1824 English cricket season
Cricket season review
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1824 was the 38th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Gentlemen v Players was an odds game with 14 on the Gentlemen team, but the Players still won by 103 runs. Details of six matches are known.[note 1]
Events
- There is evidence of a county club having been formed in Devonshire, though the current Devon County Cricket Club dates from 1899.[5]
- Six matches were recorded in 1824:
- 5 July â Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground[6]
- 20 July â Godalming v Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) @ The Burys, Godalming[7]
- 26 July â England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground[8]
- 2 August â Gentlemen XIV v Players XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground[9]
- 6 August â Sussex v Godalming @ Petworth Park[10]
- 13 August â Godalming v Sussex @ The Burys, Godalming[11]
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.
