1800 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1799 1799 English cricket season 1801 1801 English cricket season thumb|right|400px|Mezzotint by Dunkarton & Ward after W. R. Bigg, The Soldier's Widow, dated 1800. Note the two cricket bats on the left. The 1800 English cricket season included numerous matches involving prominent town clubs like Rochester, Woolwich, Homerton, Richmond, Storrington, Montpelier, and Thames Ditton. Details of 20 matches are known, but few were historically important.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. North of England matches In the Leicester v Nottingham match on 25 and 26 August, Nottingham made only 61 in their first innings, and yet they won the match by an innings and 38 runs.Haygarth 1996 278 Leicester were dismissed for 15 and 8, an aggregate of 23 which Rowland Bowen described as "probably the lowest recorded aggregate for both innings in an important match".Bowen 1970 268 On 29 September, the Nottingham v Sheffield match in Mansfield was another low-scoring one. Nottingham scored 67 and 102. Joe Dennis played well with scores of 16 and 29, helping Nottingham to win by 123 runs. Sheffield in reply made just 24 and 22.Haygarth 1996 282 MCC and Lord's Old Ground Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) played in four matches which were home and away against Woolwich and Rochester. They met Woolwich first on 28 and 29 May at Lord's Old Ground (Lord's), and were well beaten by an innings and 94 runs.Haygarth 1996 268 A return match took place 23 and 24 June on Barrack Field in Woolwich. Again, MCC were outclassed, and Woolwich won by 123 runs.Haygarth 1996 270 The matches against Rochester were played a fortnight apart in July. Rochester won by 11 runs at Lord's, and by 3 wickets at Marsh's New Ground in Rochester.Haygarth 1996 274–275 There were five more matches at Lord's, two of which were "odds" games: an Fourteen of England against Surrey in June, which England won by thirteen wickets;Haygarth 1996 269 and Fourteen of England against Twelve of Surrey in August, which England won by 51 runs.Haygarth 1996 279 The other three matches were eleven-a-side. The first was between elevens selected by two MCC members, R. Whitehead and John Gibbons. Whitehead's XI won by 52 runs.Haygarth 1996 267 From 11 to 13 June, England and Surrey met on level terms, and Surrey won by three wickets.Haygarth 1996 269 On 14 and 15 July, England played a team called the Ws & Hs, who won by seven wickets.Haygarth 1996 274 Town club matches Among the prominent town clubs were Homerton, Montpelier, Richmond, and Woolwich. In June, Montpelier went to Homerton, and won by an innings and 5 runs.Haygarth 1996 271 Then, on Aram's New Ground, which was in Montpelier Gardens, they defeated Richmond by 52 runs.Buckley 1935 195 In July, Richmond hosted Montpelier on Richmond Green, and won by 69 runs.Buckley 1935 196 At the end of the month, Montpelier played Woolwich on Barrack Field, where Woolwich won by 8 wickets.Waghorn 2005 166–167 Other events Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) made revisions to the Laws of Cricket which were republished in their entirety.Haygarth 1996 266–267 Robert Robinson is believed to have been the first batsman to try to introduce leg guards, but his experiment was unsuccessful.Bowen 1970 268 Cricket may have begun to feel the impact of the Napoleonic Wars through loss of investment and manpower, which reduced the number of important matches. The sport's situation became desperate in the years before the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.ACS 1981 4 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 Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 978-04-13278-60-9 Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket 1935 Cotterell & Co. Birmingham 23450280 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 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 1800 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:1800s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1800 in England