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1746 English cricket season

The 1746 English cricket season was the third season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket.

1746 English cricket season
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Matches edit

Details of 12 matches between significant teams are recorded.[1][2] The crowd at the Surrey and Kent versus Addington and Bromley match on 7 July was reported as "nearly ten thousand".[3]

  • 12 May – Bromley v AddingtonBromley Common
  • 19 May – Addington v Bromley – Artillery Ground
  • 9 June – Addington & Lingfield v London & Surrey – Artillery Ground
  • 23 June – Kent v Surrey – Artillery Ground
  • 2 July – London v Westminster – Artillery Ground
  • 7 July – Kent & Surrey v Addington & Bromley – Duppas Hill, Croydon
  • 14 July – Addington & Bromley v Kent & Surrey – Artillery Ground
  • 30 July – London v Edmonton – Artillery Ground
  • 2 August – Kent v England – Bromley Common
  • 4 August – England v Kent – Artillery Ground
  • 25 August – London v Edmonton – Artillery Ground
  • 1 September – Chislehurst & London v Addington – Artillery Ground

Single wicket edit

A four-a-side match was played at the Artillery Ground on 21 July between Four Millers of Bray Mills in Berkshire and Four Best Players of Addington[4] and on 6 August a three-a-side match was played on the same ground between "six players esteemed the best in England". The teams were Robert Colchin, John Bryant (both Bromley) and Joe Harris (Addington) playing against Stephen Dingate (Surrey), Val Romney (Sevenoaks) and Richard Newland (Slindon). Dingate's team won the match over which hundreds of pounds were wagered.[4][5][6]

First mentions edit

Clubs and teams edit

  • Chislehurst & London[4]
  • Edmonton[4]

References edit

  1. ^ ACS, p.21.
  2. ^ Other matches in England 1746, CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ Waghorn 1906, p.17.
  4. ^ a b c d Ashley-Cooper, p.37.
  5. ^ Waghorn, 1899, p.38.
  6. ^ McCann, p.35.

Bibliography edit

  • ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
  • Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751. London: Cricket Magazine. OCLC 28863559. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  • McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
  • Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.
  • Waghorn, H. T. (1906). The Dawn of Cricket. Electric Press.

Further reading edit

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