1877 was the 91st season of

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in England since the foundation of

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(MCC).

Champion County

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Playing record (by county)

Wynne-Thomas, Peter; ''The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records''; p. 53

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

Events

15 - 19 March. Australia v. England at

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. Afterwards recognised as the first-ever Test Match. Australia won by 45 runs with

Charles Bannerman Charles Bannerman (3 July 1851 – 20 August 1930) was an English-born Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he represented Australia in three Test matches between 1877 and 1879. At the domestic level, he played for the New South Wales ...

scoring 165*: the first Test century. William Midwinter, with 5–78 in England's first innings, was the first bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings. 31 March - 4 April. Australia v. England: Second Test, also at MCG. England won by 4 wickets. 27 July - 28 July. Gloucestershire beats an "unrepresentative" (''Wisden'') England team by five wickets. Since 1877 only

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1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

and

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

has equalled this feat. 10 & 12 November. South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide was the earliest first class match played by South Australia. They won by an innings and 13 runs, their team including

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Notes

An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official

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was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.

References

Annual reviews

* ''John Lillywhite’s Cricketer’s Companion'' (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1878 * ''James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual'' (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1878 * ''

John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...

'' 1878

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries
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