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...y his family which included other well known players. The club's initial [[first-class cricket|first-class match]] was against [[Sussex (cricket)|Sussex]] at Islington on

The County Championship is the primary [[first-class cricket|first-class]] competition in England and Wales and is contested by 18 count Other long-established clubs which play non-competitive first-class cricket include:

Nyren, who was left-handed, had a sporadic career in [[first-class cricket|top-class cricket]] and made sixteen known appearances from 1786 to 1817. H

...'' that is centred on [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]]. The club has held [[first-class cricket|first-class status]] since foundation. Lancashire's main venue has always b ...nnings for Lancashire, which remains the highest score by an Englishman in first-class cricket. [[Johnny Briggs]], whose career lasted from 1879 to 1900, was the first pl

...During his career, he set numerous records in North America and led the [[first-class cricket|first-class]] bowling averages in England in 1908.<ref name="Rolfe">{{cite

...Van Diemen's Land won by 3 wickets, is recognised as the startpoint for [[first-class cricket]] in Australia.

...ershire County Cricket Club'''. Henry Grace hoped to compete against the [[first-class cricket|first-class]] county clubs but the situation had been complicated in 1863 b

...Club (MCC)]] at [[Lord's Cricket Ground|Lord's]]. These matches were not [[first-class cricket|first-class]] but Derbyshire won them both and their success revived intere ...lor]] who holds the world record of 1,649 dismissals by a wicket-keeper in first-class cricket. He played for the county from 1960 to 1988, holding a world record 1,473 c

...er]], a member of the [[Sky Sports]] cricket commentary team. During his [[first-class cricket]] career, Holding played for [[Jamaica (cricket)|Jamaica]], [[Canterbury (c

...last=Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |title=A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles |year=1982 |publisher=ACS |location=Not

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...antial historical sources, such as the ACS. For further information, see [[First-class cricket]].

...ished seasonal batting records that, with the reduction in the number of [[first-class cricket|first-class]] matches since 1968, will probably never be broken. His totals ...ricket)|Lancashire]] were the 20th and 21st tied matches in the history of first-class cricket worldwide since the earliest known instance in 1783.</p>

...1816 but it was not until 1826 that he played in a match now designated [[first-class cricket|first-class]]. Throughout his career, there were never more than thirty fir

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...)|cricket]] season, [[Australia (cricket)|Australia]] made the inaugural [[first-class cricket|first-class]] tour of Great Britain by a representative overseas side. The

...'s Cricket Ground|Lord's]] on Monday, 27 May 1878, is the lowest scoring [[first-class cricket|first-class match]] on record. The match aggregate was a world record 105 r ...h by 9 wickets. The match aggregate of 105 runs remains the lowest-ever in first-class cricket. In his ghost-written <i>Reminiscences</i> (1899), W. G. Grace recalled tha

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...0 December 1905 at [[White Cliffs]] in [[New South Wales]]. He began his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] career in the 1927&ndash;28 Australian season, playing for [[

...forty-odd years until he retired. Roundarm had virtually disappeared from first-class cricket by the beginning of the twentieth century but it has been revived in the 21