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The 1801 English cricket season was the 30th in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the 15th after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw three top-class matches played in the country.
In 1801, Thomas Boxall published the earliest known instructional book on cricket called Rules and Instructions for Playing at the Game of Cricket. [3] In 1819, Mary Russell Mitford began writing a series of sketches of village life which were published in The Lady's Magazine. They were subsequently collected in book form as Our Village. One ...
The Game Act 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 32) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which was passed to protect game birds by establishing a close season during which they could not be legally taken. The Act also established the need for game licences and the appointing of gamekeepers. It has covered the protection of game birds to this ...
16 March – Edinburgh music teacher Anne Gunn is granted the first British patent for a board game, designed as a music teaching aid. [5] 17 March – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth becomes Prime Minister. [1] 21 March – Battle of Alexandria: Abercromby's forces defeat those of the French in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. [1]
An Act for repealing so much of an Act, passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Removal and Rebuilding of the Council Chamber, Guildhall, and Gaol of the City of New Sarum, and for ascertaining the Tolls of the Market, and regulating the Chairmen within the said City," [au] as requires the ...
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The motion to retain VAR passed with 321 votes in favor to 129 for scrapping the technology that is used by most major competitions since was formally introduced to the game in 2018.
Father W Ferris describes two forms of caid: the "field game" in which the object is to put the ball through arch-like goals, formed from the boughs of two trees; and the epic "cross-country game" which lasts the whole of a Sunday (after Mass) and is won by taking the ball across a parish boundary. [3] "Wrestling", "holding" opposing players ...