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1796 English cricket season

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1796 English cricket season
1795
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The 1796 English cricket season was the 25th in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the tenth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw seven top-class matches played in the country.

Matches

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A total of seven top-class matches were played during the season,[1][2][3] all bar one of which included a team playing under the name of Kent, Middlesex or Surrey.[2][3]

The season saw the last match between two sides named for counties until 1825. It also saw the completion of a first-class match which had been begun the following year: a match between teams organised by the Earl of Winchilsea and Richard Leigh, which began on 23 July 1795 and was completed on 28 June 1796 before a match between an England side and a Surrey and Kent XI began on the same day, with a number of players appearing in both matches.[4][5][6]

First mentions

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Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1796 included:

References

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  1. ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  2. ^ a b England Domestic Season 1796, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  3. ^ a b First-class matches in England, 1796, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-29. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Earl of Winchilsea's XI v R Leigh's XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
  5. ^ Earl of Winchilsea's XI v R Leigh's XI, scorecard, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-07-29. (subscription required)
  6. ^ England v Surrey and Kent, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020-07-29.

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.