1869 English cricket season

1869 English cricket season
Cricket formats major, including inter-county

The 1869 English cricket season saw the demise of the Cambridgeshire club. A team called Cambridgeshire played in two specially arranged matches, in 1869 against Yorkshire and in 1871 against Surrey. After that, Cambridgeshire ceased to be a first-class team. Their demise was attributed to the lack of available amateurs to back up the famous trio of Bob Carpenter, the first Tom Hayward and George Tarrant, along with the absence of useful patronage and the difficulty of obtaining membership which led to a debt deemed unpayable.[1]

1869 was also the season when W. G. Grace began a record-setting run of batting triumphs. For the first of three consecutive seasons, he established a new record for most runs in a season, and his six centuries doubled the previous record.

Playing record (by county)[2]

County Played Won Lost Drawn
Cambridgeshire 1 0 1 0
Kent 7 4 2 1
Lancashire 4 2 2 0
Middlesex 2 1 1 0
Nottinghamshire 6 5 1 0
Surrey 12 3 7 2
Sussex 7 1 5 1
Yorkshire 5 4 1 0
[a]

Leading batsmen (qualification 15 innings)

1869 English season leading batsmen[3]
Name Team Matches Innings Not outs Runs Highest score Average 100s 50s
WG Grace MCC 15 24 1 1320 180 57.39 6 3
Roger Iddison Lancashire
Yorkshire
9 15 5 353 112 35.30 1 0
Harry Jupp Surrey 22 41 5 1129 106 not out 31.36 2 7
Isaac Walker MCC
Middlesex
12 18 0 540 90 30.00 0 5
Henry Charlwood Sussex 10 18 1 483 155 28.41 1 2

Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)

1869 English season leading bowlers[4]
Name Team Balls bowled Runs conceded Wickets taken Average Best bowling 5 wickets
in innings
10 wickets
in match
Thomas Hearne MCC 1614 439 47 9.34 6/12 4 0
George Freeman Yorkshire 2161 584 60 9.73 8/29 6 2
William Hickton Lancashire 1301 448 39 11.48 6/27 5 2
Tom Emmett Yorkshire 2169 721 60 12.01 9/23 7 2
Jem Shaw Nottinghamshire
All England Eleven
2633 810 65 12.46 8/20 9 3

Notable events

Notes

a Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874
b The others were Allan Steel in 1877, Sammy Woods in 1886, Charlie Townsend in 1895 and Jack Crawford in 1904 and 1905

References

  1. Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 16 (1869); p. 246
  2. Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
  3. First Class Batting in England in 1869
  4. First Class Bowling in England in 1869
  5. Hadley Centre Ranked England and Wales Precipitation
  6. Marlborough college v Rugby School in 1869
  7. See Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac; Fifty-Seventh Edition (1920); part I, pp. 278–279
  8. Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 17 (1869); p. 95
  9. Frindall, Bill (editor); The Wisden Book of Cricket Records (Fourth Edition); p. 255. ISBN 0747222037
  10. Webber, Roy; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 18. Published 1951 by Playfair Books
  11. Frindall (editor); The Wisden Book of Cricket Records; p. 131

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