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Tom Box of Sussex — The Wicketkeeper of the Pre-Pad Era, 1840s

Sussex / All-England Eleven

1845-07-15

Tom Box of Sussex was the leading wicketkeeper in England through the 1840s — keeping wicket without the pads, gloves or specialised gear of later eras and standing up to the fast bowling of Mynn, Redgate and the young John Wisden. He played first-class cricket for 25 years and dropped only one stumping chance in his entire career, according to the Lillywhites' near-contemporary count.

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Sussex — The Roundarm County of the 1830s

Sussex

1837-06-15

Through the 1830s Sussex was, with Kent, one of the two leading counties in England. The county had been the cradle of roundarm bowling — Lillywhite and Jem Broadbridge had been the bowlers who forced the law change of 1828 — and through the 1830s the Sussex eleven, built around Lillywhite's bowling and Tom Box behind the stumps, was a regular winner against all comers.

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Tom Box — Sussex's Wicketkeeper Through the 1830s

Sussex; Players

1832-06-10

Thomas Box of Ardingly took over the Sussex wicketkeeping gloves in the early 1830s and held them for an extraordinary thirty years — a tenure unmatched in the nineteenth century. Standing up to William Lillywhite's roundarm at the height of its powers, Box developed a reputation for clean takes and stumpings off length deliveries that no later keeper of the era surpassed.

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