1800 English cricket season

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The 1800 English cricket season is one of the more difficult years to analyse because of several matches involving town clubs like Rochester, Woolwich, Homerton, Richmond, Storrington, Montpelier and Thames Ditton.

1 Matches
2 Other Events
3 Leading batsmen
4 Leading bowlers
5 Main Sources

[edit] Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Source	Result
19-21 May (M-W)	R Whitehead v J Gibbon	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB267	Whitehead's XI won by 52 runs

26 May (M)	Woolwich v Four Parishes ^	Barrack Field, Woolwich	WDC	drawn

28-29 May (W-Th)	MCC v Woolwich ^	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB268	Woolwich won by innings & 94 runs

10 June (Tu)	Thames Ditton v London ^	Thames Ditton	WDC	London won by innings & 14 runs

11-13 June (W-F)	All-England v Surrey	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB269	Surrey won by 3 wkts

16-17 June (M-Tu)	All-England XIV v Surrey	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB269	All-England won by 13 wkts

23-24 June (M-Tu)	Woolwich v MCC ^	Barrack Field, Woolwich	SB270	Woolwich won by 123 runs

25 June (W)	Homerton v Montpelier ^	?	SB271	Montpelier won by innings & 5 runs

26 June (Th)	Montpelier v Richmond ^	Montpelier Gardens	FL18	Montpelier won by 52 runs

30 June (M)	F Beauclerk v J Martin	Barrack Field, Woolwich	SB271	Beauclerk's XI won by 60 runs
The Beauclerk v Martin game had numerous unknown players.
2-3 July (W-Th)	Richmond v Montpelier ^	Richmond Green	FL18	Richmond won by 69 runs
Britcher has a complete scorecard for this; FL18 has only the 2 July position.
7-9 July (M-W)	MCC v Rochester ^	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB274	Rochester won by 11 runs

14-15 July (M-Tu)	All-England v Woolwich & Homerton	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB274	W&H won by 7 wkts

21-23 July (M-W)	Rochester v MCC ^	Marsh’s, Rochester	SB275	Rochester won by 3 wkts

24-25 July (Th-F)	Woolwich v Montpelier ^	Barrack Field, Woolwich	WDC	Woolwich won by 8 wkts

25-26 Aug (M-Tu)	Leicester v Nottingham #	Leicester	SB278	Nottingham won by innings & 38 runs

28-29 Aug (Th-S)	All-England XIV v Surrey XII	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB279	All-England won by 51 runs

8-9 Sept (Tu-W)	Storrington v Sussex	Storrington	SB273	Storrington won by 19 runs

29 Sept (Tu)	Nottingham v Sheffield #	Mansfield	SB282	Nottingham won by 123 runs
# Both these historically important fixtures were excluded from previous classifications but there is no doubt the teams were representative of the counties. Nottingham v Sheffield was the first known 11 a side game involving a Yorkshire county team. Both games are major fixtures. The Nottingham v Sheffield game is also in William North’s 1832 book of Nottingham Old Club Match Scores. ^ 1800 is one of the more difficult years to analyse because of several matches involving town clubs like Rochester, Woolwich, Homerton, Richmond, Storrington, Montpelier and Thames Ditton. Indeed, two of these may be the same club: Homerton seem to have used the same players as Richmond. Rochester and Woolwich were the main centres of Kent cricket at the time and the two clubs had decent teams, as their results against MCC show, but these matches are marginal because of the dubious quality of the MCC teams (see 1799 rule) and the presence of unrecognised players on the town club teams. See also 1799 notes.