Cricket
Events
- William Lambert makes his debut in first-class cricket.
England
- Champion County – no inter-county matches held
- Most runs – Robert Robinson 141 (HS 55)
- Most wickets – Lord Frederick Beauclerk 13
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summers final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)