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Top row<\/strong> \u2013 Unknown; Thomas Lord; Capt Cumberland; David Harris.
Middle row<\/strong> \u2013 Tom Walker; William Beldam; Unknown; Tom Lord (again).
Bottom Row<\/strong> \u2013 Col Lennox; Capt Bligh; Lord Frederick Beauclerk; Tufton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A huge number of players played in significant matches before 1800. Many of these of these are known by name only, but for others we have a wealth of biographical details. Here<\/a> is a partial listing of players who played the game before 1800. I unhesitatingly confess, it has been lifted from Wikipedia to whose contributors, I would like to express gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To provide an introduction to the main cricket-playing characters of the period, I have produced an Early Cricket Hall of Fame<\/a>. This is guided by personal choice informed by available sources of information which inevitably means of course, that to stand a chance of inclusion in this list, players need to have their deeds well-recorded, preferably in narrative as well as statistical form; this in turn means that Hambledon<\/a> players stand a much better chance of inclusion than anyone else – no less than thirteen of the players listed appeared for the club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the broad criteria I have worked with is that players need to have made a major known contribution to the game of cricket over a sustained period before 1800, albeit, I have also included certain individuals who have enjoyed fame for isolated incidents, non-playing contributions or as representatives of a group. The listing though is far from definitive and is open to expansion. If you wish to make a nomination, please get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top row \u2013 Unknown; Thomas Lord; Capt Cumberland; David Harris.Middle row \u2013 Tom Walker; William Beldam; Unknown; Tom Lord (again).Bottom Row \u2013 Col Lennox; Capt Bligh; Lord Frederick Beauclerk; Tufton. A huge number of players played in significant matches before 1800. Many of these of these are known by name only, but for others we have a wealth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1920","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PdOpLv-uY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5161,"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1920\/revisions\/5161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earlycricket.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}