1792 English cricket season

The 1792 English cricket season was the 21st in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the sixth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 19 top-class matches played in the country.

1792 English cricket season

Elsewhere, the earliest known cricket club in India was formed at Calcutta.[1]

Matches

A total of 19 top-class matches were played during the season.[2][3][4] These included matches played by teams from Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey. Club sides at Hornchurch in Essex and Brighton in Sussex also played at the top-level and MCC played eight first-class matches.[3][4]

A number of matches below top-level were played, including one between Nottingham and a Leicestershire and Rutland side.[5] A match in Sheffield may be the first in which a player is known to have been given out obstructing the field.[6]

First mentions

First-class matches were first played at Dartford Brent and Cobham Park in Kent and at Old Field, Bray in Berkshire.[4] A military match is known to have been played at Dublin, the first cricket known to have been played in Ireland.

Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1791 include:

References
  1. History, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  3. England Domestic Season 1792, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  4. First-class matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
  5. Other matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
  6. Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, pp.27–28. Cotterell.

Further reading
  • Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
  • Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
  • Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
  • Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
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