1799 English cricket season
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1799 English cricket season
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
[edit ]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
[edit ]Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1799 included:
References
[edit ]- ^ Calcutta Cricket, Maidan, Calcutta, 1792, puronokolkata, 2014年06月18日. Retrieved 2020年12月08日.
- ^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- ^ England Domestic Season 1799, CricInfo. Retrieved 2020年12月08日.
- ^ First-class matches in England, 1799, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020年12月08日. (subscription required)
Further reading
[edit ]- 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.