#1838

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Melbourne Cricket Club Founded — Victoria, 15 November 1838

Melbourne Cricket Club

1838-11-15

The Melbourne Cricket Club — destined to become one of the most powerful institutions in Australian and world cricket — was founded at a meeting on 15 November 1838, only three years after the city itself had been established. The MCC would in time own and operate the Melbourne Cricket Ground, host the first Test match (1877), and shape every major decision in Australian cricket for the next 150 years.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#melbourne-cricket-club

⭐Moderate

Pilch vs Marsden — Single-Wicket Challenge, 1838

n/a

1838-09-10

The Fuller Pilch v Tom Marsden single-wicket challenge of September 1838 was the second great inter-county individual contest of the decade — staged in Sheffield over two days for a stake of £100 a side. Pilch, by then the leading batter in England, won comfortably, confirming the eclipse of Marsden's Yorkshire reign by Pilch's Kent ascendancy.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#fuller-pilch

⭐Mild

William Clarke Opens Trent Bridge Ground — Nottingham, 1838

Nottingham; Trent Bridge

1838-05-30

William Clarke, the Nottingham slow-bowling all-rounder, opened the Trent Bridge cricket ground in late May 1838 on land adjoining the Trent Bridge Inn — the public house he had acquired through marriage in 1837. The ground would become the home of Nottinghamshire cricket and, in time, one of the senior Test venues in England.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#william-clarke

⭐Mild

William Clarke's First Major-Match Appearance — Nottingham v Sheffield, June 1838

Nottingham vs Sheffield

1838-06-04

On 4-5 June 1838 William Clarke — proprietor of the newly-opened Trent Bridge ground — played his first major match for Nottingham against Sheffield at the new venue. He took 6 for 41 with his slow underarm bowling and scored 23 with the bat. The performance announced Clarke as a major-match player and confirmed Trent Bridge as a serious cricket venue from its opening.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#william-clarke

⭐Mild

Trent Bridge Cricket Ground Opens — Nottingham, 1838

Nottinghamshire

1838-05-26

William Clarke laid out a cricket ground on land behind the Trent Bridge Inn at Nottingham in 1838, the year after his marriage to the inn's proprietor, the widow Mary Chapman. The ground hosted its first major match in May 1838 and grew through the nineteenth century into one of cricket's great Test venues — and the only major Test ground in the world founded by a single individual on commercial initiative.

#trent-bridge#william-clarke#nottingham

⭐Mild

Married vs Single — Women's Cricket Match, 1838

Married women vs Single women

1838-08-13

Through the late 1830s the rural Married vs Single women's cricket match — a tradition dating from at least the 1740s — continued to be played in several English villages. The 1838 fixture, reported in the Sporting Magazine, is one of the better-documented examples of women's cricket in a decade in which the men's first-class game was rapidly professionalising and the women's tradition was carrying on alongside.

#womens-cricket#married-vs-single#1838