#1826

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Sussex 'Champion County' — The First Informal Claim, 1825-1827

Sussex

1827-09-01

Through the mid-1820s Sussex established themselves as the strongest county side in England, on the strength of the roundarm bowling of Lillywhite and Broadbridge. The Sussex team was acclaimed by the press as 'champion county' from 1826 onwards — the first time the title was applied informally to a single county side and the seed of the formal County Championship that would emerge sixty years later.

#sussex#champion-county#1820s

⭐Moderate

Lord Frederick Beauclerk — MCC President as the Old Order Ends, 1826-27

MCC

1826-05-01

Lord Frederick Beauclerk, the autocratic clergyman-cricketer who had dominated English cricket since the 1790s, served as MCC president for 1826-27 — the very years in which the roundarm revolution he had spent his life resisting reached its decisive phase. Still occasionally taking the field in his late fifties, Beauclerk was the embodiment of the old underarm order, and his presidency oversaw the trial matches that would condemn it.

#lord-frederick-beauclerk#mcc#1826

⭐Mild

Old John Small Dies — The Last of the Hambledon Men, 1826

n/a

1826-12-31

John Small the elder, Hampshire batsman of the great Hambledon era and inventor of the straight bat, died at Petersfield in 1826 at the age of 89. With his death the last of the original Hambledon Men was gone, severing the living link between modern Lord's-centred cricket and the village game that had dominated the eighteenth century.

#john-small#hambledon#1826