1822 English cricket season
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The 1822 English cricket season saw the roundarm controversy come to a head.
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[edit] First-class matches
[edit] Events
In the MCC v. Kent match at Lord’s, John Willes of Kent opened the bowling and was no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he had attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdrew from the match and refused to play again in any important fixture.
Roundarm was a natural reaction to the growing predominance of batsmen over the age-old underarm style of bowling. Its adherents argued that the legalisation of roundarm was essential to restore the balance between batting and bowling. However, high-scoring matches were still comparatively rare owing to vagaries in pitch conditions.
[edit] Leading batsmen
EH Budd was the leading runscorer with 354 @ 39.33
[edit] Leading bowlers
J Sparks was the leading wicket-taker with 27
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
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