Controversies in 1850

5 incidents documented

Julius Caesar — Surrey's Dashing Middle-Order Professional of the 1850s

Surrey and All-England elevens

1850-06-01

Julius Caesar of Godalming — his real name — was Surrey's hard-hitting middle-order professional through the county's golden age of the 1850s, a fixture in every major representative eleven and a member of both the 1859 North America tour and the 1861–62 and 1863–64 Australian tours. His punishing off-side hitting and safe slip fielding made him one of the most popular professionals of his generation.

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The Gentlemen v Players Fixture — Professionals Dominate the 1850s

Gentlemen of England vs Players of England

1850-07-08

Through the 1850s the annual Gentlemen v Players fixture at Lord's was dominated by the professional Players, who won the great majority of the decade's matches. The gap between the leading amateurs and the full-time professionals — men like Wisden, Parr, Jackson and Caffyn — was at its widest in the 1850s; not until the arrival of W.G. Grace would the Gentlemen recover consistent parity.

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John Wisden — From Cricketer to Publisher: The Seeds of the Almanack, 1850–1864

United All-England Eleven and various

1850-01-01

The decade of the 1850s was, for John Wisden, a transition from cricketer to entrepreneur. Having bowled all ten North batsmen at Lord's in 1850, co-founded the UAEE in 1852 and retired from serious cricket by the early 1860s, Wisden channelled his commercial energy into a sports goods shop and then, in 1864, into the publication that bears his name — the world's oldest sports annual.

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Cricket in India — The Bombay Gymkhana and the Parsi Challenge, 1850s

European clubs vs Parsi CC, Bombay

1850-01-01

Through the 1850s cricket was firmly established in Bombay among the British garrison and civil service, but the decade's most significant development was the growing interest of the Parsi community. The Parsi Cricket Club of Bombay, established in 1848, organised regular matches against European sides through the 1850s and produced the first non-European cricketers to be taken seriously as opponents by the colonial establishment.

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John Wisden's Ten Wickets All Bowled — North v South, Lord's, 1850

North vs South

1850-07-15

Bowling for the South against the North at Lord's in July 1850, the Sussex fast-roundarm bowler John Wisden — the diminutive 'Little Wonder', barely 5'4" tall — clean-bowled all ten North batsmen in the second innings. It is the only first-class instance in cricket history of all ten wickets in an innings being taken bowled, and the bedrock of the reputation that would, fourteen years later, attach his name to cricket's most famous publication.

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