Australia
1919-10-15
Roy Park, who had served as a doctor with the Australian Army Medical Corps in France, returned to club cricket in Melbourne in late 1919. Within fifteen months he would play a single Test for Australia at Melbourne, face one ball, be bowled for a duck, and never play another. The 1919 comeback is the start of one of cricket's strangest career arcs.
England
1919-05-03
When the County Championship resumed in May 1919 after the four-year wartime break, the MCC introduced an experimental two-day match format with extended hours of play. Player exhaustion and a string of unsatisfactory finishes — many matches drawn, several rushed — led to the experiment being abandoned after a single season.
Surrey
1919-09-01
Jack Hobbs returned to first-class cricket in May 1919, aged 36 after a four-year war-imposed break, and immediately scored 2,594 runs at 60.32 in the experimental two-day season — confirming that the world's leading batsman had picked up exactly where he had left off in 1914.
Various
1815-08-01
Six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815 ended twenty-two years of Napoleonic war, English cricket began to revive. Six senior matches were played in the rest of the summer of 1815, more than in any of the previous four years combined. Two centuries were scored at the new Lord's. Soldiers returning from the Peninsula and Belgium rejoined the professional ranks. By the end of the season the sport had pulled back from the brink at which it had stood in 1813.