1832 English cricket season
Cricket season review
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1832 was the 46th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[note 1] No team was proclaimed as "champion county". The season was overshadowed by the death of James Saunders on 27 March. He was only 29 and had been ill with consumption for the last two years. Scores and Biographies states that he was a "great batsman" who "had scarcely reached his prime". He was a fine attacking batsman who had the potential to be one of the greats.
Important matches
Leading batsmen
Fuller Pilch was the leading runscorer with 287 @ 31.88
Other leading batsmen were William Ward, Ned Wenman, William Lillywhite and Jem Broadbridge
Leading bowlers
William Lillywhite was the leading wicket-taker with 71.
Other leading bowlers were C. J. Harenc, Fuller Pilch, J. Cobbett, W. H. Caldecourt and Jem Broadbridge
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.
