1822 English cricket season

Honours

• Most runs – E. H. Budd 354
• Most wickets – John Sparks 27

  Events

• The roundarm issue came to a head in 1822 when, in the match at Lord's, John Willes of Kent opened the bowling and was no-balled for using a roundarm action, a style he had attempted to introduce since 1807. Willes promptly withdrew from the match and refused to play again in any important fixture.
• Roundarm was a natural reaction to the growing predominance of batsmen over the age-old underarm style of bowling. Its adherents argued that the legalisation of roundarm was essential to restore the balance between batting and bowling. However, high-scoring matches were still comparatively rare owing to vagaries in pitch conditions.
• 9 first-class matches were recorded in 1822:
• * 20–21 May — Cambridge University v Cambridge Town Club @ University Ground, Cambridge
• * 10–11 June — MCC First XII v MCC Second XII @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 24 June — MCC First XI v MCC Second XI @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 27–28 June — Godalming v MCC @ The Burys, Godalming
• * 1–2 July — MCC v Godalming @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 8–10 July — Gentlemen v Players @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 15–16 July — MCC v Kent @ Lord's Cricket Ground
• * 25–27 July — Kent v MCC @ West Kent CC, Chislehurst
• * 12–14 August — All-England v The Bs @ Lord's Cricket Ground

  Debutants

• Horace Bates
• John Bayley
• Robert Broadbridge
• Percyvall Dyke
• John Evans
• James Grinham
• James Jordan
• Edward Knight
• James Ladbroke
• W Peto
• James Saunders
• William Henry Sewell