1882 English cricket season

The 1882 English cricket season is memorable for the match which gave rise to the Ashes.

Champion County^[a]

• Lancashire, Nottinghamshire (shared)

Playing record (by county)^[1]

County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
Derbyshire	6	1	5	0
Gloucestershire	11	3	6	2
Hampshire	4	2	2	0
Kent	9	2	6	1
Lancashire	16	12	1	3
Middlesex	11	5	5	1
Nottinghamshire	12	8	1	3
Somerset	5	1	4	0
Surrey	14	4	7	3
Sussex	12	3	8	1
Yorkshire	16	9	5	2

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1882 English season leading batsmen[2]
Name	Team(s)	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
CT Studd	Middlesex MCC Cambridge University England	25	43	5	1249	126 not out	41.13	4	2
Lord Harris	Kent England	14	24	0	787	176	32.79	2	4
Bunny Lucas	Middlesex MCC England	15	25	3	707	145	32.13	2	3
Billy Murdoch	Australians	32	55	5	1582	286 not out	31.64	2	7
Alexander Webbe	Middlesex	16	28	6	660	108 not out	30.00	1	3

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1882 English season leading bowlers[3]
Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
John Crossland	Lancashire	3184	1127	112	10.06	7/72	10	2
George Nash	Lancashire	1639	656	62	10.58	8/14	4	2
Dick Barlow	Lancashire England	3576	1009	92	10.96	6/20	7	1
Tom Emmett	Yorkshire	2929	1044	95	10.98	8/52	8	3
Ted Peate	Yorkshire England	7449	2466	214	11.52	8/32	21	8

Events

• 8 April (approx.): Formation of Warwickshire CCC at a meeting in Coventry.
• 10 May: Formation of Durham CCC.
• Somerset CCC played its initial first-class match v. Lancashire at Old Trafford on 8, 9 & 10 June and joined the County Championship, but for only four seasons initially.
• 14 August: C.T. Studd became the second player after W.G. Grace to accomplish the "double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets, which he ironically achieved by dismissing Grace.^[4]
• 28 & 29 August. England v. Australia at The Oval (only Test of the season). Australia won the most famous match in history by 7 runs with F R Spofforth, the original "Demon Bowler", taking seven for 46 and seven for 44. Soon afterwards, The Sporting Times printed its legendary obituary notice:

The death notice which first named the Ashes

In Affectionate Remembrance

of

ENGLISH CRICKET,

which died at the Oval

on

29th AUGUST, 1882,

Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing

friends and acquaintances

----

R.I.P.

----

N.B.—The body will be cremated and the

ashes taken to Australia.

• 25 September: Ted Peate breaks the late James Southerton’s 1870 record by taking his 211st wicket of the season. His record stands until Charles Turner takes his 215th wicket on 23 August 1888.

Further details can be found in the articles History of Test cricket (to 1883) and The Ashes.

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

1. Wynne-Thomas, Peter; The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records; p. 54 ISBN 072701868X
2. First Class Batting in England in 1882
3. First Class Bowling in England in 1882
4. Gloucestershire v Middlesex in 1882

Annual reviews

• John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1883
• James Lillywhite's Cricketers’ Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1883
• John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1883

External links

• CricketArchive – season summaries