1817 English cricket season

Cricket season review March 2015 December 2020 1816 1816 English cricket season 1818 1818 English cricket season The 1817 English cricket season was the 31st since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Cricket was hit by a controversial match-fixing scandal. Details of seven 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. Events The 1817 season saw the first recorded instance of the Cambridge University v. Cambridge Town Club fixture that became almost annual until the 1860s. It was also the earliest historically important match to involve either team. There was a very fine line between Cambridge Town Club and Cambridgeshire CCC, the one dovetailing with the other. Similar scenarios were Nottingham/Notts, Manchester/Lancashire & Sheffield/Yorkshire. William Lambert scored two centuries (107* & 157) in the same match, the first player known to achieve the feat in an important match. Lambert was then banned for life by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from appearing at Lord's on the grounds that he had "sold" an earlier Nottingham versus England match. Nottingham had won the game by 30 runs despite a first innings deficit and many gamblers lost heavily. Whether Lambert was actually guilty is highly questionable and certainly no proper hearing was ever organised. The whole affair is believed to have been contrived by Lord Frederick Beauclerk who wished to settle an "old score". According to James Pycroft in The Cricket Field, the size of the wickets was increased in 1817 to 27 in mm by 8 in mm, but it seems more likely that the rule was introduced in 1819. With cricket recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, a total of seven matches were recorded in 1817: 30 May – Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club @ Parker's Piece, Cambridge 2–4 June – England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket GroundHaygarth, p.397. 10–12 June – England v Surrey @ Lord's Cricket GroundHaygarth, p.398. 18–20 June – Lord F Beauclerk's XI v W Ward's XI @ Lord's Cricket GroundHaygarth, p.400. 2–5 July – Sussex v Epsom @ Lord's Cricket GroundHaygarth, p.402. 6–8 August – Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket GroundHaygarth, p.405. 13–14 August – E H Budd's XI v W Ward's XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground Another match that has sometimes been regarded as is Old Etonians v Old Wykehamists at Lord's on Monday 14 July. 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 Warner Pelham Pelham Warner Lords: 1787–1945 1946 Harrap London 877106024 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:1810s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 19th century Category:1817 in England