1794 English cricket season

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1794 English cricket season
1793
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The 1794 English cricket season was the 23rd in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the eighth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 16 top-class matches played in the country.

Matches[edit]

A total of 16 top-class matches were played during the season.[1][2][3] These included matches played by teams from Kent, Middlesex and Surrey as well as Oldfield Cricket Club from Berkshire which played in five first-class matches, four of them against MCC.[2][3]

First mentions[edit]

Cricket is first known to have been played in Shropshire in 1794. A number of players made first-class debuts, including:

References[edit]

  1. ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  2. ^ a b England Domestic Season 1794, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
  3. ^ a b First-class matches in England, 1794, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-28. (subscription required)

Further reading[edit]

  • 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.