1808 English cricket season
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In the 1808 English cricket season Thomas Howard emerged as a leading bowler
On 5 January, a match between two teams of English officers is the earliest definite reference to cricket in South Africa.
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[edit] First-class matches
[edit] Events
[edit] Leading batsmen
Lord Frederick Beauclerk was the leading runscorer with 379 @ 37.90
[edit] Leading bowlers
Thomas Howard and Lord Frederick Beauclerk with 16 apiece were the leading wicket takers
[edit] References
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
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