This is a list of cricketers who played
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 officiall ...
in England in matches between the
1826
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and
1840 seasons. The sport of
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 striki ...
had acquired most of its modern features by this time and the period saw the establishment of
roundarm bowling
In cricket, roundarm bowling is a bowling style that was introduced in the first quarter of the 19th century and largely superseded underarm bowling by the 1830s. Using a roundarm action, the bowlers extend their arm about 90 degrees from their ...
as an accepted practise.
County cricket clubs began to become more formally established during this period and
Sussex County Cricket Club
Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Sussex. Its limited overs team is called the Sussex Sharks. The c ...
, the oldest professional sporting organisation in the world, was formerly established in 1839. This would soon be followed by formal organisations in other counties, although the
County Championship
The County Championship (referred to as the LV= Insurance County Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). It bec ...
was not formally established until 1890.
The players included are those known to have played in matches which were given retrospective first-class status between 1826 and 1840 inclusive.
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See also
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List of English cricketers (1772–1786)
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List of English cricketers (1787–1825)
This is a list of English cricketers who played first-class cricket between the 1787 and 1825 seasons. The sport of cricket in this period had already acquired most of its modern features such as eleven-a-side, the three-stump wicket and the lbw ...
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List of English cricketers (1841–1850)
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List of English cricketers (1851–1860)
This is a list of cricketers who played first-class cricket in England in matches between the 1851 and 1860 seasons. The sport of cricket had acquired most of its modern features by this time and roundarm bowling was firmly established, althoug ...
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List of English cricketers (1861–1870)
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List of English cricketers (1871–1880)
Notes
References
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Bibliography
*Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition).
Available onlineat the
Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
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English cricketers 1826
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