1868 was the 82nd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). It featured the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas, being an all-Aboriginal cricket team.
County | Played | Won | Lost | Tied | Drawn |
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Cambridgeshire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Kent | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Lancashire | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Middlesex | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Nottinghamshire | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Surrey | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
Sussex | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Yorkshire | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Owing to an exceptionally hot and dry summer, and the absence of the forthcoming revolution of the heavy roller,[1] 1868 was to be the last season in which every county match was finished outright. [2]
1868 English season leading batsmen[3] | |||||||||
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Name | Team | Matches | Innings | Not outs | Runs | Highest score | Average | 100s | 50s |
W. G. Grace | Gentlemen South of England |
7 | 11 | 2 | 588 | 134 not out | 65.33 | 3 | 2 |
Isaac Walker | MCC Middlesex |
13 | 24 | 5 | 661 | 165 | 34.78 | 1 | 3 |
James Lillywhite | Sussex | 13 | 24 | 6 | 631 | 126 not out | 30.04 | 1 | 4 |
Henry Richardson | Cambridge University Kent Middlesex |
10 | 16 | 1 | 431 | 143 | 28.73 | 1 | 3 |
George Savile | Cambridge University Yorkshire |
7 | 11 | 0 | 294 | 105 | 26.72 | 1 | 2 |
1868 English season leading bowlers[4] | ||||||||
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Name | Team | Balls bowled | Runs conceded | Wickets taken | Average | Best bowling | 5 wickets in innings |
10 wickets in match |
Thomas Hearne | MCC Middlesex |
957 | 279 | 33 | 8.45 | 5/20 | 1 | 0 |
Tom Emmett | Yorkshire | 1628 | 528 | 60 | 8.80 | 9/34 | 5 | 1 |
George Freeman | Yorkshire | 1560 | 454 | 46 | 9.86 | 8/11 | 6 | 2 |
Edgar Willsher | Kent | 3999 | 1128 | 113 | 9.98 | 7/44 | 12 | 6 |
George Howitt | Middlesex Nottinghamshire |
2262 | 734 | 71 | 10.33 | 6/17 | 6 | 2 |
a Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.