1844 English cricket season
Cricket season review
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1844 was the 58th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[note 1] William Hillyer headed the bowling for the third time in succession.
Important matches
Events
13 March. Foundation of the original Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club which played in important matches from 1857 to 1871.
28 August. A match on Hartlebury Common between teams from Worcestershire and Shropshire is the earliest known reference to a county team in Worcestershire.
Leading batsmen
Fuller Pilch was the leading runscorer with 517 @ 17.82
Other leading batsmen were: A Mynn, J Dean, W Dorrinton, T Box, E Bushby, T Sewell, CG Taylor, R Kynaston, W Martingell
Leading bowlers
WR Hillyer was the leading wicket-taker with 142
Other leading bowlers were: A Mynn, FW Lillywhite, J Dean, CG Taylor, W Clarke
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.
