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The Imperial Cricket Conference Becomes Active — 1909 into the 1910s

England, Australia, South Africa

1910-06-15

The Imperial Cricket Conference, founded at Lord's in June 1909 with England, Australia and South Africa as founding members, became operationally active through 1910-1914 — the body that scheduled the 1912 Triangular and would in time become the modern ICC.

#icc#imperial-cricket-conference#1909
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Imperial Cricket Conference Founded — 15 June 1909, Lord's

England, Australia, South Africa

1909-06-15

On 15 June 1909, representatives of the MCC, the Australian Cricket Board and the South African Cricket Association met at Lord's and founded the Imperial Cricket Conference, the body that became the International Cricket Council. The proposal had been pushed for two years by South African mining magnate Abe Bailey; it created the first international cricket governing structure.

#imperial-cricket-conference#icc#1909
Moderate

Schwarz, Vogler, Faulkner, White — South Africa's Googly Bowlers Through the Decade

South Africa, England, Australia

1909-12-01

After their breakthrough 1907 tour of England, South Africa's googly quartet — Reggie Schwarz, Bert Vogler, Aubrey Faulkner and Gordon White — anchored the side through the 1909-10 home Tests against England (won 3-2 by South Africa) and the 1910-11 tour of Australia. Vogler took 36 wickets in the 1909-10 home series; Faulkner emerged as the world's best all-rounder by 1910.

#south-africa#googly#reggie-schwarz
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Ashes 1909 — Australia Win in England, Bardsley's Twin Centuries

England, Australia

1909-08-11

Monty Noble's Australians won the 1909 Ashes 2-1 in England, the first Australian series win in England since 1902. Warren Bardsley scored 136 and 130 in the drawn fifth Test at The Oval (9-11 August 1909), becoming the first cricketer ever to make a century in each innings of a Test match. Australia's pace bowler Tibby Cotter and all-rounder Warwick Armstrong led the tour averages.

#ashes#1909#australia
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Frank Foster's Emergence — Warwickshire's Future Captain, 1908-1909

Warwickshire

1909-07-01

Frank Foster, the left-arm fast-medium bowler and middle-order batter from Birmingham, made his Warwickshire first-class debut in 1908. By the close of 1909 he was establishing himself as one of the most promising young all-rounders in England — the foundation for the career that would, two years later, deliver Warwickshire its first county championship and, on the 1911-12 Ashes tour, the new-ball partnership with S.F. Barnes that won the Ashes.

#frank-foster#warwickshire#edgbaston