Post Line-ups 1857 County Championship -- Surrey stumble again

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1857 County Cricket Championship

After a rich history of matches between teams chosen to represent counties, and the honorary title of Champion County being awarded on that basis, the Marylebone Cricket Club has worked with the County Teams to create a formal competition structure by which the title of Champion County can be awarded strictly on merit.

It includes the eight pre-eminent cricketing counties of the time: Cambridgeshire, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Surrey, Sussex and Yorkshire. Some of these county teams played sparingly, with cricket in The North being particularly dominated by teams from Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield.

The Marylebone Cricket Club hopes that the competition can be a success.

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In our real-life timeline, the County Championship was not initiated until 1890, even though the playing of County Matches dated back to long before then. This competition gets underway more than 30 years prior to that.​

 

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Fixture List

All fixtures are organised by agreement between the two counties participating in them. Each county is limited to a maximum of three home fixtures each.

Round One
Cambridgeshire v Yorkshire at Fenner's - Cambridgeshire won by 2 wickets
Surrey v Nottinghamshire at The Oval - Surrey won by 63 runs
Sussex v Middlesex at Royal Brunswick - Middlesex won by 135 runs

Round Two
Kent v Surrey at St Lawrence - Surrey won by 6 wickets
Nottinghamshire v Lancashire at Trent Bridge - Nottinghamshire won by 1 wicket
Yorkshire v Middlesex at Bramall Lane - Yorkshire won by 28 runs

Round Three
Kent v Middlesex at St Lawrence - Middlesex won by 100 runs
Nottinghamshire v Surrey at Trent Bridge - Nottinghamshire won by 4 wickets

Round Four
Kent v Sussex at St Lawrence - Kent won by 126 runs
Lancashire v Surrey at Codie's - Lancashire won by 38 runs

Round Five
Cambridgeshire v Surrey at Fenner's
Middlesex v Sussex at Lord's

Round Six
Middlesex v Kent at Lord's
Yorkshire v Surrey at Bramall Lane

Round Seven
Surrey v Kent at The Oval
Sussex v Cambridgeshire at Royal Brunswick

Round Eight
Middlesex v Surrey at Lord's
Yorkshire v Kent at Bramall Lane

Round Nine
Lancashire v Sussex at Codie's
Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire at Trent Bridge
Surrey v Middlesex at The Oval

Round Ten
Cambridgeshire v Middlesex at Fenner's
Lancashire v Yorkshire at Codie's
Sussex v Surrey at Royal Brunswick​

 

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Standings

Although teams will not be guaranteed an equal amount of fixtures, the MCC's points system will ensure a meritorious Champion.

|Played|Won|Drawn|Lost|Points
Middlesex |3|2|0|1| 1 |
Nottinghamshire |3|2|0|1| 1 |
Cambridgeshire |1|1|0|0| 1 |
Lancashire |2|1|0|1| 0 |
Surrey |4|2|0|2| 0 |
Yorkshire |2|1|0|1| 0 |
Kent |3|1|0|2| -1 |
Sussex |2|0|0|2| -2 |

For every win, a county gains one point; for every loss, a county loses one point.​

 

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Cambridgeshire

Manager
@VC the slogger

Home Ground
FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge

Squad
Rupert Bayford
John Fuller
Octavius Hammond
Charles Makinson
Joseph Marshall
Frederick Norman

Frederick Bell
Alfred Diver
George Johnson
Joseph Makinson

George Cotterill
Edward Wilkins
William Wingfield

Charles Arnold
Mark Arnold
William Buttress
Henry Perkins
Frederick Reynolds
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Kent

Manager
@Sami Kumar

Home Ground
St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury

Squad
Henry Biron
Billy Goodhew
William Hammond
Walter Mynn
Bradbury Norton
William Norton

Tom Adams
Farmer Bennett
Alfred Mynn
South Norton
Tom Sewell
Edgar Willsher

Henry Andrews
Francis Clifford
William Clifford
Harry Fryer

Edmund Hinkly
Frederick Hollands​

 

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Lancashire

Managers
@Baahubali and @AB the smasher

Home Ground
GP Codie's Ground, Eccles

Squad
Richard Bellhouse
George Cooke
Thomas Davis
Henry Hornby
William Horner
William Kington
Frederick Perera
Henry Pickford

John Earl
Charles Rogers
Alexander Rowley

David Bleakley
Tom Hunt

James Clegg
Gideon Elliott
Thomas Heighes
John Payne
Edward Whitlow​

 

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Middlesex

Manager
@CerealKiller

Home Ground
Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood

Squad
Robert Barton
Charles Bentley
William Burden
John Chalkley
Charles Gordon
Charles Hartley
Arthur Walker

Thomas Hearne
John Lillywhite
Edward Walker
George Wells
John Wisden

William Goulding
Frederic Walker
John Walker

George Gilbert
James Lillywhite
Alfred Walker​

 

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Nottinghamshire

Manager
@NaviN GandhI

Home Ground
Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Squad
John Chatterton
Alfred Clarke
Thomas Davis
John Hatfield
George Parr
Henry Parr
Samuel Parr

Charles Brampton
James Grundy
John Jackson

Charles Brown
Joseph Guy
Butler Parr

John Bickley
William Clarke
Robert Gibson
Thomas Nixon
Cris Tinley​

 

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Surrey

Managers
@sathishsky and @Na Maloom Afraad

Home Ground
Kennington Oval, Kennington

Squad
Thomas Beard
Arthur Burbidge
Frederick Burridge
Robert Bushell
Julius Caesar
Alfred Christy
Charlton Lane
Alexander Marshall
Edmund Vyse

Billy Caffyn
George Griffith
Frederick Miller
William Mortlock
William Mudie
Heathfield Stephenson

Thomas Lockyer

William Martingell
Thomas Sherman​

 

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Sussex

Manager
@themusketeer

Home Ground
Royal Brunswick Ground, Hove

Squad
Howard Barton
John Brown
Amos Carpenter
Septimus Coppinger
George Ewbank
Edwin Napper
Charles Payne

George Brown
James Challen
Herbert Curteis
James Dean
William Napper

Charles Ellis
Edward Tredcroft

David Gilbert
George Hooker
Joseph Payne
Henry Stubberfield​

 

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Yorkshire

Managers
@Dakota and @Markkkkk

Home Ground
Bramall Lane, Sheffield

Squad
George Anderson
Joseph Berry
Michael Ellison
William Kaye
William Prest
Henry Sampson
William Wadsworth
William Waterfall

George Atkinson
John Berry
Roger Iddison

George Chatterton
Edwin Stephenson

Andrew Crossland
Isaac Hodgson
Richard Skelton
William Slinn
Henry Wright​

 

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Okay, I know this is a pretty niche league, so I'm not expecting everyone to rush in at once; that's why I'll make it first-come first-serve (although I will reserve the right to make room for one or two of my favourite managers if they don't sign up in time).

Once you have a team, you can start arranging fixtures with other managers immediately.

Finally, I would strongly recommend that you research cricket from the era as part of your management duties. Don't just write a batsman off because they average 13; some of the very best batsmen played on wickets "curated" by the likes of Lumpy Stevens.

 

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Would it be ok to manage Yorkshire?
I don’t mind if a favourite manager turns up I can sit it out would be fine with that and would fully understand.

 

[NaviN GandhI]

1st (Nottinghamshire)/ 2nd (Surrey)

 

[sathishsky]

Surrey