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26 November 2006, Graham Roope,
cricketer, died (born 12 July 1946)
24 May 2006, Eric Bedser,
cricketer, died (born 4 July 1918)
30 December 2005, Eddie Barlow,
cricketer, died (born 12 August 1940)
18 June 2005, Syed Mushtaq
Ali, cricketer, died (born 17 December 1914)
30 May 2005, Fazal Mahmood,
cricketer, died (born 18 February 1927)
1 March 2005, Brian Luckhurst,
cricketer, died (born 5 February 1939).
1 June 2002, Hansie Cronje,
cricketer, died.
25 February 2001, Sir Donald
Bradman, cricketer, died.
20 April 1995, Robert Wyatt,� cricketer, died (born 2 May 1901).
30 March 1995, Tony Lock,
cricketer, died.
27 December 1994, Peter May,
cricketer, died (born 31 December 1929).
16 June 1993, Lindsay Hassett,
Australian cricketer, died.
28 May 1993, Charles Barnett,
cricketer, died.
24 July 1991, Frederick Brown,
cricketer, died (born 16 December 1910).
14 April 1989, Lance Pierre,
West Indian cricketer, died aged 67
7 March 1987, Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar became the first to scored 10,000 runs in Test Cricket.
23 July 1985, John Wardle,
cricketer, died (born 8 January 1923).
15 June 1985, Percy Fender,
cricketer, died (born 22 August 1892).
20 April 1982, Andrew Sandham,
cricketer, died.
14 March 1981, Ken Barrington,
cricketer, died (born 24 November 1930).
5 February 1979, Edward Paynter,
cricketer, died (born 5 November 1901).
22 November 1978, Herbert Sutcliffe, cricketer, died (born 24 November 1894).
18 October 1978, Frank Woolley,
cricketer, died (born 28 May 1887)
21 November 1977, Kerry Packer launched his World Series cricket in Melbourne. Packer had bene unable to secure broadcasting rights
with the Australian Cricket Board, so he signed 60 players to start their own
series.
15 January 1977, Simon James Cook, British cricketer, was born in Oxford, England
8 November 1976, Brett Lee, cricketer, was born.
5 September 1976, Arthur Gilligan,
cricketer, died (born 23 December 1894).
29 December 1974, Brad Hodge, cricketer, was born.
19 December 1974, Ricky Ponting, cricketer, was born.
29 October 1974, Michael Vaughan, cricketer, was born
5 September 1974, Rawl Lewis, West Indian
cricketer, was born in Grenada.
31 December 1973, Mohammad Iqbal, Pakistani born Canadian cricketer, was born.
8 July 1973, Wilfred Rhodes,
cricketer, died (born 29 October 1876).
7 August 1971, Dominic Cork, cricketer, was born
5 January 1971, International One
Day Cricket began when England played Australia in Melbourne.
28 June 1970, Mushtaq Ahmed, cricket player,
was born.
14 February 1970, Herbert Strudwick, cricketer, died.
20 November 1969, Sir George Oswald, cricketer, died (born 31
July 1902).
12 December 1968, Walter Robins, cricketer, died (born 3 June 1906)
28 March 1968, Nasser Hussain, cricketer, was
born.
14 February 1968, Chris Lewis, cricketer, was born
26 November 1967, Ridley Jacobs, West Indian cricketer, was
born.
1 January 1967, Maurice Leyland, cricketer, died (born 20 July
1900).
14 September 1966, Aamer Sohail, Pakistani
cricketer, was born in Lahore
22 May 1966, Thomas Goddard, cricketer, died.
5 January 1966, George Duckworth, cricketer, was born.
31 August 1965, Willie Watson, New Zealand cricketer, was
born.
8 August 1965, Angus Fraser, cricketer, was born.
28 January 1965, Alfred Freeman, cricketer, died(born 17 May 1888).
1963, The old
distinction between �gentlemen� (who
played for the fun of it, amateurs) and �players�
(who played for a living, professionals) was abolished, and the two groups no
longer had separate entrances at Lords.
21 December 1963, Leeds Rugby Club, the first with undersoil
heating, used it during a game with Dewsbury.
1 December 1963, Arjuna
Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer, was born.
13 September 1963, Robin Smith,
cricketer, was born.
2 May 1963, Jack Crawford,� cricketer, died (born 1 December 1886).
7 February 1963, Arthur Carr,
cricketer, died (born 21 May 1893).
30 January 1963, Pelham Warner,
cricketer, died (born 2 October 1873).
30 October 1962, Courtney Walsh,
cricketer, cricketer, was born.
27 May 1962, Ravi Shastri,
cricketer, was born.
2 October 1961, Reginald
Spooner, cricketer, died (born 21 October 1880).
3 June 1961, Kevin Arnott,
Zimbabwean cricketer, was born
26 January 1961, Morris Nichols,� cricketer, died (born 6 October 1900).
29 December 1960, David Boon,
cricketer, was born.
7 September 1959, Kevin Curran,
cricketer, was born.
1 September 1959, Carole Hodges,
cricketer, was born.
11 July 1959, Charles Parker,
cricketer, died.
4 July 1959, Janette Brittin,
cricketer, was born.
18 May 1959, Graham Dilley,
cricketer, was born.
9 September 1958, Charles
Macartney, Australian cricketer, died aged 72
26 June 1958, George Gunn,
cricketer, died (born 13 June 1879).
18 June 1958, Douglas Jardine,
cricketer, died (born 23 October 1900).
26 March 1958, Philip Mead,
cricketer, died (born 9 March 1887).
7 December 1957, Geoff Lawson,
cricketer, was born.
20 October 1957, Chris Cowdrey,
English cricketer, was born.
29 September 1957, Chris Broad,
cricketer, was born
8 April 1957, Frank Chester,
cricketer, died.
1 May 1957, Rick Darling,
Australian cricketer, was born.
7 September 1956, Charles Fry,
cricketer, died (born 25 April 1872).
28 June 1956, Shropshire
Cricket Club was founded.
18 May 1956, Maurice Tate,
cricketer, died (born 30 May 1895).
23 December 1955, Leonard Braund,
cricketer, died (born 18 October 1875).
24 November 1955, Ian Botham,
cricketer, was born.
15 September 1955, Abdul Qadir,
cricketer, was born
11 May 1955, Gilbert Jessop,
English cricketer, died aged 80.
20 June 1954, Allan Lamb,
cricketer, was born.
10 May 1954, George Hirst,
cricketer, died (born 7 September 1871).
26 January 1954, Kim Hughes,
cricketer, was born
27 December 1953, Kevin Wright,
cricketer, was born.
23 July 1953, Graham Gooch,
cricketer, was born.
1 April 1953, Aftab Baloch,
Pakistan cricketer, was born in Karachi, Pakistan
12 December 1952, Charles
Kortright, cricketer, died.
8 September 1952, Geoff Miller,
cricketer, was born.
23 January 1952, Omar Henry,
South African cricketer, was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
20 March 1951, Madan Lai,
cricketer, was born.
24 February 1951, Derek Randall,
cricketer, was born.
29 January 1951, Andy Roberts,
cricketer, was born.
16 August 1950, Jeff Thomson,
Australian cricketer, was born.
10 October 1949, Lance Cairns,
cricketer, was born
18 July 1949, Dennis Lillee,� cricketer, was born.
30 May 1949, Robert Williams,
cricketer, was born.
21 March 1949, Alvin
Kalicharan, cricketer, was born.
22 December 1948, Chris Old,
cricketer, was born.
12 September 1948, Max Walker,
Australian cricket player, was born.
7 August 1948, Greg Chappell,
cricketer, was born.
10 April 1948, Cumberland
Cricket Club was founded.
1947, Cricket matches in
England attracted 2 million paying spectators. This figure dropped to
500,000 by 1970.
4 November 1947, Rodney Marsh,
Australian cricketer, was born.
13 July 1947, Warwick
Armstrong, cricketer, died aged 68
9 March 1947, Stanley Jackson,
cricketer, died (born 21 November 1870).
12 July 1946, Graham Roope,
cricketer, was born (died 26 November 2006)
6 October 1946, Anthony Grieg,
cricketer, was born.
6 September 1946, Roger Knight,
secretary of the MCC, was born.
8 June 1945, Derek Underwood,
cricketer, was born.
18 May 1945, BS
Chandrasekhar, cricketer, was born.
26 September 1943, Ian Chappell,
cricketer, was born.
15 June 1943, Cecil Parker,
cricketer, died (born 18 February 1886)
6 June 1943, Asif Iqbal,
cricketer, was born.
23 October 1941, Colin Milburn,
cricketer, was born (died 28 February 1990).
1 December 1940, Michael Denness,
cricketer, was born.
30 March 1940, Norman Gifford,
cricketer, was born.
19 July 1939, Thomas Hayward,
cricketer, died.
12 June 1939, Geoff Griffin,
South African cricketer, was born (died 16 November 2006)
11 June 1939, Rachel Heyhoe
Flint, cricketer, was born.
14 August 1938, Hugh Trimble,
cricketer, died.
6 July 1938, Tony Lewis,
cricketer, was born.
12 September 1937, Wes Hall,
cricketer, was born.
9 June 1937, Sven Conrad
Stayers, Guyanese cricketer, was born in Georgetown, Guyana (died
2005)
4 March 1937, Graham Dowling,
cricketer, was born.
11 February 1937, Bill Lawry,
cricketer, was born.
1936, The Forty Club was established in England by Henry Grierson
for cricketers over 40, to facilitate cricket playing by middle-aged people.
3 February 1936, Bobby Simpson,
Australian test cricketer, was born.
29 July 1934, Alfred Scott,
West Indian cricketer, was born.
15 September 1933, Colin Ingleby
Mackenzie, cricketer, was born (died 9 March 2006)
30 June 1933, Michael Smith,
cricketer, was born.
2 April 1933, Ranjitsinhji
Vibhaji, Indian cricket batsman, died.
16 February 1933, England
won the Ashes against Australia using a controversial �bodyline� bowling
technique, aiming the cricket ball at the batsman�s legs and body, making the game more dangerous.
17 January 1933, John Henry
Hodges, cricketer for Australia, died in Collingwood, Victoria (born
31 July 1856 in Collingwood, Victoria).
24 December 1932, Colin Cowdrey,
cricketer, was born.
24 November 1932, Frederick
Titmus, cricketer, was born.
8/1932, Suffolk Cricket Club was founded.
25 June 1932, The first England � India test cricket match
began at Lords, London.� England won by 158 runs.
8 June 1932, Raymond
Illingworth, cricketer, was born.
24 March 1932, George Harris,
cricketer, died (born 3 February 1851).
29 January 1932, Raman Subba Row,
cricket administrator, was born.
21 October 1931, James Parks,
cricketer, was born.
4 July 1931, Peter
Richardson, cricketer, was born.
6 February 1931, Frederick
Trueman, cricketer, was born.
19 December 1930, John Douglas,
cricketer, died (born 3 September 1882).
27 November 1930, John Tyldesley,
cricketer, died (born 22 November 1873).
24 November 1930, Ken Barrington,
cricketer, was born (died 14 March 1981).
6 October 1930, Richie Benaud,
cricketer, was born
6 June 1930, Frank Tyson,
cricketer, was born.
1 August 1929, Syd Gregory,
Australian cricketer, died.
5 July 1929, Tony Lock,
cricketer, was born (died 30 March 1995).
6 March 1929, David Sheppard,
cricketer, was born.
16 June 1927, Thomas Graveney,
cricketer, was born.
18 February 1927, Fazal Mahmood,
cricketer, was born (died 30 May 2005)
4/6.1926, Frederick
Spofforth, Australian cricketer, died.
28 March 1926, Pahlan Ratanji
Umrigar, cricketer, was born (died 7 November 2006)
7 November 1925, Mary Duggan,� cricketer, was born (died 10 March 1973).
26 February 1925, Sir Everton
Weekes, cricketer, was born.
10 January 1925, Geoffrey
Keighley, cricketer, was born (died 14 June 2005)
12 August 1924, Derek
Shackleton, cricketer, was born.
3 December 1923, Trevor Bailey,
English cricket� champion, was born.
8 January 1923, John Wardle,
cricketer, was born (died 23 July 1985).
21 September 1922, Thomas Armitage,
cricketer for England, died in Chicago, USA (born 25 April 1848 in Sheffield,
Yorkshire)
9 February 1922, James Laker,
cricketer, was born (died 23 April 1986).
14 December 1921, Oxfordshire
Cricket Club was founded.
5 April 1921, Leslie Jackson,
cricketer, was born.
18 August 1920, Thomas Evans,
cricketer, was born in Finchley, London.
7 March 1920, Willie Watson,
cricketer, was born.
20 August 1919, Gregor
MacGregor,� cricketer, died
(born 31 August 1869).
4 July 1918, Alec Bedser,
cricketer, was born.
16 April 1916, Thomas Patrick
Horan, cricketer for Australia, died in Melbourne (born in
Middleton, Ireland, 8 March 1854)
26 March 1916, William Edrich,
cricketer, was born (died 24 April 1986).
4 April 1915, Easter
Sunday. Andrew
Stoddart, cricketer, died.
25 July 1914, 66 year
old WG Grace
batted for the last time in a competitive match, scoring 69 not out.
16 June 1914, Stewart
Griffith, cricketer, was born (died 7 April 1993).
13 May 1914, Reginald Foster,
cricketer, died (born 16 April 1878).
24 October 1913, Mary Hide,
cricketer, was born.
5 July 1913, Alfred
Lyttelton, cricketer, died (born 7 February 1857).
3 July 1911, Joseph
Hardstaff, cricketer, was born (died 1 January 1990).
20 May 1911, Edward Grace,
cricketer, died (born 28 November 1841).
2 April 1911, Myrtle Maclagan,
cricketer, was born (died 11 March 1993).
1910, The six-runs rule
for a ball batted over the boundary was introduced; previously that batter
scored just 4 runs for this shot.
29 September 1908. Cheshire
Cricket Club was founded.
8 August 1909, William Voce,
cricketer, was born (died 6 June 1984).
25 July 1908, William Bowes,
cricketer, was born (died 5 September 1987).
1907, The International
Cricket Council was established (then known as the Imperial Cricket Conference).
16 January 1907, Alfred Shaw,
cricketer, died.
28 September 1906, Lincolnshire
Cricket Club was founded.
3 June 1906, Walter Robins,
cricketer, was born (died 12 December 1968)
18 May 1905, Hedley Verity,
cricketer, was born (died 31 July 1943).
29 June 1904, Thomas Emmett,
cricketer for England, died in Leicester (born 3 September 1841 in Halifax,
Yorkshire)
27 August 1903, Donald George
Bradman, Australian cricketer, was born.
19 June 1903, Walter Hammond,
cricketer, was born (died 1 July 1965).
31 July 1902, Sir George
Oswald, cricketer, was born (died 29 November 1969).
11 January 1902, John Briggs,
cricketer, died (born 3 October 1862).
1 December 1901, George Lohmann,
cricketer, died (born 2 June 1865).
5 November 1901, Edward Paynter,
cricketer, was born (died 5 February 1979).
21 September 1901, Learie
Constantine, West Indian cricketer, was born (died 1971).
2 May 1901, Robert Wyatt,� cricketer, was born (died 20 April 1995).
23 October 1900, Douglas Jardine,
cricketer, was born (died 18 June 1958).
20 July 1900, Maurice Leyland,
cricketer, was born (died 1 January 1967).
26 November 1899, Devon Cricket
Club was founded
3 November 1899, Bedfordshire
Cricket Club was founded.
2 September 1896, Nathaniel
Thompson, cricketer for Australia, died in Sydney (born 21 April 1838
in Birmingham, England).
5 February 1896, Dorset Cricket
Club was founded.
12/1895, Northumberland Cricket Club was founded.
30 May 1895, Maurice Tate,
cricketer, was born (died 18 May 1956).
17 March 1895, Berkshire
Cricket Club was founded.
23 December 1894, Arthur Gilligan,
cricketer, was born (died 5 September 1976).
24 November 1894, Herbert
Sutcliffe, cricketer, was born (died 22 January 1978).
12 November 1894, Cornwall
Cricket Club was founded.
11 March 1894, John Selby,
cricketer for England, died in Nottingham (born 1 July 1894 in Nottoingham)
21 May 1893, Arthur Carr,
cricketer, was born (died 7 February 1963).
1/1893, Wiltshire Cricket Club was founded.
22 August 1892, Percy Fender,
cricketer, was born (died 15 June 1985).
19 February 1891, John White,
cricketer, was born (died 2 May 1961).
11 February 1891, John Hearne,
cricketer, was born (died 14 September 1965).
24 January 1891, Alexander
Kennedy, cricketer, was born (died 15 November 1959).
15 January 1891, Buckinghamshire
Cricket Club was founded.
6 January 1891, Ted McDonald,
Australian cricketer was born in Launceston, Australia (died 1937).
1890, Headingley Ground,
Leeds, was opened. It is the County Ground of Yorkshire County Cricket
Club, and has bene used for Test Matches since 1899. Leeds Rugby League Club
also plays there.
3 December 1890, William Evans
Midwinter, cricketer for Australia, died in Melbourne (born 19 June 1851
in St Briavels, Gloucestershire, England).
12 May 1890, In the
UK, the first ever official County
Championship cricket match began in Bristol.� Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight
wickets.
8 April 1889, Henry Jupp,
cricketer for England, died in Bermondsey, London (born in Dorking, Surrey, 19
November 1841).
12 February 1889, Andrew
Greenwood, cricketer for England, died in Huddersfield, Yorkshire
(born in Yorkshire, 10 August 1847).
5 February 1889, Elias Hendren,
cricketer, was born (died 4 October 1962).
1888, Glamorgan County Cricket Club was founded
6 June 1888, Henry Rupert
James Charlwood, cricketer for England, died in Scarborough,
Yorkshire (born in Horsham, Sussex, 19 December 1846).
17 May 1888, Alfred Freeman,
cricketer, was born (died 28 January 1965).
28 May 1887, Frank Woolley,
cricketer, was born (died 18 October 1978)
9 March 1887, Philip Mead,
cricketer, was born (died 26 March 1958).
1886, Warwickshire Cricket Club bought the land for the ground at
Edgbaston, Birmingham. The first
Test match was played there in 1902, and it is now a regular Test venue.
25 November 1886, Percy Holmes,
cricketer, was born (died 3 September 1971).
18 February 1886, Cecil Parker,
cricketer, was born (died 15 June 1943)
16 February 1886, Andrew Ducat
cricketer, was born (died 23 July 1942).
5 April 1884, John Wisden,
cricketer and compiler of Wisden record books, died in London.
16 December 1882, John Hobbs,
cricketer, was born (died 21 December 1963).
3 September 1882, John Douglas,
cricketer, was born (died 19 December 1930).
2 September 1882, Following
England�s cricketing defeat by Australia at The Oval on 29 August 1882, a notice
appeared in the Sporting Times lamenting the death of English cricket and
suggesting that the body be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. When the
England team toured Australia in 1882-3 they were duly presented with an urn
containing the ashes of a set of stumps. The Ashes became the
subject of a major ongoing cricketing contest.
10 May 1882, Durham Cricket
Club was founded.
8 April 1882, Warwickshire
County Cricket Club was formed at a meeting in the Queen�s Hotel,
Coventry.
21 October 1880, Reginald Spooner,
cricketer, was born (died 2 October 1961).
6 September 1880, The first cricket Test match played in Britain, between England and Australia, took
place at The Oval.
16 June 1880, James
Southerton, cricketer for England, died in Mitcham, Surrey (born 16
November 1827 in Petworth, Sussex).
13 June 1879, George Gunn,
cricketer, was born (died 29 June 1958).
30 May 1879, Colin Blythe,
cricketer, was born (died 8 November 1917).
25 March 1879, Leicestershire
County Cricket Club was formed in Leicester.
31 July 1878, Northamptonshire
Cricket Club was founded.
16 April 1878, Reginald Foster,
cricketer, was born (died 13 May 1914).
13 October 1877, Bernard
Bosanquet, cricketer, was born (died 12 October 1936).
15 March 1877, The first cricket Test Match, in Melbourne
between Australia and England, was won by Australia.
29 October 1876, Wilfred Rhodes,
cricketer, was born (died 8 July 1973).
24 November 1871, Staffordshire
Cricket Club was founded.
14 October 1876, Norfolk Cricket
Club was founded.
8 March 1876, Hertfordshire
Cricket Club was founded.
14 January 1876, Essex County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at The Shire Hall, Chelmsford.
18 October 1875, Leonard Braund,
cricketer, was born (died 23 December 1955).
18 August 1875, Somerset County
Cricket Club was founded.
19 May 1874, Gilbert Jessop,
cricketer, was born (died 11 May 1955).
22 November 1873, John Tyldesley,
cricketer, was born (died 27 November 1930).
2 October 1873, Pelham Warner,
cricketer, was born (died 30 January 1963).
19 April 1873, Sidney Barnes,
cricketer, was born (died 26 December 1967)
25 April 1872, Charles Fry,
cricketer, was born (died 7 September 1956).
1871, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club was
founded.
1 December 1871, Archibald
MacLaren, cricketer, was born (died 17 November 1944).
7 September 1871, George Hirst,
cricketer, was born (died 10 May 1954).
21 November 1870, Stanley Jackson,
cricketer, was born (died 9 March 1947).
4 November 1870, Derbyshire County
Cricket Club was founded at a meeting in the Guildhall, Derby.
11 August 1870, Thomas
Richardson, cricketer, was born (died 2 July 1912).
1 May 1870, Fuller Pilch,
cricketer, died (born 17 March 1804)
31 August 1869, Gregor
MacGregor,� cricketer, was
born (died 20 August 1919).
25 March 1868, William
Lockwood, cricketer, was born (died 26 April 1932).
3 May 1867, John Hearne,
cricketer, was born (died 17 April 1044).
28 November 1866, Arthur Lilley,
cricketer, was born (died 17 November 1929).
2 June 1865, George Lohmann,
cricketer, was born (died 1 December 1901).
3 March 1865. Worcestershire
County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at the Stag Hotel,
Worcester.
2 February 1864, Middlesex
County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate.
12 January 1864, Lancashire
County Cricket Club was founded in Manchester.
12 August 1863, Hampshire
County Cricket Club was founded in Southampton.
11 April 1863, Andrew Stoddart,
cricketer, was born (died 4 April 1915).
8 January 1863, Yorkshire
County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at the Adelphi Hotel,
Sheffield.
3 October 1862, John Briggs,
cricketer, was born (died 11 January 1902).
1 November 1861, Alfred Mynn,
cricketer, died
16 August 1860, Martin Hawke,
cricketer, was born (died 10 October 1938).
1 March 1859, A second Kent County
Cricket Club was founded at Maidstone.
24 September 1858, Allan Steel,
cricketer, was born (died 15 June 1914).
26 July 1858, Thomas William
Garrett, cricketer for Australia, was born in Wollongong, New South
Wales (died 6 August 1943 in Sydney).
30 November 1857, Bobby Abel,
cricketer, was born (died 10 December 1936).
12 February 1857, Robert Peel,
cricketer, was born (died 12 August 1941).
7 February 1857, Alfred
Lyttelton, cricketer, was born (died 5 July 1913).
25 August 1856, William Clarke,
cricketer, died (born 24 December 1798)
31 July 1856, John
Henry Hodges, cricketer for Australia, was born in Collingwood,
Victoria (died 22 April 1899 in Sydney)
11 April 1856, Arthur
Shrewsbury, cricketer, was born (died 19 May 1903).
11 May 1854, John
McArthy Blackham, cricketer for Australia, was born in Melbourne
(died in Sydney, 20 August 1930).
8 March 1854, Thomas
Patrick Horan, cricketer for Australia, was born in Middleton,
Ireland (died 16 April 1916 in Melbourne).
21 October 1851, George Ulyett,
cricketer, was born (died 18 June 1898).
24 August 1851, Thomas
Kendall, cricketer for Australia, was born in Bedford, England (died
17 August 1924 in Hobart, Tasmania).
19 June 1851, William
Evans Midwinter, cricketer for Australia, was born in St Briavels,
Gloucestershire, England (died in Melbourne, 3 December 1890).
1 July 1849, John
Selby, cricketer for England, was born in Nottingham (died 11 March 1894
in Nottingham)
18 July 1848, Cricketer
W G Grace
was born at Downend near Bristol.
25 April 1848, Thomas
Armitage, cricketer for England, was born in Sheffield (died in
Chicago, USA, 21 September 1922)
20 August 1847, Andrew
Greenwood, cricketer for England, was born in Yorkshire (died 12
February 1889 in Huddersfield).
10 February 1847, Albert Hornby,
cricketer, was born (died 17 December 1925).
22 August 1845, Surrey County Cricket Club was founded at a meeting at The Horns, Kennington. Its ground was The
Oval, south London.
15 March 1844, Bransby Beauchamp Cooper, cricketer for Australia, was born in India
(died 7 August 1914 in Geelong, Victoria)
6 August 1842, The first Kent County Cricket Club was formed.
28 November 1841, Edward Grace,
cricketer, was born (died 20 May 1911).
19 November 1841, Henry Jupp, cricketer for England, was born in Dorking, Surrey (died 8 April 1889
in Bermondsey, London).
1 March 1839, Sussex County
Cricket Club, the oldest,
was founded.
1838, Trent Bridge cricket
ground, Nottingham, opened. In 1837�
cricketer William Clarke had married the widow who ran the Trent Bridge
Inn, Nottingham, and they developed the ground together.
16 November 1827, James
Southerton, cricketer for England, was born in Petworth, Sussex
(died in Mitcham, Surrey, 16 June 1880).
5 September 1826. John Wisden, original
compiler of Wisden�s Cricketing Almanac,
was born in Brighton, Sussex.
Marylebone and Lords Cricket Ground,
origins 1788-1814
22 June 1814. The first cricket match was played at the present Lords Cricket Ground,
between the Marylebone Cricket Club and Hertfordshire. The original Marylebone
Cricket Club first played at White Conduit Fields before moving to a better
ground at Dorset Square, located by an employee of the Club, Thomas Lord.
Dorset Square, or Lord�s Old Ground, was
utilised 1787-1810, before a move to their next venue, known as Lord�s Middle
Ground. In 1813 this ground was taken for the Regents Canal, and the Club moved
to their present venue in St Johns Wood, then a pleasant rural area.
30 July 1787, Marylebone Cricket Club, London, played its first match, against Islington Cricket Club.
31 May 1787, The first
cricket match was played at Lords, north London. The match was Essex vs.
Middlesex. See 22 June 1814. The ground, then at Dorset Fields (now Dorset
Square, Marylebone Esate, London)
was founded by Thomas
Lord, Yorkshire-born entrep[reneur.
30 May 1788, Marylebone
Cricket Club formally codified the laws of cricket.
17 March 1804, Fuller Pilch, cricketer, was born (died 1 May 1870).
1785, The third stump in cricket
became mandatory.
1775, First use of the third
stump in cricket.
12/1748, A reference to the game of
criquet being played in St Omer, France.
1744, The first formal code of rules for cricket was drawn up.
29 June 1709, The first
recorded cricket match between two counties when Kent played Surrey at Dartford
Brent.
16 January 1598, A legal
case over land ownership made reference to a certain John Derrick who, then aged 59,
attested that as a �scholler at the free school of Guldeforde� he had played
�krickett;, which would the� be in the
1550s.
1477, An early form of cricket, called �hands-in-hands-out�, was banned
by King
Edward IV of England because it interfered with archery practice.
10 March 1300, �An early reference to Creag� as played by
Prince Edward, the futire King Edward II. The apostrophe after Creag signifies
the dinoimutive �et�. An early sport was played in The Weald, England, where a
man with a shepherd�s crook stood in front of�
a gate to try and bat away a stone thrown at the crosspiece, or �bail�,
of the gate. The word �bail� itself derived from Old French �bailler�, to
enclose, itself from the Latin ��baculum� meaning stick. The name �cricket
derives from �crok�, the old word for a shepherd�s crook. In 1300 the English
Royal household paid out 100 shillings for Prince Edward to play at �creag�.