average 5.40 per innings; and Tinley, 301 wickets, average 7.28 per innings.
The United All - England Eleven played 9 matches: won 3, lost 3, drawn 3.
Carpenter played 14 innings, and averaged 17.2; J. Thewlis played 14 innings, and averaged 16.5.
In bowling: G. Atkinson captured 61 wickets, average 5.1 per innings; J. Grundy, 48 wickets, average 5.3 per innings; G. Wootton, 35 wickets, average 4.3 per innings; Tarrant, 33 wickets, average 8.1 per innings.
The United South Eleven played 14 matches: won 4, lost 4, drawn 6.
Jupp and Humphrey were the most successful batsmen; Willsher and Jas. Lillywhite the most successful bowlers.
A marked improvement was witnessed in batting in the year 1866. Hardly a week passed without an individual innings of a hundred runs in an innings being recorded in some match or another; and before the season was at an end, 200 runs was exceeded four times. The averages reached a figure undreamt of a few years before, and the once-coveted double figure had become quite common. An aggregate of 1000 runs, which was at one time considered a very exceptional feat, was accomplished by eighteen batsmen, ten of them amateurs; many of the batsmen, however, played few or no first-class matches.
The All-England Eleven again showed excellent results: 30 matches played won, 15; lost, 6; tie, 1; drawn, 8. The United All-England played 22 won, 14; lost, 2; drawn, 6. The United South played 17 won, 4; lost, 7; drawn, 6.
In County Cricket, Surrey, Middlesex, Kent, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, and Lancashire were well represented: but Yorkshire was again a failure, only playing
