Charles Hoare (cricketer, Born 1851)
Charles Twysden Hoare (10 November 1851 – 22 January 1935) was an English first-class cricketer active 1871–78 who played for Middlesex and Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. .... He was born in Mitcham; died in Bicester. References 1851 births 1935 deaths English cricketers Middlesex cricketers Surrey cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers North v South cricketers Non-international England cricketers Gentlemen of England cricketers Hoare family {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub ...
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First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain be ...
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