1883 English cricket season

Champion County

• Nottinghamshire

  Playing record (by county)

Leading batsmen (qualification 20 innings)

Leading bowlers (qualification 1,000 balls)

Notable Events

• 30 January – England won the deciding match of the scheduled three-Test series in Melbourne. Some ladies burned the bails and placed the resultant ashes in a small urn. This was presented to England’s captain, Ivo Bligh, who had promised to "recover those ashes". The urn is kept in a glass case at Lord’s but England and Australia have been playing for the Ashes ever since.
• 25 May – Surrey, in a season that marked their revival from a lowly position since 1866 to the champion eleven of the late 1880s and early 1890s, break the record highest team total in county cricket by scoring 650 against Hampshire.
• George Harrison became the first bowler to take 100 wickets in the season in which he made his debut in first-class cricket.
• George Ulyett scored 1,562 runs with a highest score of 84. Not until Charles Harris in 1935 did a player scoring no centuries score more runs in a season.
• * Ulyett’s feat of getting within eleven runs of the leading scorer with no centuries has been approached since only by David Green in 1965.

  Annual reviews

• John Lillywhite's Cricketer's Companion, Lillywhite, 1884
• James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual, Lillywhite, 1884
• John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack, 1884