Cricket
Events
- 15–19 March — Australia v. England at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will afterwards be recognised as the first-ever Test Match. Australia win by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman scoring 165*: the first Test century. William Midwinter, with 5–78 in England's first innings, is the first bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings.
- 31 March to 4 April — Australia v. England in the Second Test, also at the MCG. England win by 4 wickets.
- 10 & 12 November — South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide Oval is the earliest first-class match played by South Australia who win by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen.
England
- Champion County – Gloucestershire
- Most runs – W G Grace 1474 @ 39.83 (HS 261)
- Most wickets – W G Grace 179 @ 12.81 (BB 9–55)
Australia
- Most runs – Charles Bannerman (HS 165*) and George Ulyett (HS 94) scored 243 runs each @ 48.60
- Most wickets – Alfred Shaw 17 wickets @ 11.76 (BB 5–19)
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Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s 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 (1891–1960)