1765 English cricket season

Cricket season review December 2025 December 2025 1764 1764 English cricket season 1766 1766 English cricket season Only six historically important matchesnote 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. were reported in the 1765 English cricket season, though a positive development was the clear indication of increased cricket activity in the north of England as Leeds played Sheffield. However, events at the Artillery Ground in August may have been almost the last straw where this infamous old venue was concerned. Artillery Ground in disrepute On 19 and 20 August, the Artillery Ground staged a match between Surrey and Dartford.ACS 1981 23 Surrey won by an unknown margin. The match was played for 100 guineas per side, before a crowd estimated at 12,000.Waghorn 1899 57–59 At close of play on the first day, a report condemned 'the mob (many of whom had laid large bets), imagining foul play, several of whom were dangerously wounded and bruised'.Waghorn 1899 57–59 A few days later, the St James Chronicle reported: 'A young fellow, a butcher, being entrusted with about £40 by his mistress to buy cattle in Smithfield market, instead went into the Artillery Ground and sported away the whole sum in betting upon the Cricket players'.Buckley 1935 43–44 The reports are evidence of the Artillery Ground having fallen into disrepute, and it is a fact that few matches of importance were played there after 1765, until the last in September 1778.Buckley 1935 86 Leeds v Sheffield A Leeds v Sheffield match was reported by the London Chronicle on Thursday, 5 September. It took place on Chapeltown Moor, near Leeds. Sheffield won 'with great difficulty'. It was rated a 'great match', and reported by a London newspaper, which shows that cricket was already well-established in Yorkshire only 14 years after it was first recorded there.Buckley 1937 4 The teams played a return match at an unspecified venue in Sheffield on Friday, 5 September, but the result is unknown. By the 1820s, Sheffield were playing at Darnall Old Ground, and then Darnall New Ground. They switched to the Hyde Park ground in 1830, and then to Bramall Lane in 1855.Maun 2011 151 Chertsey v Richmond Chertsey and Richmond met twice in 1765.ACS 1981 23 The dates are uncertain, but approximately 9 and 16 September. The first match was on Laleham Burway (result unknown), and the second on Richmond Green. Chertsey won the second match by 106 runs, having scored 130 and 116 while Richmond made 48 and 92. The source says: 'Chertsey headed 94', which is incorrect according to the given team totals. The report also said Stephen Harding scored 24 in four balls with a five, two sixes and a seven. The Edmeads brothers, John and Richard, scored 108 between them in the whole match.Waghorn 1899 57–59 This is the sole mention in sources of Richard Edmeads. Other events In single wicket, there was a 'threes' game on Friday 30 August at Moulsey Hurst in which Surrey beat Kent 'after a smart contest'. The source is the Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser on Wednesday, 4 September.Buckley 1935 43–44 A notice in the Salisbury Journal on Monday, 16 September, might have interested the members of the Hambledon Club: 'The Cricket players of the parish of Portsea (in Hampshire) will play the game of Cricket with any parish in the said County for 20 guineas each match, home and home (sic)'. It is not known if the challenge was taken up.Buckley 1935 43–44 First mentions Clubs and teams LeedsBuckley 1937 4 Players Richard EdmeadsWaghorn 1899 57–59 Venues Sheffield (unspecified)Buckley 1937 4 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 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 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 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 Bowen Rowland Rowland Bowen Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development 1970 Eyre & Spottiswoode London 978-04-13278-60-9 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:1765 in England