1792 English cricket season

1792 English cricket season

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The 1792 English cricket season was the 21st in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the sixth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 19 top-class matches played in the country.

Elsewhere, the earliest known cricket club in India was formed at Calcutta. ^{[1] [2]}

Matches

A total of 19 top-class matches were played during the season. ^{[3] [4] [5]} These included matches played by teams from Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey. Club sides at Hornchurch in Essex and Brighton in Sussex also played at the top-level and MCC played eight first-class matches. ^{[4] [5]}

A number of matches below top-level were played, including one between Nottingham and a Leicestershire and Rutland side. ^[6] A match in Sheffield may be the first in which a player is known to have been given out obstructing the field. ^[7]

First mentions

First-class matches were first played at Dartford Brent and Cobham Park in Kent and at Old Field, Bray in Berkshire. ^[5] A military match is known to have been played at Dublin, the first cricket known to have been played in Ireland.^{[ citation needed ]}

Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1792 include:

• Capron
• Thomas Colyear, 4th Earl of Portmore
• J Finch
• S Gill
• James Harding
• Harvey
• Monk
• Munday
• Robert Quarme
• Thomas Ray
• Robert Robinson
• Sir John Shelley, 6th Baronet
• James Smith
• John Stewart
• Sylvester
• Thompson
• Timber

References

1. History, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
2. Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792, puronokolkata, 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
3. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
4. England Domestic Season 1792, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-26.
5. First-class matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
6. Other matches in England, 1792, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-26. (subscription required)
7. Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, pp.27–28. Cotterell.

Further reading

• Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
• Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
• Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
• Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.