In the 1822 English cricket season, John Willes brought the roundarm issue to a head and sacrificed his own career in the process; the outstanding batsman James Saunders made his debut in first-class cricket.
Read more about 1822 English Cricket Season: Honours, Events, Debutants
Famous quotes containing the words english, cricket and/or season:
“The English winter—ending in July,
To recommence in August.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“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 (1891–1960)
“At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)