1792 English cricket season explained

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The 1792 English cricket season was the 21st in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the sixth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw 19 top-class matches played in the country.

Elsewhere, the earliest known cricket club in India was formed at Calcutta.^{[1] [2]}

Matches

A total of 19 top-class matches were played during the season.^{[3] [4] [5]} These included matches played by teams from Berkshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex and Surrey. Club sides at Hornchurch in Essex and Brighton in Sussex also played at the top-level and MCC played eight first-class matches.^{[4] [5]}

A number of matches below top-level were played, including one between Nottingham and a Leicestershire and Rutland side.^[6] A match in Sheffield may be the first in which a player is known to have been given out obstructing the field.^[7]

First mentions

First-class matches were first played at Dartford Brent and Cobham Park in Kent and at Old Field, Bray in Berkshire.^[5] A military match is known to have been played at Dublin, the first cricket known to have been played in Ireland.^{[8] [9]}

Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1792 include:

Further reading

• Book: Altham, H. S. . Harry Altham . A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) . 1962 . George Allen & Unwin .
• Book: Birley, Derek . Derek Birley . A Social History of English Cricket . 1999 . Aurum .
• Book: Bowen, Rowland . Rowland Bowen . Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development . 1970 . Eyre & Spottiswoode .
• Book: Major, John . John Major . More Than A Game . 2007 . HarperCollins .

Notes and References

1. https://ccfc1792.com/history History
2. https://puronokolkata.com/2014/06/18/calcutta-cricket-maidan-calcutta-1792/ Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792
3. [Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians]
4. https://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/index.html?season=1792;view=season England Domestic Season 1792
5. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/4/First-Class_matches_in_England_1792.html First-class matches in England, 1792
6. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/12/Other_matches_in_England_1792.html Other matches in England, 1792
7. Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, pp.27–28. Cotterell.
8. Web site: Brief History of Irish Cricket . Cricket Ireland . 8 July 2024.
9. Web site: Bracken . Pat . Cricket in Ireland: 1792 to 1850 . CricketEurope - Irish Cricket Archives . 8 July 2024 . 16 February 2022.