1883 English cricket season
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The 1883 English cricket season saw the first of four successive titles won by Notts, and the beginning of the "Great Revival" of Surrey,[1] who had been among the weaker counties since 1866.
Champion County[a]
- Nottinghamshire
Playing record (by county)[2]
| County | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derbyshire | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| Gloucestershire | 12 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
| Hampshire | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Kent | 10 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Lancashire | 12 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| Middlesex | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| Nottinghamshire | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Somerset | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Surrey | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 |
| Sussex | 12 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| Yorkshire | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 |
Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)
| 1883 English season leading batsmen[3] | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
| Walter Read | Surrey | 22 | 39 | 6 | 1573 | 168 | 47.66 | 2 | 13 |
| CT Studd | Middlesex MCC | 20 | 34 | 5 | 1193 | 175 not out | 41.13 | 2 | 4 |
| WG Grace | Gloucestershire MCC | 22 | 41 | 2 | 1352 | 112 | 34.66 | 1 | 9 |
| Louis Hall | Yorkshire | 26 | 44 | 9 | 1180 | 127 | 33.73 | 2 | 3 |
| Bunny Lucas | Middlesex MCC | 12 | 23 | 3 | 664 | 97 | 33.23 | 0 | 4 |
Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)
| 1883 English season leading bowlers[4] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
| Alec Watson | Lancashire | 3762 | 1135 | 96 | 11.82 | 7/36 | 9 | 2 |
| Alfred Shaw | Nottinghamshire | 4247 | 840 | 67 | 12.53 | 7/22 | 7 | 0 |
| John Crossland | Lancashire | 2191 | 934 | 72 | 12.97 | 8/57 | 6 | 0 |
| George Harrison | Yorkshire | 3143 | 1326 | 100 | 13.26 | 7/43 | 6 | 1 |
| George Robinson | Oxford University | 1015 | 471 | 35 | 13.45 | 6/38 | 2 | 0 |
Notable Events
- 30 January – England won the deciding match of the scheduled three-Test series in Melbourne (although an additional match was arranged later). Some ladies burned the bails and placed the resultant ashes in a small urn. This was presented to England’s captain, Ivo Bligh, who had promised to "recover those ashes". The urn is kept in a glass case at Lord’s but England and Australia have been playing for the Ashes ever since.
- 25 May – Surrey, in a season that marked their revival from a lowly position since 1866 to the champion eleven of the late 1880s and early 1890s, break the record highest team total in county cricket by scoring 650 against Hampshire.[5]
- George Harrison became the first bowler to take 100 wickets in the season in which he made his debut in first-class cricket.[6]
- George Ulyett scored 1,562 runs with a highest score of 84. Not until Charles Harris in 1935 did a player scoring no centuries score more runs in a season.
- Ulyett’s feat of getting within eleven runs of the leading scorer with no centuries has been approached since only by David Green in 1965.[7][8]
Notes
a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.
References
- ↑ Pardon, Sydney H. (editor); John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack; Forty-Seventh Edition (1905), pp. 173-174
- ↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 54 ISBN 072701868X
- ↑ First Class Batting in England in 1883
- ↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1883
- ↑ Webber, Roy; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; p. 18. Published 1951 by Playfair Books.
- ↑ Webber; The Playfair Book of Cricket Records; pp. 176-177
- ↑ First Class Batting in England in 1883 (by Runs)
- ↑ First Class Batting in England in 1965 (by Runs)
Annual reviews
- John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1884
- James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1884
- John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, 1884
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