18 May —
Tom Cribb announces his retirement and relinquishes his English Championship title. He nominates his protégé
Tom Spring as his successor.[1] Spring offers to fight anyone in England but there are no immediate volunteers.
The
roundarm controversy comes to a head when, in the
MCC v Kent match at Lord's,
John Willes of
Kent opens the bowling and is no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he has attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdraws from the match and refuses to play again in any important fixture.
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abNote 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