#1828

4 incidents tagged

Osbaldeston-Beauclerk Reconciliation — MCC Committee, March 1828

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1828-03-19

In March 1828 the most public feud in Regency cricket — between Lord Frederick Beauclerk and George Osbaldeston — was formally ended at an MCC committee meeting. Beauclerk had pushed Osbaldeston out of the committee in 1818; Osbaldeston had retaliated with his 1819 all-comers challenge and a decade of public hostility. The March 1828 reconciliation, brokered by William Ward, brought Osbaldeston back into MCC affairs.

#roundarm-era#lord-frederick-beauclerk#george-osbaldeston

⭐Mild

First Documented Cricket at the Marylebone Public School — 1828

Marylebone School vs Westminster

1828-06-07

On 7 June 1828 the Marylebone Public School played Westminster at Lord's — the earliest documented school match featuring Marylebone (the school that would become St Marylebone Grammar). Westminster won by 19 runs. The match is part of the developing nineteenth-century pattern of organised public-school cricket at the major venues.

#roundarm-era#marylebone-school#westminster-school

⭐Mild

First MCC Tour to the North of England — Sheffield and Manchester, August 1828

MCC vs Sheffield, MCC vs Manchester

1828-08-04

In August 1828 the MCC despatched its first tour to the north of England — playing Sheffield at Darnall and Manchester at the Wybrow Common ground. The tour lost both matches but established a regular MCC presence in the industrial north and is the foundation entry of MCC's nineteenth-century tour calendar.

#roundarm-era#mcc#sheffield

⭐Serious

MCC Permits the Elbow — Roundarm Bowling Halfway Legalised, 1828

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1828-05-01

Months after the inconclusive Sussex v England trial matches, the MCC amended Rule 10 of the Laws of Cricket in 1828 to permit a bowler to raise his hand level with his elbow at the moment of delivery. The change was a compromise — it stopped short of legalising shoulder-height roundarm — but it shifted the legal frontier and gave umpires implicit licence to look the other way at deliveries that crossed it.

#mcc#roundarm-bowling#1828