1816 in sports

1816 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Boxing

Events

7 November — Tom Cribb retains his English championship, defeating an unnamed opponent in a contest that lasted 20 minutes.^[1]

Cricket

Events

Formation of the Manchester Cricket Club which takes part in a number of first-class matches until Lancashire CCC is established in 1864. Manchester is representative of Lancashire as a county in the same way that Sheffield Cricket Club and Nottingham Cricket Club represent Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
The issue of roundarm bowling is already controversial enough for MCC to amend the Laws of Cricket to prohibit it:

The ball must be bowled (not thrown or jerked), and be delivered underhand, with the hand below the elbow. But if the ball be jerked, or the arm extended from the body horizontally, and any part of the hand be uppermost, or the hand horizontally extended when the ball is delivered, the Umpires shall call "No Ball".

England

Most runs^[2] – William Lambert 363 (HS 74)
Most wickets^[2] – Thomas Howard 30 (BB 5–?)

Horse racing

England

References

↑ Cyber Boxing Zone – Tom Cribb. Retrieved on 18 April 2009. Archived 2009-05-03.
1 2 Note that scorecards created in the first quarter of the 19th century are not necessarily accurate or complete; therefore any summary of runs, wickets or catches can only represent the known totals and the missing data prevents effective computation of averages

Sports by year to 1850

to 1600 1601 – 1725 1726 – 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850

to 1850 1851 – 1900 1901 – 1950 1951 – 2000 from 2001

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