The 1886 English cricket season saw the temporary relegation of both Hampshire and Somerset from first-class status. It also saw England beat Australia three-nil in the Ashes series for the only time to date.
Read more about 1886 English Cricket Season: Leading Batsmen (qualification 20 Innings), Leading Bowlers (qualification 1,000 Balls), Australian Tour, Events
Famous quotes containing the words english, cricket and/or season:
“The two most beautiful words in the English language are “check enclosed.””
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“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)
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows,
But like of each thing that in season grows.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)