1866 English cricket season
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The 1866 English cricket season saw the demise of Surrey as one of the top cricketing counties and the emergence of W. G. Grace as the game’s leading batsman with the highest first-class score since William Ward’s famous innings forty-six years beforehand. It also saw the emergence of future star slow bowler James Southerton who had already played first-class cricket on and off as a moderately successful batsman for a dozen seasons, and the first known "hundred before lunch" in first-class cricket.
Events
- 30–31 July: W. G. Grace at the age of eighteen plays an innings of 224 not out which was the highest first-class score since William Ward’s record 278 for MCC against Norfolk in 1820.
- 21 August: John Sewell becomes the first batsman to score a hundred before the luncheon interval[1] when he advances from 29 not out to 166 for Middlesex against Surrey at The Oval.[2]
Playing record (by county)[3]
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridgeshire | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Hampshire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kent | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Lancashire | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Middlesex | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Nottinghamshire | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Surrey | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Sussex | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Yorkshire | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 10 innings)
| 1866 English season leading batsmen[4] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| Bob Carpenter | Cambridgeshire | 7 | 10 | 4 | 367 | 97 not out | 61.16 | 0 | 2 |
| W. G. Grace | Gentlemen South of England | 8 | 13 | 2 | 581 | 224 not out | 52.81 | 2 | 1 |
| Edward Walker | MCC Middlesex | 14 | 18 | 4 | 550 | 79 | 39.28 | 0 | 6 |
| Orlando Spencer-Smith | Oxford University Hampshire | 6 | 10 | 1 | 288 | 86 | 32.00 | 0 | 2 |
| Charles Payne | Kent Sussex | 10 | 16 | 2 | 471 | 135 not out | 33.64 | 1 | 2 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)
| 1866 English season leading bowlers[5] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Jem Shaw | Nottinghamshire All England Eleven | 1446 | 430 | 40 | 10.75 | 6/36 | 4 | 1 |
| James Lillywhite | Sussex | 3366 | 910 | 71 | 12.81 | 7/98 | 6 | 1 |
| Edgar Willsher | Kent | 2313 | 688 | 52 | 13.23 | 7/24 | 3 | 1 |
| George Tarrant | Cambridgeshire All England Eleven | 2173 | 809 | 61 | 13.26 | 7/47 | 6 | 2 |
| James Southerton | Hampshire | 1012 | 435 | 32 | 13.59 | 7/49 | 5 | 2 |
References
- ↑ Frindall, Bill (editor); The Wisden Book of Cricket Records (Fourth Edition); pp. 129-144. ISBN 0747222037
- ↑ Surrey v Middlesex in 1866
- ↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
- ↑ First Class Batting in England in 1866
- ↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1866
Annual reviews
- John Lillywhite's Cricketer’s Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1867
- Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 9 (1865–1866), Lillywhite, 1867
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