1868 English cricket season
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The 1868 English cricket season featured the tour by the team of Australian Aboriginals.
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Playing record (by county)[1]
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Tied | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kent | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Lancashire | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Middlesex | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nottinghamshire | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Surrey | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| Sussex | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Yorkshire | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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Owing to an exceptionally hot and dry summer, and the absence of the forthcoming revolution of the heavy roller,[2] 1868 was to be the last season in which every county match was finished outright.
Leading batsmen (qualification 10 innings)
| 1868 English season leading batsmen[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| W. G. Grace | Gentlemen South of England |
7 | 11 | 2 | 588 | 134 not out | 65.33 | 3 | 2 |
| Isaac Walker | MCC Middlesex |
13 | 24 | 5 | 661 | 165 | 34.78 | 1 | 3 |
| James Lillywhite | Sussex | 13 | 24 | 6 | 631 | 126 not out | 30.04 | 1 | 4 |
| Henry Richardson | Cambridge University Kent Middlesex |
10 | 16 | 1 | 431 | 143 | 28.73 | 1 | 3 |
| George Savile | Cambridge University Yorkshire |
7 | 11 | 0 | 294 | 105 | 26.72 | 1 | 2 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1868 English season leading bowlers[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Thomas Hearne | MCC Middlesex |
957 | 279 | 33 | 8.45 | 5/20 | 1 | 0 |
| Tom Emmett | Yorkshire | 1628 | 528 | 60 | 8.80 | 9/34 | 5 | 1 |
| George Freeman | Yorkshire | 1560 | 454 | 46 | 9.86 | 8/11 | 6 | 2 |
| Edgar Willsher | Kent | 3999 | 1128 | 113 | 9.98 | 7/44 | 12 | 6 |
| George Howitt | Middlesex Nottinghamshire |
2262 | 734 | 71 | 10.33 | 6/17 | 6 | 2 |
Events
- A team of Australian Aboriginals was the first overseas side to tour England, under the auspices of Sydney publician/cricketer Charles Lawrence. They were not a first class team.
- 25–26 May: Edward Tylecote hits the first recorded score of 300 in any grade of cricket with 404 for Classicals against Moderns at Clifton College[5]
- 20 June: C.A. Absolom became the first player to be given out obstructing the field when playing for Cambridge University v. Surrey at The Oval.
- 3–5 August: Playing for South of the Thames v North of the Thames at Canterbury, W.G. Grace became the second player to score two centuries in a match after William Lambert in 1817.[6]
- The Cattle Market Ground in Islington, the original home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, was sold by its owner for development following the season. The last game, on 5 and 6 October, was between "Gentlemen of Middlesex" and a 22 called "The Clowns".[7] Middlesex were not to have another home until the equally short-lived Prince's Cricket Ground opened.
Notes
a Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.
References
- ↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
- ↑ Green, Benny; Wisden Anthology 1864-1900 p. 604 ISBN 0354085557
- ↑ First Class Batting in England in 1868
- ↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1868
- ↑ See Wisden, John (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac; Eighth Edition (1871); pp. 148-149
- ↑ Rae, Simon W. G. Grace: A Life; p. 77. ISBN 978-0-571-17855-1.
- ↑ Gentlemen of Middlesex v The Clowns in 1868
Annual reviews
- John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1869
- Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 10 (1867-1868), Lillywhite, 1869
