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July 1
- England
- 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.[1]
- 1954 - Khalid Hassan made his Test debut for Pakistan at Trent Bridge at the age of 16 years, 356 days.
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.[2]
- Ireland
- 1969 - Ireland thrashed the West Indies by 9 wickets at Londonderry. Ireland's captain Dougie Goodwin took 5 for 6, and Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18. [3]
- 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 born.
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
- 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.[4] 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.[5]
- India
- 1969 - Venkatapathy Raju is born in Alamuru, Hyderabad.
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.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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 425 runs for Lancashire against Somerset at County Cricket Ground, Taunton.[8]
July 17
- Australia
- 1996 - Alan McGilvray, commentator, dies at the age of 85.
July 18
- England
- 1848 - W. G. Grace born in Downend, South Gloucestershire. Grace is credited with making cricket a popular spectator sport, and developed most of the techniques of modern batting.
July 19
- England
- 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.
July 20
- England
- 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.
July 21
- England
- 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.
July 22
- Australia
- 1995 - English Bodyline series strike bowler Harold Larwood dies in Sydney, after having emigrated to his adopted country in 1950.
- England
- 1950 - West Indies' Frank Worrell makes 261 at Trent Bridge, his highest Test knock.[9]
July 23
- Australia
- 1851 - Charles Bannerman, the first Test century-maker, is born at Woolwich in England
- England
- 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
July 24
- Australia
- 1986 - Laurie Nash dies aged 76.
- Pakistan
- 1947 - Zaheer Abbas is born.
July 25
- England
- 1939 - Walter 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.[10]
- Sri Lanka
- 2006 - Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene set a world record 624 run Test partnership at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, Colombo. [11]
July 27
- Australia
- 1955 - Captain 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
- 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.
July 28
- South Africa
- 1934 - Louis Tancred, captain for three Tests, dies.
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.[12]
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.
