#1815

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Cricket After Waterloo — The Recovery of the Senior Game, 1815

Various

1815-08-01

Six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 ended twenty-two years of Napoleonic war, English cricket began to revive. Six senior matches were played in the rest of the summer of 1815, more than in any of the previous four years combined. Two centuries were scored at the new Lord's. Soldiers returning from the Peninsula and Belgium rejoined the professional ranks. By the end of the season the sport had pulled back from the brink at which it had stood in 1813.

#napoleonic-wars#waterloo#1815

⭐Mild

First Centuries at the New Lord's — Ladbroke 116 and Woodbridge 107, 24-25 August 1815

Middlesex vs Epsom

1815-08-25

On 24-25 August 1815, in a Middlesex v Epsom match at the new Lord's, the Surrey amateurs Felix Ladbroke and Frederick Woodbridge scored 116 and 107 respectively — the first centuries made on the third Lord's ground at St John's Wood. The match was an unremarkable end-of-season fixture, but the dual hundreds, on a pitch barely sixteen months old, showed that the new ground could yield big scores in a way that the old grounds had never reliably done.

#lord-s#felix-ladbroke#frederick-woodbridge