List Of Norfolk First-class Cricketers
This is a list of cricketers who played for Norfolk cricket teams in first-class cricket matches. Norfolk teams played six matches which have been classified as first-class cricket during the early 19th century.First-class matches played by Norfolk
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-12-27. A total of 32 men played in the six matches for Norfolk, with three, the Pilch brothers, playing in all six. The first match in which a Norfolk county cricket teams, Norfolk team took place which is considered first-class took place against Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC at Lord's in 1820. It is generally accepted that the match was actually organised by Holt, Norfolk, Holt Cricket Club with three guest players - E. H. Budd, Felix Ladbroke and Thomas Vigne - added to the side.Hounsome, pp.41–42 ...
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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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