1816 English cricket season

Honours

• Most runs – William Lambert 363
• Most wickets – Thomas Howard 30

  Events

• The 1816 season saw the formation of the Manchester Cricket Club which took part in a number of major matches until Lancashire CCC was established in 1864. Manchester was representative of Lancashire as a county in the same way that Sheffield Cricket Club and Nottingham Cricket Club represented Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
• The issue of roundarm bowling was already controversial enough in 1816 for Marylebone Cricket Club to amend the Laws of Cricket to prohibit it:
• With cricket recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, a total of 8 first-class matches were recorded in 1816:
• * 10–11 June — MCC v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 17–19 June — E H Budd's XI v G Osbaldeston's XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 24–25 June — MCC v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 3–6 July — All-England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 29 July–2 August — Sussex v Epsom @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 5–6 August — Gentlemen of All-England v Old Etonians @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 14–16 August — MCC v Middlesex @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 21–23 August — Epsom v Hampshire @ Epsom Down

  Debutants

• Thomas Beagley
• Charles Holloway
• Henry Lillywhite
• John Mills
• James Thumwood
• H Mitchell
• John Thumwood
• James Baker
• James Bray
• Thomas Bache
• T Price