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July 1
- England
- 1932 - Tich Freeman takes 8/31 and 9/61 for Kent against Warwickshire at Folkestone
- 1954 - Khalid Hassan made his Test debut for Pakistan at Trent Bridge at the age of 16 years, 356 days.
- 1993 - England makes 5 changes to their team in a match at Trent Bridge versus Australia, after being 2-0 down in the Ashes: Mark Lathwell, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ilott and Martin McCague debut, while Nasser Hussain makes a comeback after a 3 year hiatus. Thorpe scores a century on debut, the first Englishman to do so in 20 years.[1]
- 1994 - Darren Gough (pictured), on the second day of his debut Test match versus New Zealand at Old Trafford, scores 65 runs. He also takes 4/47 in the first innings.[2]
- 1996 - In a tour match against India, Hampshire's Kevan James takes four wickets in four balls followed by a century, the only time the feat has been done in first-class cricket.[3]
July 2
- England
- 1935 - South Africa win a Test match in England for the first time, beating England by 157 runs in the second match of the series at Lord's. The match is the 18th game between the two sides in England, and the South Africans have lost nine of the preceding 17.
- 1954 - Denis Compton makes his highest Test innings of 278 against Pakistan at Trent Bridge.[4]
- Ireland
- 1969 - Ireland thrashed the West Indies by 9 wickets at Sion Mills. Ireland's captain Dougie Goodwin took 5 for 6, and Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18. [5]
- West Indies
- 1952 - Herbert Chang, Test batsman and member of the Rebel West Indian side to South Africa, born in Jamaica.
July 3
- India
- 1980 - Harbhajan Singh (pictured) is born at Jalandhar, Punjab.
- New Zealand
- 1951 - Richard Hadlee is born at St Albans, Christchurch.
July 4
- England
- 1918 - Surrey and England bowler Alec Bedser and his twin Eric are born in Reading, Berkshire
July 5
- England
- 1921 - Australia win the third Test at Leeds by 219, their eighth consecutive victory in an Ashes Test and still the longest winning sequence by either team in The Ashes. It remains also England's longest sequence of consecutive defeats.
- New Zealand
- 1954 - John Wright is born at Darfield
July 6
- South Africa
- 1977 - Makhaya Ntini is born at Mdingi, Eastern Cape Province
July 7
- India
- 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni born.
- South Africa
- 1875 - Vincent Tancred born.
July 8
- India
- 1972 - Sourav Ganguly born.
July 9
- England
- 1965 - At Headingley against New Zealand, John Edrich made 310 runs, which included 52 fours and five sixes.[6] 238 runs or 77% of the score were boundaries, a world record which still stands.
- 1982 - Ian Botham hits his highest Test score of 208, at The Oval against India.[7]
- India
- 1969 - Venkatapathy Raju is born in Alamuru, Andhra Pradesh.
July 10
- India
- 1949 - Sunil Gavaskar born.
July 11
- England
- 1930 - At Headingley in the third Ashes Test, Don Bradman's knock of 309 includes the fastest (214 minutes) double century in Test history and the only time a triple century has been scored in single day.[8]
- 1968 - At Edgebaston in the third Ashes Test, Colin Cowdrey makes his 21st century as well as becoming the first man to make 100 Test appearances.[9]
- Australia
- 1950 - wrist-spinner and Australian selector Jim Higgs is born in Kyabram, Victoria.
July 12
India
- 1965 - Sanjay Manjrekar born.
July 13
- Australia
- 1944 - Eric "Fritzy" Freeman born in Semaphore, South Australia
- 1947 - The Big Ship Warwick Armstrong (pictured) dies at Darling Point, New South Wales
July 14
- England
- 1976 - Geraint Jones is born at Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea
- Sri Lanka
- 1967 - Hashan Tillakaratne is born in Colombo
July 15
- South Africa
July 16
- South Africa
- 1973 - Shaun Pollock is born at Port Elizabeth
- England
- 1895 - Archie MacLaren makes the first first-class cricket quadruple century in history, with 424 runs for Lancashire against Somerset at County Ground, Taunton.[10]
July 17
- Australia
- 1996 - Alan McGilvray, commentator, dies at the age of 85.
July 18
- Australia
- 1949 - Dennis Lillee is born at Subiaco,
- England, Western Australia.
- India
- 1996 – Smriti Mandhana is born at Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- England
- 1848 - W. G. Grace (pictured) is born at Downend, South Gloucestershire. Grace is credited with making cricket a popular spectator sport, and developed most of the techniques of modern batting.
- 1981 - At the end of the third day of the Headingley Ashes Test, Bookmakers offered odds of 500-1[11] for an England win. The following day would see Ian Botham almost single-handedly save the match and the series.
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July 19
- England
- 1876 - John Gunn is born.
- 1877 - Arthur Fielder is born.
- 1952 - Fred Trueman takes 8/31 against India at Old Trafford leading to them being dismissed for 58.[12]
- 1993 - Ian Botham retires from first-class cricket in a tour match for Durham against the Australians. Botham finished the match as wicket-keeper without wearing gloves or pads.
- 2003 - Surrey beat Warwickshire in the final of first ever Twenty20 Cup. [13]
- Sri Lanka
- 1979 - Dilhara Fernando is born
- India
- 1955 - Roger Binny is born
July 20
- England
- 1900 - Batsman Maurice Leyland is born.
- 1971 - Controversial fast bowler Ed Giddins is born.
- 1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind Australia in the third Ashes Test at Leeds, subside to 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon, still 92 behind. Then an eighth wicket stand of 117 between Ian Botham and Graham Dilley avoids the innings defeat and at close of play England are 351 for nine, with Botham still not out. The next day completes the story.[14]
- Sri Lanka
- 2000 - Sanath Jayasuriya (pictured) scores 148 off 156 balls on the first day of a Test series against South Africa in Galle.
- India
- 1911 - Baqa Jilani,who was later selected for a Test by the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram for insulting CK Nayudu is born.
July 21
- England
- 1863 - Aubrey Smith (pictured), the only player to captain England in his only Test, is born.
- 1934 - Bill Voce is taken out of the attack for bowling four overs of Bodyline for Nottinghamshire against Lancashire.
- 1981 - England, having followed on 227 runs behind Australia in the third Ashes Test at Leeds and then being 135 for seven wickets in their second innings in the early afternoon of the previous day, still 92 behind, recover through Ian Botham's unbeaten 149 to 356 all out, setting Australia 130 to win. Then Bob Willis, changing ends to bowl with the wind as Australia get to 56 for one, takes eight of the last nine wickets at a personal cost of 43 runs as England win by 18 runs. This is only the second time in a Test match that a side following on has recovered to win.
- South Africa
- 1945 - Batsman Barry Richards - who could play only four tests because of Apartheid - is born.
- 1994 - South Africa play in England for the first time after re admittance to Test cricket[15]. They had not been able to so for 29 years because of expulsion from Test Cricket because of Apartheid .
- India
- 1934 - All-rounder Chandu Borde - later manager of the Indian cricket team - is born.
- 1947 - Opening batsman Chetan Chauhan is born.
- West Indies
- 1995 - Brian Lara is dismissed for a pair in a tour match at Canterbury.
July 22
- Australia
- 1890 - Jack Barrett scores an unbeaten 67 out of a total of 176 on test debut, as he becomes the first opener to carry his bat through a completed Test innings in an Ashes Test.[16]
- 1995 - English Bodyline series strike bowler Harold Larwood (pictured) dies in Sydney, after having emigrated to his adopted country in 1950.
- West Indies
- 1950 - Frank Worrell makes 261 at Trent Bridge, his highest Test knock.[17]
- 1978 - Batsman Runako Morton is born.
- Sri Lanka
- 1982 - Fast bowler Nuwan Kulasekara is born.
- England
- 1935 - Medium-pacer Tom Cartwright, Ian Botham's future coach, is born.
July 23
- Australia
- 1851 - Charles Bannerman (pictured), who faced the first ball in Test cricket, and made the first century is born at Woolwich in England. He still holds the record for the highest percentage of team runs in a completed innings.[18]
- 1934 - Don Bradman completes his second double century, making 304 at Headingley. [19]
- England
- 1942-Double-international Andy Ducat, who played both football and cricket for England, dies while batting in a cricket match at Lord's
- 1949 - Jack Robertson makes an unbeaten 331 as Middlesex score 623 for five in a day against Worcestershire at Worcester. The innings remains the highest individual score in Middlesex history.
- 1949 - Brian Close makes his debut aged 18 years 149 days, the youngest ever to play for England.
- 1953 - Batsman and future captain Graham Gooch is born. He is regarded as the most prolific run scorer ever, and was the last English batsman to score a triple century.
- 1994 - Mike Atherton uses dirt to tamper with the ball in a match against South Africa at Lord's. Called in to explain his actions, he lies to match referee Peter Burge. He later admits to ball-tampering and lying, and is fined £2000 as a result.
- Sri Lanka
- 2008 - The umpire review system is trialled for the first time in a match between Sri Lanka and India at the Sinhalese Sports Club.
- South Africa
- 1949 - All rounder Clive Rice, South Africa's first captain after re-admission is born.
- West Indies
- 1972 - Floyd Reifer is born. He later captained of an understrength team fielded by the West Indies against Bangladesh after the first XI had made themselves unavailable due to a pay dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board.
July 24
- Australia
- 1986 - Laurie Nash dies aged 76.
- Pakistan
- 1947 - Batsman Zaheer Abbas is born.
- England
- 1958 - Ted Dexter, Ray Illingworth and Raman Subba Row make their test debut as England beats New Zealand by an innings and 13 runs, thus becoming the first side to win the opening four Tests of a series in England.
July 25
- England
- 1939 - Wally Hammond becomes the first non-wicketkeeper to take 100 Test catches when he catches George Headley off the bowling of Bill Copson in the second Test between England and West Indies at Manchester.
July 26
- England
- 1924 - Jack MacBryan fields for two-and-three-quarter hours for England in the fourth Test against South Africa at Manchester. The rest of the three-day Test is then rained off and MacBryan, a specialist batsman, neither bowls nor bats – and is never picked again for a Test match.
- 1949 - Brian Close makes his Test debut, a record for the youngest Englishman to do so, at 18 years and 149 days old.
- 1956 - Jim Laker takes 10-53 against Australia at Manchester, a bowling record.[20]
- Sri Lanka
- 2006 - Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene set a world record 624 run Test partnership at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, Colombo. [21]
July 27
- Australia
- 1955 - Allan Border is born in Sydney, New South Wales. Border held numerous career records including: top run scorer (11,174 runs); most Test matches played (156); batted in more Test innings than any other player (265); captained Australia 93 times (all consecutive).
- England
- 1937 - New Zealand's Jack Cowie takes 10 wickets for 140 runs in the second Test against England at Old Trafford, the first 10-wicket haul in Test cricket for New Zealand and the only one for another 40 years.
- 1948 - Australia, led by an unbeaten 173 by captain Donald Bradman, hit 404 for three wickets to win the fourth Ashes Test from England at Leeds, then the highest score in a fourth innings to win a Test match. The century is Bradman's last in Tests. The attendance of 158,000 was the highest for any cricket match on English soil and the takings were 34,000 pounds. The attendance remains a record for a Test in England.
July 28
- South Africa
- 1934 - Louis Tancred, captain for three Tests, dies.
- West Indies
- 1936 - Garry Sobers, a dominant figure in 1960s cricket, is born at Bridgetown, Barbados.
July 29
- Pakistan
- 1963 - Azeem Hafeez is born in Jhelum, Punjab. Azeem was born with two fingers missing on his right (non-bowling) hand.
- Zimbabwe
- 2005 - Hamilton Masakadza becomes the first black African to make debut Test century, at Harare against the West Indies.[22]
July 30
- England
- 1914 - Albert Trott commits suicide in Middlesex by shooting himself. Trott played for both Australia and England and is the only man to hit a ball over the pavilion at Lord's.
- 1889 - Charlie Absolom dies in Trinidad when he was accidentally buried by a misplaced load of sugar whilst loading at Port of Spain.
July 31
- Australia
- 1912 - Key Invincible, Bill Brown is born. Brown died on 16 March 2008 at the age of 95 years, 229 days, making him the oldest living Australian Test cricketer immediately prior to his death.
- East Africa
- 1949 - Frasat Ali, East Africa's leading Limited Overs International run scorer, born.
- England
- 1975 - Greying, bespectacled David Steele, after getting lost on his way out to bat in his first Test innings for England at Lord's, makes a gritty 50 and is hailed in the press as a hero "like the bank clerk that went to war".