1821 English cricket season

Honours

• Most runs – Thomas Beagley 181
• Most wickets – Thomas Howard 13

  Events

• In the Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's Cricket Ground, the Gentlemen conceded the game having gone well behind on 1st innings. Derek Birley commented that it was a "Coronation Match" to celebrate the accession of King George IV and was "a suitably murky affair".
• With cricket still recovering from the effects of the Napoleonic War, only a few first-class matches were recorded in 1821:
• * 24 May — Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club @ University Ground, Cambridge
• * 3 July — MCC v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 9 July — Godalming v MCC @ The Burys, Godalming
• * 16–18 July — MCC v Hampshire @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 23–24 July — Gentlemen v Players @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• The Gentlemen v Players match marked the final first class appearance of Billy Beldham in a career lasting from 1787.

  Debutants

• Thomas Flavel
• William Keen
• William Mathews
• Francis Nicholas
• William Searle
• Will Caldecourt
• W C Dyer
• James Townsend