page_title: English cricket team in North America in 1859
section_title: Matches
hierarchical_section_title: English cricket team in North America in 1859 / Matches
caption_attribution_description: Original title: "The cricket match played at Hoboken on October 3-6, 1859, between the All England Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two"
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: A wood engraving of the match at Hoboken, New Jersey.
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