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1803 English Cricket Season
1803 was the 17th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Thomas Howard made his debut in important matches. Honours * Most runsNote that scorecards created in the first quarter of the 19th century are not necessarily accurate or complete; therefore any summary of runs, wickets or catches can only represent the known totals and computation of averages is ineffectual. – Lord Frederick Beauclerk 284 at 35.50 (HS 74) * Most wickets – Lord Frederick Beauclerk 12 Events * Prime Minister William Pitt referred to cricket when introducing his Defence Bill. * With the Napoleonic War continuing, loss of investment and manpower impacted cricket and only three first-class matches have been recorded in 1803: **21–24 June: All-England v Surrey at Lord's Old GroundHaygarth, p.305. **4–6 July: Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ; postal abbreviation Leics.) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at one of the wickets with the bat and then running between the wickets, while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are "out"). Means of dismissal include being bowled, when the ball hits the stumps and dislodges the bails, and by the fielding side either catching the ball after it is hit by the bat, but before it hits the ground, or hitting a wicket with the ball before a batter can cross the crease in front of the wicket. When ten batters have been dismissed, the innings ends and the teams swap roles. The game is adjudicated by two umpires, aided by a third umpire and match referee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicestershire And Rutland Cricket Club
Cricket may not have reached the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland until the 18th century. A notice in the ''Leicester Journal'' dated 17 August 1776 is the earliest known mention of cricket in the area. A few years later, a Leicestershire & Rutland Cricket Club was taking part in important matches. Note that in some contemporary reports the club is called simply Leicester but the personnel involved are the same whichever title is used. Matches The ''Leicester Journal'' on 4 August 1781 reported Leicester v Melton Mowbray at Barrowcliffe Meadow near Leicester. Melton Mowbray won by 16 runs. Later the same season, the first reports have been found of a match between Leicester and Nottingham Cricket Club. These two old clubs forged quite a fierce rivalry. They met at Loughborough on 17 & 18 September 1781 and the game was incomplete due to a dispute.see Buckley for the details as reported in the ''Leicester Journal'' Nottingham scored 50 & 73; Leicester had scored 73 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Britcher
Samuel Britcher (date of birth unknown; died c. 1805, probably in London) was a cricket scorer and archivist who recorded the full scorecards of numerous matches played in the early years of Marylebone Cricket Club after its official foundation during the 1787 English cricket season. Britcher is believed to have been MCC's first official scorer and he published an annual set of scorecards from 1790 to 1805 under the title of ''A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played in the year ccyy'' (i.e., annual series where ccyy = 1790 to 1805). Little is known of Samuel Britcher personally but his scorecards are considered important to the study of History of cricket, cricket history and especially its statistics. Britcher's work lay mostly undiscovered for two centuries and it is only in the 21st century that a full study of his records has been possible. Keith Warsop of the Association of Cricket Statisticians (ACS) has twice in 2006 published articles in ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lawrell
James Lawrell (1780 at Frimley, Surrey – 1842 in England) was an English amateur cricketer who made 21 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1800 to 1810. Background and Eastwick Park He was the son of James Lawrell (or Laurell), who had married in 1776 Catherine Sumner, daughter of William Brightwell Sumner and sister of the politician George Holme-Sumner. His father was an East India Company official in the Bengal Presidency. In 1801, James Lawrell senior having died, in 1799, Eastwick Park was sold by the family of the Earls of Effingham to the trustees of James Lawrell junior, still at that time a minor. Lawrell had major building work done on the house, in 1806–1807. At this period he sold the estate and mansion attached to his father's other Surrey property, Frimley Park some way to the west, but retained the house Frimley Manor. He sold Eastwick Park in 1809, to Louis Bazalgette. Bazalgette, at one time tailor to the Prince of Wales, was a suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dennis (cricketer)
Joseph Dennis (christened 6 January 1779; died 16 November 1831) was an English first-class cricketer. He played for Nottingham Cricket Club from 1800 to 1829. A batsman and occasional wicket-keeper,Jospeph Dennis . Retrieved 2020-06-16. Dennis took part in seven first-class matches, six for Nottingham, mostly against Sheffield Cricket Club
The Sheffield Cricket Club was founded in the 18th century and soon began to play a key role in the de ...
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John Sparks (cricketer, Born 1778)
John Sparks (1778 – 5 March 1854) was an English professional cricketer. He bowled slow underarm.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 498–500.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Sparks was mainly associated with Surrey and he made 50 known appearances in first-class matches from 1803 to 1829.Arthur Haygarth, ''Scores & Biographies'', Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862 Sparks played for the Players in the second Gentlemen v Players Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of English first-class cricket matches. Two matches were played in 1806, but the fixture was not played again until 1819. It became an annual event, usually played at least twice each season, exc ... match in 1806. References 1778 births 1854 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Kent cricketers Surrey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pointer (cricketer)
John Pointer (1782 in England – 1815 in England) was an English professional cricketer. Career He was mainly associated with Hampshire and he made 15 known appearances in first-class matches from 1803 to 1810.Arthur Haygarth Arthur Haygarth (4 August 1825 – 1 May 1903) was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians. He played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Sussex between 1844 and 1861, as well as num ..., ''Scores & Biographies'', Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862 References External sources CricketArchive record 1782 births 1815 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 Hampshire cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1780s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddard (Hampshire Cricketer)
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William Capel (cricketer)
The Honourable & Reverend William Robert Capel (1775–1854), sportsman, Vicar of Watford, Hertfordshire, Rector of Raine, Essex, and a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria. Family Capel, was born 28 April 1775 in England third son of the 4th Earl of Essex and his second wife, Harriet Bladen. The Capel Earls of Essex were seated at Cassiobury Park, Watford, Hertfordshire and subsequently elected to spell their family's surname Capell. He married 7 June 1802, Sarah, daughter of T Samuel Salter, brewer of Moneyhill House, Rickmansworth and they had three sons and four daughters. He died 3 December 1854 at The Vicarage in Watford, Hertfordshire and was buried at St Mary's in Watford on 8 December.Burke's Peerage Clerical career Capel was appointed vicar of St Mary's Watford, Hertfordshire on 8 June 1799 and rector of Raine, Essex on 30 January 1805, both in the gift of the Earl of Essex. In 1829 it appeared to the new Bishop of London, of his own knowledge, that the ecclesias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampshire County Cricket Teams
Hampshire county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. Given that the first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford, in neighbouring Surrey, it is almost certain that the game had reached Hampshire by the 16th century. 17th century As elsewhere in south east England, cricket became established in Hampshire during the 17th century and the earliest village matches took place before the English Civil War. It is believed that the earliest county teams were formed in the aftermath of the Restoration in 1660. A Latin poem by Robert Matthew in 1647 contains a probable reference to cricket being played by pupils of Winchester College on nearby St Catherine's Hill. If authentic, this is the earliest known mention of cricket in Hampshire. But with the sport having originated in Saxon or Norman times on the Weald, it must have reached Hampshire long before 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham Cricket Club
Nottingham Cricket Club was an English cricket club which played in Nottingham during the 18th and 19th centuries. Matches have been recorded between 1771 to 1848 and the team played in 15 first-class matches between 1826 and 1848. The earliest reference to cricket in the county of Nottinghamshire is a match between Nottingham and Sheffield Cricket Club at the Forest Racecourse in Nottingham in August 1771. In many sources, the Nottingham team is called the "Nottingham Old Club" or as the "town club" to distinguish it from Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, which began playing in the 1840s. Nottinghamshire as a county team played its first inter-county match versus Sussex at Brown's Ground in Brighton in August 1835,First-class matches played by Nottinghamshire CricketArchive. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marylebone Cricket Club
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London. The club was formerly the governing body of cricket retaining considerable global influence. In 1788, the MCC took responsibility for the laws of cricket, issuing a revised version that year. Changes to these Laws are now determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC), but the copyright is still owned by MCC. When the ICC was established in 1909, it was administered by the secretary of the MCC, and the president of MCC automatically assumed the chairmanship of ICC until 1989. For much of the 20th century, commencing with the 1903–04 tour of Australia and ending with the 1976–77 tour of India, MCC organised international tours on behalf of the England cricket team for playing Test matches. On these tours, the England team played under the auspices of MCC in non-international matches. In 1993, its administrative an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
