1822 in sports
1822 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Events
- 18 May — Tom Cribb announces his retirement and relinquishes his English Championship title. He nominates his protégé Tom Spring as his successor.[1] Spring offers to fight anyone in England but there are no immediate volunteers.
Events
- The roundarm controversy comes to a head when, in the MCC v Kent match at Lord's, John Willes of Kent opens the bowling and is no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he has attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdraws from the match and refuses to play again in any important fixture.
England
England
References
- ^ Cyber Boxing Zone – Tom Cribb. Retrieved on 6 November 2009.
- ^ An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted.
- ^ a b Note that scorecards created in the first quarter of the 19th century are not necessarily accurate or complete; therefore any summary of runs, wickets or catches can only represent the known totals and the missing data prevents effective computation of averages
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Sports by year to 1850
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to 1850 • 1851 – 1900 • 1901 – 1950 • 1951 – 2000 • from 2001
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