#1806

6 incidents tagged

Lord Frederick Beauclerk's All-Comers Single-Wicket Challenge — Lord's, May 1806

Beauclerk vs all comers

1806-05-19

On 19 May 1806 Lord Frederick Beauclerk — Regency cricket's swaggering amateur — posted an open single-wicket challenge at Lord's: he would play any man in England for 50 guineas a side. The challenge was nailed to the pavilion door and ran in the cricket press for three weeks. Beldham accepted, and the resulting match in June became one of the famous fixtures of the season.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-frederick-beauclerk

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Edward 'E.H.' Budd's First Major Century — MCC v Middlesex, August 1806

MCC vs Middlesex

1806-08-25

On 25 August 1806 Edward Hayward Budd — eighteen years old and four years into his major-match career — scored 110 for the MCC against Middlesex at Lord's. It was his first major century, and the start of a thirty-year career as the most powerful straight hitter of the underarm era. Budd would, in the 1820s, regularly hit balls clear out of the Lord's ground.

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

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Beauclerk v Beldham Single-Wicket Match — Lord's, June 1806

Beauclerk vs Beldham

1806-06-09

On 9 June 1806 Lord Frederick Beauclerk — Regency cricket's swaggering amateur — challenged William Beldham, the most respected professional in the country, to a single-wicket match for stakes of 50 guineas. The match was played in front of a paying Lord's crowd. Beauclerk won by twelve runs, helped by a much-debated stumping decision against Beldham in the first innings. The contest is one of the great single-wicket fixtures of the period.

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

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The First Gentlemen v Players Match — Lord's, July 1806

Gentlemen vs Players

1806-07-07

On 7-9 July 1806 a 'Grand Match' between the Gentlemen and the Players was played at Thomas Lord's first ground at Dorset Square — the inaugural fixture of what would become the longest-running representative match in cricket. The Gentlemen, captained by Lord Frederick Beauclerk and aided by two professional 'given men', William Lambert and Billy Beldham, beat the Players by an innings and 14 runs. The series ran continuously until January 1963 — 156 years.

#gentlemen-vs-players#1806#lord-s-old-ground

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Beauclerk's 170 — Highest Score in Cricket, Homerton v Montpelier, 1806

Homerton vs Montpelier

1806-08-15

Playing as a given man for the Homerton club against Montpelier in 1806, Lord Frederick Beauclerk scored 170 — the highest individual score recorded in any form of cricket up to that point. The innings stood as a benchmark of high scoring for fourteen years, until William Ward's 278 for MCC against Norfolk at Lord's in 1820. Although the match was not in itself first-class, the score was a landmark in the gradual stretching of cricket's batting horizon.

#lord-frederick-beauclerk#1806#homerton

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Jack Small Junior — Hambledon's Last Hand at the First Gentlemen v Players, 1806

Gentlemen vs Players

1806-07-21

Jack Small junior, son of the great John Small senior who had scored cricket's first known century in 1775, played for the Players in both inaugural Gentlemen v Players matches in July 1806. He was 40, a sound batsman in his father's mould, and one of the last Hambledon hands still active at major level. His presence in the first Gentlemen v Players is the bridge that links the 1770s Hambledon era to the modern Lord's-centred game.

#jack-small#john-small-junior#gentlemen-vs-players