1816 English cricket season
1816 was the 30th season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club. Manchester Cricket Club was founded and became the forerunner of Lancashire County Cricket Club. Details of eight matches are known.
Events
- The 1816 season saw the formation of the Manchester Cricket Club which took part in a number of major matches until Lancashire CCC was established in 1864. Manchester was representative of Lancashire as a county in the same way that Sheffield Cricket Club and Nottingham Cricket Club represented Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
- The issue of roundarm bowling was already controversial enough in 1816 for Marylebone Cricket Club to amend the Laws of Cricket to prohibit it:
- With cricket recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, a total of eight matches were recorded in 1816:
- * 10–11 June — Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 17–19 June — E H Budd's XI v G Osbaldeston's XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 24–25 June — Marylebone Cricket Club v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 3–6 July — England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 29 July–2 August — Sussex v Epsom @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 5–6 August — Gentlemen of England v Old Etonians @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 14–16 August — Marylebone Cricket Club v Middlesex @ Lord's Cricket Ground
- * 21–23 August — Epsom v Hampshire @ Epsom Down