Portal:Cricket/Anniversaries/July/July 31


 * Australia
 * 1912 - Key Invincible, Bill Brown is born. Brown died on 16 March 2008 at the age of 95 years, 251 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".