1876 English cricket season

The 1876 English cricket season saw Gloucestershire reclaim its place as the unofficial "Champion County". A relatively dry summer and improvements to pitches via the heavy roller saw several batting records broken.

^a An unofficial seasonal title sometimes proclaimed by consensus of media and historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted. Although there are ante-dated claims prior to 1873, when residence qualifications were introduced, it is only since that ruling that any quasi-official status can be ascribed.

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