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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 full career record in the fixture of everyone who made their debuts for the Players team in the matches played to 1840.

Key

• club denotes the player's usual team when he represented the Players (note there were no county clubs until Sussex in 1839).
• debut denotes the year of the player's debut appearance for the Players.
• final denotes the year of the player's final appearance for the Players.
• M denotes the number of matches in which the player represented the Players.
• runs denotes the total number of runs scored by the player in all his matches for the Players.
• HS denotes the highest score made by the player in one innings when batting for the Players (* signifies not out).
• wkts denotes the total number of wickets taken by the player in all his matches for the Players.
• BB denotes the best bowling performance by the player in one innings for the Players (e.g., 3–30 means he took 3 wickets in the innings and conceded 30 runs; to 1840, runs conceded by bowlers are usually unknown, hence "?").
• players are initially listed according to the date of their debut for the Players.
• players in bold were known amateurs who represented the Players as "given men".

List

NB: this table is a work in progress, currently complete re the 1806 Players only.

List of Players cricketers to 1840

name	nation	club	debut	final	M	runs	HS	wkts	BB	references
William Ayling	England	Kent	1806	1806	2	15	8	0	0–0	[1][2][3]
Billy Beldham	England	Surrey	1806	1821	4	57	23*	0	0–0	[4][5][6]
John Bennett	England	Hampshire	1806	1806	2	20	13	1	1–?	[7][8][9][10]
Henry Bentley	England	Middlesex	1806	1822	4	37	15*	0	0–0	[11][12][13]
William Fennex	England	Middlesex	1806	1806	1	5	5	0	0–0	[14][15][16]
Andrew Freemantle	England	Hampshire	1806	1806	2	44	26	0	0–0	[17][18][19]
John Hammond	England	Sussex	1806	1806	2	12	8	1	1–?	[20][21][22][23]
J. Hampton	England	Surrey	1806	1806	1	22	18	0	0–0	[24][25][26]
Thomas Howard	England	Hampshire	1806	1829	6	56	17	28	4–?	[27][28][29][30]
Robert Robinson	England	Surrey	1806	1819	3	63	19	2	2–?	[31][32][33][34]
Jack Small	England	Hampshire	1806	1806	2	24	21*	0	0–0	[35][36][37]
John Sparks	England	Surrey	1806	1827	7	152	63	8	3–?	[38][39][40][41]
Tom Walker	England	Surrey	1806	1806	2	61	24	1	1–?	[42][43][44][45]
John Wells	England	Surrey	1806	1806	1	5	5	4	2–?	[46][47][48][49]
Lord Strathavon	England		1819	1819
James Powell	England		1819	1821
James Sherman	England		1819	1821
James Thumwood	England		1819	1821
John Sherman	England		1819	1821
Thomas Beagley	England		1819	1836
G. Wells	England		1820	1820
John Bowyer	England		1820	1825
George Brown	England		1820	1830
John Thumwood	England		1821	1821
W. C. Dyer	England		1821	1821
Charles Holloway	England		1821	1822
William Ashby	England		1821	1830
– Smith	England		1822	1822
James Jordan	England		1822	1824
Thomas Flavel	England		1822	1827
James Saunders	England		1822	1831
William Searle	England		1822	1832
Jem Broadbridge	England		1822	1835
William Slater	England		1823	1827
William Hooker	England		1823	1830
William Mathews	England		1824	1830
Edward Thwaites	England		1827	1827
Tom Marsden	England		1827	1838
Will Caldecourt	England		1827	1840
Fuller Pilch	England		1827	1849
Ned Wenman	England		1829	1846
James Adams	England		1830	1830
George Mills	England		1831	1831
William Lillywhite	England		1831	1849
George Freemantle	England		1832	1832
Richard Mills	England		1832	1837
James Cobbett	England		1832	1841
Daniel Hayward senior	England		1833	1833
Henry Beagley	England		1833	1833
Charles Lanaway	England		1834	1834
Frederick Wells	England		1834	1834
George Wenman	England		1834	1834
Thomas Barker	England		1834	1845
Thomas Box	England		1834	1853
James Dark	England		1835	1835
William Buckingham	England		1835	1835
Billy Good	England		1835	1842
John Bayley	England		1836	1836
John Wenman	England		1836	1836
George Jarvis	England		1836	1839
William Clifford	England		1836	1839
Sam Redgate	England		1836	1843
James Taylor	England		1837	1837
George Millyard	England		1837	1838
William Garrat	England		1837	1839
William Hillyer	England		1838	1851
Joe Guy	England		1838	1852
Tom Adams	England		1838	1854
Tom Sewell senior	England		1839	1847
Francis Fenner	England		1840	1842
Charles Hawkins	England		1840	1843

See also

• List of Gentlemen v Players matches
• List of Players cricketers (1841–1962)
• List of Gentlemen cricketers (1806–1840)
• List of Gentlemen cricketers (1841–1962)

Notes and sources

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