#1836

5 incidents tagged

Alfred Mynn vs James Dearman — Single-Wicket Challenge, 1836

Alfred Mynn (Kent) vs James Dearman (Yorkshire)

1836-09-29

On 29 and 30 September 1836 the giant Kent fast bowler Alfred Mynn — already nicknamed 'the Lion of Kent' — met the Sheffield batsman James Dearman in a £100-a-side single-wicket challenge at Town Malling in Kent. Mynn, then 28 and weighing close to twenty stone, demolished Dearman: he scored 123 runs to Dearman's 0 and 16, and won by an innings and 107.

#alfred-mynn#lion-of-kent#james-dearman

⭐Mild

First North vs South Match — Lord's, July 1836

North of England vs South of England

1836-07-11

On 11 July 1836 the first match between the North and South of England was played at Lord's. Conceived as a rival showcase to Gentlemen vs Players and a vehicle for the leading professionals, the fixture became an annual highlight of the English summer for the next forty years and was for much of the mid-Victorian period the most prestigious match in the calendar.

#north-vs-south#1836#lord-s

⭐Moderate

Fuller Pilch's Transfer from Norfolk to Kent — 1836

Norfolk to Kent

1836-04-01

Early in 1836 the Norfolk batsman Fuller Pilch — by then unanimously regarded as the leading batsman in England — was engaged as a paid professional by the Town Malling club in Kent at a salary of around £100 a year, plus the tenancy of a public house. The move marked the start of Kent's golden era under Alfred Mynn and was one of the earliest high-profile professional engagements in cricket.

#fuller-pilch#norfolk#kent

⭐Serious

Alfred Mynn's Leg Injury at Leicester — Single-Wicket vs Curzon, August 1836

Alfred Mynn vs the North

1836-08-29

In August 1836, between his two thrashings of Dearman, Alfred Mynn played a single-wicket match at Leicester in which his right leg was repeatedly hit by fast roundarm bowling at the unprotected shin. The injuries festered on the long coach journey home and Mynn nearly lost the leg to gangrene; he was strapped to the roof of the stagecoach because he could not bend his knee, and surgeons in London debated amputation before saving the limb.

#alfred-mynn#single-wicket#1836

⭐Mild

First Gentlemen vs Players Match Won by the Players — 1836

Gentlemen of England vs Players of England

1836-07-04

Through the 1820s the Gentlemen of England had usually beaten the Players because the match-rules tilted heavily in the amateurs' favour (often the Gentlemen were given extra batsmen or the Players had to use given men). In 1836, with the rules levelled and the Players fielding their full strength of Lillywhite, Pilch, Mynn and Cobbett, the professionals at last won the match cleanly — the start of decades of professional dominance.

#gentlemen-vs-players#1836#lord-s