1868 English cricket season

The 1868 English cricket season featured the tour by the team of Australian Aboriginals.

Playing record (by county)^[1]

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

Owing to an exceptionally hot and dry summer, and the absence of the forthcoming revolution of the heavy roller,^[2] 1868 was to be the last season in which every county match was finished outright.

Leading batsmen (qualification 10 innings)

1868 English season leading batsmen^[3]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
W. G. Grace	Gentlemen South of England	7	11	2	588	134 not out	65.33	3	2
Isaac Walker	MCC Middlesex	13	24	5	661	165	34.78	1	3
James Lillywhite	Sussex	13	24	6	631	126 not out	30.04	1	4
Henry Richardson	Cambridge University Kent Middlesex	10	16	1	431	143	28.73	1	3
George Savile	Cambridge University Yorkshire	7	11	0	294	105	26.72	1	2

Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)

1868 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 Middlesex	957	279	33	8.45	5/20	1	0
Tom Emmett	Yorkshire	1628	528	60	8.80	9/34	5	1
George Freeman	Yorkshire	1560	454	46	9.86	8/11	6	2
Edgar Willsher	Kent	3999	1128	113	9.98	7/44	12	6
George Howitt	Middlesex Nottinghamshire	2262	734	71	10.33	6/17	6	2

Events

A team of Australian Aboriginals was the first overseas side to tour England, under the auspices of Sydney publician/cricketer Charles Lawrence. They were not a first class team.
25–26 May: Edward Tylecote hits the first recorded score of 300 in any grade of cricket with 404 for Classicals against Moderns at Clifton College^[5]
20 June: C.A. Absolom became the first player to be given out obstructing the field when playing for Cambridge University v. Surrey at The Oval.
3–5 August: Playing for South of the Thames v North of the Thames at Canterbury, W.G. Grace became the second player to score two centuries in a match after William Lambert in 1817.^[6]
The Cattle Market Ground in Islington, the original home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, was sold by its owner for development following the season. The last game, on 5 and 6 October, was between "Gentlemen of Middlesex" and a 22 called "The Clowns".^[7] Middlesex were not to have another home until the equally short-lived Prince's Cricket Ground opened.

Notes

^a Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.

References

↑ Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 53 ISBN 072701868X
↑ Green, Benny; Wisden Anthology 1864-1900 p. 604 ISBN 0354085557
↑ First Class Batting in England in 1868
↑ First Class Bowling in England in 1868
↑ See Wisden, John (editor); John Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac; Eighth Edition (1871); pp. 148-149
↑ Rae, Simon W. G. Grace: A Life; p. 77. ISBN 978-0-571-17855-1.
↑ Gentlemen of Middlesex v The Clowns in 1868

Annual reviews

John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1869
Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 10 (1867-1868), Lillywhite, 1869

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries

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