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1799 English cricket season

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1799 English cricket season
1798
1800

The 1799 English cricket season was the 28th in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the 13th after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw four top-class matches played in the country.

A cricket club was formed at Seringapatam in south India after the successful British siege.[1]

Matches

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Just four top-class matches were played during the season, three of them featuring sides styled at least in part as Surrey XIs.[2][3][4]

First mentions

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Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1799 included:

References

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  1. ^ Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792, puronokolkata, 2014-06-18. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  2. ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  3. ^ England Domestic Season 1799, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
  4. ^ First-class matches in England, 1799, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-12-08. (subscription required)

Further reading

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