Leading cricket runscorers from 1772 to 1815
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This is a list of the leading runscorers in each English cricket season from the beginning of the game's "statistical record" in the 1772 season until the 1815 season.
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[edit] 1772
(3 matches; qualification 100 runs)
- 214 – John Small (Hampshire)
- 136 – William Yalden (Hampshire)
Joseph Miller (Kent) scored 98
note: although William Yalden was a Surrey player, he acted as a given man for Hampshire in all the 1772 matches
[edit] 1773
(9 matches; qualification 250 runs)
- 328 – Thomas White (Surrey)
- 316 – Joseph Miller (Kent)
- 305 – William Palmer (Surrey)
Tom Sueter (Hampshire) scored 186
[edit] 1774
(5 matches; qualification 150 runs)
- 241 – John Small (Hampshire)
- 241 – Joseph Miller (Kent)
- 197 – James Aylward (Hampshire)
- 154 – Tom Sueter (Hampshire)
Richard Nyren (Hampshire) scored 120
[edit] 1775
(6 matches; qualification 150 runs)
- 246 – William Yalden (Surrey)
- 212 – John Small (Hampshire)
- 160 – George Leer (Hampshire)
- 150 – Richard Nyren (Hampshire)
Joseph Miller (Kent) scored 148
[edit] 1776
(7 matches; qualification 175 runs)
- 423 – John Small (Hampshire)
- 326 – James Aylward (Hampshire)
- 250 – William Brazier (Kent)
- 249 – Richard Nyren (Hampshire)
- 223 – William Bowra (Kent)
- 192 – Thomas Taylor (Hampshire)
- 186 – Thomas White (Surrey)
- 177 – Richard Aubrey Veck (Hampshire)
Richard Francis (Hampshire) scored 158
[edit] 1801
(3 matches; qualification 100 runs)
- 141 – Robert Robinson (Surrey)
- 120 – William Beldham (Surrey)
- 115 – William Barton (Middlesex)
- 100 – George Leycester (Surrey)
Thomas Walker (Surrey) scored 88
[edit] 1815
(6 matches; qualification 150 runs)
- 172 – William Lambert (Surrey)
- 169 – William Beldham (Surrey)
James Sherman (Surrey) scored 136
[edit] External links
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
