1786 English cricket season explained
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The 1786 English cricket season was the 15th in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the last before the Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787. The season saw five top-class matches played in the country.
Matches
Five first-class matches for which scorecards exist were played during the year, four of them involving sides playing under the name of Kent.[1] [2] [3] The season saw the first "great" matches played by the White Conduit Club, the direct predecessor of the Marylebone Cricket Club which was formed the following year.[4] One of these matches saw Tom Walker scored 95 and 102 runs in his two innings, a pair of scores considered "an astonishing double by the standards of the day".[5]
In another match, Tom Sueter of Hampshire was given out hit the ball twice, the first time that this method if dismissal is recorded in a first-class scorecard.[6]
First mentions
Further reading
- Book: Altham, H. S. . Harry Altham . A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) . 1962 . George Allen & Unwin .
- Book: Birley, Derek . Derek Birley . A Social History of English Cricket . 1999 . Aurum .
- Book: Bowen, Rowland . Rowland Bowen . Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development . 1970 . Eyre & Spottiswoode .
- Book: Major, John . John Major . More Than A Game . 2007 . HarperCollins .
- Book: Underdown, David . David Underdown . Start of Play . 2000 . Allen Lane .
Notes and References
- [Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]
- https://www.espncricinfo.com/scores/series/17866/england-domestic-season-1786 England Domestic Season 1786 - Fixtures and Results
- https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/4/First-Class_matches_in_England_1786.html First-class matches in England, 1786
- https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17866/scorecard/535389/white-conduit-club-vs-kent-xi-england-domestic-season-1786 White Conduit Club v Kent
- https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17866/scorecard/535403/kent-xi-vs-white-conduit-club-england-domestic-season-1786 Kent v White Conduit Club
- Web site: First-Class Dismissed Hit the Ball Twice . ACS Cricket . 24 July 2024.
