List of Gentlemen cricketers (1806–1840)

The Gentlemen v Players fixture was first played in 1806 and, despite many difficulties in the early years, it had by 1840 become an established annual event in the English cricket calendar. Apart from the years of the two World Wars, it remained so until 1962. The purpose of the fixture was to match the best of the amateur cricketers (the Gentlemen) against the best of the paid professionals (the Players). The table below summarises the full career record in the fixture of everyone who made their debuts for the Gentlemen team in the matches played to 1840.

Key club denotes the player's usual team when he represented the Gentlemen (most at the time were MCC members). debut denotes the year of the player's debut appearance for the Gentlemen. final denotes the year of the player's final appearance for the Gentlemen. M denotes the number of matches in which the player represented the Gentlemen. runs denotes the total number of runs scored by the player in all his matches for the Gentlemen. HS denotes the highest score made by the player in one innings when batting for the Gentlemen (* signifies not out). wkts denotes the total number of wickets taken by the player in all his matches for the Gentlemen. BB denotes the best bowling performance by the player in one innings for the Gentlemen (e.g., 3–30 means he took 3 wickets in the innings and conceded 30 runs; to 1840, runs conceded by bowlers are usually unknown, hence "?"). players are initially listed according to the date of their debut for the Gentlemen. players in bold were known professionals who represented the Gentlemen as given men in order to handicap the Players.

List + List of Gentlemen cricketers to 1840 name nation club debut final M runs HS wkts BB references Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) 1806 1806 2 60 48 0 0–0 MCC 1806 1824 7 207 58 14 3–? Surrey 1806 1806 1 16 16 1 1–? MCC 1806 1806 2 40 22 2 1–? MCC 1806 1830 9 315 69 8 2–? Middlesex 1806 1806 1 10 6* 0 0–0 Surrey 1806 1806 2 102 57 4 4–? MCC 1806 1806 2 23 14 0 0–0 Hampshire 1806 1806 2 6 4 0 0–0 Middlesex 1806 1806 2 32 16 0 0–0 MCC 1806 1806 2 20 11 0 0–0 Hampshire 1806 1806 1 2 2* 0 0–0 Kent 1806 1806 2 7 5 3 1–? MCC 1819 1825 5 72 19 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1819 1 29 24 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1819 1 12 12* 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1827 2 43 36 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1820 2 9 6 7 0–0 Hampshire 1819 1819 1 3 2* 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1829 3 55 30 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1819 1 10 10 0 0–0 MCC 1819 1838 18 570 102* 2 1–? MCC 1820 1822 2 16 15 0 0–0 Hampshire 1820 1820 1 37 26 5 4–? MCC 1820 1827 2 6 3* 0 0–0 MCC 1820 1822 2 30 25 0 0–0 MCC 1820 1830 9 99 37 0 0–0 MCC 1820 1830 5 26 11 0 0–0 MCC 1821 1827 7 43 19* 0 0–0 MCC 1821 1821 1 1 1* 0 0–0 MCC 1821 1825 4 33 16 5 3–? MCC 1821 1824 4 32 16 0 0–0 MCC 1821 1821 1 5 5 0 0–0 MCC 1821 1831 4 36 12 0 0–0 MCC 1822 1829 3 7 3 0 0–0 MCC 1823 1827 5 100 51 9 3–? MCC 1823 1827 4 74 32 0 0–0 Godalming 1824 1824 1 3 3 0 0–0 Surrey 1824 1830 3 84 45 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1824 1825 2 25 13* 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1824 1825 2 4 3 0 0–0 Hampshire 1824 1824 1 18 14 1 1–? Gentlemen 1825 1825 1 2 1 0 0–0 MCC 1825 1825 1 15 8 0 0–0 MCC 1825 1834 8 172 38 0 0–0 Kent 1825 1827 3 54 24 0 0–0 Godalming 1825 1825 1 27 24 8 7–? Hampshire 1825 1825 1 4 4* 0 0–0 MCC 1827 1827 1 4 4 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1827 1827 1 1 1 1 1–? Kent 1827 1829 3 22 8 0 0–0 Kent 1827 1833 3 64 19 2 2–? MCC 1827 1827 1 12 8* 0 0–0 MCC 1827 1827 1 3 3 1 1–? Kent 1827 1836 9 132 32 8 3–? Kent 1827 1839 6 60 25 0 0–0 Kent 1827 1837 5 85 20 7 3–? Kent 1827 1833 4 29 7 0 0–0 Kent 1827 1827 2 19 16 0 0–0 MCC 1827 1827 1 17 11 0 0–0 Sussex 1829 1829 1 43 33 5 3–? Sussex 1829 1830 2 0 0* 20 8–? Surrey 1829 1830 2 7 7 0 0–0 Kent 1830 1838 2 24 21 3 2–? Kent 1831 1852 19 400 88 0 0–0 Kent 1831 1838 7 49 16 7 3–? MCC 1831 1854 20 143 28 73 7–? Gentlemen 1831 1831 1 21 12 0 0–0 MCC 1831 1833 2 10 6* 0 0–0 Kent 1832 1832 1 0 0* 1 1–? MCC 1832 1832 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1832 1835 2 22 8 0 0–0 MCC 1832 1837 3 18 10 0 0–0 Kent 1832 1852 21 605 66 107 8–? MCC 1833 1833 1 4 4 0 0–0 MCC 1833 1833 1 3 3 0 0–0 MCC 1833 1845 10 141 34 0 0–0 Kent 1833 1846 7 99 20 0 0–0 MCC 1833 1833 1 3 2 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1833 1833 1 5 4 0 0–0 MCC 1833 1835 2 20 10 0 0–0 CUCC 1834 1834 1 2 1 1 1–? MCC 1834 1836 3 42 26 2 1–? MCC 1834 1834 1 8 8 0 0–0 MCC 1834 1836 2 3 2 0 0–0 CUCC 1834 1834 1 4 4 0 0–0 MCC 1835 1838 2 27 23 14 6–? Nottingham 1835 1835 1 6 6 3 2–? MCC 1835 1835 1 26 24 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1836 1836 1 0 0* 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1836 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1836 1 5 5 0 0–0 OUCC 1836 1836 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1839 4 24 13 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1839 2 52 21 0 0–0 OUCC 1836 1841 2 14 8 14 5–? Gentlemen 1836 1836 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1844 2 52 20* 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1836 1 3 3 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1845 8 113 23 0 0–0 MCC 1836 1838 2 23 14 6 4–? Sussex 1836 1846 12 290 89 29 5–46 MCC 1837 1837 1 9 9 0 0–0 OUCC 1837 1837 1 8 7* 0 0–0 Middlesex 1837 1843 2 3 2 5 5–? Gentlemen 1837 1837 1 0 0 0 0–0 CUCC 1837 1837 1 2 1 4 4–? Surrey 1837 1837 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1837 1837 1 0 0 0 0–0 MCC 1837 1837 1 2 2 0 0–0 Gentlemen 1837 1837 1 28 21 0 0–0 Surrey 1837 1837 1 3 3* 0 0–0 Surrey 1837 1837 1 12 12 0 0–0 Kent 1838 1838 1 13 7 0 0–0 MCC 1839 1840 2 0 0 2 2–? Kent 1839 1845 5 60 9* 4 3–? MCC 1840 1845 6 92 17* 0 0–0 CUCC 1840 1840 1 5 4 0 0–0 Sussex County Cricket Club 1840 1858 8 135 33 4 3–18

See also List of Gentlemen v Players matches List of Gentlemen cricketers (1841–1962) List of Players cricketers (1806–1840) List of Players cricketers (1841–1962)

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