1757 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1756 1756 English cricket season 1758 1758 English cricket season Details have survived of two eleven-a-side matches in the 1757 English cricket season, but no notable single wicket 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. This was the first full season since the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in May 1756. London v Surrey There was only one "great match" in 1756, played 25 and 26 July on the Artillery Ground between London and Surrey.ACS 1981 23 Surrey batted first, and scored 84, to which London replied with 89. Surrey batted until close of play when they were apparently 126/4. It seems that London batted when play restarted on Tuesday morning and scored 71. The primary source concludes: "so that Surrey beat London by 50 notches and had six wickets to knock down". That suggests there may have been a declaration by Surrey. However, there are conflicting versions because the London Chronicle on Tuesday, 26 July, reported the close of play score on Monday as "(Surrey) had three hands put out but had got 117 notches ahead". That would make the close of play score 122/3, so it seems they received a slightly premature report, as confirmed in another source.Buckley 1935 36Buckley 1937 3Waghorn 1899 53 Chertsey v Hampton On 26 August, Chertsey played Hampton on Moulsey Hurst. As reported in the General Evening Post next day, Chertsey won, but the margin was not mentioned.Buckley 1935 36 Derbyshire A match in September between Wirksworth and Sheffield at Brampton Moor, near Chesterfield, is the earliest reference to cricket in Derbyshire. Although cricket is known to have been played in Sheffield since 1751, this may be the earliest indication of the Sheffield Cricket Club from which Yorkshire County Cricket Club eventually evolved.Bowen 1970 264 Sheffield The following reference is contained in William White's History & General Directory of the Borough of Sheffield (1833). In his introductory history, Mr White says:In 1757 we find the Town Trustees attempting the abolition of brutal sports by paying 14s 6d to the cricket players on Shrove Tuesday "to entertain the populace and prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks". He does not give the primary source from which he himself derived the information but it would likely be in parish or town records of some kind which may or may not still exist. There is a reference to the same in Waghorn who quotes his source as the much later Records of the Burgery of Sheffield (1897) by Jno. D Leader (p. 382) which dates the contract as 6 February 1757 (which may have been a Julian date as 6 February 1757 in the Gregorian Calendar was a Sunday).Waghorn 2005 31 First mentions Counties DerbyshireBowen 1970 264 Clubs and teams Sheffield Cricket ClubBowen 1970 264 WirksworthBowen 1970 264 Venues Brampton MoorBowen 1970 264 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 18th Century Cricket 1935 Cotterell & Co. Birmingham 23450280 Buckley G. B. G. B. Buckley Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket 1937 Cotterell & Co. Birmingham 23469107 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:1750s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1757 in England