

In 1996 he was posthumously included in the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame as one of the ten inaugural inductees along with Jack Blackham, Victor Trumper, Clarrie Grimmett, Bill Ponsford, Don Bradman, Bill O ' Reilly, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall and Dennis Lillee.

Edinburgh has also hosted various national and international sports events including the World Student Games, the 1970 British Commonwealth Games, the 1986 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2000 Commonwealth Youth Games.

Defending holders Manchester United did not enter the 1999 – 2000 FA Cup, as they were already in the inaugural Club World Championship, with the club stating that entering both tournaments would overload their fixture schedule and make it more difficult to defend their Champions League and Premiership titles.

The Miami Marlins in front of a sellout crowd at the inaugural Opening Night game at Marlins Park against the reigning World champion St. Louis Cardinals.

* Jeff Conine ( 1993 – 1997, 2003 – 2005 ) — Jeff Conine has the distinction of being the only player to appear in the opener of the Marlins ' inaugural season and in both the 1997 World Series and the 2003 World Series won by the Marlins.

The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and Australia, and the inaugural winners were New Zealand.

The Yankees also won their first World Series during the Stadium's inaugural season.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

Barthez was an integral part of his national team's inaugural triumph which also made it the first time in 20 years that a host had won the World Cup ; the highlight being a 3 – 0 clean sheet against defending champions Brazil in the finals.

After the end of World War II, Norway was a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the United Nations, the latter having Norwegian Trygve Lie as inaugural Secretary-General.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first recognized the technical contributions of special effects to movies at its inaugural dinner in 1928, presenting a plaque for " Best Engineering Effects " to the first Best Picture Oscar winner, the World War I flying drama Wings.

He also played board one for France at the inaugural World Team Championships, Lucerne 1985, where he scored 5½ / 9 (+ 3 − 1

He showed that his success was not an accident, winning the 100 yard dash at the inaugural British Empire Games ( now known as the Commonwealth Games ) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and setting a World Record in 1930.

The resulting program, Chess 4. 0, won that year's championship and its successors went on to come in second in both the 1974 ACM Championship and that year's inaugural World Computer Chess Championship, before winning the ACM Championship again in 1975, 1976 and 1977.

The International Baseball Federation ( IBF ) was founded in 1938, after the inaugural Baseball World Cup held in London.

On July 3, 1983, she set her first World Record ( be it at altitude ) for the 100 metres, running 10. 79 seconds at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, Colorado and was one of the favourites to win the 100 metre title at the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki.

" Lauper, in return, made many appearances as herself in a number of the World Wrestling Federation's " Rock ' n ' Wrestling Connection " events, including the inaugural WrestleMania event, where she was the manager of Wendi Richter.

In 2009, the Professional Bowlers Association ( PBA ) announced that Thunderbowl Lanes in Allen Park would be the primary site for the inaugural PBA World Series of Bowling.

Long after his on-ice career ended, he was drafted by the Minnesota Fighting Saints in the inaugural World Hockey Association draft of 1972, in what was seen as a publicity stunt.

Bunn and Netter conceived, designed, and implemented the inaugural World AIDS Day observance – now the longest-running disease awareness and prevention initiative of its kind in the history of public health.