List of Cambridge Town Club and Cambridgeshire cricketers

This is a list of cricketers who represented either Cambridge Town Club (CTC) or the original Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club from 1817 to 1871 when both were rated major cricket teams: i.e., classified as unofficial first-class teams by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians and other sources.[1][2] Included are those players who represented teams with the alternate titles of Cambridge Union Club (1826–33), Cambridge Townsmen (one match only in 1848) and the Cambridge Town and County Club (1844–56). All of these were temporary variations of CTC.[3] The town club was formed sometime before 1817 and eventually evolved into the original county club, which was formally established on 13 March 1844 but then folded in 1868, although a handful of Cambridgeshire matches were played until 1871.[4] Note that the modern county club, which plays in the Minor Counties Cricket Championship, was founded on 6 June 1891.[4] Cambridge University Cricket Club co-existed in its early years but was an entirely separate entity.

The details are the player's usual name followed by the years in which he was active as a Cambridge(shire) player and then his name is given as it appears on match scorecards (i.e., usually his surname preceded by all initials). Some players were also of the university and many players represented other teams outside Cambridgeshire. Six Cambridgeshire players were part of the combined Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire XI which played the combined Kent and Nottinghamshire XI in 1864.

Contents 

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C

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E

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References

  1. ↑ ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  2. ↑ ACS (1982). A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham: ACS.
  3. ↑ "Cambridge Town Club players". CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  4. 1 2 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1983 edition, p. 278.
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