#william caffyn

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George Parr's English XII — Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1863-64

George Parr's English XII vs Australian and New Zealand colonial sides

1864-03-01

Two years after the Stephenson tour, the All-England Eleven captain George Parr led a second English party to Australia and added New Zealand to the itinerary for the first time. The twelve professionals, again playing against odds, lost only one of their thirteen Australian fixtures and introduced overarm bowling — legalised back home midway through their voyage — to colonial spectators who had never seen it.

#george-parr#1863-64#australia-tour

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William Caffyn in Australia — The Surrey Pro who Coached Charles Bannerman, 1864-1871

Melbourne CC; Warwick Club, Sydney; New South Wales

1864-04-01

William Caffyn — the Surrey all-rounder who had toured Australia twice — emigrated permanently after the 1863-64 Parr tour and spent eight years coaching in Melbourne and Sydney. The most influential of his pupils was Charles Bannerman, who would face the first ball in Test cricket and score the first Test century. Caffyn called Bannerman 'the best bat I ever saw or coached in Australia'. By the time Caffyn returned to England in 1871, Australian cricket had a foundation of professional technique that would translate, within six years, into Test status.

#william-caffyn#australian-coaching#warwick-club

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Surrey's 1864 Title and Mid-Decade Decline — The End of the First Surrey Era

Surrey vs other counties

1864-09-01

Surrey, the dominant county of the 1850s, took the unofficial championship one last time in 1864 — winning eight and drawing three of eleven first-class matches — and then collapsed. The retirement of HH Stephenson, William Mortlock, Julius Caesar and Tom Lockyer combined with William Caffyn's emigration to Australia stripped the side of its core. By 1869 Surrey were largely carried by James Southerton's bowling and Ted Pooley's wicket-keeping; the recovery would not come until the early 1870s.

#surrey#the-oval#william-caffyn

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Heathfield Stephenson's All-England Eleven — The First English Tour of Australia, 1861-62

England (All-England XI) vs Australian colonial sides

1862-03-01

Twelve English professionals captained by Surrey's H.H. Stephenson sailed on Brunel's SS Great Britain to play the first cricket tour ever undertaken to Australia. Funded by the Melbourne caterers Felix Spiers and Christopher Pond, the team played 12 matches against odds of 18 and 22 between Christmas Day 1861 and March 1862, drawing 45,000 spectators across three days for the opening fixture against Victoria and laying the commercial foundation of all future Anglo-Australian cricket.

#hh-stephenson#spiers-and-pond#australia-tour-1861-62

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William Caffyn — The Reigate Professional and Surrey's Star All-Rounder of the 1850s

Surrey and United All-England Eleven

1858-08-15

By the late 1850s the Reigate-born William Caffyn had emerged as the leading all-rounder in the strongest county side in England, scoring runs in the middle order for Surrey and bowling effective right-arm medium-fast roundarm. Caffyn was on the 1859 North America tour, both 1860s Australian tours, and after emigrating in 1864 became the foundational professional coach of Australian cricket.

#william-caffyn#surrey#1850s

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William Caffyn's Boyhood at Reigate — Cricket Apprenticeship in the Late 1830s

Reigate village cricket

1838-06-01

William Caffyn — later one of the great Surrey professionals of the 1850s, member of both the 1861-62 Stephenson and the 1863-64 Parr tours of Australia, and eventually the most influential coach in colonial Australian cricket — was a small boy at Reigate in the late 1830s, learning his cricket at a village green where his father ran a barber's shop. His memoir *71 Not Out* (1899) preserves a vivid picture of the cricketing world of his late-1830s boyhood.

#william-caffyn#reigate#surrey