Cricket Matches in 1812
| start date | venue | game type | days | |||||||
| Wisbech Club | Twenty-Two of Newton, Leverington, Murrow and Parson Drove | ? | other | 1 | ||||||
| Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website) | ||||||||||
| 1st May | Elgar, Aylward and Luke | Smith, Langridge and Dewdney | New Cricket Ground, Ramsgate | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History, Single-Wicket match list; Kentish Chronicle, 28 Apr. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 4th May | Madras Native Infantry 14th Regiment (Salatiga Division) | Madras Native Infantry 14th Regiment (Boyalali Division) | Race Course, Tajoo, Java, Indonesia | other | 2 | |||||
| Madras Courier, 29 Jul. 1812 (supplement); 'Boyalallie' | ||||||||||
| 8th Jun | Isle of Thanet Club | Canterbury Club | Ramsgate | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 5 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 8th Jun | Ramsgate Club | Canterbury | New Cricket Ground, Ramsgate | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 5 Jun. 1812; 12 Jun. 1812; Kentish Gazette, 12 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 8th Jun | Southsea | Portsmouth | Southsea Common | other | 1 | |||||
| Hampshire Telegraph, 15 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 8th Jun | Yarnton Married | Yarnton Youths | Yarnton | other | 1 | |||||
| Oxford Herald, 13 Jun. 1812; Side A 'eleven old married men' | ||||||||||
| 10th Jun | Hythe and Neighbourhood | Dover | The Grove, Hythe | other | 1 | scorecard (CA) | ||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 16 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 15th Jun | Lord F Beauclerk's XI | G Osbaldeston's XI | Lord's New Middle Ground, St. John's Wood | fc | 3 | scorecard (CA) | ||||
| S&B, page 366; Bentley | ||||||||||
| 22nd Jun | Canterbury | Ramsgate Club | Mr Wild's Field, near Canterbury | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 12 Jun. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 22nd Jun | Cowley | Oxford | Bullingdon Green | other | 1 | |||||
| Buckley, Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket, page 65 | ||||||||||
| 24th Jun | G and C Snoad, and James Kennard | Reckham, John White and John Strickland | Snargate | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History, Single-Wicket match list; Kentish Chronicle, 19 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 25th Jun | Sussex Weald | Sussex Coast | Highdown Hill, near Worthing | other | 3 | |||||
| S&B, page 366-367; Bentley; Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 15 Jun. 1812; 22 Jun. 1812; 6 Jul. 1812; Away team 'gentlemen of the Sea Coast' | ||||||||||
| 30th Jun | Waldron | Hawkhurst | Waldron | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 22 Jun. 1812 | ||||||||||
| Jul | Angmering | Patcham, Clapham, Durrington, Goring and Angmering | (unknown) | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 27 Jul. 1812; Played a 'few days since'; Side A 'inmates of three houses at Angmering' | ||||||||||
| Jul | Chichester | George Club, Portsea | (unknown) | other | 1 | |||||
| Buckley, Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket, page 65 | ||||||||||
| Jul | Eastry | Ramsgate | Eastry | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 28 Jul. 1812; Played 'lately' | ||||||||||
| 6th Jul | Winchester | Bourne | Twyford Down | other | 1 | |||||
| Hampshire Chronicle, 13 Jul. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 10th Jul | (unknown) | (unknown) | Kennington Common | other | 1 | |||||
| Sun [London], 13 Jul. 1812; Passer-by killed by 'a cricket ball, several yards from the bat' | ||||||||||
| 14th Jul | Eton College | Rickmansworth | Shooting Fields, Eton College | other | 1 | |||||
| Morning Chronicle, 20 Jul. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 16th Jul | Yeomanry Cavalry Married | Yeomanry Cavalry Single | Houndean Bottom | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 13 Jul. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 23rd Jul | Isle of Thanet Club | Eastry | New Cricket Ground, Ramsgate | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 21 Jul. 1812; Kentish Gazette, 21 Jul. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 24th Jul | Eton College Tutors | St. John's Club | Shooting Fields, Eton College | other | 2 | |||||
| St. James's Chronicle, 28 Jul. 1812; Globe [London], 28 Jul. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 24th Jul | March | Manea | March | other | 1 | |||||
| Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website) | ||||||||||
| 28th Jul | Preston Candover | Winchester | Preston Candover | other | 2 | |||||
| Hampshire Chronicle, 3 Aug. 1812; return jmatch | ||||||||||
| 31st Jul | Manea | March | Manea | other | 1 | |||||
| Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website); return match | ||||||||||
| 3rd Aug | Beaulieu | The Paynes | Beaulieu | other | 1 | |||||
| Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 10 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 4th Aug | Slingsby Club | Malton Club | Langton Wold | other | 1 | |||||
| Bucklet, Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket page 66; York Herald, 8 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 6th Aug | Henry Belsey | Two of Ramsgate and one other | Shepherdswell | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History Single-Wicket match list; Kentish Gazette, 4 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 6th Aug | Rochdale Club | Liverpool Club | Newton Race Ground, Newton | other | 1 | |||||
| Buckley, Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket, page 66; Manchester Mercury, 25 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 7th Aug | Leighton Buzzard | Dunstable | Leighton Buzzard | other | 1 | |||||
| Northampton Mercury, 1 Aug. 1812; 15 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 8th Aug | Biddenden | Aldington Club | Biddenden | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 14 Aug. 1812; 18 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 10th Aug | Cambridge | Saffron Walden | Cambridge | other | 1 | |||||
| Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug. 1812; Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website) | ||||||||||
| 11th Aug | Walmer Castle Inn | Black Horse Inn, Deal | Walmer Salts | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 14 Aug. 1812; 18 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 11th Aug | Winchester | Newton Valence and Farringdon | Tichborne Down | other | 1 | |||||
| Hampshire Chronicle, 17 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 14th Aug | Dunstable | Leighton Buzzard | ? Dunstable | other | 1 | |||||
| Northampton Mercury, 15 Aug. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 15th Aug | Canterbury Club | Elmsted, Wye, Petham and Waltham | Mr Wild's Field, near Canterbury | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 14 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 15th Aug | Canterbury Club | Elmsted Club | Mr Wild's Field, near Canterbury | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette. 18 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 17th Aug | East Sussex | Wadhurst | Bodiam | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 24 Aug. 1812; 'Eastern part of [Sussex]' | ||||||||||
| 17th Aug | Saffron Walden | Cambridge | Walden Heath | other | 1 | |||||
| Morning Chronicle, 20 Aug. 1812; Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website); return match | ||||||||||
| 19th Aug | (unknown) | (unknown) | Burley on the Hill | other | 1 | |||||
| The Globe [London], 22 Aug. 1812; 'a grand cricket match' | ||||||||||
| 19th Aug | Aldington Club | Biddenden | Aldington Frith | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 14 Aug. 1812; Kentish Gazette, 28 Aug. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 19th Aug | Cliffe | Brighton | Cliffe Hill | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 24 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 19th Aug | Oakham Etonians | Burley Harrovians | Burley on the Hill | other | 1 | |||||
| Stamford Mercury, 21 Aug. 1812; Teams named as 'Eton & Oakham' and 'Harrow & Burley' | ||||||||||
| 24th Aug | Hythe | Richards Yard Shipwrights | Hythe | other | 1 | |||||
| Hampshire Telegraph, 24 Aug. 1812; 'eleven Shipwrights of Mr. Richards' yard' | ||||||||||
| 24th Aug | Leverington | Parson Drove | Leverington | other | 1 | |||||
| Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website) | ||||||||||
| 25th Aug | Wadhurst | East Sussex | Wadhurst | other | 1 | |||||
| Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 24 Aug. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 27th Aug | Hambledon Club | Winchester and Neighbourhood | Windmill Down, Hambledon | other | 2 | |||||
| Hampshire Chronicle, 31 Aug. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 28th Aug | Parson Drove | Leverington | Parson Drove | other | 1 | |||||
| Willie Sugg, A history of Cambridgeshire cricket 1700-1890 (website); return match | ||||||||||
| 31st Aug | Biddenden | Kent and Sussex | Biddenden | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 1 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 31st Aug | Lord F Beauclerk's XI | General Bligh's XI | Ramsgate | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 1 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 1st Sep | Oxford Loyal Volunteers No. 2 Company | Oxford Loyal Volunteers No. 6 Company | Bullingdon Green | other | 1 | |||||
| Oxford Herald, 5 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 2nd Sep | Duke of Bedford's Household | Woburn | Woburn Park | other | 1 | |||||
| Northampton Mercury, 5 Sep. 1812; 'Lord Wm. Russell, and ten of the Duke of Bedford's servants' v 'eleven from…Woburn, chiefly tenants and tradesmen to the Duke' | ||||||||||
| 7th Sep | Bungay Club and Beccles Club | Norwich First Club | Bungay | other | 1 | |||||
| Norfolk Chronicle, 12 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 7th Sep | Canterbury Club | East Kent | Mr Wild's Field, near Canterbury | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 8 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 7th Sep | Windsor Club with Three of Eton | Sunninghill and Warfield | Eton Brockhurst | other | 1 | |||||
| Windsor and Eton Express, 12 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 8th Sep | Oxford Loyal Volunteers Regiment | Oxford Loyal Volunteers Non-Commissioned Officers | Bullingdon Green | other | 1 | |||||
| Oxford Herald, 12 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 9th Sep | East Kent | West Kent | Penenden Heath | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 8 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 15th Sep | Dover Single | River Single | ? Dover | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 18 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 16th Sep | Sunninghill and Warfield | Windsor Club with Three of Eton | Ascot Heath | other | 1 | |||||
| Windsor and Eton Express, 12 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 18th Sep | Three of Tenterden | Five of Appledore | Tenterden | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History, Single-Wicket match list; Kentish Chronicle, 15 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 18th Sep | William Selless | Eleven Captains of Ships | Rochester | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History Single-Wicket match list; Kentish Gazette, 22 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 21st Sep | Deal Club | Isle of Thanet Club | Ramsgate | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 18 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 21st Sep | Stoke and Wexham | Colnbrook and Langley | Stoke Green | other | 1 | |||||
| Windsor and Eton Express, 19 Sep. 1812; 26 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 21st Sep | Warehorne Club | Ashford | Warehorne | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 29 Sep. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 24th Sep | Eastry Club | East Kent | Barham Downs | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 22 Sep. 1812; 2 Oct. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 28th Sep | Deal Club | Ramsgate Club | Walmer | other | 1 | |||||
| St. James's Chronicle, 1 Oct. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 29th Sep | River Single | Dover Single | River | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Gazette, 18 Sep. 1812; return match | ||||||||||
| 30th Sep | Bray and Shaw | T Cooper and Vigor | Buxted | sw | 1 | |||||
| Cricket History, Single-Wicket match list; Sussex Weekly Advertiser, 5 Oct. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 5th Oct | Bishop's Stoke and Twyford | Butler's Wood Club | Ampfield Common | other | 1 | |||||
| Hampshire Chronicle, 12 Oct. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 9th Oct | Kingsnorth Farmers | Kingsnorth Tradesmen | Kingsnorth | other | 1 | |||||
| Kentish Chronicle, 12 Oct. 1812 | ||||||||||
| 3rd Nov | Slingsby | Husthwaite | Yearsley | other | 1 | |||||
| York Herald, 21 Nov. 1812 | ||||||||||
Total of 72 matches
game type notes:
fc - first-class
sw - single wicket
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