1792 English cricket season
The 1792 English cricket season was the 21st in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the sixth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 19 top-class matches played in the country.
Elsewhere, the earliest known cricket club in India was formed at Calcutta.[1][2]
Matches
[edit]A total of 19 top-class matches were played during the season.[3][4][5] These included matches played by teams from Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey. Club sides at Hornchurch in Essex and Brighton in Sussex also played at the top-level and MCC played eight first-class matches.[4][5]
A number of matches below top-level were played, including one between Nottingham and a Leicestershire and Rutland side.[6] A match in Sheffield may be the first in which a player is known to have been given out obstructing the field.[7]
First mentions
[edit]First-class matches were first played at Dartford Brent and Cobham Park in Kent and at Old Field, Bray in Berkshire.[5] A military match is known to have been played at Dublin, the first cricket known to have been played in Ireland.[8][9]
Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1792 include:
References
[edit]- ^ History, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
- ^ Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792, puronokolkata, 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
- ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- ^ a b England Domestic Season 1792, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
- ^ a b c First-class matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
- ^ Other matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
- ^ Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, pp.27–28. Cotterell.
- ^ "Brief History of Irish Cricket". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
- ^ Bracken, Pat (16 February 2022). "Cricket in Ireland: 1792 to 1850". CricketEurope - Irish Cricket Archives. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
Further reading
[edit]- Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
- Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
- Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
- Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.