Cricket History Timeline Upto 1850 |
| Year | Important events in Cricket | Cricket Series | Important tournaments | Indian captains | Indian records in internationals | World records | Indian domestic records | Indian domestic tournament winners | Player news | player deaths births |
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| Upto 1600 | Evidence of cricket being played in Guildford,
Surrey. (1550) Cricket mentioned in Florios ItalianEnglish dictionary.(1598) |
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| 1601 - 1700 | The first conclusive records for a game recognisable as cricket describe a match played in Kent in 1646.
First reference to cricket being played abroad, by British residents in Aleppo, Syria. (1676) Cricket match announced on Clapham Common.(1700) |
Jasper Vinall becomes first man known to be killed playing cricket: hit by a bat while trying to catch the ball, at Horsted Green, Sussex. | ||||||||
| 1701 - 1800 | First recorded inter-county match (1709)Kent v Surrey English sailors were reported to be playing cricket at Cambay, near Baroda, and this is the earliest known reference to cricket being played in India. First codification of the Laws of Cricket by the Star & Garter Club of London.(1774) First recorded case of a dismissal leg before wicket. Thomas Lord founded the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which staged its first match between Middlesex and Essex (1787) |
First recorded century, by John Minshull for Duke
of Dorset’s XI v Wrotham. (1769) |
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| 1801 - 1850 |
The distance between the bowling and popping creases was increased form 46 to 48 inches The size of a cricket ball was codified for the first time, being a circumference between 9 and 9 1/4 inches. (1838) Round-arm bowling is permitted in cricket for the first time as long as the ball is delivered from around shoulder height. First International Match (1844) Cananda vs USA First match played at The Oval.(1845) First Yorkshire v Lancashire match. (1849) The Parsi community in Mumbai formed the Oritenal Cricket Club, the first cricket club to be established by Indians |
Edmund Hinkly (Kent) dismisses all ten England batsmen at Lords. He is the first first-class player to perform this feat (1848) | W G Grace is born in Downend, Gloucestershire (July 18, 1848) | |||||||
| Year | Important events in Cricket | Cricket Series | Important tournaments | Indian captains | Indian records in internationals | World records | Indian domestic records | Indian domestic tournament winners | Player news | player deaths births |
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