1749 English cricket season
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The 1749 English cricket season was the sixth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket.
Matches
Seven eleven-a-side matches between significant teams are known to have taken place.[1][2]
- 26 May – London & Bromley & Chislehurst v Addington – Artillery Ground
- June – Hastings v Pevensey – not known[3]
- 2 June – England XI v Surrey – Dartford Brent
- 5 June – England XI v Surrey – Artillery Ground
- 21 June – London v Richmond & Ripley – Artillery Ground
- 26 June – Long Robin's XI v Stephen Dingate's XI – Artillery Ground
- 14 August – London v Bearsted – Artillery Ground
Single wicket matches
A series of three single wicket cricket matches took place between teams of five playing for England against Addington. The matches resulted from a challenge by the Addington players to meet any other five in England, with Addington considered the favourites to win. Addington won only one of the matches.[4]
First mentions
Players
- John Frame (Surrey/Dartford/Kent)
References
- ^ ACS, p.22.
- ^ Other matches in England 1749, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
- ^ McCann, p.44.
- ^ Ashley-Cooper p.53.
Bibliography
- 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". Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game. London: Cricket Magazine. OCLC 28863559.
- McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
Further reading
- Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
- Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
- Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
- Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
- Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.