#squire osbaldeston

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George Osbaldeston Banned from MCC — A Squire's Twenty-Year Exile, 1818 onwards

MCC

1820-05-01

After being beaten at single-wicket by Sussex's George Brown in 1818, the all-round sportsman Squire George Osbaldeston resigned his MCC membership in a fury. When he later sought to be reinstated, his application was blocked personally by Lord Frederick Beauclerk; despite intercession by E.H. Budd and others, Osbaldeston was barred from MCC for the rest of his cricket career, an exile that effectively confined him to second-tier matches throughout the 1820s.

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George 'Squire' Osbaldeston's Major-Match Debut — MCC v Middlesex, June 1810

MCC vs Middlesex

1810-06-21

On 21-22 June 1810 George Osbaldeston — the Yorkshire baronet who would become the most flamboyant amateur sportsman of the Regency — made his major-match cricket debut for MCC against Middlesex at the new Middle Ground. He was twenty-three, already famous for his hunting and his pugilism, and over the next decade he would establish himself as the fastest underarm bowler in England and the only serious rival to Lord Frederick Beauclerk.

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