1796 English cricket season
The 1796 English cricket season was the 25th in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status and the tenth after the foundation of the Marylebone Cricket Club. The season saw seven top-class matches played in the country. Matches. A total of seven top-class matches were played during the season, all bar one of which included a team playing under the name of Kent, Middlesex or Surrey. The season saw the last match between two sides named for counties until 1825. It also saw the completion of the first-class match which  had been begun the following year - a match between teams organised by the Earl of Winchilsea and Richard Leigh which had been begun in July 1795 and was completed on 28 June 1796 before a match between an England side and a Surrey and Kent XI began on the same day, a number of players appearing in both matches. First mentions. Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1796 included: