Cricket
Events
- Inaugural Inter-Colonial Tournament takes place in the West Indies involving Barbados, British Guiana and Trinidad & Tobago.
England
- County Championship – Surrey
- Most runs – William Gunn 1336 @ 41.75 (HS 169)
- Most wickets – George Lohmann 177 @ 11.66 (BB 7–20)
- Wisden Five Great Bowlers – William Attewell, J T Hearne, Frederick Martin, Arthur Mold, John Sharpe
Australia
- Most runs – George Giffen 275 runs @ 91.66 (HS 237)
- Most wickets – Jim Phillips 25 wickets @ 10.00 (BB 7–20)
South Africa
- Currie Cup – Kimberley
West Indies
- Inter-Colonial Tournament – Barbados
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“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.”
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