#1807

5 incidents tagged

Earliest Documented Cricket at Oxford — Bullingdon Green, June 1807

Christ Church vs Magdalen College

1807-06-15

On 15 June 1807 Christ Church played Magdalen College at Bullingdon Green outside Oxford — the earliest documented inter-college cricket match in the history of Oxford University. The fixture is the foundation entry of Oxford cricket and the earliest documented use of Bullingdon Green, the common ground that served as Oxford's principal cricket venue for the first half of the nineteenth century.

#regency-cricket#underarm#oxford

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Lord Frederick Beauclerk Takes Effective Control of the MCC Committee — November 1807

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1807-11-11

At the MCC committee elections of 11 November 1807 Lord Frederick Beauclerk — already the leading amateur cricketer in England — was elected to the steering subcommittee and emerged as the dominant figure in MCC administration. From November 1807 until his death in 1850 Beauclerk effectively ran the club: arranging fixtures, setting stakes, controlling selection and administering the laws.

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

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MCC Adopts a Maximum-Stakes Rule for Major Matches — Committee, May 1807

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1807-05-13

In May 1807 the MCC committee — alarmed by the runaway side-betting that had attached to single-wicket and county matches through the early 1800s — passed a resolution capping the principal stake on any MCC-arranged major match at 500 guineas. The rule did not stop side betting in the gallery, but it cut the headline stakes on the central fixtures sharply and is the first MCC regulation explicitly aimed at reducing betting influence on major cricket.

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

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Lord Darnley's Match at Cobham Hall — England v Kent, July 1807

England vs Kent

1807-07-14

John Bligh, fourth Earl of Darnley, hosted a major England v Kent fixture on the lawn at Cobham Hall on 14-15 July 1807 — one of the last great patron-funded country-house matches of the underarm era. The young Ivo Bligh, who would as Lord Darnley a generation later bring the Ashes urn back from Australia, was a child of three watching from the terrace. The fixture is the Cobham Hall ground's most important first-class entry.

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

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John Willes Bowls Roundarm at Penenden Heath — Kent v England, July 1807

Kent XXIII vs All-England XIII

1807-07-29

In July 1807 the Kent farmer John Willes bowled what one newspaper called 'straight arm bowling' for a Kent XXIII against an All-England XIII at Penenden Heath, near Maidstone, in a match for £1,000 a side. It was the first attempt since Tom Walker's experiments in the 1780s to revive the higher-arm action that would become roundarm. The newspaper noted Willes's deliveries were 'an obstacle against getting runs'. The MCC would not formally legalise roundarm bowling for another 21 years.

#john-willes#roundarm#kent