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William Caffyn in Australia — The Surrey Pro who Coached Charles Bannerman, 1864-1871

Melbourne CC; Warwick Club, Sydney; New South Wales

1864-04-01

William Caffyn — the Surrey all-rounder who had toured Australia twice — emigrated permanently after the 1863-64 Parr tour and spent eight years coaching in Melbourne and Sydney. The most influential of his pupils was Charles Bannerman, who would face the first ball in Test cricket and score the first Test century. Caffyn called Bannerman 'the best bat I ever saw or coached in Australia'. By the time Caffyn returned to England in 1871, Australian cricket had a foundation of professional technique that would translate, within six years, into Test status.

#william-caffyn#australian-coaching#warwick-club

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The Melbourne Cricket Ground Hosts Its First Match — 30 September 1854

Local Melbourne Cricket Club fixture

1854-09-30

On 30 September 1854 the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the future cathedral of Australian cricket, hosted its first match. The Melbourne Cricket Club, displaced from its previous home by Australia's first steam railway line, had been granted a fresh ten-acre site in Yarra Park the year before. The ground would within a generation become the most important cricket venue in the southern hemisphere.

#mcg#melbourne-cricket-ground#1854

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The Victorian Gold Rush and the Cricket Explosion — 1851

Melbourne Cricket Club and Victorian goldfields clubs

1851-10-01

The discovery of gold in Victoria in July 1851 triggered a migration of tens of thousands to the colony, many of them English-born immigrants who brought cricket with them. Within two years cricket clubs had sprung up across the goldfields at Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine, creating the broadest base for the game yet seen in the colonies and accelerating the development of Australian cricket by a generation.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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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