1868 English cricket season

Playing record (by county)

Leading batsmen (qualification 10 innings)

Leading bowlers (qualification 800 balls)

Events

• A team of Australian Aboriginals was the first overseas side to tour England, under the auspices of Sydney publician/cricketer Charles Lawrence. They were not a first class team.
• 25–26 May: Edward Tylecote hits the first recorded score of 300 in any grade of cricket with 404 for Classicals against Moderns at Clifton College
• 20 June: C.A. Absolom became the first player to be given out obstructing the field when playing for Cambridge University v. Surrey at The Oval.
• 3–5 August: Playing for South of the Thames v North of the Thames at Canterbury, W.G. Grace became the second player to score two centuries in a match after William Lambert in 1817.
• The Cattle Market Ground in Islington, the original home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, was sold by its owner for development following the season. The last game, on 5 and 6 October, was between "Gentlemen of Middlesex" and a 22 called "The Clowns". Middlesex were not to have another home until the equally short-lived Prince's Cricket Ground opened.

  Annual reviews

• John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion, Lillywhite, 1869
• Arthur Haygarth, Scores & Biographies, Volume 10 , Lillywhite, 1869