The season saw seven top-class matches played in the country.
A total of seven top-class matches were played during the season,[1][2][3] all bar one of which included a team playing under the name of Kent, Middlesex or Surrey.
[2][3] The season saw the last match between two sides named for counties until 1825.
It also saw the completion of a first-class match which had been begun the following year: a match between teams organised by the Earl of Winchilsea and Richard Leigh, which began on 23 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, with a number of players appearing in both matches.
[4][5][6] Players who made their first-class cricket debuts in 1796 included: