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Squire Osbaldeston Resigns From MCC and Is Barred for Life — 1818

MCC committee vs George Osbaldeston

1818-08-01

After losing a single-wicket match to Lord Frederick Beauclerk in 1818 in circumstances that he believed were rigged against him, the Yorkshire squire George Osbaldeston resigned from the Marylebone Cricket Club in a fit of temper. When he tried to rejoin some months later he found the door barred: Beauclerk, on the committee, refused his readmission. E.H. Budd's attempted intercession failed. Osbaldeston, one of the leading all-round sportsmen of the age, never played senior cricket of any standing again.

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E.H. Budd — The Strongest Hitter at Lord's, 1810s

MCC, All-England, various private elevens

1816-06-01

Through the 1810s Edward Hayward Budd was the second-most-prominent gentleman amateur in English cricket after Lord Frederick Beauclerk and the strongest hitter at Lord's. A right-handed batsman and occasional medium-pace lob bowler, Budd had first played at Lord's in about 1804 and remained a fixture of MCC cricket until 1831. His career was disrupted by the Napoleonic War like everyone else's, but he returned to senior cricket in 1815 and through the rest of the decade was the most reliable counterweight to Beauclerk's tactical authority.

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E.H. Budd's First Match at Lord's — Twenty-Two of Middlesex v Twenty-Two of Surrey, September 1802

Twenty-Two of Middlesex vs Twenty-Two of Surrey

1802-09-13

On 13-16 September 1802 a 16-year-old War Office clerk named Edward Hayward Budd appeared in his first match at Lord's, playing for a Twenty-Two of Middlesex against a Twenty-Two of Surrey. He scored 9 and 5 in an odds match that Arthur Haygarth's Scores and Biographies records as his earliest senior fixture. Budd would become, alongside Beauclerk, the dominant gentleman batter of the next twenty years.

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