1844 English cricket season
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The 1844 English cricket season saw William Hillyer lead the bowling for the third time in succession
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[edit] Honours
- Champion County - not determined
[edit] First-class matches
[edit] Events
13 March. Foundation of Cambridgeshire CCC which played first-class cricket 1857 to 1871.
28 August. A match on Hartlebury Common between Worcestershire and Shropshire is the earliest known instance of a county team in Worcestershire.
[edit] Leading batsmen
Fuller Pilch was the leading runscorer with 517 @ 17.82
Other leading batsmen were: A Mynn, J Dean, W Dorrinton, T Box, E Bushby, T Sewell, CG Taylor, R Kynaston, W Martingell
[edit] Leading bowlers
WR Hillyer was the leading wicket-taker with 142
Other leading bowlers were: A Mynn, FW Lillywhite, J Dean, CG Taylor, W Clarke
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Scores & Biographies by Arthur Haygarth
- 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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