1880 English cricket season

Cricket season review March 2015 May 2026 1879 1879 English cricket season 1881 1881 English cricket season The 1880 English cricket season was the 17th since the legalisation of overarm bowling. The second tour by a representative Australian team was undertaken and they took part in the (retrospective) first Test match to be played in England. County cricket was dominated by the Nottinghamshire bowlers Alfred Shaw and Fred Morley.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 Nottinghamshire Playing record (by county) County Played Won Lost Drawn Derbyshire 8 2 5 1 Gloucestershire 10 4 1 5 Hampshire 2 0 2 0 Kent 10 5 3 2 Lancashire 12 6 3 3 Middlesex 8 2 4 2 Nottinghamshire 10 6 1 3 Surrey 14 2 7 5 Sussex 8 2 4 2 Yorkshire 14 5 4 5 Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 54 072701868X Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings) 1880 English season leading batsmenFirst Class Batting in England in 1880 Name Team(s) Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50sWG Grace GloucestershireEngland 16 27 3 951 152 39.62 2 5Lord Harris KentMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC)England 16 26 2 772 123 32.16 1 5Alexander Webbe MiddlesexEngland 14 24 1 708 142 30.78 1 2Ivo Bligh Cambridge UniversityKent 21 38 5 1013 105 30.69 1 8Billy Barnes NottinghamshireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC)England 28 47 4 1220 143 28.37 2 5 Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls) 1880 English season leading bowlersFirst Class Bowling in England in 1880 Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wicketsin innings 10 wicketsin matchAlfred Shaw NottinghamshireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC)England 8532 1589 186 8.54 8/31 14 5Frederick Jellicoe Oxford UniversityHampshire 1045 301 32 9.40 7/23 3 1George Nash Lancashire 1501 471 49 9.61 8/31 4 2Arnold Rylott Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 1162 394 39 10.10 7/43 6 1Dick Barlow Lancashire 2439 639 62 10.30 7/16 4 1 Notable events History of Test cricket (to 1883) Australian cricket team in England in 1880 The first Test match in England was played at The Oval from 6 to 8 September and England won by five wickets. Alfred Shaw achieved the lowest-ever average by any bowler taking over 100 first-class wickets.Webber, Roy; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 173. Published 1951 by Playfair Books No bowler has had a single-figure average for over 100 wickets since. 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, 1881 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1881 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1881 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:1880 in English cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 19th century