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Henry Bentley Begins His Cricket Scorebook — MCC Records, 1802

In May 1802 Henry Bentley, a Lord's professional and occasional umpire, began the systematic scorebook that he would maintain for the next twenty-one years. His ledger — eventually published in 1823 as A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches — is the single most important primary source for major cricket between 1786 and 1822 and the foundation of all later Regency-era statistics.