1793 English cricket season
The 1793 English cricket season was the 22nd in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the seventh after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 17 top-class matches played in the country.
Matches
A total of 17 top-class matches were played during the season.[1][2][3] These included matches played by teams from Berkshire, Essex, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey as well as a combined Surrey and Sussex side. Berkshire played the last of their three first-class fixtures, a match followed a month later by Oldfield's first first-class match featuring the same eleven players who had played for Berkshire.[2][3]
First mentions
A number of players made their first appearances in first-class matches during the season, including:
- Henry Tufton
- John Tufton
- J. Hampton
- Edward Morant
- Carter
- Robert Walpole
- Luck
- Harry Bridger
- Zachariah Button
References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians(ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- ^ CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
- ^ a b First-class matches in England, 1793, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-27. (subscription required)
Further reading
- 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.