1763 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1762 1762 English cricket season 1764 1764 English cricket season The 1763 English cricket season began after the Seven Years' War had ended in February that year. Details have survived of two historically important eleven-a-side matches.note status Any match listed in the ACS' Important Match Guide (1981) is historically important, and therefore of the highest standard, whether or not a scorecard might exist. The same applies to numerous matches discovered by researchers since 1981.ACS 1981 1–40 For further information, see First-class cricket. Surrey v Middlesex Surrey and Middlesex met 3 August on Ripley Green, and again 22 & 23 August on the Artillery Ground.ACS 1981 23 The first was played for £200, and Middlesex won 'with great ease'.Waghorn 2005 31 In the second match, Middlesex won 'by a great majority'. One newspaper reported that, during play on the first day, a spectator lost over £20 to a pickpocket. The Artillery Ground had by this time fallen into disrepute, and it would not last much longer as a major venue.Buckley 1937 4Waghorn 1899 56 End of the war 1763 was an important year for England, and for the future of cricket, as it marked the end of the Seven Years' War. French influence in India was reduced to a handful of trading posts, and its hopes of an eastern Empire were no more, though Napoleon Bonaparte certainly tried to revive those hopes. Great Britain expanded its interests in India to begin the era of the British Raj, a consequence of which was the eventual hegemony of cricket in Indian sport. In the short term, however, economic hardship at home meant little capital for investment in cricket, as evidenced by only a couple of matches in 1763. Edmund Chapman Wednesday, 30 July. The death of Mr Edmund Chapman of Chertsey in his 69th year, which means he was born in either 1694 or 1695. Chapman was an eminent master bricklayer, and "accounted one of the most dexterous cricket players in England". There are no earlier references to Edmund Chapman who must have been active c.1715 to c.1740, presumably playing for Chertsey Cricket Club, or perhaps Croydon Cricket Club, and for Surrey as a county.Waghorn 2005 31 Other events Rowland Bowen found a brief 1763 reference to cricket in Pembroke, and assumed it meant the town in Wales.Bowen 1970 265 However, later research discovered that the item was a reference to cricket at Pembroke College, Oxford.Maun 2011 131 The earliest-known mention of cricket in Wales is a letter written by a Swansea resident in April 1771.https://www.cricketmuseum.wales/the-earliest-reference-to-cricket-actually-being-played-in-wales/ Hignell Andrew Andrew Hignell The earliest reference to cricket actually being played in Wales? The Museum of Welsh cricket Cardiff 20 October 2025 Notes note References Bibliography ACS Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709–1863 1981 ACS Nottingham https://archive.acscricket.com/online_library/match_guides/bi_imp_match_guide/index.html 85045528 Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 978-04-13278-60-9 Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket 1937 Cotterell & Co. Birmingham 23469107 Maun Ian Ian Maun From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770 2011 Martin Wilson Leicester 978-09-56906-60-1 Waghorn H. T. H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores, Notes, &c. From 1730–1773 Blackwood Edinburgh 1899 1086375331 Waghorn H. T. H. T. Waghorn The Dawn of Cricket J. W. McKenzie London 2005 1906 978-09-47821-17-3 Further reading Altham H. S. Harry Altham E. W. Swanton E. W. Swanton A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) 5th 1962 George Allen & Unwin London 894274808 Birley Derek Derek Birley A Social History of English Cricket 1999 Aurum Press London 978-18-54107-10-7 https://archive.org/details/socialhistoryofe0000birl_d1n5 Internet Archive Major John John Major More Than A Game 2007 HarperCollins London 978-00-07183-64-7 https://archive.org/details/morethangamestor0000majo_b8t0 Internet Archive Wilson Martin An Index to Waghorn Bodyline Books (limited edition, by subscription only) London 2005 Category:1760s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1763 in England