1849 English cricket season
Encyclopedia
Events
23, 24 & 25 July: YorkshireYorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
v Lancashire
Lancashire County Cricket Club
Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...
at the Hyde Park Ground
Hyde Park Ground
Hyde Park Ground was a cricket ground in Sheffield, Yorkshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1830, when Sheffield Cricket Club played Nottingham Cricket Club in the ground's inaugural first-class match. Sheffield used the ground a number of times in first-class cricket, from 1830...
in Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
.
It was the first match to involve both Yorkshire and Lancashire county teams and therefore, the first Roses match
Roses Match
The Roses Match refers to any game of cricket played between Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club. Yorkshire's emblem is the white rose, while Lancashire's is the red rose. The associations go back to the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century...
. Yorkshire won the match by 5 wickets.
Leading batsmen
George ParrGeorge Parr (cricketer)
George Parr was an English cricketer, whose first-class career lasted from 1844 to 1870....
was the leading runscorer with 529 runs at an average of 31.11
Other leading batsmen were: Nicholas Felix, Thomas Box
Thomas Box
Thomas Box was a famous English cricketer who is remembered as one of the most outstanding wicketkeepers of the 19th century.-Player:...
, James Dean, Alfred Mynn
Alfred Mynn
Alfred Mynn was an English cricketer during the game's "Roundarm Era". He was a genuine all-rounder, being both an attacking right-handed batsman and a formidable right arm fast bowler. The noted cricket writer John Woodcock ranked him as the fourth greatest cricketer of all time. Simon Wilde...
, William Nicholson
William Nicholson (cricketer)
William Nicholson was an English distiller and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1866 and 1885, and later joined the Conservative Party...
, Fuller Pilch
Fuller Pilch
Fuller Pilch was an English cricketer. Described as "the greatest batsman ever known until the appearance of W. G. Grace", the right-hand batting Pilch played 229 first class cricket matches between 1820 and 1854 for an assortment of counties, including Kent, Hampshire, Surrey and Surrey, as well...
, Robert Turner King, Tom Adams
Tom Adams (cricketer)
Thomas Miles Adams was an English cricketer in the mid-19th century. He was a member of the great Kent team of the 1840s and played for both MCC and the All-England Eleven...
, William Hillyer
William Hillyer
William Richard Hillyer , was a prominent cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, MCC and many other sides in the days before county and international cricket was organised into regular competitions....
, William Martingell
Leading bowlers
William HillyerWilliam Hillyer
William Richard Hillyer , was a prominent cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club, MCC and many other sides in the days before county and international cricket was organised into regular competitions....
was the leading wicket-taker with 141 wickets at an average of 13.20
Other leading bowlers were: John Wisden
John Wisden
John Wisden was an English cricketer who played 190 first-class cricket matches for three English county cricket teams, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex...
(notable for launching Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
), William Clarke, William (FW) Lillywhite
William Lillywhite
Frederick William Lillywhite was a famous English cricketer during the game's roundarm era...
, James Dean, Edmund Hinkly
Edmund Hinkly
Edmund Hinkly was an English cricketer, best remembered for being the first man known to have taken all ten wickets in a first-class innings in an eleven-a-side game, claiming 10-48 while playing for Kent against England XI at Lord's in 1848...
, Edward Blore
Edward Blore (cricketer)
Edward William Blore was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1848 to 1855....
, William Martingell
External sources
Annual reviews
- Arthur HaygarthArthur HaygarthArthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
, Scores & Biographies, Volume 4 (1849-1854), Lillywhite, 1862