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Henry Bentley Publishes A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches — 1823

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1823-04-15

In April 1823 Henry Bentley — the MCC's longstanding scorebook keeper — published A Correct Account of All the Cricket Matches Played by the Mary-Le-Bone Club. The volume contained scoresheets from every MCC major fixture between 1786 and 1822. It became the foundation reference for nineteenth-century cricket history and the source from which all later Regency-era statistics were derived.

#roundarm-era#henry-bentley#scorebook

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Henry Bentley Begins His Cricket Scorebook — MCC Records, 1802

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1802-05-01

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.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-s-old-ground