One-armed versus one-legged cricket
One-armed versus one-legged is a form of cricket in which one team has cricketers with only one arm while the members of the other team only have one leg. The first recorded game was for the Annual Greenwich Pensioners Benefit Match in 1796.[1] Events with the format included
- 1796 – two teams of Greenwich pensioners played at Aram's New Ground in Walworth[2]
- 1841 – two teams of Greenwich pensioners[3]
- 1848 – two teams of Greenwich pensioners played at a ground formerly part of Lewisham Priory[3][4]
- 1863 – in Manchester where one player was called "No-Legs"[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 Abhishek Mukherjee (16 August 2016), "A one-legged cricket XI beat a one-armed one", Cricket Country
- ↑ Charles Box (1868), "One Arm v. One Leg", The Theory and Practice of Cricket, Bedford Street: Frederick Warne, pp. 59–61
- 1 2 Jon Hotten (28 November 2011), "When a team of one-legged men faced a team of one-armed men at cricket", The Guardian
- ↑ "Cricket Match Extraordinary", Illustrated London News, William Little, 13, p. 160, 9 September 1848
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