#1817

3 incidents tagged

William Lambert's Shadow — The First Fixing Ban Hangs Over the 1820s

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1820-05-01

William Lambert of Surrey, the leading professional batsman of the 1810s and Squire Osbaldeston's regular single-wicket partner, was banned from Lord's for life in 1817 for allegedly throwing the England v Nottingham match — making him the first cricketer banned for match-fixing in history. His exile cast a long shadow over the 1820s, contributing to Osbaldeston's own resignation and to MCC's hostility to professional self-organisation.

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William Lambert — First to Score Two Centuries in a Match, Sussex v Epsom, July 1817

Sussex vs Epsom

1817-07-04

Between 2 and 5 July 1817 at the new Lord's, the Surrey-born professional William Lambert scored 107 not out and 157 for Sussex against Epsom — the first batsman known to have made two centuries in the same match. Sussex won by 427 runs. Three weeks later Lambert was banned from Lord's for match-fixing and never played a senior match again. The Sussex v Epsom innings, made on a low-scoring underarm pitch by a man at the height of his powers, stood as the only instance of two centuries in a match for almost seventy years.

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William Lambert Banned From Lord's — Match-Fixing in England v Nottingham, 1817

MCC committee vs William Lambert

1817-07-26

Three weeks after scoring the first two centuries in a single match, William Lambert was banned from Lord's by the MCC committee on a charge of having deliberately underperformed in an earlier England v Nottingham match in which both sides had been suspected of arranging the result. The evidence was gathered by Lord Frederick Beauclerk, his old enemy from the 1810 single-wicket affair. Lambert never played senior cricket again. He was, in effect, the first cricketer banned for match-fixing.

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