The County Championship

A major watershed occurred in 1890 when the County Cricket Championship was formally constituted for the first time. The period from 1890 to the outbreak of the First World War has become especially nostalgic, ostensibly because the teams played cricket according to "the spirit of the game".The era has been called "The Golden Age of cricket" and it featured numerous great names such as Grace, Wilfred Rhodes, C B Fry, K S Ranjitsinhji and Victor Trumper.