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1792 English cricket season

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1792 English cricket season
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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.

Elsewhere, the earliest known cricket club in India was formed at Calcutta.[1][2]

Matches

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A total of 19 top-class matches were played during the season.[3][4][5] 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.[4][5]

A number of matches below top-level were played, including one between Nottingham and a Leicestershire and Rutland side.[6] A match in Sheffield may be the first in which a player is known to have been given out obstructing the field.[7]

First mentions

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First-class matches were first played at Dartford Brent and Cobham Park in Kent and at Old Field, Bray in Berkshire.[5] A military match is known to have been played at Dublin, the first cricket known to have been played in Ireland.[8][9]

Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1792 include:

References

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  1. ^ History, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  2. ^ Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792, puronokolkata, 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  3. ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  4. ^ a b England Domestic Season 1792, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
  5. ^ a b c First-class matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Other matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, pp.27–28. Cotterell.
  8. ^ "Brief History of Irish Cricket". Cricket Ireland. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  9. ^ Bracken, Pat (16 February 2022). "Cricket in Ireland: 1792 to 1850". CricketEurope - Irish Cricket Archives. Retrieved 8 July 2024.

Further reading

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  • 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.