List of Players cricketers (1806–1840)

The Gentlemen v Players first-class cricket fixture was first played in 1806 and, despite many difficulties in the early years, it had by 1840 become an established annual event in the English cricket calendar. Apart from the years of the two World Wars, it remained so until 1962. The purpose of the fixture was to match the best of the amateur cricketers (the Gentlemen) against the best of the paid professionals (the Players). The table below summarises the cricketers who appeared for the Players in the matches played before 1840.

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List of Players cricketers to 1840
Name Debut season Final season
William Ayling 1806 1806
Billy Beldham 1806 1821
John Bennett 1806 1806
Henry Bentley 1806 1822
William Fennex 1806 1806
Andrew Freemantle 1806 1806
John Hammond 1806 1806
J. Hampton 1806 1806
Thomas Howard 1806 1829
Robert Robinson 1806 1819
Jack Small 1806 1806
John Sparks 1806 1827
Tom Walker 1806 1806
John Wells 1806 1806
Lord Strathavon 1819 1819
James Powell 1819 1821
James Sherman 1819 1821
James Thumwood 1819 1821
John Sherman 1819 1821
Thomas Beagley 1819 1836
G. Wells 1820 1820
John Bowyer 1820 1825
George Brown 1820 1830
John Thumwood 1821 1821
W. C. Dyer 1821 1821
Charles Holloway 1821 1822
William Ashby 1821 1830
– Smith 1822 1822
James Jordan 1822 1824
Thomas Flavel 1822 1827
James Saunders 1822 1831
William Searle 1822 1832
Jem Broadbridge 1822 1835
William Slater 1823 1827
William Hooker 1823 1830
William Mathews 1824 1830
Edward Thwaites 1827 1827
Tom Marsden 1827 1838
Will Caldecourt 1827 1840
Fuller Pilch 1827 1849
Ned Wenman 1829 1846
James Adams 1830 1830
George Mills 1831 1831
William Lillywhite 1831 1849
George Freemantle 1832 1832
Richard Mills 1832 1837
James Cobbett 1832 1841
Daniel Hayward senior 1833 1833
Henry Beagley 1833 1833
Charles Lanaway 1834 1834
Frederick Wells 1834 1834
George Wenman 1834 1834
Thomas Barker 1834 1845
Thomas Box 1834 1853
James Dark 1835 1835
William Buckingham 1835 1835
Billy Good 1835 1842
John Bayley 1836 1836
John Wenman 1836 1836
George Jarvis 1836 1839
William Clifford 1836 1839
Sam Redgate 1836 1843
James Taylor 1837 1837
George Millyard 1837 1838
William Garrat 1837 1839
William Hillyer 1838 1851
Joe Guy 1838 1852
Tom Adams 1838 1854
Tom Sewell 1839 1847
Francis Fenner 1840 1842
Charles Hawkins 1840 1843

See also

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Notes and sources

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