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Eton v Harrow Becomes Annual — The Fixture Settles at Lord's, 1822

Eton vs Harrow

1822-08-02

The Eton v Harrow cricket match, first played at Lord's in 1805 with Lord Byron in the Harrow side and resumed in 1818, became an annual fixture from 1822 — the foundation date of what would become the longest-running schools cricket fixture in the world. The annual rhythm, briefly interrupted by the 1829-31 ban, has otherwise survived almost unbroken to the modern era.

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Eton v Harrow — The Lord's Rematch That Restarted the Annual Fixture, 1818

Eton College vs Harrow School

1818-07-30

Thirteen years after the inaugural 1805 meeting at Thomas Lord's old ground in Dorset Square — the match in which Lord Byron had played for Harrow with a runner — Eton and Harrow met again at the new Lord's at St John's Wood in July 1818. The rematch restarted what would, from 1822, become the longest-running annual schoolboy fixture in cricket. By the late nineteenth century Eton v Harrow at Lord's was one of the great social occasions of the London summer.

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