#village cricket

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Women's Cricket in the 1850s — Charity Matches and Village Traditions

Various women's teams, England

1853-08-01

Women's cricket in the 1850s existed as a scattered tradition of charity and novelty matches, usually organised for local fundraising, in which village women played against each other in informal matches that drew curious crowds. While far removed from the professional game, these fixtures kept the women's cricket tradition alive between the formal matches of the 1790s and the organised women's cricket clubs of the 1880s.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1850s

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Women's Cricket in the 1840s — Village Matches and the Continuing Tradition

Women's cricket clubs, principally Surrey and Kent

1846-08-01

Women's cricket in the 1840s continued the tradition of village women's matches that had been established in the eighteenth century, with fixtures between women's sides from villages in Surrey and Kent drawing curious crowds who came as much to watch an unusual spectacle as to follow the cricket. The matches were informal and commercially insignificant but their persistence through the mid-Victorian era maintained a continuous women's cricket tradition that the late Victorian women's clubs would later build upon.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

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Married vs Single — Women's Cricket Match, 1838

Married women vs Single women

1838-08-13

Through the late 1830s the rural Married vs Single women's cricket match — a tradition dating from at least the 1740s — continued to be played in several English villages. The 1838 fixture, reported in the Sporting Magazine, is one of the better-documented examples of women's cricket in a decade in which the men's first-class game was rapidly professionalising and the women's tradition was carrying on alongside.

#womens-cricket#married-vs-single#1838

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William Caffyn's Boyhood at Reigate — Cricket Apprenticeship in the Late 1830s

Reigate village cricket

1838-06-01

William Caffyn — later one of the great Surrey professionals of the 1850s, member of both the 1861-62 Stephenson and the 1863-64 Parr tours of Australia, and eventually the most influential coach in colonial Australian cricket — was a small boy at Reigate in the late 1830s, learning his cricket at a village green where his father ran a barber's shop. His memoir *71 Not Out* (1899) preserves a vivid picture of the cricketing world of his late-1830s boyhood.

#william-caffyn#reigate#surrey

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Hambledon's Final Village Match — Broadhalfpenny Down, August 1811

Hambledon vs Petersfield

1811-08-24

On 24 August 1811 Hambledon village played Petersfield on Broadhalfpenny Down — the last village fixture played there before the ground was given over almost wholly to grazing. The match marked the close of continuous cricket on the most famous strip in the eighteenth-century game. Cricket would not be regularly played at Broadhalfpenny again until the late nineteenth-century revival.

#regency-cricket#underarm#hambledon

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The Hambledon Club Reforms — Village Cricket Restored, 1800

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1800-08-01

Four years after its last grand-club meeting, at which 'no Gentlemen were present', the Hambledon Club reformed in 1800 as a village cricket club. Stripped of the naval officers and London patrons who had made it a national power in the 1770s and 1780s, the rebuilt club played local matches around Broadhalfpenny Down and Windmill Down through the early 1800s. It was the quiet, modest survival of cricket's first great institution after its glory had passed.

#hambledon-club#1800#broadhalfpenny-down