1826 English cricket season

In the 1826 English cricket season, the recovery of inter-county cricket continued.

Honours

Most runs – Tom Marsden 227 @ 227.00 (HS 227: he had just the one first-class innings)
Most wickets – William Lillywhite 27 (BB 9–?)

A total of 7 first-class matches were recorded in 1826, including four inter-county matches.^[1]

The Lord’s pavilion, gutted by fire in July 1825, was rebuilt in time for MCC’s annual dinner on Thursday 11 May.
Inter-county cricket flourished again, mainly through the efforts of the Sussex county organisation based on the Midhurst club. Sussex played matches against Kent and a combined Hampshire/Surrey team.
24, 25 and 26 July — Yorkshire's first great player Tom Marsden scored 227 for Sheffield and Leicester v Nottingham at the Darnall New Ground in Sheffield. A report said that Marsden batted over eight hours, approximately 4½ hours on the 25th and 3½ hours on the 26th.
5 May — a significant event that would in time accelerate the spread of cricket throughout England was the passage of an Act of Parliament that authorised creation of the Liverpool to Manchester Railway and effectively began the "railway boom".
31 December — death of John Small, the great Hambledon batsman