1860 English cricket season
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First-class matches
Events
Freehold of Lord’s Ground sold to a Mr Moses for £7,000. MCC did not bid. JH Dark retained the leasehold until 1864.Leading batsmen
Thomas HaywardThomas Hayward (cricketer)
Thomas Hayward was a Cambridgeshire and All-England Eleven cricketer who was generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding batsmen of the 1850s and 1860s. In the early 1860s, he and Robert Carpenter, his Cambridgeshire colleague, were rated as the two finest batsmen in England...
was the leading runscorer with 557 @ 26.52
Leading bowlers
John JacksonJohn Jackson (cricketer)
John "Foghorn" Jackson was a Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven cricketer who was generally reckoned to be the outstanding fast bowler of the 1850s.Born in Bungay in Suffolk, Jackson was affectionately known as "Foghorn"...
was the leading wicket-taker with 109 @ 9.20
External sources
Annual reviews
- Fred LillywhiteFred LillywhiteFrederick Lillywhite was a sports outfitter and cricketing entrepreneur, who organised the first overseas cricket tour by an English team and published a number of reference works about cricket.-Cricketing dynasty:...
, The Guide to Cricketers, Lillywhite, 1861 - Arthur HaygarthArthur HaygarthArthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
, Scores & Biographies, Volume 6 (1858-1860), Lillywhite, 1862