1859 English cricket season

The 1859 English cricket season saw one of the sport's most remarkable all-round performances by V E Walker.

First-class matches

1859 match list

Events

1 March. Formation of the present Kent CCC.
21 to 23 July. V E Walker of Middlesex, playing for England versus Surrey at The Oval, took all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and followed by scoring 108 in the England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first (20*). He took a further four wickets in Surrey’s second innings. England won by 392 runs.

The first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer; middle row John Wisden, HH Stephenson, George Parr, James Grundy, Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward, John Jackson; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite.

7 September. Departure of cricket’s first-ever touring team. A famous photograph was taken on board ship before they sailed from Liverpool. The team of English professionals went to North America and played five matches, winning them all. There were no first-class fixtures. The 12-man squad was:

George Parr (captain)

John Jackson (all of Nottinghamshire);

Robert Carpenter

Thomas Hayward (all of Cambridgeshire);

HH Stephenson (all of Surrey);

John Lillywhite

John Wisden (both of Sussex)

See also : English cricket team in North America in 1859

Leading batsmen

James Grundy was the leading runscorer with 530 @ 17.09

Other leading batsmen were: FP Miller, Tom Lockyer, V E Walker, John Lillywhite, William Caffyn, John Wisden, JH Hale, Thomas Hayward, HH Stephenson

Leading bowlers

John Jackson was the leading wicket-taker with 83

Other leading bowlers were: V E Walker, Edgar Willsher, William Caffyn, James Grundy, HH Stephenson, John Wisden

References

Annual reviews

Fred Lillywhite, The Guide to Cricketers, Lillywhite, 1860
Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 6 (1858-1860), Lillywhite, 1862

Further reading

H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
John Major, More Than A Game, HarperCollins, 2007

External links

CricketArchive – season summaries

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