#1926

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The Imperial Cricket Conference Expands — Test Status for India, WI, NZ, 1926-29

Imperial Cricket Conference / Member countries

1929-05-31

Across three Imperial Cricket Conference meetings between May 1926 and May 1929, Test status was granted in turn to the West Indies (1926), India (1929) and New Zealand (1929) — tripling the number of Test nations in three years and transforming international cricket from a three-country game into a six-country one.

#imperial-cricket-conference#icc#test-status

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Lancashire's Three Consecutive Championships — 1926-28

Lancashire and English County Championship

1928-08-31

From 1926 to 1928 Lancashire won three consecutive County Championships — the only three-in-a-row by any non-Yorkshire county between the wars — built around the Australian fast bowler Ted McDonald, captain Leonard Green, and a settled batting order led by the Tyldesleys.

#lancashire#county-championship#1926

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C.K. Nayudu's 153 in 100 Minutes vs MCC at Bombay — 1926

Hindus v MCC

1926-12-01

On a December afternoon in 1926, the 31-year-old C.K. Nayudu hit eleven sixes in an innings of 153 against the touring MCC at the Bombay Gymkhana. Watched by Arthur Gilligan and an emotional crowd of 50,000, the innings is regarded as the single performance that secured India's case for Test status — granted three years later.

#ck-nayudu#india#mcc

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Charlie Macartney — Three Centuries in Three Tests, 1926 Ashes

England v Australia

1926-08-14

In June, July and August 1926 the 40-year-old Charlie Macartney made centuries in three successive Tests against England — 133 at Lord's, 151 at Headingley (where he reached 100 before lunch on the first morning), and 109 at Old Trafford. He was only the second man in Ashes history to score hundreds in three consecutive Tests.

#charlie-macartney#ashes#1926

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Wilfred Rhodes Recalled at 48 — England Regain the Ashes, Oval 1926

England v Australia

1926-08-18

Recalled to the England side aged 48 years and 165 days, Wilfred Rhodes took 4 for 44 in Australia's second innings at the Oval in August 1926, helping to win England's first Ashes series since 1912. He remains the oldest man ever to play Test cricket.

#wilfred-rhodes#ashes#1926

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Hobbs and Sutcliffe Bat the Sticky — Oval, August 1926

England v Australia

1926-08-16

On the third morning of the fifth Test of 1926, after overnight thunderstorms had turned the Oval pitch into one of the most treacherous in Test history, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe added 172 for the first wicket — Hobbs 100, Sutcliffe 161 — in an innings widely regarded as the finest piece of opening batting in cricket.

#jack-hobbs#herbert-sutcliffe#ashes

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Women's Cricket Association Founded — England, October 1926

Women's Cricket Association

1926-10-04

On 4 October 1926, at a women's cricket week at Colwall in the Malvern Hills, 70 players agreed to form the Women's Cricket Association — the first national governing body for women's cricket in any country. Within nine years the WCA had organised the first women's Test, between England and Australia at Brisbane in December 1934.

#womens-cricket-association#england#1926