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First Newspaper-Printed Scorecard — Bell's Life in London, July 1813
MCC vs Surrey
1813-07-26
On 26 July 1813 the weekly sporting paper Bell's Life in London printed a complete batter-by-batter scorecard of the previous week's MCC v Surrey match — the earliest documented printed scorecard in the British press. The publication of full scoresheets in the popular sporting press transformed cricket's reach: from this point major matches reached an audience of tens of thousands of readers, far beyond the few hundred who attended in person.
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