The purpose of this list is to identify all historically significant English cricket clubs and teams which played in significant matches, some of which may have been given first-class status. It concentrates on those which are now defunct or not currently significant. The list, therefore, excludes County Championship clubs, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), touring teams and the main university clubs. Clubs in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship or in one of the ECB Premier Leagues are excluded unless they formerly played in important or first-class matches.
Note that some clubs which folded were subsequently refounded as modern league clubs. Many of the teams were ad hoc units or "scratch teams" named after their organiser (e.g., Alfred Shaw's XI) while others are combinations (e.g., London & Surrey).[1] The total column gives the number of matches that the team is known to have played in. In the source column, if only one citation is given, it relates to the earliest known mention of the team in the surviving records.
N.B. The list is believed complete for clubs and teams that were active in significant cricket up to 1825. Many clubs and teams post-1825 are already included but they are not exhaustive.
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References
- ^ ACS Guides
- ^ a b Haygarth, S&B volume 1, p. 67.
- ^ a b Haygarth, S&B volume 2, p. 152.
- ^ a b Haygarth, S&B volume 2, p. 213.
- ^ "A to M". CricketArchive.
- ^ Haygarth, S&B volume 1, pp. 77–91
- ^ ACS, Important Cricket Matches, p. 27.
- ^ Buckley, FL18C, p. 70.
- ^ a b McCann, p. 1.
- ^ a b c Waghorn, Cricket Scores, p. 27.
- ^ McCann, pp. 6–7.
- ^ a b Buckley, FL18C, p. 16.
- ^ a b Underdown, p. 4.
- ^ a b Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 4.
- ^ Buckley, FL18C, p. 62.
- ^ Waghorn, Cricket Scores, p. 53.
- ^ Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, pp. 70–71 & 106–114.
- ^ Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 9.
- ^ Buckley, FL18C, p. 8.
- ^ Chelsea Common
- ^ Buckley, FL18C, p. 13.
- ^ Buckley, FLPVC, p. 22.
- ^ Maun, Volume One, p. 33.
- ^ Waghorn, pp. 5–6.
- ^ a b Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 5.
- ^ a b Haygarth, S&B volume 1, pp. 47–48.
- ^ a b McCann, p. 4.
- ^ a b c Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 7.
- ^ "A. E. R. Gilligan's XI". CricketArchive.
- ^ Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 6.
- ^ "N to Z". CricketArchive.
- ^ The earliest known use of the term was in 1739 as recorded in Waghorn, Cricket Scores, p. 23.
- ^ Maun, Volume One, p. 28.
- ^ McCann, p. 18.
- ^ Waghorn, Dawn of Cricket, p. 8.
- ^ Maun, Volume One, p. 27.
- ^ Haygarth, S&B volume 2, pp. 240–241.
- ^ Haygarth, S&B volume 4, p. 55.
- ^ Hodgson, p. 14.
- ^ Haygarth, S&B volume 2, pp. 67–68.
Bibliography
- Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751. Cricket magazine.
- ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- ACS (1982). A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.
- Buckley, G. B. (1937). Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket. Cotterell.
- Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.
- Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 2 (1827–1840). Lillywhite.
- Hodgson, Derek (1989). The Official History of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The Crowood Press. ISBN 1-85223-274-9.
- Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978 1 900592 52 9.
- Maun, Ian (2011). From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770. Martin Wilson. ISBN 978 0 9569066 0 1.
- McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
- Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-713-99330-8.
- Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.
- Waghorn, H. T. (1906). The Dawn of Cricket. Electric Press.
- Wilson, Martin (2005). An Index to Waghorn. Bodyline.
