1733 English cricket season
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In the 1733 English cricket season, cricket continued to rely mainly on its patrons but there are fewer reports of matches than in the three previous seasons.
[edit] Matches
| Date | Match Title | Venue | Source | Result |
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| 22 May (Tu) | London v Greenwich | Blackheath | FL18 | London won by 15 runs |
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London scored 112 in the first innings after going in first. No other totals were mentioned. |
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| 28 May (M) | London v Greenwich | Artillery Ground | FL18 | result unknown |
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This was a rematch announced in the report of the previous game. |
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| 26 June (Tu) | Fulham v Chelsea | Parson’s Green | FL18 | Fulham won by 3 runs |
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The prize was 30 guineas. |
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| 5 July (Th) | London v Kent | Artillery Ground | WDC | result unknown |
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Advertised as for one guinea each man with wickets to be pitched at one o’clock and the spectators to keep outside the line round the ground. "If any persons get on the Walls (sic), they will be prosecuted as the Law directs; and the Company are desired to come through the Py'd Horse Yard, Chiswell Street". |
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| c.11 July (W) | Surrey v Middlesex | Moulsey Hurst | WCS | Middlesex won by 3 runs |
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The report says the teams "were very hard matched". The Prince of Wales gave each player a guinea after the game. |
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| 1 August (W) | Kent v Surrey & Middlesex | Moulsey Hurst | WCS | Surrey & Middlesex won |
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The Kent v Surrey & Middlesex match was arranged immediately after the match on or about Wed 11 July by Frederick, Prince of Wales and Mr Edward Stead. The Prince of Wales awarded a silver cup to the winners of the Wed 1 August match and this is the first known instance of a cup being played for. This is also mentioned in KCM. |
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| 20 August (M) | Ealing & Acton v London | Ealing Common | FL18 | result unknown |
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Announced by Berington’s Evening Post as: "for £50, play or pay". |
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| 31 August (F) | Prince of Wales XI v Sir William Gage’s XI | Moulsey Hurst | TJM | result unknown |
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The announcement in the St James Evening Post (Sat 25 to Tues 28 August) states: "On Friday next a great Match at Cricket will be play’d on Molesey (sic) Hurst; by 11 of the best Players in the County on each Side, for a Wager of 100 Guineas between His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Right Honourable, the Lord Gage". Mr Waghorn reported this in WDC as being on the following Friday, 7 September, and he confusingly recorded the county as Suffolk when it was in fact Sussex. "Lord" Gage is of course Sir William Gage. The Prince of Wales was by now completely taken with cricket and had become another great patron of the sport. |
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| 10 Sept (M) | Surrey v Kent | Kennington Common | KCM | result unknown |
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The same game seems to be dated 20 September in WDC which may be a Gregorian equivalent, although it is possible by reference to a game reported by FL18 in 1736 that WDC has got the year wrong, never mind the day and month! The game reported in KCM is correctly dated Monday 10 September (Julian Calendar). KCM and WDC both report word for word a condition about roping the enclosure. |
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| 12 Sept (W) | London v Kent | Artillery Ground | FL18 | Kent won by 3 wickets |
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This seems to be the earliest known result wherein the win was by a certain number of wickets, unless the Richmond v Chambers game in 1731 was actually conceded by Richmond. London scored 65 & 35; Kent scored 71 "and the second hands of the Kentish men won the wager and had three men to spare". |
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| c.19 Sept (W) | Croydon v London | Duppas Hill, Croydon | WCS | drawn |
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Team scores are known: Croydon 95 & 76; London 89 & 41-5. Time expired and it was drawn. Croydon had three given men and it was reported that the betting reached record levels, but that statement could not have been verifiable even at the time. It is interesting that the Croydon team was called "the country men". The report says a rematch would take place at the Artillery Ground "on Wednesday next". |
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| 26 Sept (W) | London v Croydon | Artillery Ground | FL18 | drawn due to rain |
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This was the rematch of the previous game. London had a lead of 8 runs when play was abandoned but we do not what stage the game had reached. Reported in the Whitehall Evening Post dated Saturday 29 September. |
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| English cricket teams in the 18th century |
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Berkshire | Essex | Hampshire | Kent | Leicestershire | Middlesex | Mitcham | Nottingham | Sheffield | Surrey | Sussex |
| English cricket venues in the 18th century |
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Artillery Ground | Bishopsbourne Paddock | Broadhalfpenny Down | Bromley Common | Dartford Brent | Duppas Hill |
| English cricket seasons to 1815 |
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1300 - 1696 | 1697 - 1725 |
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to 1815 • 1816-1863 • 1864-1889 • 1890-1918 • 1919-1945 • 1946-1968 • 1969-2000 • from 2001 |
[edit] Main Sources
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 - 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
[edit] Additional References
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- Chertsey Cricket Club website
- Dartford Cricket Club website (DCC)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Hambledon Cricket Chronicle by F S Ashley-Cooper (HCC)
- Hambledon: Men and Myths by John Goulstone (HMM)
- Kent Cricket Matches by F S Ashley-Cooper (KCM)
- Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket by HF & AP Squire (PVSC)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Start of Play by David Underdown
- The Cricketer magazine (Cktr)
- The Glory Days of Cricket by Ashley Mote
- John Nyren's The Cricketers of my Time by Ashley Mote
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues
