1760 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1759 1759 English cricket season 1761 1761 English cricket season The 1760 English cricket season took place in the middle year of the Seven Years' War. There are no historically important eleven-a-side or single wicket matches on record.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. A number of minor matches have been recorded with additional news items, some in a military context, which is a sign of the times. Events Rowland Bowen recorded that "Winchester College beat Eton College in Port Meadow, Oxford" on 14 May.Bowen 1970 265 In the Leeds Intelligencer dated 20 May 1760: "Leedes (sic). The Gentlemen Cricket Players are desired to meet at Mr Cowling's at Chapeltown on Monday next the 26th instant at ten o'clock in the morning; at which place, all who are willing to become subscribers, are desired to attend. Dinner will be on the table at two o'clock". This infers the formation of a Leeds club in 1760.Maun 2011 106 Ian Maun devotes nearly nine pages to 1760 in Volume II of From Commons to Lord's. His entries are mostly brief reports of minor matches, and diary entries which mention cricket.Maun 2011 101–109 One report concerns a fatality on the Dicker at Lewes, where an elderly spectator was hit on the head by the ball, which "killed him on the spot".Maun 2011 103 There were three matches in which the West Kent Militia played against Dover Cricket Club, besides other mentions with military connections.Maun 2011 104–105 One item is a letter written by a Royal Navy sailor to his parents. Serving aboard Namur 1756 in Quiberon Bay (south coast of Brittany), he says the crew "go ashore very often and play at cricket".Buckley 1935 39 Maun adds that this is the first reference to cricket being played in France.Maun 2011 106 The Duke family, which had been making cricket balls for many years, formed the Duke & Sons company in Penshurst. The Dukes brand, in essence its six-seam ball, is now manufactured by British Cricket Balls Ltd. Duke balls are still in use at Test matches in England and elsewhere.Maun 2011 106 Artworks from 1760 include The Boy with a Bat, by Thomas Hudson, and A Cricket Match at Canterbury by Henry Hodgins.Maun 2011 109 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 Maun Ian Ian Maun From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770 2011 Martin Wilson Leicester 978-09-56906-60-1 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 Category:1760 in England Category:1760s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century