#1838

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Trent Bridge Cricket Ground Opens — Nottingham, 1838

Nottinghamshire

1838-05-26

William Clarke laid out a cricket ground on land behind the Trent Bridge Inn at Nottingham in 1838, the year after his marriage to the inn's proprietor, the widow Mary Chapman. The ground hosted its first major match in May 1838 and grew through the nineteenth century into one of cricket's great Test venues — and the only major Test ground in the world founded by a single individual on commercial initiative.

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Married vs Single — Women's Cricket Match, 1838

Married women vs Single women

1838-08-13

Through the late 1830s the rural Married vs Single women's cricket match — a tradition dating from at least the 1740s — continued to be played in several English villages. The 1838 fixture, reported in the Sporting Magazine, is one of the better-documented examples of women's cricket in a decade in which the men's first-class game was rapidly professionalising and the women's tradition was carrying on alongside.

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