1746 English cricket season

1746 English cricket season

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

Matches

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 Addington – Bromley 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

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

Clubs and teams

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

References

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

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.
• Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.
• Waghorn, H. T. (1906). The Dawn of Cricket. Electric Press.

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.
• Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-1-900592-52-9.
• Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.