1868 was the 82nd season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).
It featured the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas, being an all-Aboriginal cricket team.
Owing to an exceptionally hot and dry summer, and the absence of the forthcoming revolution of the heavy roller,[1] 1868 was to be the last season in which every county match was finished outright.
[2] a Hampshire, though regarded until 1885 as first-class, played no inter-county matches between 1868 and 1869 or 1871 and 1874.