Officers vs Civilians
1824-01-29
On 29 January 1824 a cricket match was played at Hobart between officers of the Van Diemen's Land garrison and a civilian side — the earliest documented cricket fixture in Tasmania and the second-earliest in Australia (after Sydney 1804). The fixture is the foundation entry of Tasmanian cricket and the second link in the early Australian cricket map.
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1824-05-15
In summer 1824 William Clarke — eighteen years old, a Nottingham bricklayer — joined the Nottingham Cricket Club at the Forest ground. Clarke would become the most influential English cricket entrepreneur of the mid-nineteenth century: founder of the All-England Eleven (1846), proprietor of Trent Bridge (1838), and the leading slow underarm bowler of his generation. His 1824 arrival at Nottingham is the start of that career.
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1824-04-22
In April 1824 a group of Bath gentlemen founded the Lansdown Cricket Club, leasing a pitch on Lansdown Hill above the city. Lansdown CC is the oldest surviving cricket club in the south-west of England and one of the most important early West Country institutions. The club was, in due course, a key formative ground for W.G. Grace.
Norfolk vs Yorkshire
1824-08-26
On 26-27 August 1824 Fuller Pilch — twenty-one years old, the rising star of Norfolk cricket — scored his first major century, 117 against Yorkshire at Holt. The innings announced the player who would, through the 1830s and 1840s, be the leading professional batter in England.
Madras vs Trichinopoly
1824-12-04
On 4-5 December 1824 the Madras garrison played a touring Trichinopoly side at the Island Ground in Madras — the earliest documented inter-garrison fixture in southern India and the first preserved Madras two-day cricket match. The fixture marks the maturation of cricket in the Madras Presidency from informal play to organised inter-station competition.