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1879 English cricket season

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1879 was the 93rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Lancashire claimed a share of the Champion County title for the first time.

The summer was the coolest and wettest over the two-and-a-half centuries of climatic records in England, and during the early part of the twentieth century exceptionally wet seasons such as 1903, 1912, 1924 and 1927 were very frequently compared to 1879.

Champion County

Lancashire, Nottinghamshire (shared)

Playing record (by county)

County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
Derbyshire	6	2	4	0
Gloucestershire	10	1	3	6
Kent	10	2	7	1
Lancashire	10	5	1	4
Middlesex	8	2	2	4
Nottinghamshire	12	5	1	6
Surrey	10	3	4	3
Sussex	4	1	2	1
Yorkshire	14	7	4	3

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1879 English season leading batsmen	Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s
WG Grace	Gloucestershire	18	28	3	880	123	35.20	2	5
A. N. Hornby	Lancashire
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)	17	22	2	606	64 not out	30.30	0	3
Alfred Lyttelton	Cambridge University
Middlesex	16	27	3	688	102	28.66	1	4
Allan Steel	Cambridge University
Lancashire	15	23	3	553	93	27.65	0	3
William Oscroft	Nottinghamshire	19	31	2	763	140	26.31	1	3

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1879 English season leading bowlers	Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets
in innings	10 wickets
in match
Arnold Rylott	Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)	1234	291	37	7.86	6/67	1	1
William Mycroft	Derbyshire
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)	3052	738	88	8.38	8/32	7	3
Alfred Shaw	Nottinghamshire
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)	6381	1277	133	9.60	8/21	13	3
Tom Emmett	Yorkshire	1901	622	63	9.87	7/54	6	1
James Lillywhite	Sussex	1098	229	23	9.95	8/43	1	1

Notable events

25 March: Formation of Leicestershire County Cricket Club.
For the last time to date, no batsman reached 1,000 runs for the season.

Labels

An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.

Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches

Notes

References

Bibliography

Annual reviews

John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1880
James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1880
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1880

References

"First-Class matches in England in 1772". CricketArchive.
Wisden. (1948). "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack". Sporting Handbooks Ltd.
[http://climexp.knmi.nl/plotseries.cgi?id=someone@somewhere&TYPE=t&WMO=cet&STATION=Central_England_Temperature&NAME=temperature&KIND=season Hadley Center Central England Temperature]
[http://climexp.knmi.nl//plotseries.cgi?id=someone@somewhere&TYPE=p&WMO=HadEWP_monthly_qc&STATION=England-Wales&NAME=precipitation&KIND=season Hadley Center England and Wales Precipitation]
Wynne-Thomas, Peter; ''The Rigby A-Z of Cricket Records''; p. 53 {{ISBN. 072701868X
[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/ENG/1879_f_Batting_by_Average.html First Class Batting in England in 1879]
[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/Seasonal_Averages/ENG/1879_f_Bowling_by_Average.html First Class Bowling in England in 1879]

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