1794 English cricket season

In the 1794 English cricket season, Berkshire had the strongest county team.

Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Source	Result
13–14 May (Tu-W)	MCC v London	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB163	MCC won by 77 runs

21–22 May (W-Th)	MCC v London	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB163	London won by innings & 30 runs

26–29 May (M-Th)	MCC v Middlesex	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB164	MCC won by 100 runs

9–11 June (M-W)	All-England v Surrey	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB165	Surrey won by 197 runs

18–20 June (W-F)	R Leigh v E G Morant	Oldfield Bray	SB165	Leigh's XI won by 89 runs

30 June - 2 July (M-W)	R Leigh v G Louch	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB166	Leigh's XI won by 132 runs

7–8 July (M-Tu)	Berkshire v MCC	Oldfield Bray	SB167	MCC won by 3 wkts

21–22 July (M-Tu)	E G Morant v R Leigh	Dartford Brent	SB168	Morant's XI won by 33 runs

23–24 July (W-Th)	T Walker v D Harris	Dartford Brent	SB169	Walker's XI won by 53 runs

29–30 July (Tu-W)	MCC v Berkshire	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB170	MCC won by 56 runs
In S&B and the ACS list, this game is called Earl of Winchilsea’s XI v E G Morant’s XI but it is clearly an MCC team hosting the Oldfield club of Berkshire, so it is called MCC v Berkshire here. Has been excluded from earlier classifications due to "weak teams". However, both sides consist of recognised players and it is a major fixture.
7-9, 11 Aug (Th-M)	MCC v All-England ^	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB172	MCC won by 59 runs

12-13 Aug (Tu-W)	MCC v Berkshire	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB174	Berkshire won by 7 runs

13-14 Aug (W-Th)	MCC v Berkshire	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB174	Berkshire won by 6 wkts
This game started as soon as previous one ended
19-20 Aug (Tu-W)	Hampshire v All-England ^	Stoke Down	SB173	All-England won by 6 wkts

21-23 Aug (Th-S)	Hampshire v All-England ^	Stoke Down	SB175	Hampshire won by 6 wkts
^ The All-England teams in these three games are variously described as amalgams of counties (e.g., Kent & Surrey) but they are really All-England teams. Interestingly, Sussex are not included in the amalgams but their best player John Hammond was in all three teams. ACS is inconsistent here, stating that one of the teams is All-England but the other two are amalgams.
27-30 Aug (W-S)	Berkshire v Kent	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB176	Berkshire won by 49 runs

10-13, 15 Sept (W-M)	All-England XIII v Surrey	Lord's (Dorset Square)	SB176	All-England won by 3 runs

16-19 Sept (Tu-F)	All-England XIII v Surrey	Dartford Brent	SB177	All-England won by 150 runs

First mentions

Counties

Shropshire

Clubs and teams

Players

John Lambert
Edward Winter
Briden (MCC cricketer)
James Beeston aka Tom Brown (Middlesex) – played 24 matches to 1808
Rice (Middlesex cricketer) aka James or A Smith (Middlesex; amateur) – played 13 matches to 1797
George Shepheard (Middlesex) – played ten matches to 1799
Wheeler (Middlesex cricketer) (Middlesex) – played ten matches to 1797
Gates (Berkshire cricketer) (Berkshire) – played eight matches to 1807
Rubegall (Middlesex cricketer) (Middlesex) – played six matches to 1798
R. Brandling (MCC; amateur) – played five matches to 1795
John Beldham (Surrey) – played three matches to 1795
John Burgess (cricketer) (Kent) – played two matches to 1795
J. Jackson (London) – played two matches to 1795
West (Berkshire cricketer) (Berkshire) – played two matches to 1794

Venues

Leading batsmen

Note that many scorecards in the 18th century are unknown or have missing details and so it is impossible to provide a complete analysis of batting performances: e.g., the missing not outs prevent computation of batting averages. The "runs scored" are in fact the runs known.

William Beldham scored 488 runs in 1794 to lead the batsmen

Other good performances were by Tom Walker with 462 runs; Joey Ring 417; Harry Walker 393; John Wells 379; Thomas Ray 299; Jack Small 282; Henry Tufton 251; John Hammond 230; William Fennex 225; Charles Anguish 215; Andrew Freemantle 193; George Louch 182

Leading bowlers

Note that the wickets credited to an 18th-century bowler were only those where he bowled the batsman out. The bowler was not credited with the wickets of batsmen who were caught out, even if it was "caught and bowled". In addition, the runs conceded by each bowler were not recorded so no analyses or averages can be computed.

Thomas Lord was the leading bowler in 1794 with 44 wickets, just ahead of Tom Walker with 42

Other good performances were by David Harris with 38; Thomas Boxall 31; Hampton 24; John Wells 21; William Fennex 19; William Beldham 17; Gates 17; Timber 17; Richard Purchase 14; John Hammond 13

Leading fielders

Note that many scorecards in the 18th century are unknown or have missing details and so the totals are of the known catches and stumpings only. Stumpings were not always recorded as such and sometimes the name of the wicket-keeper was not given. Generally, a catch was given the same status as "bowled" with credit being awarded to the fielder only and not the bowler. There is never a record of "caught and bowled": the bowler would be credited with the catch, not with the wicket.

John Hammond took 21 catches and made 8 stumpings to be the leading fielder in 1794, although the most catches were taken by William Beldham with 24, but he had no stumpings.

George Louch with 16 ct led the rest, including Harry Walker 15 ct; Thomas Ray 12 ct; John Wells 12 ct; and Tom Walker 11 ct

References

Bibliography

Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1924). Hambledon Cricket Chronicle 1772–1796. Jenkins.
Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.
Mote, Ashley (1997). The Glory Days of Cricket. Robson.
Nyren, John (1998). Ashley Mote, ed. The Cricketers of my Time. Robson.
Waghorn, H. T. (1906). The Dawn of Cricket. Electric Press.
Wilson, Martin (2005). An Index to Waghorn. Bodyline.

Additional reading

ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
Britcher, Samuel, A list of all the principal Matches of Cricket that have been played (1790 to 1805), annual series
Buckley, G. B. (1937). Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket. Cotterell.
McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.

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