1786 English cricket season
The 1786 English cricket season was the 15th after matches have been first awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the last before the Marylebone Cricket Club was founded in 1787. The season saw five top-class matches played in the country.
Matches
Five first-class matches for which scorecards exist were played during the year, four of them involving sides playing under the name of Kent.[1][2][3] The season saw the first "great" matches played by the White Conduit Club, the direct predecessor of the Marylebone Cricket Club which was formed the following year.[4] One of these matches saw Tom Walker scored 95 and 102 runs in his two innings, a pair of scores considered "an astonishing double by the standards of the day".[5]
In another match, Tom Sueter of Hampshire was given out hit the ball twice, the first time that this method if dismissal is recorded in a first-class scorecard.
First mentions
References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- England Domestic Season 1786 - Fixtures and Results, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- First-class matches in England, 1786, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-11-07. (subscription required)
- White Conduit Club v Kent, Scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
- Kent v White Conduit Club, Scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-11-07.
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.
- Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.