1795 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1794 1794 English cricket season 1796 1796 English cricket season The enigmatic Marylebone Thursday Club made its bow in the 1795 English cricket season. In Samuel Britcher's opinion,Britcher 1795 it was the Middlesex county XI. Details of 26 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. MCC v Thursday Club Ostensibly, the Marylebone Thursday Club was a group who gathered at Lord's Old Ground (Lord's) each Thursday to practice or play cricket. Samuel Britcher, however, pointed out that they were moreorless the same people who played for Middlesex. While it would be an easy option to label all these teams as Middlesex, it would not necessarily be correct.Britcher 1795 There were five MCC v Thursday Club matches in 1795, four in May and one at the end of June. The Thursday Club won three, MCC two. The teams were all-square at the end of May, so the June match may have been arranged as a "decider". MCC won the first and fourth matches by two wickets,Haygarth 1996 178 and by 94 runs,Haygarth 1996 180 respectively. The second and third matches were victories for the Thursday Club by 8 wickets,Haygarth 1996 178 and by 38 runs.Haygarth 1996 179 The final match ended in a win for the Thursday Club by 3 wickets.Haygarth 1996 185 England matches England played four matches with mixed results. The first was against MCC at Lord's, and MCC won by 15 runs.Haygarth 1996 184 In August, England met Hampshire twice on Dartford Brent. They won the first by 16 runs.Haygarth 1996 191 The second match was a victory for Hampshire by 4 wickets.Haygarth 1996 191 This is believed to have been the final important match ever played on the Brent, which had been a major venue throughout the 18th century. Matches in Dartford after 1795 were played at Bowman's Lodge on Dartford Heath. England's fourth match was against Kent on Penenden Heath, near Maidstone, and they won by 5 wickets.Haygarth 1996 193 Other events Berkshire had two matches at Lord's. They lost to Middlesex by 233 runs in July,Haygarth 1996 187 and to MCC by 2 wickets in August.Haygarth 1996 189 Sir Horatio Mann arranged three matches on his new Dandelion Paddock ground, near Margate, in September. The first was against Richard Leigh's XI, and Mann's XI won that game by 37 runs.Haygarth 1996 193 There was a return two weeks later, which Leigh's XI won by an innings and 98 runs.Haygarth 1996 195 Between those two matches, Mann's XI lost to the Earl of Darnley's XI by 242 runs.Haygarth 1996 194 Leigh's XI played two matches against the Earl of Winchilsea's XI. These were both played in Hampshire: first on Windmill Down, where Winchilsea's XI won by 113 runs; then on Itchin Stoke Down, where Leigh's XI won by 3 wickets.Haygarth 1996 188 There were three matches at Lord's between Winchilsea's XI and that of Colonel Charles Lennox. The latter won all three by margins of 48 runs,Haygarth 1996 181 10 wickets,Haygarth 1996 181 and 129 runs.Haygarth 1996 187 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 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 1795 83523010 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 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:1795 in England