#1826

6 incidents tagged

Sussex 'Champion County' — The First Informal Claim, 1825-1827

Sussex

1827-09-01

Through the mid-1820s Sussex established themselves as the strongest county side in England, on the strength of the roundarm bowling of Lillywhite and Broadbridge. The Sussex team was acclaimed by the press as 'champion county' from 1826 onwards — the first time the title was applied informally to a single county side and the seed of the formal County Championship that would emerge sixty years later.

#sussex#champion-county#1820s

⭐Mild

Death of the Earl of Winchilsea — Cricket's Greatest Patron, August 1826

n/a

1826-08-02

On 2 August 1826 George Finch-Hatton, ninth Earl of Winchilsea — co-founder of the MCC, principal patron of late-Hambledon cricket, and the most important supporter of major cricket between 1780 and 1810 — died at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. His death closed an era of aristocratic cricket patronage that had begun in the 1730s.

#roundarm-era#earl-of-winchilsea#patron

⭐Mild

New Brick Pavilion Opens at Lord's — May 1826

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1826-05-12

In May 1826 the MCC opened a new brick pavilion at Lord's, replacing the wooden building destroyed by fire in July 1825. The new pavilion was larger, contained an upgraded Long Room, dressing rooms and committee accommodation, and stood until 1889. It was the second of the three Lord's pavilions and the building in which most of the great roundarm-era matches were administered.

#roundarm-era#lords#pavilion

⭐Mild

Birth of John Wisden — Future Almanack Founder, September 1826

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1826-09-05

On 5 September 1826 John Wisden was born at Brighton — the future Sussex fast bowler, England representative, and founder of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1864), the most important reference work in the history of the game.

#roundarm-era#john-wisden#brighton

⭐Moderate

Lord Frederick Beauclerk — MCC President as the Old Order Ends, 1826-27

MCC

1826-05-01

Lord Frederick Beauclerk, the autocratic clergyman-cricketer who had dominated English cricket since the 1790s, served as MCC president for 1826-27 — the very years in which the roundarm revolution he had spent his life resisting reached its decisive phase. Still occasionally taking the field in his late fifties, Beauclerk was the embodiment of the old underarm order, and his presidency oversaw the trial matches that would condemn it.

#lord-frederick-beauclerk#mcc#1826

⭐Mild

Old John Small Dies — The Last of the Hambledon Men, 1826

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1826-12-31

John Small the elder, Hampshire batsman of the great Hambledon era and inventor of the straight bat, died at Petersfield in 1826 at the age of 89. With his death the last of the original Hambledon Men was gone, severing the living link between modern Lord's-centred cricket and the village game that had dominated the eighteenth century.

#john-small#hambledon#1826