1824 English cricket season

1824 English cricket season

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1824 was the 38th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Gentlemen v Players was an odds game with 14 on the Gentlemen team, but the Players still won by 103 runs. Details of six matches are known. ^{[note 1]}

Honours

• Most runs ^{[note 2]} – James Saunders 267 (HS 92)
• Most wickets – Thomas Flavel 31 (BB 7–?)

Events

• There is evidence of a county club having been formed in Devonshire, though the current Devon County Cricket Club dates from 1899. ^[3]
• 6 first-class matches were recorded in 1824:
  • 5 July – MCC v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground ^[4]
  • 20 July – Godalming v MCC @ The Burys, Godalming ^[5]
  • 26 July – All-England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground ^[6]
  • 2 August – Gentlemen XIV v Players XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground ^[7]
  • 6 August – Sussex v Godalming @ Petworth Park ^[8]
  • 13 August – Godalming v Sussex @ The Burys, Godalming ^[9]

Debutants

1824 debutants included:

• Charles Duff (Sussex)

Notes

1. Some eleven-a-side matches played before 1864 have been rated "first-class" by certain sources, but there was no such standard at the time. The term came into common use from around 1864, when overarm bowling was legalised, and 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. However, matches of a similar standard since the beginning of the 1864 season are generally considered to have an unofficial first-class status. ^[1] Pre-1864 matches which are included in the ACS' "Important Match Guide" may generally be regarded as top-class or, at least, historically significant. ^[2] For further information, see First-class cricket.
2. Scorecards created in the first quarter of the 19th century are not necessarily accurate or complete; therefore any summary of runs, wickets or catches can only represent the known totals and computation of averages is ineffectual.

References

1. ACS 1982, pp. 4–5.
2. ACS 1981, pp. 1–40.
3. Bowen, p.270.
4. Haygarth, p.495.
5. Haygarth, p.497.
6. Haygarth, p.499.
7. Haygarth, p.500.
8. Haygarth, p.501.
9. Haygarth, p.503.

Bibliography

• ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863. Nottingham: ACS.
• ACS (1982). A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.
• Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.

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.