Cricket
- The Ashes – Australia defeats England 4-1
- May – West Indies defeats Australia by scoring a world record 418 runs in the 4th innings
- 2003 Cricket World Cup – Australia defeats India in the final by 125 runs
- Domestic competitions
- County Championship (England and Wales) – Sussex CCC
- Sheffield Shield (Australia) – New South Wales
- First Twenty20 Cup series held in England and won by Surrey CCC
Read more about this topic: 2003 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)