Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game
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Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game was a cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 publication which ran from 1882 to 1913. It is sometimes referred to as just Cricket. In all it ran to 949 issues in 32 volumes. Issues were generally of 16 pages, approximately 27 cm by 21 cm.

In most years it was monthly from January until March, had 24 weekly parts from April to September, and was monthly again from October to December, giving a total of 30 issues. The exceptions being Volume I which only started on 10 May 1882 and had just 22 issues and Volume II which had 27 issues.

Cricket was followed by The World of Cricket which ran for 23 issues in 1914. World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 put an end to its run, its last issue being on 14 Nov 1914. The idea of a weekly cricket periodical was continued after the war with The Cricketer
The Cricketer
The Cricketer was an English cricket magazine published between 1921 and 2003 when it was merged with Wisden Cricket Monthly and relaunched as The Wisden Cricketer....

, which started publication in 1921.

Editors

Cricket had just 3 editors in its 32 years of publication.
  • C.W. Alcock (1882–1907)
  • F.S. Ashley-Cooper (1907–1911)
  • J.N. Pentelow (1911–1913)


The World of Cricket (1914) was edited by A.C. Maclaren and J.N. Pentelow.
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