#1865

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W.G. Grace's First-Class Debut — Gentlemen v Players of the South, June 1865

Gentlemen of the South vs Players of the South

1865-06-22

On 22 June 1865, sixteen days short of his seventeenth birthday, William Gilbert Grace played his first first-class match. Picked by the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South at the Oval mainly for his bowling, he and I.D. Walker bowled unchanged through both Players innings. Grace took 13 wickets in the match. Although the Players won by 118 runs, the cricket world had its first sight of the man who would dominate the sport for the next thirty years.

#wg-grace#first-class-debut#1865

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Cambridgeshire as a First-Class County — The Tarrant-Hayward-Carpenter Era, 1864-1871

Cambridgeshire vs other first-class counties

1865-08-01

For a brief eight-year period from 1864 to 1871, Cambridgeshire was a first-class county with three of the best players in England — the batsmen Tom Hayward (the elder) and Robert Carpenter, and the fast bowler George Tarrant. In 1865, the year of W.G. Grace's first-class debut, Cambridgeshire fielded what some historians consider the strongest single county side of the decade. By 1872 financial pressures and the loss of its three stars had reduced the county to second-class status, where it has remained ever since.

#cambridgeshire#tom-hayward-elder#robert-carpenter

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Old Trafford Becomes Lancashire's Home — First-Class Debut, 1865

Lancashire vs Middlesex

1865-07-20

Old Trafford had been laid out in 1857 as the home of Manchester Cricket Club. Lancashire CCC, formed in 1864, played its first first-class match at the ground in July 1865 against Middlesex and won by 62 runs. Old Trafford has been the home of Lancashire ever since — the second-oldest continuously used first-class venue after Lord's, host of more than 100 Test matches, and the indispensable counterweight to the southern grounds in English cricket geography.

#old-trafford#lancashire#1865