1872 English cricket season

Cricket season review March 2015 August 2020 1871 1871 English cricket season 1873 1873 English cricket season The 1872 English cricket season was the ninth since the legalisation of overarm bowling. The first experiment in pitch covering was carried out. Prince's Cricket Ground opened in Chelsea, London.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. Playing record (by county) County Played Won Lost Drawn Derbyshire 2 0 2 0 Gloucestershire 7 3 1 3 Kent 4 0 4 0 Lancashire 4 4 0 0 Middlesex 3 0 3 0 NottinghamshireNotts a a 7 2 0 5 Surrey 12 7 3 2 Sussex 6 3 2 1 YorkshireNotts a a 9 2 6 1Hampshire b b Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 072701868X Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings) 1872 English season leading batsmenFirst Class Batting in England in 1872 Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50sWG Grace GloucestershireMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 20 32 7 1485 170 not out 57.11 6 6Richard Daft Nottinghamshire 13 20 3 589 102 34.64 1 4William Yardley Cambridge UniversityMarylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 11 19 3 529 130 33.06 1 2Henry Charlwood Sussex 16 27 4 651 80 28.30 0 5Frederick Fryer Cambridge University 9 15 0 405 91 27.00 0 3 Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls) 1872 English season leading bowlersFirst Class Bowling in England in 1872 Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wicketsin innings 10 wicketsin matchWilliam McIntyre Lancashire 857 232 41 5.65 7/23 7 3George Wootton Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 1239 359 37 9.70 7/14 5 2David Buchanan Gentlemen 1210 374 35 10.68 7/78 4 1Arthur Ridley Oxford University 844 332 31 10.70 6/23 3 0George Howitt Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)Middlesex 1238 427 38 11.23 6/36 4 0 Events An experiment took place at Lord's to study the effects of covering the pitch before the start of a match, the first time this is known to have been tried.Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970 p. 284. Unlike the recently introduced heavy roller which became universally used by 1880 and produced significant changes in the game by eliminating previously ubiquitous shooters, covering was for a long time severely rejected in England:Rosenwater, Irving; "A History of Wicket-Covering in England"; in Preston, Norman (editor); Wisden Cricketers' Almanac; One Hundred and Seventh Edition (1970); pp. 131–146 it was the wet summer of 1924Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, Sixty-Second Edition (1925); Part I; p. 333 before covering as regular practice was even considered and 1959 before it was considered "acceptable". 14 May: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) lose seven wickets before their first run is scored on a sticky wicket at Lord's against James Southerton and William Marten of Surrey.Marylebone Cricket Club v Surrey in 1872 Their ninth wicket falls at 8 - which would have been the lowest score in an important match for sixty-two years - but the last wicket doubles the score Prince's Cricket Ground hosted its first first-class match being between North and South on 16 May. Before being built on, it was generally praised for its wicketsRae, Simon; W. G. Grace: A Life; p. 106 0571195733 and the scenery surrounding the ground. Labels Notts a aNottinghamshire and Yorkshire played a third match at the short-lived Prince's Cricket Ground, Chelsea Hampshire b bHampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874 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, 1873 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1873 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1873 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:1872 in English cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 19th century