1816 English cricket season
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1816 was the 30th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Manchester Cricket Club was founded and became the forerunner of Lancashire County Cricket Club (founded in 1864). Details of eight matches are known.[note 1]
Events
- The 1816 season saw the formation of the Manchester Cricket Club which took part in a number of major matches until Lancashire CCC was established in 1864. Manchester was representative of Lancashire as a county in the same way that Sheffield Cricket Club and Nottingham Cricket Club represented Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
- The issue of roundarm bowling was already controversial enough in 1816 for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to amend the Laws of Cricket to prohibit it:[5]
- The ball must be bowled (not thrown or jerked), and be delivered underhand, with the hand below the elbow. But if the ball be jerked, or the arm extended from the body horizontally, and any part of the hand be uppermost, or the hand horizontally extended when the ball is delivered, the Umpires shall call "No Ball".
- With cricket recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, a total of eight matches were recorded in 1816:
- 10â11 June â Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground[6]
- 17â19 June â E H Budd's XI v G Osbaldeston's XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground[7]
- 24â25 June â Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground[8]
- 3â6 July â England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground[8]
- 29 Julyâ2 August â Sussex v Epsom @ Lord's Cricket Ground[9]
- 5â6 August â Gentlemen of England v Old Etonians @ Lord's Cricket Ground[10]
- 14â16 August â Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Middlesex @ Lord's Cricket Ground[11]
- 21â23 August â Epsom v Hampshire @ Epsom Down[12]
Notes
- Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources.[1] 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.[2] Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status.[3] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as important or, at least, historically significant.[4] For further information, see First-class cricket.