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1822 English cricket season

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In the 1822 English cricket season, John Willes brought the roundarm issue to a head and sacrificed his own career in the process; the outstanding batsman James Saunders made his debut in first-class cricket.

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Honours

  • Most runs – E. H. Budd 354 (HS 87)
  • Most wickets – John Sparks 27 (BB 5–?)

    • Events

  • The roundarm issue came to a head in 1822 when, in the MCC v. Kent match at Lord's, John Willes of Kent opened the bowling and was no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he had attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdrew from the match and refused to play again in any important fixture.
  • Roundarm was a natural reaction to the growing predominance of batsmen over the age-old underarm style of bowling. Its adherents argued that the legalisation of roundarm was essential to restore the balance between batting and bowling. However, high-scoring matches were still comparatively rare owing to vagaries in pitch conditions.
  • 9 first-class matches were recorded in 1822:
  • 20–21 May — Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club @ University Ground, Cambridge
  • 10–11 June — MCC First XII v MCC Second XII @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 24 June — MCC First XI v MCC Second XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 27–28 June — Godalming v MCC @ The Burys, Godalming
  • 1–2 July — MCC v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 8–10 July — Gentlemen v Players @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 15–16 July — MCC v Kent @ Lord's Cricket Ground
  • 25–27 July — Kent v MCC @ West Kent CC, Chislehurst
  • 12–14 August — All-England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground

    • Debutants

    1822 debutants included:

  • Horace Bates (Kent)
  • John Bayley (Surrey/MCC)
  • Robert Broadbridge (Sussex)
  • Percyvall Dyke (Kent)
  • John Evans (Kent)
  • James Grinham (Sussex)
  • James Jordan (Kent)
  • Edward Knight (Hampshire)
  • James Ladbroke (Sussex)
  • W Peto (Surrey)
  • James Saunders (Sussex)
  • William Henry Sewell (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

    1822 English cricket season Wikipedia
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