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C.B. Fry Arrives — Oxford Captain, Long-Jump Record-Holder, Sussex Debutant, 1894

Oxford University, Sussex

1894-05-21

Charles Burgess Fry was 22 in 1894, an Oxford undergraduate who had broken the British long-jump record (23 feet 5 inches in 1892) and equalled the world record (23 feet 6½ inches on 4 March 1893). He was elected Oxford cricket captain for 1894 and made his first-class Sussex debut the same summer, beginning a partnership with Ranjitsinhji that would dominate English batting for fifteen years and produce a man often cited as the greatest all-round Englishman of his era.

#cb-fry#1894#oxford

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The Oxford v Cambridge University Match — Cricket's Oldest Fixture Takes Shape, 1840s

Oxford University vs Cambridge University

1843-06-15

The annual cricket match between Oxford and Cambridge universities, first played in 1827, became a fixed feature of the Lord's calendar through the 1840s and was rapidly elevated into one of cricket's premier social occasions. For the amateur upper classes who governed cricket through the MCC, the University Match was the annual proof that the game belonged to education and breeding — a counterweight to the professional All-England Eleven's dominance of the popular market.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

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The First Oxford v Cambridge Cricket Match — Lord's, 4 June 1827

Oxford University vs Cambridge University

1827-06-04

On 4 June 1827, on a wet single day at Lord's, Oxford and Cambridge played the first cricket match between the two universities — the oldest varsity sporting fixture in the world. The match arose from a personal challenge by Oxford's Charles Wordsworth, nephew of the poet, to his Cambridge counterpart Herbert Jenner. Oxford ran up 258 and bowled Cambridge out for 92, but rain prevented a finish and the match was drawn.

#oxford#cambridge#varsity-match

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Earliest Documented Cricket at Oxford — Bullingdon Green, June 1807

Christ Church vs Magdalen College

1807-06-15

On 15 June 1807 Christ Church played Magdalen College at Bullingdon Green outside Oxford — the earliest documented inter-college cricket match in the history of Oxford University. The fixture is the foundation entry of Oxford cricket and the earliest documented use of Bullingdon Green, the common ground that served as Oxford's principal cricket venue for the first half of the nineteenth century.

#regency-cricket#underarm#oxford