Controversies in 1842

5 incidents documented

Canterbury Cricket Week Founded — Kent's Annual Festival Begins, August 1842

Kent and MCC elevens

1842-08-01

The first Canterbury Cricket Week was staged at the St Lawrence Ground in August 1842, combining top-class county cricket with theatrical performances by the Old Stagers amateur dramatic society. The event immediately established itself as the social and sporting centrepiece of the Kent cricket year and has been held annually ever since, making it the oldest cricket festival in existence.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

⭐Mild

Cricket in Ireland — The Phoenix Cricket Club and the Game's Early Growth, 1830s–1840s

Irish cricket clubs and visiting English sides

1842-06-01

The Phoenix Cricket Club, founded in Phoenix Park, Dublin, in 1830, became the centre of Irish cricket through the 1840s and hosted visits from leading English sides including All-England Eleven fixtures in the late 1840s. Cricket in Ireland in this era was primarily an Anglo-Irish and military game, concentrated in Dublin and the garrison towns, but the Phoenix Club's ambition and the quality of its ground pointed toward a broader Irish cricket future.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

⭐Mild

Cricket in Scotland — The Grange Club and Edinburgh's Early Devotion, 1840s

Scottish cricket clubs

1842-07-01

The Grange Cricket Club, founded in Edinburgh in 1832, became the powerhouse of Scottish cricket through the 1840s, staging fixtures at Raeburn Place that attracted crowds of several thousand and inviting All-England Eleven sides north for high-profile matches. Scottish cricket in this era was concentrated among the professional and merchant classes of Edinburgh and Glasgow and maintained a quality far above what the small population base might suggest.

#roundarm-era#early-victorian#1840s

⭐Mild

Alfred Mynn at His Peak — The Lion of Kent in the Early 1840s

Kent / All-England

1842-08-01

Alfred Mynn of Kent — six feet one and weighing more than twenty stone — was the dominant fast roundarm bowler of the early 1840s and the best all-round cricketer in England. His annual displays at Lord's, Town Malling and Canterbury, his peerless single-wicket record (he was champion of England 1838-46), and the carrying-off of his amputated leg in 1836 had made him the first popular cricket folk-hero of the Victorian age.

#alfred-mynn#lion-of-kent#round-arm

⭐Mild

Fuller Pilch's Kent Engagement and the Move to Canterbury — 1842 onward

Kent

1842-04-01

Fuller Pilch's £100-a-year retainer with Kent, agreed with the proprietor Thomas Selby in the late 1830s, was the largest professional cricket contract of its day. By 1842 Pilch was the central figure in the Kent eleven; the move from Town Malling to Canterbury as the county's principal venue, completed by 1847, was built around his presence.

#fuller-pilch#kent#canterbury