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The first English touring team pictured on board ship at Liverpool: standing at left Robert Carpenter, William Caffyn, Tom Lockyer; middle row John Wisden, HH Stephenson, George Parr, James Grundy, Julius Caesar, Thomas Hayward, John Jackson; front row Alfred Diver, John Lillywhite.

The English cricket team in North America in 1859 was the first ever overseas cricket tour by an English team. The touring team is sometimes referred to as George Parr's XI.

Organisation

The idea for the tour came from William Pickering, a former player who had emigrated to Canada in 1852 and first captained Canada against the United States the following year. Together with Robert Waller from St George's Cricket Club, Pickering opened discussions for a possible tour in 1856 but financial problems meant that it was three years before the money could be raised. The English team required a guarantee of £600, which Pickering obtained through the Montreal Cricket Club, Hamilton Cricket Club and St George's Cricket Club.

Team

The English team comprised six members of the All-England Eleven and six of the United All-England Eleven. With George Parr as captain, the twelve players were effectively the cream of professional talent in the 1859 English cricket season that had just ended:

Batsmen

Name	County club	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Ref
G. Parr	Nottinghamshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm underarm
R. P. Carpenter	Cambridgeshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	none
T. Hayward	Cambridgeshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm medium pace
A. J. D. Diver	Cambridgeshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm underarm fast-medium pace
J. Caesar	Surrey	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast

All-rounders

Name	County club	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Ref
W. Caffyn	Surrey	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm medium pace
H. H. Stephenson	Surrey	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast
J. Lillywhite	Sussex	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast

Wicket-keepers

Name	County club	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Ref
T. Lockyer	Surrey	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast-medium

Bowlers

Name	County club	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Ref
J. Grundy	Nottinghamshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast
J. Jackson	Nottinghamshire	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm roundarm fast
J. Wisden	Sussex	Шаблон:Birth date and age2	right-handed	right arm underarm slow

Matches

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A wood engraving of the match at Hoboken, New Jersey.

Шаблон:Wikisource Five matches were played, all against XXIIs, so none had first-class status. Three exhibition games were also played in which the 12 England players divided and added five North Americans to each team to make up eleven-a-side matches. Including travelling time, the trip lasted two months and each English player (all professionals) earned about £90, a sizeable sum at the time.

The team's opponents were:

• 22 of Lower Canada by 8 wickets at Montreal, Quebec on 26–27 September
• 22 of the United States by an innings and 64 runs at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey on 3–5 October
• 22 of the United States by 7 wickets at Camac Woods, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 10–12 October
• 22 of Upper Canada by 10 wickets at Hamilton, Ontario on 17–19 October
• 22 of the United States and Canada by an innings and 68 runs at Rochester, New York on 21–25 October.

One of the exhibition matches was played 14 October at Camac Woods.

Among their opponents were Harry Wright, a future pioneer of professional baseball, and Charles H. T. Collis, future Medal of Honor winner in the American Civil War.

In addition to the exhibition matches they also had two excursions to view the Niagara Falls.

The English side was exceedingly strong and would probably have beaten any twenty-two in England. There were excellent crowds for the first three matches but the weather in mid-October turned very cold and reduced the attendances at the last two. It was reported that the fielders wore gloves and overcoats in the last match.

Aftermath

Шаблон:Unreferenced section A product of the tour was a book by Fred Lillywhite, who travelled as scorer, entitled The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States and published in 1860. A reprint of the book was published in 1980 with an introduction by Robin Marlar, including biographies of all of the players.

For the general growth of cricket in the United States, it was most unfortunate that this pioneering tour occurred only 18 months before the American Civil War began. If the war had not broken out, it is highly likely that two or three follow-up tours might have been arranged in the early 1860s, thus building on the interest created by the initial trip. As it was, the enthusiasm for cricket faded in the war years and the troops on both sides adopted the embryonic game of baseball. When English teams resumed tours to America in 1868, not only did they have to try to rekindle the enthusiasm, but in baseball they had a serious rival to contend with.

Further reading

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External links

• G. Parr's XI in North America 1859 at CricketArchive
• The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States by Fred Lillywhite (digitised version at Internet Archive)