1864 English cricket season

The 1864 English cricket season was an important year in cricket history, as it saw the legalisation of overarm bowling and the first edition of John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac.

Inter-county cricket

The first-class county teams in 1864 were Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Notts, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire. The unofficial concept of a "champion county" took a new turn when periodicals began publishing tables of inter-county results, although there was still no formal or agreed method of deciding positions in the table. Haygarth usually refers to 'generally agreed' when announcing the Champion County.^[1]

Table^[2]
	Team	P	W	L	D	Pts^[3]
1	Surrey	8	6	0	2	6
2	Cambridgeshire	3	3	0	0	3
	Sussex	8	5	2	1	3
4	Middlesex	4	3	1	0	2
5	Nottinghamshire	7	3	4	0	-1
6	Yorkshire	7	2	4	1	-2
7	Hampshire	4	0	4	0	-4
8	Kent	7	0	7	0	-7

Events

Law 10 was rewritten by the MCC to allow a bowler to bring his arm through at any height providing he kept it straight and did not throw the ball. The issue of overarm bowling had crystallised in the Willsher-Lillywhite incident of August 1862.
12 January – formation of Lancashire CCC at a meeting in Manchester.
27–29 January – Otago v. Canterbury at Dunedin was the start of first-class cricket in New Zealand.
Madras v. Calcutta was the start of first-class cricket in India.
First issue of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. It was titled John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac until the 1937 edition.
6–7 June – Middlesex CCC played its initial first-class match v. Sussex at Islington
9 June – Playing for MCC against Oxford University, H.E. Bull becomes only the second player,^[4] and the first since 1827,^[5] to be dismissed hit the ball twice in a first-class game.^[6]
7–8 July – Hampshire CCC played its initial first-class match v. Sussex at the Antelope Ground, Southampton
11–12 July – First appearance of WG Grace in a "big" match, though his first-class debut would not occur till the following season.^[7]
MCC finally purchased the freehold of Lord's Cricket Ground for £18,333 6s 8d with money advanced by William Nicholson.

Leading batsmen (qualification 10 innings)

1864 English season leading batsmen^[8]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
George Anderson	Yorkshire	6	11	5	255	99 not out	42.50	0	1
Heathfield Stephenson	Surrey All England Eleven	15	25	4	824	119	39.23	2	3
Will Mortlock	Surrey County Cricket Club	18	25	0	855	105	34.20	1	6
Tom Hayward senior	Cambridgeshire	8	12	0	355	66	29.58	0	2
Bob Carpenter	Cambridgeshire	8	11	1	270	52	27.00	0	1

Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)

1864 English season leading bowlers^[9]
Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
George Tarrant	Cambridgeshire	1610	590	67	8.80	7/30	8	4
James Grundy	MCC Nottinghamshire	3466	1109	99	11.31	9/19	10	2
William Maitland	Oxford University	1117	521	48	11.84	8/48	4	2
Edward Walker	Middlesex Southgate	1054	519	42	12.35	9/63	4	2
Edgar Willsher	Kent All England Eleven	3486	1065	79	13.48	7/47	6	0

References

↑ First Class Cricket Matches 1864 - ACS - Nottingham
↑ Table of inter-county results according to Rowland Bowen: see CricInfo
↑ "wins minus losses", as used during the first few official County Championship seasons
↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 93 ISBN 072701868X
↑ Nottingham v Sheffield in 1827
↑ Marylebone Cricket Club v Oxford University in 1864
↑ Scorecard of Surrey Club and Ground v South Wales Cricket Club.
↑ First Class Batting in England in 1864
↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1864

Annual reviews

Fred Lillywhite, The Guide to Cricketers, Lillywhite, 1865
John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1865
Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 8 (1863-1864), Lillywhite, 1865

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries

English cricket seasons

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