1877 English cricket season

Cricket season review March 2015 May 2026 1876 1876 English cricket season 1878 1878 English cricket season The 1877 English cricket season was the 14th since the legalisation of overarm bowling.note status Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources.https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/ENG/1772_f_Match_List.html First-Class matches in England in 1772 CricketArchive 29 November 2025 subscription However, the term only came into common use around 1864, when overarm bowling was legalised. It was formally defined as a standard by a meeting at Lord's, in May 1894, of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season, but pre-1895 matches of the same standard have no official definition of status because the ruling is not retrospective.Wisden Preston Hubert Hubert Preston Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 85th Sporting Handbooks Ltd London 1948 813 851705816 Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status.ACS 1982 4–5 Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as top-class or, at least, historically significant.ACS 1981 1–40 For further information, see First-class cricket. Champion County unofficial a a Gloucestershire Playing record (by county) County Played Won Lost Drawn Derbyshire 8 5 2 1 Gloucestershire 8 7 0 1 Hampshire 4 0 4 0 Kent 12 7 4 1 Lancashire 10 6 4 0 Middlesex 6 0 4 2 Nottinghamshire 12 5 5 2 Surrey 12 6 3 3 Sussex 8 0 7 1 Yorkshire 12 2 5 5 Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 072701868X Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings) 1877 English season leading batsmenFirst Class Batting in England in 1877 Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50sW. G. Grace GloucestershireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 24 40 3 1477 261 39.83 2 9Bunny Lucas Cambridge UniversitySurrey 17 28 4 832 115 34.66 2 4Frank Penn KentMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 19 33 3 930 148 not out 31.00 2 3A. N. Hornby LancashireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 18 29 3 787 144 30.26 2 3Isaac Walker MiddlesexMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 17 29 2 788 95 29.18 0 5 Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls) 1877 English season leading bowlersFirst Class Bowling in England in 1877 Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wicketsin innings 10 wicketsin matchWilliam McIntyre Lancashire 2796 949 85 11.16 8/31 11 3Robert Miles Gloucestershire 1054 258 23 11.21 5/88 1 0Tom Armitage Yorkshire 1424 490 42 11.66 7/58 6 1George Gibbons Hearne KentMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 3596 1281 108 11.86 8/78 11 5William Mycroft DerbyshireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 5496 1927 157 12.27 8/47 19 5 Events 15 - 19 March. Australia v. England at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Afterwards recognised as the first-ever Test Match. Australia won by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman scoring 165*: the first Test century. William Midwinter, with 5–78 in England's first innings, was the first bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings. 31 March - 4 April. Australia v. England: Second Test, also at MCG. England won by 4 wickets. 27 July - 28 July. Gloucestershire beats an "unrepresentative" (Wisden) England team by five wickets. Since 1877 only Yorkshire in 1905 and 1935 has equalled this feat. 10 & 12 November. South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide was the earliest first class match played by South Australia. They won by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen. Labels unofficial a aAn unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed. 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 ACS 1982 A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles ACS Nottingham https://archive.acscricket.com/online_library/match_guides/bi_match_guide/index.html 10586869 Warner Pelham Pelham Warner Lords: 1787–1945 1946 Harrap London 877106024 Annual reviews John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1878 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1878 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1878 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 Major John John Major More Than A Game 2007 HarperCollins London 978-00-07183-64-7 https://archive.org/details/morethangamestor0000majo_b8t0 Internet Archive Category:1877 in English cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 19th century