Controversies in 1848

2 incidents documented

George Parr Emerges — Notts Run-Maker and AEE Heir Apparent, 1846-1849

Nottinghamshire / All-England Eleven

1848-07-01

George Parr of Nottinghamshire, who would later succeed William Clarke as captain of the All-England Eleven and lead the second English tour of Australia, emerged in the late 1840s as the most powerful leg-side hitter in English cricket. By 1849, aged 23, he was the leading batsman in the AEE and the natural heir to Clarke's professional empire.

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Calcutta Cricket Club and the Parsis of Bombay — Cricket in India, 1840s

Calcutta CC / Parsi cricketers (Bombay)

1848-12-01

Cricket in 1840s India was concentrated in two cities. In Calcutta the Calcutta Cricket Club, founded in 1792 (the second-oldest cricket club in the world after MCC), continued as a European-only institution. In Bombay the Parsi community, having watched cricket on the Esplanade for decades, took up the game seriously and founded the Oriental Cricket Club in 1848 — the first organised non-European cricket club outside Britain.

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