n/a
1816-07-07
On 7 July 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan — playwright, parliamentarian and one of cricket's most enthusiastic Regency supporters — died in London. Sheridan had joined the MCC in the 1790s and was a regular at Dorset Square and the Middle Ground. His death is one of the small markers of the Regency cricket establishment's mortality.
MCC vs Hampshire
1816-06-19
On 19-20 June 1816 the MCC played Hampshire at the new Lord's ground — the first fixture between the two sides since Hampshire's collapse as a major county in 1809. The match was raised by William Ward as a deliberate attempt to revive Hampshire cricket. MCC won by an innings, but the fixture marked the start of Hampshire's slow recovery as a recognised county side.
n/a
1816-05-15
In May 1816 the MCC completed the first pavilion at the new Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood — a small two-storey wooden building containing dressing rooms and, on the ground floor, a panelled members' room that became known as the Long Room. The 1816 Long Room was the direct ancestor of the present pavilion's most famous space and the first dedicated indoor cricket room at Lord's.
n/a
1816-05-01
In 1816, with John Willes and a small but growing band of Kent and Sussex bowlers persistently raising their arm above the elbow, the MCC revised Law 10 to spell out that bowling must be 'underhand, with the hand below the elbow' and that any horizontal extension of the arm should be called no-ball. The reform was a deliberate effort to suppress roundarm. It failed. Within twelve years the law had to be rewritten in roundarm's favour.