J Russell (Essex cricketer)
Encyclopedia
J Russell was an English amateur cricket
er who made 9 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1785 to 1793.
and so mainly associated with Essex
.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who made 9 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1785 to 1793.
Career
He was a member of the Hornchurch Cricket ClubHornchurch Cricket Club
Hornchurch Cricket Club is based in Hornchurch, Essex and was established in 1783. The club had several good players and for the next ten years it was representative of Essex as a county, the club's name sometimes being interchangeable with that of the county in first-class scorecards.Essex...
and so mainly associated with Essex
Essex county cricket teams
Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being...
.