Richard Cheslyn (17 December 1797 – 29 December 1858) was an English amateur

cricket Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...

er who played

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 adju ...

from 1825 to 1846. He was mainly associated with

Sussex Sussex (Help:IPA/English, /ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English ''Sūþseaxe''; lit. 'South Saxons'; 'Sussex') is an area within South East England that was historically a kingdom of Sussex, kingdom and, later, a Historic counties of England, ...

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Marylebone Cricket Club The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's, Lord's Cricket Ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England. The club was the governing body of cricket from 1788 to 1989 and retain ...

(MCC), of which he was a member. He made 10 known appearances in first-class matches including one for Sussex in the second of the roundarm trial matches in 1827.CricketArchive
Retrieved on 8 August 2009.

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1797 births 1858 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1787 to 1825 English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Sussex cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers People from North West Leicestershire District Cricketers from Leicestershire North v South cricketers Non-international England cricketers Lord Strathavon's XI cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1790s-stub