Great Cricket Matches 1772-1800: The Players and The Records

TEAM RECORDS HIGHEST INNINGS TOTALS 453 Surrey and Sussex v England (Lord’s) 1793 403 Hampshire v England (Sevenoaks Vine) 1777 355 Hampshire v Surrey (Broad Halfpenny Down) 1775 317 Surrey v England (Lord’s, 2nd match) 1799 307 Hampshire v England (Broad Halfpenny Down) 1774 306 MCC v Middlesex (Lord’s) 1792 LOWEST INNINGS TOTALS 21 Hampshire and MCC v Brighton (Brighton) 1792 24 Mann’s XI v Darnley’s XI (Dandelion Paddock) 1795 24 West Kent v East Kent (Coxheath, 2nd match) 1789 25 MCC v Middlesex (Lord’s) 1798 27 Hampshire v Kent (Windmill Down) 1789 28 MCC v Middlesex (Lord’s, 2nd match) 1795 31 Hampshire v Kent (Sevenoaks Vine) 1775 31 Surrey v England (Lord’s) 1800 HIGHEST FOURTH INNINGS TOTALS All out (defeats) 204 Kent lost to Hampshire by 152 runs (Molesey Hurst) 1776 201 England lost to Surrey and MCC by 15 runs (Lord’s) 1795 197 England lost to Surrey by 197 runs (Lord’s) 1794 183 Hampshire lost to Kent by 34 runs (Broad Halfpenny Down) 1781 Others (wins) 197/6 Yarmouth’s XI v Whitehead’s XI (Lord’s) 1799 162/8 Hampshire v England (Molesey Hurst) 1779 Note also (wins) 131/1 Brighton v MCC (Lord’s) 1792 128/2 Hampshire v Kent (Stoke Down) 1781 HIGHEST MATCH AGGREGATES In which all 40 wickets fell 794 Kent v White Conduit Club (Bourne Paddock) 1786 772 Hampshire v Kent (Broad Halfpenny Down) 1781 724 MCC v Middlesex (Lord’s, 1st match) 1792 713 England v Surrey (Lord’s, 2nd match) 1797 Other significant high aggregates 701/35 Surrey v Hampshire (Molesey Hurst) 1789 695/36 Winchilsea’s XI v Yarmouth’s XI (Lord’s) 1799 681/34 MCC v Middlesex (Lord’s, 2nd match) 1791 LOWEST MATCH AGGREGATES In which all 40 wickets fell 208 Hampshire v Kent (Windmill Down) 1789 227 Newman’s XI v Leigh’s XI (Navestock) 1793 242 Gibbons’ XI v Whitehead’s XI (Lord’s) 1800 255 Middlesex v Kent (Lord’s, 1st match) 1796 293 Leigh’s XI v Morant’s XI (Dartford Brent) 1794 299 Smith’s XI v Winchilsea’s XI (Perham Down) 1787 Other significant low aggregates (below 240) 144/20 Middlesex v Brighton (Lord’s) 1792 174/33 West Kent v East Kent (Coxheath, 2nd match) 1789 177/31 Kent v MCC (Dartford Brent, 1st match) 1793 33