1835 English cricket season

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1835 English cricket season
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1835 was the 49th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). [note 1] Powerless to prevent the use of roundarm bowling, MCC finally amended the Laws of Cricket to make it legal.

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The relevant part of the Law stated: if the hand be above the shoulder in the delivery, the umpire must call "No Ball". Bowlers’ hands now started to go above the shoulder and the 1835 Law had to be reinforced in 1845 by removing benefit of the doubt from the bowler in the matter of his hand’s height when delivering the ball. The Laws were also changed to enforce a compulsory follow on if the team batting second was 100 runs behind on first innings.

Important matches

1835 match list

Events

Nottinghamshire as a county team, and perhaps also as Notts CCC, played its first inter-county match v. Sussex at Brown’s Ground, Brighton on 27 to 29 August. Previous matches involved Nottingham as a town rather than Notts as a county. Notts is recognised as a first-class county team from 1835.

The lease of Lord's Cricket Ground was transferred to JH Dark, [5] who remained proprietor until 1864.

Leading batsmen

James Cobbett was the leading runscorer with 156 @ 15.60. [6]

Other leading batsmen were: EG Wenman, J Taylor, CJ Harenc, CA Wilkinson, CH Parnther, GM Giffard. [6]

Leading bowlers

William Lillywhite was the leading wicket-taker with 42 wickets. [7]

Other leading bowlers were: S Redgate, J Cobbett, T Barker, G Brown, J Broadbridge. [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ 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.

References

  1. ↑ "First-Class matches in England in 1772" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Wisden (1948). Preston, Hubert (ed.). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (85th ed.). London: Sporting Handbooks Ltd. p. 813. OCLC   851705816.
  3. ↑ ACS 1982, pp. 4–5.
  4. ↑ ACS 1981, pp. 1–40.
  5. ↑ "The History of Lord's | Lord's". www.lords.org. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  6. 1 2 "England Domestic Season, 1835 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  7. 1 2 "England Domestic Season, 1835 Cricket Team Records & Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com". Cricinfo. Retrieved 14 December 2020.

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