1754 English cricket season
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In the 1754 English cricket season, Dartford was the pre-dominant club.
The Leeds Intelligencer, forerunner of the Yorkshire Post, began publication. It has always been a noted source for cricket in Yorkshire.
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[edit] Matches
| Date | Match Title | Venue | Source | Result |
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| 1 July (M) | London v Dartford | Artillery Ground | FLPV | Dartford won by 3 wkts |
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London made 78 and 50; Dartford replied with 55 and 74-7. The Daily Advertiser on Fri 28 June said: Wickets pitched at Twelve, and to begin play at One. A curious arrangement! |
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| 22 July (M) | Surrey v Sussex | Guildford | FL18 | result unknown |
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The match was advertised as: Guildford, Ripley, Thursley and the lower part of Surrey against Bolney, Brighton and the eastern part of Sussex. The stake was 20 guineas a side. |
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| 24 August (S) | Woolwich v Dartford | Barrack Field, Woolwich | FLPV | Dartford won |
| 26 August (M) | Dartford v Woolwich | Dartford Brent | FLPV | Woolwich won |
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Both the above two games were mentioned in the same report by Read’s Weekly Journal dated Sat 31 August: Dartford won away & lost at home against Woolwich on Sat. & Mon., Aug. 24 & 26 respectively. |
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[edit] Other events
Fri 21 & Sat 22 June. TJM records Midhurst & Petworth v Slindon on Bowling Green, Lavington Common. The former apparently won by eight wickets and the match seems to mark the swansong of Slindon as a great team as they are not mentioned in the sources thereafter. Sussex cricket as a whole went into decline and, although a number of inter-parish games are reported over the next decade or so, it is not until 1766 that we again find Sussex county cricket teams in a major match. This temporary demise of Sussex is surely explained by the death of the Duke of Richmond in 1750. He was the greatest patron of Sussex cricket, and of Slindon in particular. His co-patron and good friend Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet died in 1744.
The Daily Advertiser on Friday 28 June announced for the same day a two-a-side game behind George Taylor’s at Deptford. The players were Tom Faulkner and Joseph Harris v Capon and Perry. (FLPV)
Tues 24 September. WCS records a single wicket game at Brompton in Kent between the well-known Thomas Brandon of Dartford and Parr of Chatham. The stakes were five guineas each and Brandon won by 47 runs.
| 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
