Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/January/January 28

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Australia

• 1873 – Monty Noble is born in Chinatown, Sydney

England

• 1880 – Herbert Strudwick is born at Mitcham.

West Indies

• 1935 – England captain Bob Wyatt, in a move that Wisden calls "amazing and inexplicable", reverses his team's batting order as they set out after lunch on the final day of the second Test at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad to score 325 to win. The move backfires and England are all out for 107 to lose by 217 runs.