Variations in published cricket statistics

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that was employed through the 20th century to the present. Many early cards gave no details of dismissal. Where dismissal was recorded, it was limited to the primary mode and so a fielder would be credited with a catch but the bowler would not be credited with the wicket unless he bowled out the batsman. MCC finally responded to the problem in 1836 when they decided to include in their own scorecards (i.e., for matches played at Lord's) the addition of bowlers' names when the dismissal was caught, stumped, lbw or hit wicket. Haygarth comments that "this was a vast improvement in recording the game and but justice to the bowler". As a result, scorecards became more detailed through the second half of the 19th century but reliability remained a problem and different versions continued to appear. It was some time before the MCC scorecard standard was adopted throughout the country and the inclusion of bowling analyses "was not introduced until several years afterwards".

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regarded, at the time it was played, as first-class and until a little while ago had been left in undisputed possession of that rank, the need for raising any question about the matter after more than twenty years is not at all obvious. In any circumstances, I should not advise the dragging up of what, with all due respect to the recent ruling of the South African Board, must remain a debatable matter. The Reef team included some Test match players and others who had appeared in Inter-State games so it certainly had considerable claims to be regarded as first-class and from that standing, I cannot, all things considered, agree after such a long lapse of time to reduce it. Outside the merits of the case, is there not something rather grotesque in the idea of a controlling body sitting in solemn conclave over so small a matter and deciding to upset what had been accepted for twenty years?

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totals played before 1864 (Webber's main reason for adopting that date), and so his startpoint was not really an issue in that context. It does, however, exclude numerous leading players and it impacts other cricket records: if first-class cricket did not begin until 1864, then legendary cricketers like

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A key point is that Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket, but is a different form of competition within the concept to, say, the County Championship or the Ranji Trophy. Although several international matches had taken place before 1890, it was not until then that the term "Test cricket" was

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Another dubious match in 1873 is the one between an amateur team made up of those who had toured Canada and the USA in August and September 1872 and an XV of the MCC. Odds matches are not usually regarded as first-class, but there are exceptions, including two England v XIII of Kent matches played in

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W. G. Grace began his senior career in 1865 and continued through a record-equalling 44 seasons to 1908. There is general agreement about the status of his matches after the 1895 watershed, but a measure of disagreement about the status of some of his earlier matches. Grace's "original" career totals

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The issue with using any cut-off date as a startpoint is that it excludes everything before that date, despite cricket's history making clear that there has been a continuous standard of top-class cricket in England since the late 17th century. It is true that none of the cricketers with large career

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From 1996, the ACS produced a further series of booklets giving complete scorecards of matches from 1801 that it now considered first-class. The ACS gave in its journal a number of reasons for taking its startpoint back from 1864 to 1801, among them an agreement with Frindall's view that the standard

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Hobbs himself did not consider these matches to be first-class: "'Don't include those,' he told the late John Arlott.' They were exhibition matches. Vizzy wanted to list our hundreds on the walls of his pavilion. We knew we'd got to score hundreds - so did the bowling side. They were not first-class

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fixtures that began in 1806. It chose 1801 as a date of convenience, and thereby set up a division between the 18th and 19th centuries, which was contested by several people (including many ACS members) who recognised 1772 as the startpoint given the availability of data in surviving scorecards from

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and, in his introduction, expressed the view that "first-class records should commence in 1864". A number of sources have agreed with this date. Webber then commenced a review of 19th century matches and later published his version of Grace's career record, declaring that Ashley-Cooper had allocated

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It was inevitable that historians and statisticians would seek to apply unofficial first-class status retrospectively, despite the ICC and MCC's directives. The position is that each writer must compile their own list based on personal opinion: as a result, significant differences may be observed in

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Then, having included the three 1873 matches, Ashley-Cooper did the same for two similar matches in the 1872 season: Hertfordshire v MCC and another North v. South filler on 27 July. This is difficult to justify, since these matches were not included in Grace's first-class totals that appear in the

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One aspect of Ashley-Cooper's analysis that must be questioned is his assertion that the performances of Grace in a certain match should be regarded as first-class but that performances by other players should not. Clearly, if a match is first-class, then all players taking part must have the match

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brought out a wine glass for Hobbs to enjoy a celebratory drink (as he was a teetotaler, it is reputed that the glass contained only ginger ale). As Hobbs had been near to his century the previous evening, the press were present in large numbers. They departed with their stories and on the next day

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At the time, it was widely if not universally accepted that Grace's list of centuries included a score of 152 in 1873 for the Gentlemen to Canada Touring Team v XV of MCC, and a score of 113 in 1879 for Gloucestershire v Somerset. Later statisticians have challenged the status of these two matches,

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The fire at Lord's occurred on the night of 28 July 1825, when the pavilion burned down and many invaluable and irreplaceable records were lost. It is believed that these included unique scorecards of early matches. The main difficulty encountered by researchers is the absence of match details from

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The absence of any ruling about matches played prior to 1947 (or prior to 1895 in Great Britain) has caused problems for cricket historians and especially statisticians. Matches that are believed to have met the official definitions, assuming they featured teams of the necessary high standard, have

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Although the variations in career totals are most significant in the cases of Grace and Hobbs, there are differences for many other players too. Clearly the inclusion or exclusion of matches noted above affects the totals of all cricketers playing in these matches and there are other matches where

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It is worth noting that until publication of the ACS lists in the 1970s, Somerset's own publications had treated the club as first-class dating from its entry into the County Championship in 1891. Since the ACS published its lists, Somerset's publications have included the matches between 1882 and

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The above figures, which have been checked most carefully throughout, will be found to differ in several instances from those given in the cricket publications of the sixties and seventies; but, considering that the handbooks of that period frequently contradicted each other, and that the averages

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In saying that, Haygarth has recognised the essence of the problem when there is no standard means of scoring and no centralised control over the system of capturing and storing the data. Scoring systems in the 18th century and most of the 19th century had nothing like the consistency of standard

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This demonstrates that even after 1896, the career figures were sufficiently uncertain that he revised the list of first-class matches. It would have been difficult for Ashley-Cooper to include and exclude matches in which Grace scored a century, but clearly the career run total was sufficiently

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Given that he was near the end of his career in 1930-31, his centuries total is subject to variation from this time only, when he had already scored over 170 centuries. Therefore, the date of his 100th century is uncontested, while the date on which he passed Grace's record of centuries is only

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bowled a slow full toss, perhaps deliberately, which W. G. Grace dispatched to the boundary. Woods walked down the pitch and shook hands with the great man who had just completed his hundredth hundred, a century of centuries. It was an occasion for celebration: poems were written, commemorative

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to the effect that, in the opinion of that body, the contest between the MCC team and The Reef at Vogelfontein on 22 and 23 December 1909, was not a first-class match. In the course of this encounter Hobbs scored 70 runs which are counted in his first-class aggregate. Seeing that the game was

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totals are 50,980 runs conceded and 2809 wickets taken for an average of 18.15. Many of the differences are because of the exclusion of the 10 matches listed above, in which he took 67 wickets (including all 12 of the wickets taken in innings where the runs conceded are not known). There are,

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reorganised its classification of first-class matches to commence with the 1772 season. The handful of earlier scorecards, including the two in 1744, are arguably too isolated for inclusion: in this sense, the "statistical record" is divorced from the "historical record" which includes all

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A greater problem surfaced after 1890 with the establishment of the County Championship because, as described above, this gave rise in 1895 to the concept of first-class cricket and so, for the first time, there was a perceived higher standard based on organisation of games in an official

1165:'s team and the match-making sagacity of the Club Committee, but when the lists came out, not a few intending spectators of the contest made up their minds for a disappointment. There really did not appear on the side of the fifteen 'metal' enough to encourage the hope of a good fight 155:. Haygarth often mentions in his match summaries that another version exists of the scorecard he has reproduced. Sometimes he outlines the differences which range from players' names to runs scored and even to apparent discrepancies in innings totals or match results. 483:(with Wells and Lawrell), when The Bs were dismissed for 6 in their second innings; that match is not regarded as first-class by those statisticians who still use 1815 or 1864 as their statistical startpoint. The real significance of 1864 was the legalisation of 812:, Hobbs' opening partner, was in no hurry: Hobbs reached his 127th century with the winning runs to break Grace's record and give Surrey victory by 10 wickets. Such was the unexpected nature of Somerset's recovery that only a small crowd was there to celebrate. 1226:

Grace's scores against Somerset in 1883 are included in his first-class totals in "Green Lilly" and "Red Lilly", and similarly his scores in 1885 are included in "Red Lilly" first-class totals, "Green Lilly" having ceased publication by that time.

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The match on 26 July was in fact a one-day filler that was played because the scheduled three-day North v. South match had finished a day early on 25 July: it is questionable if fillers have ever been regarded as major or first-class matches.

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18th century records because of "missing or incomplete scorecards". But it is by no means certain that there is a complete statistical record of matches between 1801 and 1825 either, especially given the loss of records in the catastrophic

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One of the problems here is that statisticians have tended not to publish their match lists with their findings: it should, however, be noted that the number of differences is extremely small in terms of the sport's overall statistics.

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there is disagreement regarding their first-class status. As described above, the sport's early scorecards often show differences in match details which lead to different totals. This is more common with bowling and fielding figures.

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editions, he favoured 1815 as the starting point for "proper" first-class cricket, though he conceded that there is a reasonable case for several other years, particularly Webber's 1864. Frindall thus included the entire

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The problem of different versions is as old as cricket scorecards themselves. The earliest known scorecards are dated 1744 but very few were created (or have survived) between 1744 and 1772 when they became habitual.

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Grace's 1873 first-class aggregate was originally published in the 1874 edition of "Green Lilly" which includes the matches quoted in Grace's batting totals, but not in his bowling totals. In the 1916 obituary in

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significant matches, dating from 1697, for which no scorecard has survived. Contrary to Bowen's view, there is now a general accord, apart from a few matters of detail, in terms of statistical first-class status.

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matches played in Great Britain prior to 1895 or in the rest of the world prior to 1947. As a result, historians and statisticians have compiled differing lists of matches that they recognise as (unofficially)

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The inclusion of those wickets increased Grace's 1873 season bowling total to over 100 wickets, meaning Ashley-Cooper had thereby manufactured the first-ever instance of a player performing the double. In all

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Between this 1896 article and the 1916 obituary, Ashley-Cooper omits three matches played by Grace for the South Wales Cricket Club during its tour of the London area in the latter half of July 1865:

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The 1873 games typify the loose manner in which statistics were compiled in those days. Grace's first-class batting aggregate for that season included his scores in the MCC matches against

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Vizzy) determined to organise his own tour which included many of India's principal players. In addition, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe were engaged. The matches were not reported in

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has Somerset as first-class between 1882 and 1885 but not before then. Thus, Ashley-Cooper chose to retrospectively classify the 1879 and 1881 Somerset matches as first-class, while

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Test cricket officially began in March 1877, but the term was applied retrospectively to the early matches, and there have also been instances of retrospective recognition since.

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did not regard Somerset as first-class in 1881. For the 1882 season, both "Green Lilly" and "Red Lilly" include Grace's performance against Somerset in his first-class figures and

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fire. Certainly, there are no complete bowling figures in that period, or until 1836, and the surviving scorecards are similar in standard and content to 18th century scorecards.

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of 17.99. For some unknown reason, the modern publications using these totals have added the wickets totals together (i.e. 2876) and give a resulting average of 17.92. The 2006

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includes Grace's career figures to the end of the 1895 season: this also gives the same number of centuries as the 1916 edition, but his season totals differ in some respects.

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differs from the annuals and excludes Somerset from its first-class averages for the seasons 1882 to 1885. The Somerset games that involved Grace from 1882 to 1885 were:

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A Correct Account of all the Cricket Matches which have been played by the Mary-le-bone Club, and all other principal matches, from the Year 1786 to 1822 inclusive

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however, a number of instances where the bowling figures differ from those used by Ashley-Cooper. Three of these result in changes to the number of wickets taken:

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among the first to raise doubts in its journal that there could ever be a generally acknowledged list of first-class matches. In 1976, the ACS produced a booklet,

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He goes on to list a total of 13 differences between his two versions, some re dismissal details and others re scores. He then makes a highly pertinent comment:

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Spring Annual for 1932. In these matches, Jack Hobbs scored two centuries in Ceylon, while Herbert Sutcliffe scored one century in India and one in Ceylon.

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If W. G. Grace's alternative figures are applied, then Hobbs broke Grace's world record (i.e., his 125th century) on 20 July 1925, when he scored 105 for

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and "playing standards" was a term applied very liberally, especially with teams containing guest or occasional players in addition to recognised players.

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1878 and 1879, in which Grace took part. However, in the 1872 match, not only did the MCC team have 15 batsmen, they also had 15 players in the field.

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Of those who have taken 2,000 first-class wickets, the following are affected (this is limited to differences in the games played or wickets taken).

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obituary, his figures are 51,545 runs conceded, 2864 wickets + 12 wickets taken in innings where the runs conceded is not known, resulting in an

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Before the publication of the names of the respective sides there was every prospect of a match at once worthy of the Transatlantic celebrity of

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I have included MCC v Herts and MCC v Staffordshire, which, although not really first-class, have always been reckoned in WG's averages for 1873

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before the Lord's fire, and there are numerous matches in the 18th century which are known about in name only, with no scores having survived.

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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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1911 clearly states that "not a ball could be bowled on the first and fourth days": thus, it was actually planned as a four-day match.

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at Blackheath. Hobbs still holds the world record as of 2022, and went on to make 197 or 199 career centuries (see details below).

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I have also to acknowledge receipt of a letter from Mr. H.E. Holmes of Durban, enclosing the text of a pronouncement made by the

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published in 1968. Webber's "corrected figures" were based on a slightly different matchlist to that subsequently created by the

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database and there classified as "major" or "minor" pending an overall accord with other sources about first-class status.

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includes it. Hobbs played in 9 matches with 12 innings, 1 not out, 593 runs, 2 centuries. See below re Herbert Sutcliffe.

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The concept of a first-class level of cricket seems to have taken hold in the 1860s, perhaps through the influence of the

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An MCC tour of India was planned for 1930-31, but it was cancelled due to civil unrest. The Maharajkumar of Vizianagram (

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for Frederick Lillywhite from 1862 to 1871, but these were not statistical as such, rather a record of known scorecards.

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have accepted the SABC ruling and do not recognise it. It is possible that the SABC thought it was a two-day match, but

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at Lord's on 30 May 1895 when he scored 169. Thus, according to their statistics, WG's career total was 124 centuries.

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version re Grace. During the 1950s, Webber made a detailed study of Grace's career and in the February 1961 edition of

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The first statistician to make a significant challenge to these "accepted figures" was Roy Webber, who published the

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is clear about the first-class cricket startpoints in other countries, and these seem to be agreed by other sources:

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Retrospective Test status has been granted to the West Indies v England series in 1929–30 and the 1945–46 match at

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Although not so controversial, there are also different versions of Grace's career bowling figures. In the 1916

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was published: while this is seen as the key source for cricket records, there are plenty of earlier sources.

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has continued to include these matches in Grace's totals despite the editor's statement in the 1882 edition.

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uncertain that matches in which he did not score a century could be added or removed without much comment.

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between New Zealand and Australia. The 1929-30 West Indies tour is of particular importance, as it was at

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A detailed comparison of differences between various publications was produced by Philip Bailey in 1987.

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matches between 1887 and 1894, but this particular match was not reported by contemporary publications.

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The earliest mainstream publication of cricket statistics was done by members of the Lillywhite family.

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between 1875 and 1916, the records section has the first-ever double being performed by Grace in 1874.

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scored 325: this is considered the first Test score of 300 or more, breaking the record of 287 set by

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at Clifton College 1st innings – Kershaw c E. M. Grace b W. G. Grace; not c E. M. Grace b G. F. Grace

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Gloucestershire matches are generally regarded as first-class from 1870 onwards. The 1869 edition of

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that season. In its spring 2006 journal, the ACS admitted that it could not decide upon its position

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three months later; at the time, it was Bradman who was considered to have broken Foster's record.

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the wicket total is given as 2026+1, indicating the 1 wicket where the runs conceded is not known.

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The table below summarises W. G. Grace's career figures with his original totals, as calculated by

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totals as the "accepted figures" and his own as the "corrected figures", but excluded Grace's 1873

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affected by the differing viewpoints regarding Grace’s own centuries total (that is, 124 or 126).

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plates were produced, Grace’s health was widely toasted. WG went on to make 126 career centuries.

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therefore decided to ignore the ruling and has continued to recognise this match as first-class.

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The table below summarises Jack Hobbs' career figures with his original totals, as calculated by

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The "extra" 15 innings took place over 10 matches, listed below with his scores in each innings:

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W. G. Grace takes guard in 1883, the year of two disputed matches for Gloucestershire v Somerset

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The main issues arising from the disagreement about W. G. Grace’s career totals are as follows:

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Grace's "original" totals were compiled by Ashley-Cooper and added to his obituary in the 1916

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game at The Oval on 26 July. On the other hand, his bowling in the same matches was ignored.

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In 2005, scorecards and other details of all known matches prior to 1801 were loaded into the

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The 1879 and 1881 matches were not included in the first-class averages in "Green Lilly" or

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given in one seldom, if ever, agreed with those tabulated in another, that is not surprising

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published statistical records, with particular impact on the career records of W. G. Grace,

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The only comment there on which matches were regarded as first-class is given on page 96:

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Sammy Woods bowled the delivery that gave W. G. Grace his one hundredth first-class century

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Broadhalfpenny Down, one of the venues at which the earliest known scorecards were compiled

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compiled a season-by-season record to supplement Grace's obituary in the 1916 edition of

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Vincent, R. B. (14 July 1930). "Test Match - Bradman 309 Not Out - All Records Broken".

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remarks that "Somersetshire's debut among the first-class counties was disappointing".

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As it is, the untiring energy of the executive will be rewarded by seeing Somersetshire

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Thirdly, when did Jack Hobbs break Grace's world record total of first-class centuries?

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which, after an uncertain start, went on to become "the cricketers' Bible". Meanwhile,

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The concept of a "first-class standard" was formalised in May 1894 at a meeting of the

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and are not included in its career totals for either Hobbs or Sutcliffe. At the time,

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and have proposed that Grace in fact completed his hundredth first-class century for

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Haygarth first mentions the difficulty of obtaining scorecards in his summary of the

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to the end of the 1896 season, and these were published in a series of articles in

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to leg and completed his 126th first-class century to equal Grace's career record.

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and all five Gloucestershire v Somerset matches between 1882 and 1885 (see below).

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Herbert Sutcliffe – 7 matches, 10 innings, 1 not out, 532 runs, 2 centuries

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A Guide to Important Cricket Matches played in the British Isles 1709–1863

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This is ranked as first-class by some sources, as are other Liverpool v

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Of those who scored 35,000 first-class runs the following are affected.

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Firstly, did Grace score 124 or 126 first-class centuries in his career?

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in late 1896 and early 1897. In the first article, Ashley-Cooper says:

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were compiled by Ashley-Cooper and added to his obituary in the 1916

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have come about because there is no official view of the status of

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A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles

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A Corner of a Foreign Field - An Indian History of a British Sport

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A Guide to First-class Cricket Matches played in the British Isles

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been recorded since 1697 (having been in vogue since the 1660s).

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Secondly, when did Grace score his hundredth first-class century?

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Somerset recovered from a first innings deficit of 192 to leave

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South Africa – March 1889 (also the country's first Test match).

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A Collection of all the Grand Matches of Cricket 1771 to 1791

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have different scorecard data. In the Surrey second innings,

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match at Oxford in May 1866 which he had previously omitted.

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during the tour of South Africa in 1909–10; and the tour of

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The main source for scorecards from 1772 until the 1860s is

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The remaining area of uncertainty relates to the status of

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and MCC. He frequently refers to earlier compilers such as

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in 1903. Sandham's record was itself broken in England by

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Wilfred Rhodes – 4 matches, 8 innings, 1 not out, 247 runs

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classed with the first-class counties in the coming season

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The Status of Matches in England and some other Countries

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to indicate that he preferred the "corrected figures".

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also recognises the match, but other sources including

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is simpler than with Grace and relates to a match for

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competition. Until then, everything had been somewhat

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First-class cricket was formally defined by the then

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Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians

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Bengal Governor's XI v Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI

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Bengal Governor's XI v Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI

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359:in 1968, and subsequently several editions of his 1580:rarely reported on Indian cricket except for the 1394:, and his alternative totals, that now appear on 1304:is particularly confusing in this regard, as for 1282:1885 as first-class but not those prior to 1882. 831:, and his alternative totals, that now appear on 471:were not first-class players. Among records, the 349:first-class status to a number of minor matches. 278:John and James Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion 89:the definition does not have retrospective effect 1939:Wilfred Rhodes – 4 matches, 329 runs, 17 wickets 1914:– 5/94 (first match); 5/104, 4/34 (second match) 2675:. The History Press for The Times. p. 57. 363:: as he explained in the preface to one of the 178:"The Score of this match was obtained from the 1347:b W. G. Grace; not c E. M. Grace b G. F. Grace 655: 52:Concept and definition of first-class cricket 8: 2012:coined by the Australian cricket chronicler 1588:. They were however prominently featured in 968:XV of MCC v Gentlemen to Canada Touring Team 18:Variations in First-Class Cricket Statistics 2762:, several volumes, Lillywhite, 1862 to 1871 2729:The Cricket Statistician (various editions) 1901:MC Bird's XI v Maharaja of Cooch-Behar's XI 1085:included in their own first-class records. 795:. Jack Hobbs, 92 not out overnight, turned 2155:Bentley is known for his lengthily titled 1546:Jack Hobbs (left) walks out to bat at the 662: 648: 549: 33:Variations in published cricket statistics 1058:Middlesex Club & Ground v South Wales 2816:, Playfair Books, 1963 (concise edition) 2705:A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) 2211: 2209: 2016:when compiling a list of matches in his 1400: 1215:. This statement clearly indicates that 1075:Oxford University v Gentlemen of England 1073:Furthermore, Ashley-Cooper includes the 839: 222:agree" (the italics are Haygarth's own). 2772:John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion 2635:Test Cricket and Cricketers (1877-1932) 2185: 2183: 2084: 2082: 2080: 2078: 2076: 2074: 2070: 1778:Liverpool and District v Yorkshire 1892 1620:Liverpool and District v Yorkshire 1892 1102:John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion 594: 575: 559: 2199: 2197: 2195: 2102: 2100: 2098: 2096: 2094: 1761:includes it. See above re Jack Hobbs. 1285: 1068:Surrey Club & Ground v South Wales 822: 2766:James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1193:James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 372:, but also a substantial part of the 7: 2804:The Playfair Book of Cricket Records 1229:Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game 1040:Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game 787:On the morning of 17 August 1925, a 724:Association of Cricket Statisticians 2589:, 2006 (pages 222/223) compared to 1698:does not. See above re Jack Hobbs. 475:occurred in the 1810 match between 239:Commencement of statistical records 1498:does not. Hobbs scored 39 and 31. 25: 2384:"Philadelphia v Australians 1878" 2018:Australian Cricket and Cricketers 1976:White's difference is sourced to 1337:Nottinghamshire v Gloucestershire 699:In his later record books (e.g., 540: 533:First-class cricket in the other 2740:The Kaye Book of Cricket Records 2671:Whitehead, Richard, ed. (2015). 2518:"Stump the Bearded Wonder No 27" 2481:First-Class Match List 1882–1914 2409:"South Africa v England 1888–89" 1984:in 1920. In the second innings, 1746:1930–31 tour of India and Ceylon 1538:1930–31 tour of India and Ceylon 1504:1931 (part 1, page 329) states: 684:Playfair Book of Cricket Records 567: 387:(ACS) was founded in 1973, with 357:The Kaye Book of Cricket Records 346:Playfair Book of Cricket Records 1931:figures exclude these matches. 1873:1918–19 Indian domestic season] 1733:figures exclude these matches. 1152:1873 edition of "Green Lilly". 1034:Ashley-Cooper compiled Grace's 541:W. G. Grace's career statistics 340:in statistical terms. In 1951, 2852:, Sporting Handbooks Ltd, 1948 2750:Wisden Book of Cricket Records 2652:. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. 2565:, 2006 (page 221) compared to 1919:1922–23 Indian domestic season 1836:1917–18 Indian domestic season 1722:1922–23 Indian domestic season 1511:South African Board of Control 1286:Grace's career bowling figures 823:Grace's career batting figures 769:County Cricket Ground, Bristol 763:At 1pm on 17 May 1895, in the 714:The same approach was used by 686:in 1951. This deferred to the 361:Wisden Book of Cricket Records 292:, which continued until 1900. 260:in 1848. In 1865, his brother 123:Development of scoring to 1895 1: 2840:, John Wisden & Co., 1895 2828:, John Wisden & Co., 1890 2612:"Bill Frindall – Sports Talk" 2551:Corrections to Career Records 2462:The Classification of Matches 2434:"Europeans v Parsees 1892–93" 2309:"Tasmania v Victoria 1850–51" 2257:The Classification of Matches 1831:Wilfred Rhodes – did not bowl 1652:Surrey v Essex at Leyton 1896 523:North America – October 1878. 407:were as high as those in the 2868:The official laws of cricket 2752:, Wisden, 1998 (4th edition) 2359:"Barbados v Demerar 1864–65" 2334:"Otago v Canterbury 1863–64" 2168:Haygarth, Vol. 1, pp. 14–24. 1814:figures include this match. 1790:figures exclude this match. 1694:figures include this match. 1636:figures exclude this match. 1494:figures include this match. 1352:Gloucestershire v Lancashire 720:Kaye Book of Cricket Records 520:West Indies – February 1865. 336:began in 1947, but followed 186:Then, in his summary of the 2888:First-class cricket records 2845:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2833:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2821:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2814:The Book of Cricket Records 2707:. George Allen & Unwin. 2535:The Career Record Evolution 2460:, no. 58, pages 13 to 18 – 2272:, no. 3, pages 25 and 26 – 2203:Webber, 1951, Introduction. 1757:figures exclude this tour. 1561:figures exclude this tour. 1381:Maharajkumar of Vizianagram 1326:County Cricket Ground, Hove 829:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 782:Gloucestershire v Middlesex 701:The Book of Cricket Records 517:New Zealand – January 1864. 489:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 378:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 302:Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 111:was formed in 1870, and by 85:Imperial Cricket Conference 2909: 1679:has Abel 8 and Hayward 4. 1265:Somerset v Gloucestershire 1258:Gloucestershire v Somerset 1251:Somerset v Gloucestershire 1244:Gloucestershire v Somerset 1237:Gloucestershire v Somerset 1171:Status of Somerset matches 1000:Gloucestershire v Somerset 993:Somerset v Gloucestershire 982:Gloucestershire v Somerset 791:match was taking place at 765:Gloucestershire v Somerset 537:nations began much later. 288:was incorporated with the 280:, still incorporating the 2549:, no. 60, pages 42 to 46 2298:Haygarth, Vol. 1, p. 522. 2255:, no. 2, pages 5 and 6 – 2215:Haygarth, Vol. 2, p. 355. 2088:ACS match guide, pp. 3–6. 1798:George Hirst – 1/40, 2/50 1239:at Spa Ground, Gloucester 1207:1882, the editor states: 995:at Lansdown CC, Bath – 80 2760:Scores & Biographies 2598:15 February 2010 at the 2574:15 February 2010 at the 2547:The Cricket Statistician 2533:, no. 59, pages 7 to 11 2531:The Cricket Statistician 2479:, no. 4, pages 22 to 27 2477:The Cricket Statistician 2458:The Cricket Statistician 2287:The Cricket Statistician 2270:The Cricket Statistician 2253:The Cricket Statistician 2189:Haygarth, Vol. 1, p. 24. 2177:Haygarth, Vol. 1, p. 14. 1982:Recreation Ground (Bath) 1322:Sussex v Gloucestershire 693:Playfair Cricket Monthly 589:Variations in statistics 137:Scores & Biographies 80:, occasional XIs, etc). 2848:, 85th edition, editor 2836:, 32nd edition, editor 2824:, 27th edition, editor 2742:, Kaye & Ward, 1968 2633:Roberts, E. L. (1932). 2587:Playfair Cricket Annual 2563:Playfair Cricket Annual 2142:Epps' standard work is 2133:ACS match guide, p. 11. 1343:2nd innings – Padley c 1301:Playfair Cricket Annual 1088:Incidentally, the 1896 1063:I Zingari v South Wales 956:at Chorley Wood – 47,26 938:at Chorley Wood – 0, 75 473:lowest known team score 333:Playfair Cricket Annual 270:James Lillywhite junior 58:Marylebone Cricket Club 2806:, Playfair Books, 1951 1803:The Reef v MCC 1909–10 1683:The Reef v MCC 1909–10 1551: 1483:The Reef v MCC 1909–10 1180: 793:County Ground, Taunton 760: 311:Scores and Biographies 256:, first published his 163: 2883:Cricket controversies 2785:. 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