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| The first Canterbury Week began 1st June | 1842 |
| Lord Winterton's XI. beat 57 Labourers, 23rd August | 1846 |
| A swallow was killed by a ball bowled to the Earl of Winterton in | 1847 |
| The telegraph scoring-board was introduced at Lord's in | 1848 |
| The first match in which leg-byes were scored was at Sheffield, 17th September | 1849 |
| Double tie matches were played between | |
| Coleorton and Whitwick in | 1853 |
| Yardley Gobion and Castle Thorpe in | 1863 |
| Zingari and Cranbury Park in | 1864 |
| A batsman hit a ball on to the back of a man who was running for him, and was caught out by the wicket-keeper | 1854 |
| Mr. Fiennes was given out, in the I Zingari v. Royal Artillery match at Woolwich, for playing a ball into the folds of his pads, which the wicket-keeper secured | 1858 |
| Caffyn, in compiling his score of 124 for the U.E.E. v. John Walker's XVI., broke three bats | 1859 |
| Mr. H. Payne, for Chalcot v. Bow, batted first in both innings, and scored all the runs for his side (24 and 10), and was not out both times | 1859 |
| The first match of an English team in Canada was played 24th September | 1859 |
| The first match of an English team in Australia was played 1st January | 1862 |
| Following innings, if 80 runs behind, was introduced in | 1864 |
| The wind was so strong that the bails had to be dispensed with in the A.E.E. v. Twenty-two of Scarborough match in | 1864 |
| The first match of an Aboriginal Eleven in England was v. Surrey Gentlemen, 25th May | 1868 |
| Swallows flitting across the wicket stopped the Gloucester-shire v. Nottinghamshire match for a short time, at Trent Bridge, in | 1875 |
| The first match of an Australian Eleven in England was v. Notts, 20th May | 1878 |
| Jas. Lillywhite played in every Sussex County Match from | 1862 to 1881 |
| The largest gate at an English First-class Match was in the Surrey v. Notts match, at the Oval, when 24,450 paid for admission; and the total for the three days was 51,607, exclusive of members, August | 1887 |
