#george parr

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George Parr — All-England Eleven Captain Through the 1860s

All-England Eleven vs United All-England Eleven; vs touring sides

1870-09-01

George Parr — captain of Nottinghamshire from 1856 to 1870 and of the All-England Eleven over the same period — was the dominant figure in English professional cricket between William Clarke's death and W.G. Grace's emergence. Tour captain in North America in 1859 and Australasia in 1863-64, he scored 6,626 first-class runs at 20.20 in conditions that were brutal to batters, and ran the AEE through the great rivalry years against the United All-England Eleven from 1857 to 1866.

#george-parr#all-england-eleven#captaincy

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George Parr's Final Season — The Lion of the North Retires, 1869

Nottinghamshire and All-England representative sides

1869-08-01

George Parr, the Lion of the North, played his final first-class season in 1869 and retired from the game he had dominated as England's premier batsman for fifteen years. His career spanned the transition from roundarm to overarm bowling, from county cricket without a championship to county cricket in its organised modern form, and from the All-England Eleven touring era to the beginnings of Test cricket. His farewell was the end of an epoch.

#overarm-era#early-county-cricket#1860s

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Nottinghamshire — Powerhouse of 1860s County Cricket

Nottinghamshire vs other first-class counties

1865-09-01

Nottinghamshire was the strongest county side of the 1860s. Captained throughout the decade by George Parr from his home village of Radcliffe-on-Trent, the county won the unofficial championship in 1865, 1867 and 1869, fielded the leading English fast bowler of the era in John Jackson, the leading slow left-armer in George Wootton, and the rising star Alfred Shaw, who would later bowl the first ball in Test cricket. Nottinghamshire's players dominated the All-England Eleven and provided the bulk of touring sides to America and Australia.

#nottinghamshire#george-parr#richard-daft

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George Parr's English XII — Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1863-64

George Parr's English XII vs Australian and New Zealand colonial sides

1864-03-01

Two years after the Stephenson tour, the All-England Eleven captain George Parr led a second English party to Australia and added New Zealand to the itinerary for the first time. The twelve professionals, again playing against odds, lost only one of their thirteen Australian fixtures and introduced overarm bowling — legalised back home midway through their voyage — to colonial spectators who had never seen it.

#george-parr#1863-64#australia-tour

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George Parr's 130 — Only First-Class Century, Notts v Surrey, the Oval, July 1859

Nottinghamshire vs Surrey

1859-07-14

On 14 July 1859 the Nottinghamshire captain George Parr — the 'Lion of the North' and Clarke's heir as captain of the All-England Eleven — scored 130 against Surrey at the Oval. It was the only first-class century of his career, and a public confirmation that he was now the leading professional batsman in England, the man widely held to be the best cricketer in the world in his prime.

#george-parr#century#oval

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The Parr Tree at Trent Bridge — The Elm Hit for Six for 28 Summers

Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven home matches

1859-08-01

An elm tree standing inside the boundary at Trent Bridge on the Bridgford Road side became the most famous tree in cricket because George Parr — the dominant Nottinghamshire batsman from the late 1840s to the late 1860s — habitually hit it for six with his trademark leg-side sweep. Parr's Tree stood for more than a century until it was felled by gales at New Year 1976; a branch had earlier been laid on Parr's coffin in 1891.

#parr-tree#trent-bridge#george-parr

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George Parr's Twelve to North America — The First Overseas Cricket Tour, September-October 1859

George Parr's English XII vs USA and Canadian sides (XXII)

1859-09-07

On 7 September 1859 twelve professional English cricketers, captained by the Nottinghamshire batsman George Parr, sailed from Liverpool on the SS Nova Scotian for the first overseas cricket tour in history. Between 24 September and 14 October they played five matches in Canada and the United States — Montreal, Hoboken, Philadelphia, Hamilton and Rochester — winning every one against odds of 22, and laying the foundation for every overseas tour that followed.

#1859-tour#george-parr#north-america

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Hoboken Elysian Fields — The First International Cricket Match, October 1859

England (Parr's XII) vs XXII of the United States

1859-10-03

On 3-5 October 1859 the second match of George Parr's North American tour was played at the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, the home ground of the St George's Cricket Club of New York. England, fielding twelve, beat XXII of the United States by an innings and 64 runs in front of large daily crowds, in what is recognised as the first international cricket match of any kind on US soil.

#hoboken#elysian-fields#first-international

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Gentlemen v Players, 1857 — Professional Superiority at Its Peak

Gentlemen of England vs Players of England

1857-07-13

The 1857 Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's, played in July, was a vivid demonstration of the gap between the best amateurs and the full-time professionals. Jackson bowled the Gentlemen out for 71 in their second innings, Parr scored 82 in the Players' first, and the Players won by eight wickets — a margin that was typical of the decade. No fewer than four players who would be on the 1859 North America tour were in the Players' eleven.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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All-England Eleven v United All-England Eleven — The First Annual Fixture, Lord's, June 1857

All-England Eleven (AEE) vs United All-England Eleven (UAEE)

1857-06-01

On 1-3 June 1857 the All-England Eleven and the United All-England Eleven met for the first time at Lord's, the boycott of the previous five years lifted by William Clarke's death the previous August. George Parr's AEE beat John Wisden's UAEE; the fixture became the most heavily attended annual match in English cricket and continued every summer until 1869.

#aee#uaee#lord-s

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George Parr Takes Command of the All-England Eleven After Clarke's Death — 1856

All-England Eleven

1856-08-26

When William Clarke died on 25 August 1856, George Parr of Nottinghamshire — already England's leading batsman — took over effective leadership of the All-England Eleven. Parr's first act was to end Clarke's boycott of United All-England Eleven players, reuniting the two professional bodies and arranging the annual AEE v UAEE fixture that from 1857 drew the largest crowds in English cricket.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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George Parr — 'The Lion of the North' Established as England's Premier Batsman, 1855

Nottinghamshire and All-England elevens

1855-07-01

With Fuller Pilch's retirement in 1854, George Parr of Nottinghamshire assumed the mantle of England's premier batsman. Known as 'the Lion of the North' for his ferocious pull shot to leg — the celebrated stroke that hit the ball into the elm tree at Trent Bridge that would bear his name — Parr was the acknowledged best in the country from 1855 until the emergence of W.G. Grace in the late 1860s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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George Parr Emerges — Notts Run-Maker and AEE Heir Apparent, 1846-1849

Nottinghamshire / All-England Eleven

1848-07-01

George Parr of Nottinghamshire, who would later succeed William Clarke as captain of the All-England Eleven and lead the second English tour of Australia, emerged in the late 1840s as the most powerful leg-side hitter in English cricket. By 1849, aged 23, he was the leading batsman in the AEE and the natural heir to Clarke's professional empire.

#george-parr#nottinghamshire#1848

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George Parr's Early Career — The Lion of the North Emerges, 1845–1847

Nottinghamshire and All-England elevens

1845-07-01

George Parr of Nottinghamshire made his first-class debut in 1844 and by 1845–47 had established himself as the most promising young batsman in England, succeeding Fuller Pilch as the country's leading run-scorer in the 1850s. In the mid-1840s his leg-side hitting — which would eventually send a famous elm branch into orbit at Trent Bridge — was already drawing comment from critics who regarded him as the game's next great figure.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s