Cricket matches in 1837

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Date of
Match Venue Teams Result Status &
Format Source

May 15th Parker's Piece, Cambridge Cambridge Town Club v Cambridge University Cambridge Town Club won by 52 runs first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

May 18th Parker's Piece, Cambridge Cambridge University v Marylebone Cricket Club Cambridge University won by 8 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jun 1st Magdalen Ground, Oxford Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club won by 5 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jun 12th Old County Ground, Town Malling Kent v Sussex Kent won by 2 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jun 19th Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Marylebone Cricket Club v Sussex Sussex won by 3 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jun 22nd Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Marylebone Cricket Club v Oxford University Oxford University won by 4 wkts first-class
XII v XI
2 inns

Jun 26th Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Marylebone Cricket Club v Cambridge University Cambridge University won by 8 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jun 26th Royal New Ground, Brighton Sussex v Kent Kent won by 3 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jul Upper Canada College Ground, Toronto Upper Canada College Boarding House v Upper Canada College Day Boys Upper Canada College Boarding House won by 31 runs XI v XI
2 inns Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket by John E Hall and RO McCulloch page 8 (line scores, short report)
Contributor: PDG

Jul 1st Upper Canada College Ground, Toronto Upper Canada College Boarding House v Upper Canada College Past and Present Upper Canada College Past and Present won by 9 wkts XI v XI
2 inns Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket by John E Hall and RO McCulloch page 8 (short report)
Contributor: PDG

Jul 3rd Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Gentlemen v Players Players won by inns and 10 runs first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jul 4th Widemarsh Common, Hereford Hereford v Monmouthshire Monmouthshire won by 2 wkts XI v XI
2 inns Hereford Times (full card)
Contributor: BH
Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH
Monmouthshire Merlin
Contributor: BH

Jul 7th Ross-on-Wye Married of the Ross Club v Single of the Ross Club XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH

Jul 10th Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood South v North South won by 5 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jul 11th Saffron Walden Saffron Walden v Bishop's Stortford Drawn XI v XI
1 inns

Jul 17th Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Gentlemen v Players Players won by inns and 38 runs first-class
XVI v XI
2 inns

Jul 18th Raglan Monmouthshire v Hereford Hereford won by 4 wkts XI v XI
2 inns (full card)
Contributor: BH

Jul 24th Royal New Ground, Brighton Sussex v Nottinghamshire Sussex won by 3 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jul 27th Old County Ground, Town Malling Kent v Nottinghamshire Kent won by 9 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Jul 31st Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood Marylebone Cricket Club v The Bs Marylebone Cricket Club won by 17 runs first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Aug Widemarsh Common, Hereford Hereford v Ledbury Hereford won by 51 runs XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket (line scores)
Contributor: BH

Aug Ledbury Ledbury v Hereford Ledbury won by inns and 66 runs XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH

Aug 2nd not known Toronto v Upper Canada College Upper Canada College won by 49 runs XI v XI
2 inns Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket by John E Hall and RO McCulloch page 9 (partial card)
Contributor: PDG

Aug 4th Dan-y-Parc, Abergavenny Monmouthshire v Hereford Monmouthshire won by 10 runs XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH
Monmouthshire Merlin
Contributor: BH

Aug 11th Hamilton Guelph v Toronto Toronto won by inns and 109 runs XI v XI
2 inns Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket by John E Hall and RO McCulloch page 10 (partial card)
Contributor: PDG

Aug 14th Brantford Brantford v Hamilton Brantford won by 19 runs XI v XI
2 inns Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket by John E Hall and RO McCulloch page 11 (partial card)
Contributor: PDG

Aug 14th Royal New Ground, Brighton Sussex v Marylebone Cricket Club Marylebone Cricket Club won by 6 wkts first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Aug 21st West Kent Cricket Club Ground, Chislehurst Gentlemen of Kent v Marylebone Cricket Club Drawn first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Aug 21st The Forest New Ground, Nottingham Nottinghamshire v Sussex Sussex won by 23 runs first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

Aug 25th Dan-y-Parc, Abergavenny Abergavenny Players v Pontypool Tradesmen's Club Abergavenny Players won by 58 runs XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH
Monmouthshire Merlin (full card)
Contributor: BH

Sep Tarrington Hereford v Ledbury Ledbury won by 18 runs XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket (full card)
Contributor: BH

Sep 8th Pontymoile Pontypool Tradesmen's Club v Abergavenny Abergavenny won XI v XI
2 inns Herefordshire Cricket
Contributor: BH

Sep 9th Portfield, Haverfordwest Haverfordwest Tradesmen v Pembrokeshire Haverfordwest Tradesmen won by 11 runs XI v XI
2 inns Contributor: BH

Sep 18th Royal New Ground, Brighton Sussex v England Sussex won by 79 runs first-class
XI v XI
2 inns

In the source column:
full card means details of how each batsman was dismissed
partial means incomplete details of how each batsman was dismissed with some entries missing
line scores means just team totals givem, without any details of how each batsman was dismissed

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