#1805

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Earliest Recorded Cricket at Trinity College, Cambridge — May 1805

Trinity College vs St John's College

1805-05-22

On 22 May 1805 a Trinity College XI played St John's College on Parker's Piece in Cambridge — the earliest documented inter-college cricket match in the history of the university. The match is the foundation entry of Cambridge University cricket and the earliest documented use of Parker's Piece, the common ground that would become one of the most important early grounds in English cricket.

#regency-cricket#underarm#cambridge

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The Mary-Le-Bone Tavern Becomes Cricket's Headquarters — MCC Committee, 1805

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1805-04-14

In April 1805 the MCC committee passed a resolution formally adopting the Mary-Le-Bone Tavern in High Street as the club's permanent headquarters. The tavern — already used informally for committee meetings since 1788 — became the site at which all major cricket matches were arranged, all stakes were settled and all rule disputes were resolved. It was the de facto governing body of cricket for the next twenty years.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-s-old-ground

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Major Match at the Vine, Sevenoaks — Kent v England, August 1805

Kent vs England

1805-08-19

On 19-20 August 1805 the Vine ground at Sevenoaks — leased to the Sackville family of Knole and given over to cricket since 1734 — hosted a Kent v England fixture that was, by the standards of the day, a near-Test match. Kent were captained by John Bligh and supported by the Duke of Dorset's tenants; England were raised by the Earl of Winchilsea. The match is the most important first-class fixture played at the Vine in the new century and a marker of Kent's continuing strength.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-s-old-ground

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Lord Frederick Beauclerk's Two Centuries — First Batsman to Score Two in a Season, 1805

Hampshire vs England; England vs Surrey

1805-08-15

In the summer of 1805 the 32-year-old clergyman Lord Frederick Beauclerk became the first batsman known to have scored two centuries in the same season. He made 129 not out for Hampshire against England at Lord's Old Ground in early July and followed it with 102 for England against Surrey in August. In an era when first-class scores over 50 were front-page news, two hundreds in a season was a feat without precedent.

#lord-frederick-beauclerk#1805#lord-s-old-ground

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The First Eton v Harrow Match — Byron Bats with a Runner, August 1805

Eton vs Harrow

1805-08-02

On Friday 2 August 1805, sixteen schoolboys from Eton and Harrow played the first match between the two schools at Thomas Lord's Old Ground in Dorset Square. Eton won by an innings and two runs. Among the Harrow side was 17-year-old George Gordon Byron, batting with a runner because of his clubbed right foot. The fixture, repeated in 1818 and made annual from 1822, would become the longest-running schools rivalry in cricket and the longest-running fixture at Lord's.

#eton-vs-harrow#1805#lord-byron