1793 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1792 1792 English cricket season 1794 1794 English cricket season In the 1793 English cricket season, Surrey defeated England three times. Details of 20 historically important eleven-a-side matches are known.note status Any match listed in the ACS' Important Match Guide (1981) is historically important, and therefore of the highest standard, whether or not a scorecard might exist. The same applies to numerous matches discovered by researchers since 1981.ACS 1981 1–40 For further information, see First-class cricket. Berkshire section June 2026 Old Field was the ground, Maidenhead the local club, and Berkshire the county team The secondary sources are sometimes confusing on the subject of the Maidenhead Cricket Club, based at Bray, near Maidenhead in Berkshire. The team featured in several major matches during the late 18th century, and was important at this time as it had a high playing standard with numerous recognised players. The team has sometimes been referred to as the "Oldfield club", not as Maidenhead, which presented itself as representative of Berkshire in the same way as Hornchurch/Essex and Brighton/Sussex, so its team might be styled Berkshire. There were two matches between MCC and Berkshire in 1793. The first, at Lord's Old Ground (Lord's), ended in a win for Berkshire by 119 runs.Haygarth 1996 150 To further the confusion, S&B called it MCC v The Oldfield Club. The ACS Guide says the game should be called MCC v Maidenhead. The Maidenhead club played its matches at the Old Field ground, in Bray, which was the cause of the confusion. Berkshire had a high standard at this time. The second match was on the Old Field, and Berkshire won by 85 runs.Haygarth 1996 157 Sussex v Kent These teams played each other in Brighton (unknown venue) at the end of August. H. T. Waghorn found only bare details of the game, and recorded it as "a grand match of cricket". It was between 9 of Kent with Ring and Beldham, against 9 of Sussex with Scott (i.e., of Hambledon) and another (unknown), for 500 guineas. Kent won by an unknown margin. Waghorn called Beldham "Baldam"Waghorn 2005 128 MCC matches In May, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) defeated Middlesex by 54 runs at Lord's Old Ground (Lord's) by 54 runs,Haygarth 1996 146 and Essex by an innings and 10 runs at Langton Park.Haygarth 1996 147 MCC played five matches in June. These were against Essex and Kent. They lost twice to Essex, and lost one and won two against Kent.Haygarth 1996 148–151 Notes note References Bibliography ACS Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863 1981 ACS Nottingham https://archive.acscricket.com/online_library/match_guides/bi_imp_match_guide/index.html 85045528 Haygarth Arthur Arthur Haygarth Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826) Frederick Lillywhite Kennington 1996 1862 978-19-00592-23-9 Waghorn H. T. H. T. Waghorn The Dawn of Cricket J. W. McKenzie London 2005 1906 978-09-47821-17-3 Further reading Altham H. S. Harry Altham E. W. Swanton E. W. Swanton A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) 5th 1962 George Allen & Unwin London 894274808 Birley Derek Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket 1999 Aurum Press London 978-18-54107-10-7 https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofe0000birl_d1n5 Internet Archive Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 978-04-13278-60-9 Britcher Samuel Samuel Britcher A Complete List of all the Grand Matches of Cricket that have been Played (1790–1805; annual series) W. S. Blake London 1793 83523010 Major John John Major More Than A Game 2007 HarperCollins London 978-00-07183-64-7 https://archive.org/details/morethangamestor0000majo_b8t0 Internet Archive Warner Pelham Pelham Warner Lords: 1787–1945 1946 Harrap London 877106024 Wilson Martin An Index to Waghorn Bodyline Books (limited edition, by subscription only) London 2005 Category:1790s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1793 in England