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List Of English Cricketers (1772–1786)
This is a list of English cricketers who played first-class cricket between the 1772 English cricket season, 1772 and 1786 English cricket seasons. This spans the period between first matches to have been given retrospective first-class status in 1772 to the formation of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1787. A total of 67 first-class matches were played during this period. Cricket during this period became increasingly similar to the modern game, although bowling remained underarm until the 19th century. The first Laws of Cricket had been established in 1744 and in 1774 a revision of the Laws added Leg before wicket as a mode of dismissal. The third stump was added after 1775.Littlewood AR (ndThe measurements of cricket CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-01-29. Cricket scorecards became increasingly complete from 1772 onwards and the players included are those known to have played in matches which were given retrospective first-class status between 1772 and 1786 inclusive. A B C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but the term was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the International Cricket Council, Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians and statisticians with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bedster
William Bedster (1734 – 1805) was an English cricketer who played during the late 18th century. Bedster was born in 1734 at Walberton near Chichester in Sussex.William Bedster . Retrieved 2022-06-23.William Bedster CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-06-23. He made his first appearance in in 1777, playing in an England side against a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Colchin
Robert Colchin (1713 – 1750) was an English cricketer and match organiser of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular. His exact date and place of birth is unknown but he was christened at Chailey, Sussex, on 12 November 1713. He died at Deptford and was buried at Bromley in Kent in April 1750. Life and career Colchin lived in Bromley for several years and was associated with the local Bromley Cricket Club, which was prominent through the 1740s and declined after his death. Widely known as "Long Robin" because he was tall, he was considered to have been one of the best batters of his day."At the Sign of the Wicket" F. S. Ashley-Cooper, ''Cricket'', issue 535, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Colchin
Samuel Colchin (fl. 1747 – 1779) was an English cricketer who played in the 1770s. A nephew of Robert Colchin,Samuel Colchin CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-03-21. a noted er of the first half of the 18th century, Ashley-Cooper FS (1900) At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751, ''Cricket'', 1900-04-26, p. 84. Available online at the |
Robert Clifford (cricketer)
Robert Clifford (8 March 1752 – 18 April 1811) was an English cricketer who played in 71 first-class cricket matches between 1777 and 1792.Richard Clifford CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-11-25. CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-11-25. Despite having a deformed right hand caused by a childhood accident, Clifford was an effective leg break bowler who bowled right-arm slow underarm bowling, underarm deliveries. Arthur Haygarth, writing in the mid-19th century, noted his attention to detail when bowling.Amol Rajan, Rajan A (2011) ''Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers'', pp. 36–37. London: Yellow Jersey Press. He was a left-handed batsma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De Burgh, 13th Earl Of Clanricarde
General (United Kingdom), General John Thomas de Burgh, 13th Earl of Clanricarde, Privy Council of Ireland, PC (Ire) ( ; 22 September 1744 – 27 July 1808), styled The Honourable John Thomas de Burgh until 1797, was a British Army officer and politician who served as the List of governors of Kingston upon Hull, governor of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1801 to 1808. Career Military career The Honourable, The Hon. John de Burgh, as he then was, raised the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers), 88th Regiment of Foot, later renamed the Connaught Rangers, in 1793. Having commanded this regiment, he became Colonel of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment of Foot (1794–1808) and later Governor of Hull (1801–1808). In 1796, he was in command in Corsica under Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, Sir Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound as Viceroy of the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom and, with Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Commodore Horatio Nelson, planned an attack to re-take L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bullen
__NOTOC__ William Bullen was a leading English cricketer throughout the last quarter of the 18th century, his known career spanning the years 1773 to 1800. He was an all-rounder who probably batted right-handed. He played mainly for Kent sides although he also appeared for England XIs and a variety of other sides. Arthur Haygarth, writing in the 1860s, describes Bullen as a "close set, strong built man" and a "crack" (i.e. expert) player, who was a "renowned batsman and bowler".Haygarth, p. 8. He was a fast bowler, in the underarm style, and a hard-hitting batsman who was a "powerful" player. He is reputed to have "frequently bowled the sixth part of a mile (about 300 yards), or the whole length of the Artillery Ground in London". He was possibly a native of Deptford in Kent and is known to have played for Dartford Cricket Club as well as teams organised by landowners from the western parts of the county. Bullen is known to have played in 113 matches retrospectively recognis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brett (cricketer)
Thomas Brett (1747 – 31 December 1809) was one of cricket's earliest well-known fast bowlers and a leading player for Hampshire when its team was organised by the Hambledon Club in the 1770s. Noted for his pace and his accuracy, Brett was a leading wicket-taker in the 1770s and was lauded by John Nyren in ''The Cricketers of my Time''. Writing half a century later, Nyren described Brett as "beyond all comparison, the fastest as well as straitest bowler that ever was known". Career Brett was born at Catherington in Hampshire. An unusual feature of his career at a time when players often swapped sides as given men was that he always played for Hampshire. As he lived at Catherington, he was ineligible to represent Hambledon's Parish XI and so played only for the county team. Brett featured in the Monster Bat Incident 1771 as the bowler who led the protest and it is almost certain that he wrote out the formal objection to Thomas White's huge bat. This document, which has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brazier
William Brazier (1755 – 7 October 1829) was an English cricketer of the late 18th century who played mostly for Kent county cricket teams. Brazier was born at Cudham in Kent in 1755, a village north-west of Sevenoaks.William Cudham CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-07-01. He made his first-class cricket debut in 1774, playing for a Kent side against a Hampshire county cricket teams, Hampshire XI at Sevenoaks Vine. He went on to play in a total of 50 first-class matches in a career which lasted until 1794, scoring 1,216 runs and taking at least 42 wickets. He played for Kent sides 28 times, as well as for West Kent cricket team, West Kent and for a combined Kent and Hampshire side. Another eight matches were for England sides and he played once as a given man for Surrey county cricket teams, a Surrey side in 1776. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bowra
William Bowra (1752 – 7 May 1820) was an English cricketer who played in 50 first-class matches between 1775 and 1792.William Bowra CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-21. William Bowra . Retrieved 2022-06-28. Bowra, whose name was pronounced "Borra", Nyren J '' The Cricketers of My Time'' in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George T
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John Boorman (cricketer)
John Boorman (1754 – 1 August 1807) CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-06-08. was an English er whose known career spanned 26 seasons from 1768 to 1793.Haygarth, p. 3. In '' Scores & Biographies'', recorded that he found a reference to Boorman in an account of a single wicket match in 1772 which called him James, but Haygarth was convinced that the correct name was John, although CricketArchive and |