page_title: 1859 English cricket season
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1859 English cricket season / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: The first English team to tour overseas, on board ship to North America.
context_page_description: 1859 was the 73rd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club. The highlight was one of the sport's most remarkable all-round performances by V. E. Walker.
context_section_description: 1 March. Formation of the present Kent CCC.
  21 to 23 July. V E Walker of Middlesex, playing for England versus Surrey at The Oval, took all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and followed by scoring 108 in the England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first (20*). He took a further four wickets in Surrey’s second innings. England won by 392 runs.
  7 September. Departure of cricket’s first-ever touring team. A famous photograph was taken on board ship before they sailed from Liverpool. The team of English professionals went to North America and played five matches, winning them all. There were no first-class fixtures. The 12-man squad was:
  George Parr (captain)
  James Grundy
  John Jackson (all of Nottinghamshire);
  Robert Carpenter
  Alfred Diver
  Thomas Hayward (all of Cambridgeshire);
  Julius Caesar
  William Caffyn
  Tom Lockyer
  HH Stephenson (all of Surrey);
  John Lillywhite
  John Wisden (both of Sussex)
  See also : English cricket team in North America in 1859
caption: 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.
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