Variations in published cricket statistics have come about because there is no official view of the status of cricket matches played in Great Britain prior to 1895 or in the rest of the world prior to
Broadhalfpenny Down, one of the venues at which the earliest known scorecards were compiled
Sammy Woods bowled the delivery that gave W. G. Grace his one hundredth first-class century
W. G. Grace takes guard in 1883, the year of two disputed matches for Gloucestershire v Somerset
Jack Hobbs (left) walks out to bat at the Sydney Cricket Ground with his opening partner Herbert Sutcliffe. Their career statistics are dependent on the status of matches they played in India in 1930-31.
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Gentlemen v Players was a long-running series of cricket matches that began in July 1806 and was abolished in January 1963. It was a match between a team consisting of amateurs and a team consisting o
Variations in published cricket statistics
…with MCC, Cambridge University, Oxford University, the main international touring teams and other teams designated as such by MCC (e.g., North v South, Gentlemen v Players, occasional XIs, etc). First-class cricket was formally defined by the then Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in May 1947 as a match of three or more…
The Gentlemen team at Lord's, 1899. Back row (l–r): Mordecai Sherwin (umpire), Bill Bradley, Archie MacLaren, Charlie Townsend, William West (umpire). Middle row (l–r): Gregor MacGregor, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, W. G. Grace (captain), Robert Poore. Front row (l–r): F. S. Jackson, C. B. Fry, Digby Jephson. Not in picture: Jack Mason.
W. G. Grace demonstrating forward defence