1849 English cricket season

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1849 was the 63rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). [note 1] The first Roses Match took place during this season.

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Events

23 to 25 July. Sheffield Cricket Club, playing as "Yorkshire", and Manchester Cricket Club, playing as "Lancashire", met at Hyde Park in Sheffield. It was the first match to involve teams called Yorkshire and Lancashire so was, therefore, the first Roses match. Yorkshire won by 5 wickets.

Leading batsmen

George Parr was the leading runscorer with 529 runs at an average of 31.11 [5]

Other leading batsmen were: Nicholas Felix, Thomas Box, James Dean, Alfred Mynn, William Nicholson, Fuller Pilch, Robert Turner King, Tom Adams, William Hillyer, William Martingell

Leading bowlers

William Hillyer was the leading wicket-taker with 141 wickets at an average of 13.20 [6]

Other leading bowlers were: John Wisden (notable for launching Wisden Cricketers' Almanack), William Clarke, William (FW) Lillywhite, James Dean, Edmund Hinkly, Edward Blore, William Martingell

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. ↑ CricketArchive – Batting Statistics 1849 First Class Season Retrieved 23 October 2011
  6. ↑ CricketArchive – Bowling Statistics 1849 First Class Season Retrieved 23 October 2011

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