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Lord Sheffield's 1891-92 Tour — Birth of the Sheffield Shield

England v Australia

1891-12-15

When the Earl of Sheffield financed an English tour of Australia in 1891-92 with WG Grace as captain, he ended the trip by donating £150 to the New South Wales Cricket Association to fund a perpetual trophy for inter-colonial cricket. The result: the Sheffield Shield, contested between NSW, Victoria and South Australia from 1892-93 onwards, and the foundational competition of Australian first-class cricket.

#lord-sheffield#1891-92#sheffield-shield

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Death of the Earl of Winchilsea — Cricket's Greatest Patron, August 1826

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1826-08-02

On 2 August 1826 George Finch-Hatton, ninth Earl of Winchilsea — co-founder of the MCC, principal patron of late-Hambledon cricket, and the most important supporter of major cricket between 1780 and 1810 — died at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. His death closed an era of aristocratic cricket patronage that had begun in the 1730s.

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