1875 English cricket season
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1875 was the 89th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Nottinghamshire regained its place as the unofficial "Champion County". It was in many ways the last season before pitches began to improve and produce much heavier scoring: it was definitely the last season where "dead shooters" were frequently seen at Lord's[1] before the heavy roller made for regular bounce there.[note 1]
Champion County
Playing record (by county)
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Kent | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Middlesex | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Nottinghamshire | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Surrey | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Sussex | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Yorkshire | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
| 1875 English season leading batsmen[7] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| Lord Harris | Kent Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 13 | 22 | 3 | 682 | 92 | 35.89 | 0 | 5 |
| W. G. Grace | Gloucestershire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 26 | 48 | 2 | 1498 | 152 | 32.56 | 3 | 5 |
| A. N. Hornby | Lancashire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 13 | 22 | 1 | 646 | 78 not out | 30.76 | 0 | 4 |
| Fred Grace | Gloucestershire | 22 | 39 | 4 | 978 | 180 not out | 27.94 | 3 | 2 |
| Ephraim Lockwood | Yorkshire | 22 | 39 | 4 | 968 | 74 | 27.65 | 0 | 5 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1875 English season leading bowlers[8] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| William Mycroft | Derbyshire | 2284 | 664 | 90 | 7.37 | 9/80 | 13 | 6 |
| Alfred Shaw | Nottinghamshire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 7021 | 1495 | 160 | 9.34 | 8/25 | 16 | 5 |
| Alec Watson | Lancashire | 893 | 331 | 28 | 11.82 | 5/57 | 1 | 0 |
| William Clarke | Nottinghamshire | 919 | 281 | 23 | 12.21 | 5/19 | 3 | 0 |
| WG Grace | Gloucestershire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 6765 | 2473 | 191 | 12.94 | 9/48 | 22 | 8 |
Events
- Hampshire County Cricket Club returned to first-class county cricket after four seasons absence.
- 18 August: formation of Somerset County Cricket Club by a team of amateurs at a meeting in Sidmouth, Devonshire, immediately after a match against a local team.
Labels
a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
Notes
- Some eleven-a-side matches played from 1772 to 1863 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources.[2] 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.[3] Matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status.[4] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as top-class or, at least, historically significant.[5] For further information, see First-class cricket.