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Controversies in 1833

3 incidents documented

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John Nyren's *The Young Cricketer's Tutor* — First Major Cricket Book, 1833

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1833-04-01

In April 1833 the publisher Effingham Wilson of the Royal Exchange brought out *The Young Cricketer's Tutor*, written by the elderly Hambledon player John Nyren and edited by his friend Charles Cowden Clarke. The slim duodecimo combined a manual of technique with a memoir of the great Hambledon men of the 1770s and 1780s and is generally regarded as the first significant book in cricket literature.

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John Nyren's Nostalgic Hambledon Writings — *The Cricketers of My Time*, 1833

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1833-04-15

The second half of John Nyren's 1833 *Young Cricketer's Tutor* — bound in as the appendix *The Cricketers of My Time* — was the first sustained piece of cricket prose ever written. Across some sixty pages Nyren remembered the great Hambledon men of the 1770s and 1780s with affection and precision, and in doing so created the literary mode — nostalgic, particular, character-driven — that has shaped cricket writing ever since.

#john-nyren#the-cricketers-of-my-time#hambledon
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Tom Marsden of Sheffield — Yorkshire's Leading Batsman of the Early 1830s

Yorkshire, North

1833-09-05

Tom Marsden of Sheffield was the leading northern batsman of the early 1830s and the man who carried Yorkshire cricket through the decade. A left-handed bat of unusual power, he had scored 227 in a single innings as early as 1826 — at the time the highest individual score in English cricket. By the early 1830s he was the natural counterweight to Pilch in any North vs South discussion.

#tom-marsden#sheffield#yorkshire