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1821 English cricket season

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In the 1821 English cricket season, the Gentlemen v Players match was ended in controversial circumstances.

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Honours

  • Most runs – Thomas Beagley 181 (HS 113*)
  • Most wickets – Thomas Howard 13 (BB 7–?)

    • Events

  • In the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's Cricket Ground, the Gentlemen conceded the game having gone well behind on 1st innings. Derek Birley commented that it was a "Coronation Match" to celebrate the accession of King George IV and was "a suitably murky affair".
  • With cricket still recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, only a few first-class matches were recorded in 1821:
  • 24 May — Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club @ University Ground, Cambridge
  • 3 July — MCC v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 9 July — Godalming v MCC @ The Burys, Godalming
  • 16–18 July — MCC v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 23–24 July — Gentlemen v Players @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • The Gentlemen v Players match marked the final first class appearance of Billy Beldham in a career lasting from 1787.

    • Debutants

    1821 debutants included:

  • Thomas Flavel (Surrey)
  • William Keen (Sussex)
  • William Mathews (Surrey)
  • Francis Nicholas (Hampshire)
  • William Searle (Surrey)
  • Will Caldecourt (Cambridgeshire)
  • W C Dyer (Hampshire)
  • James Townsend (MCC)

    • Additional reading

  • ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS. 
  • 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. 

    • References

    1821 English cricket season Wikipedia
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