Cricket by Year, 2000 onwards

Answer these questions about cricket, 1 for each year since 2000.

Most questions about teams refer to international teams

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Year	Clue	Answer
2000	This team is granted Test status	Bangladesh
2001	This team beats India in a Test for the first time	Zimbabwe
2002	This Pakistani bowler takes a Test hat-trick just three weeks after taking an ODI hat-trick	Mohammad Sami
2003	This team miraculously makes the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup, partly due to New Zealand forfeiting their group game for political reasons	Kenya
2004	This West Indian batter reclaims his record for the highest individual Test score, scoring 400* against England	Brian Lara
2005	The first-ever international game in this format is played	T20
2006	This team chases down 434 in an ODI, forming multiple new records in the process, including the highest team score in an ODI	South Africa
2007	This team becomes the first to win 3 ODI World Cups in a row	Australia
2008	This prestigious domestic tournament is launched, being won by underdogs Rajasthan Royals	Indian Premier League
2009	Tailenders Monty Panesar and James Anderson bat through 11.3 overs to secure a draw for England in the first Test of this series	The 2009 Ashes
2010	This spinner retires with a record 800 Test wickets	Muttiah Muralitharan
2011	This Irish all-rounder scores a century off 50 balls to beat England in the ODI World Cup	Kevin O'Brien
2012	This batsman becomes the first to score 4 Test double-centuries in a calendar year, including 329 against India	Michael Clarke
2013	This batsman, nicknamed 'The Little Master', retires with a number of records, including most international runs	Sachin Tendulkar
2014	This opening batsman scores 264 against Sri Lanka in an ODI, the most ever by an individual batsman	Rohit Sharma
2015	This team makes their ODI World Cup debut despite cricket being banned in the country until 2000	Afghanistan
2016	"Remember the name" of this West Indian all-rounder who hit 4 sixes in a row to win the T20 World Cup against England	Carlos Brathwaite
2017	This team wins the Champions Trophy for the first time	Pakistan
2018	This New Zealand all-rounder scores 232*, the highest ever individual total in women's ODIs, before backing it up with 5/17	Amelia Kerr
2019	England beats New Zealand in the ODI World Cup Final due to a boundary count after this 'tie-breaker' was also tied	Super Over
2020	The inaugural season of this new tournament is postponed by one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic	The Hundred
2021	This Sri Lankan bowler takes a hat-trick in one over before being hit for 6 sixes in his next in a T20I against the West Indies	Akila Dananjaya
2022	Women's cricket is played at this international event for the first time	Commonwealth Games

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