FIRST GAME OF CRICKET
The first grand match of cricket was played by members of the Royal Amateur Society at Hampton Court Green, August 3, 1836
The game of cricket has a known history in the late 16th century. After originating in southeast England, it became the country's national sport in the 18th century and developed globally in the 19th and 20th centuries. International matches have been played since 1844 and Test cricket began, retrospectively, in 1877. Cricket is the second most popular spectator sport in the world after football (football). Governance is with International Cricket Council (ICC), which has more than one hundred countries and regions in its membership although only twelve currently play Test cricket.
The first international cricket match was played in 1844 between the United States and Canada. The match was played on 24 and 26 September 1844 at the grounds of St. George's Cricket Club in New York. In this match, the Canadian team won by 23 runs. The game was watched by around 10,000 to 20,000 spectators and placed around $ 1,20,000.
Detailed description of first international cricket match
In this match, the US team won the toss and decided to field first. The Canadian team had scored 82 runs losing all wickets in the first innings. For Canada, Winkworth, Sharp and Freeling had scored the most 12-12 runs, while American bowler Sam Wright took 5 wickets.
By the end of the first day's play, the US team had scored 61 runs in their first innings at the loss of 9 wickets. Due to bad weather on the second day the game could not be held and the match was postponed till the third day. On the third day, America's first innings ended on 64 runs. Robert Tinson scored 14 runs for the United States, while Winkworth and French took the most 4-4 wickets for Canada.
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Second innings of the match.
Canada had scored 63 runs in their second innings, losing all wickets. Winkworth had scored the highest 14 runs for Canada, while Henry Groom took 5 wickets from the US side. Thus, America had to score 82 runs to win the match, but the entire team of America was dismissed for 58 runs, and Canada won the match by 23 runs. J.J. in second innings from America Turner had scored the most 14 runs, while for Canada, George Sharp took 6 wickets.
Interesting information:
1. When the third day of play started in this match, the players of America were unable to reach the ground at the appointed time. Therefore, Alfred Marsh fielding in his place, but he did not bat.
2. Umpires of this match J.H. Kunli, H. Russell, and R. Was
The first official match was held on 15 March 1877 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between England and Australia. The match was won by the then emerging Australian team by defeating the old British men by 45 runs. At the same time, the special thing of the match was that there was no set deadline for it. Both teams had to play two innings, no matter how many days it took.
In this Test match held in Melbourne, James Lillywhite was captained for England. At the same time, the Australian team was captained by Dave Gregory. In this match, Australia won the toss and batted first and opener Charles Bannerman played a brilliant 165-run innings and became the first batsman in the world to score a century in Test cricket.
In the first innings, no batsman other than Bannerman could score more than 20 runs for Australia. Australia scored 245 runs in the first innings. In response, the England team was dismissed for only 196 runs. For England, opener Harry Joop scored 63 runs, Harry Charlwood 36 runs, Alan Hill scored 35 runs.
Australia's second innings was very bad, the whole team was reduced to only 104 runs. Only Tom Harron could score the maximum 20 runs. England got a target of 154 runs to win in the second innings, but the England team could not achieve this target and was dismissed for 108 in the second innings and Australia won this historic Test match by 45 runs.
The result of this match was released on the fourth day. At that time rest day was kept for one day. In this way, the result of the match came in favor of Australia on March 19, after Rest Day on 18 March.
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