1877 English cricket season
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1877 was the 91st season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).[note 1]
Champion County
Playing record (by county)
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Kent | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
| Lancashire | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| Middlesex | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Nottinghamshire | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Surrey | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| Sussex | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Yorkshire | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
| 1877 English season leading batsmen[6] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| W. G. Grace | Gloucestershire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 24 | 40 | 3 | 1477 | 261 | 39.83 | 2 | 9 |
| Bunny Lucas | Cambridge University Surrey | 17 | 28 | 4 | 832 | 115 | 34.66 | 2 | 4 |
| Frank Penn | Kent Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 19 | 33 | 3 | 930 | 148 not out | 31.00 | 2 | 3 |
| A. N. Hornby | Lancashire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 18 | 29 | 3 | 787 | 144 | 30.26 | 2 | 3 |
| Isaac Walker | Middlesex Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 17 | 29 | 2 | 788 | 95 | 29.18 | 0 | 5 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)
| 1877 English season leading bowlers[7] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| William McIntyre | Lancashire | 2796 | 949 | 85 | 11.16 | 8/31 | 11 | 3 |
| Robert Miles | Gloucestershire | 1054 | 258 | 23 | 11.21 | 5/88 | 1 | 0 |
| Tom Armitage | Yorkshire | 1424 | 490 | 42 | 11.66 | 7/58 | 6 | 1 |
| George Gibbons Hearne | Kent Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 3596 | 1281 | 108 | 11.86 | 8/78 | 11 | 5 |
| William Mycroft | Derbyshire Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) | 5496 | 1927 | 157 | 12.27 | 8/47 | 19 | 5 |
Events
15 - 19 March. Australia v. England at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Afterwards recognised as the first-ever Test Match. Australia won by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman scoring 165*: the first Test century. William Midwinter, with 5â78 in England's first innings, was the first bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings.
31 March - 4 April. Australia v. England: Second Test, also at MCG. England won by 4 wickets.
27 July - 28 July. Gloucestershire beats an "unrepresentative" (Wisden) England team by five wickets. Since 1877 only Yorkshire in 1905 and 1935 has equalled this feat.
10 & 12 November. South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide was the earliest first class match played by South Australia. They won by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen.
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.[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 top-class or, at least, historically significant.[4] For further information, see First-class cricket.