1877 English cricket season

1877 was the 91st season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

1877 English cricket season

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Champion County

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• Gloucestershire

Playing record (by county)

County	Played	Won	Lost	Drawn
Derbyshire	8	5	2	1
Gloucestershire	8	7	0	1
Hampshire	4	0	4	0
Kent	12	7	4	1
Lancashire	10	6	4	0
Middlesex	6	0	4	2
Nottinghamshire	12	5	5	2
Surrey	12	6	3	3
Sussex	8	0	7	1
Yorkshire	12	2	5	5

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Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

1877 English season leading batsmen[2]
Name	Team	Matches	Innings	Not outs	Runs	Highest score	Average	100s	50s
W. G. Grace	Gloucestershire MCC	24	40	3	1477	261	39.83	2	9
Bunny Lucas	Cambridge University Surrey	17	28	4	832	115	34.66	2	4
Frank Penn	Kent MCC	19	33	3	930	148 not out	31.00	2	3
A. N. Hornby	Lancashire MCC	18	29	3	787	144	30.26	2	3
Isaac Walker	Middlesex MCC	17	29	2	788	95	29.18	0	5

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

1877 English season leading bowlers[3]
Name	Team	Balls bowled	Runs conceded	Wickets taken	Average	Best bowling	5 wickets in innings	10 wickets in match
William McIntyre	Lancashire	2796	949	85	11.16	8/31	11	3
Robert Miles	Gloucestershire	1054	258	23	11.21	5/88	1	0
Tom Armitage	Yorkshire	1424	490	42	11.66	7/58	6	1
George Gibbons Hearne	Kent MCC	3596	1281	108	11.86	8/78	11	5
William Mycroft	Derbyshire MCC	5496	1927	157	12.27	8/47	19	5

Events

15 - 19 March. Australia v. England at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Afterwards recognised as the first-ever Test Match. Australia won by 45 runs with Charles Bannerman scoring 165*: the first Test century. William Midwinter, with 5–78 in England's first innings, was the first bowler to take five wickets in a Test innings.

31 March - 4 April. Australia v. England: Second Test, also at MCG. England won by 4 wickets.

27 July - 28 July. Gloucestershire beats an "unrepresentative" (Wisden) England team by five wickets. Since 1877 only Yorkshire in 1905 and 1935 has equalled this feat.

10 & 12 November. South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide was the earliest first class match played by South Australia. They won by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen.

Notes

^a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.