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Cape Town Cricket Club Formally Founded — 1832

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1832-11-15

In November 1832 the Cape Town Cricket Club was formally constituted with a committee, a subscription roll and a leased ground at Green Point Common. The founding was the institutional successor to the garrison cricket that had been documented in 1819 and is the foundation entry of organised civilian cricket in South Africa. Cape Town CC is one of the oldest constituted cricket clubs in the southern hemisphere.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#cape-town

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Cholera Epidemic Curtails Lord's Season — Summer 1832

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1832-07-15

The 1832 Lord's season was the most disrupted of the early Victorian period. London's first major cholera epidemic — which killed around 6,500 in the city between February and November — caused the cancellation of nearly half the scheduled fixtures. Crowd attendance at the matches that did take place was a fraction of normal. The season is the clearest measure of the impact of public-health crises on early Victorian cricket.

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First Match at the Saffrons, Eastbourne — 1832

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1832-08-01

In 1832 the first recorded cricket match was played on the meadow at Eastbourne known as the Saffrons, named for the saffron crocuses once grown there. The ground would become one of the longest continuously used cricket venues in England and the regular home of Eastbourne Cricket Club, hosting Sussex county fixtures and, in the twentieth century, Australian touring sides.

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