1863 English cricket season

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The 1863 English cricket season saw the formations of at least three, and possibly four, county cricket clubs.

1 Honours
2 First-class matches
3 Events
4 Leading batsmen
5 Leading bowlers
6 References

[edit] Honours

Champion County - not determined

[edit] First-class matches

[edit] Events

8 January. Formation of Yorkshire CCC out of the Sheffield Match Fund Committee that had been established in 1861. Yorkshire CCC played its initial first-class match v. Surrey at the Oval on 4, 5 & 6 June. It was a rain-affected draw, evenly balanced.

12 August. Formation of Hampshire CCC. A number of previous county organisations including the famous Hambledon Club had existed in Hampshire during the previous hundred years or more, but none had survived indefinitely.

15 December. Formation of Middlesex CCC at a meeting in the London Tavern.

An organisation in Cheltenham is believed to have been the forerunner of Gloucestershire CCC, which had definitely been founded by 1871. Exact details of the club’s foundation have been lost.