1761 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1760 1760 English cricket season 1762 1762 English cricket season Some details have survived of four historically important eleven-a-side matches in the 1761 English cricket season, though none of their results are known.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. The famous Chertsey Cricket Club was active but overall there was again a scarcity of games, the main factor being the war situation. Matches Only four significant matches are on record,ACS 1981 23 but none of their results are known. Essex v Kent, on 27 June, was announced in the Ipswich Journal of the previous Saturday, 20 June, as: 11 men of Kent v. the best 11 of Essex. The precise venue was The Crown in Billericay.Buckley 1935 39–40 On 1 July, Chertsey v Dartford at Laleham Burway was for 20 guineas a side. Chertsey had three given men: William Piper, Charles Sears, and Thomas Woods. The latter is interesting given the confusion over players called Wood or Woods in the 1770s; there was a Surrey player at that time who was variously called John Wood or Thomas Wood. The Whitehall Evening Post on Saturday 27 June said: Great sport is expected as they are accounted as good 22 men as any in England.Buckley 1935 39–40 Chertsey were then to play Richmond 31 August on Richmond Green. The stakes were £20 a side.Waghorn 2005 31 1830londonNN.png 2500 -1320 -1100 200 300 right Crop of Christopher and John Greenwood's 8 inch-to-mile map published in 1827 from an 1830 republication (click to view all). The image shows Bunhill Fields immediately north of the Artillery Ground, with Chiswell Street to the south. The last match on 28 September was Chertsey v Hampton on Laleham Burway. This was announced in the Whitehall Evening Post on Saturday, 26 September. Hampton had Charles Sears, John Haynes, and Shock White as given men. The enigmatic Shock White, who was a Brentford man, is not to be confused with Thomas White of Reigate.Buckley 1935 39–40 Other events On Thursday, 2 July, the Whitehall Evening Post reported the death of Mr George Smith on Monday, 29 June at The Castle in Marlborough. He was formerly the keeper of the Artillery Ground, and the landlord of the adjoining Pyed Horse in Chiswell Street.Buckley 1935 39–40 The Leeds Intelligencer (now the Yorkshire Post) announced a game to be played at Chapeltown on Thursday, 9 July. This is the earliest-known match in the Leeds area. Sheffield had been a centre of Yorkshire cricket since 1751.Buckley 1937 3 The General Evening Post reported on Saturday, 18 July that part of the walls of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground and the Artillery Ground would shortly be taken down to widen that part of the City Road.Buckley 1935 39–40 See also 28 August in the 1776 season. In its edition of Thursday, 3 September, the GEP announced an odds game in Essex with 22 of the county to play against the Dartford XI. This is the first known instance of 22 playing against 11, a common odds format in the 19th century, especially in matches between local teams and the All England Eleven. Dartford were to have Tom Faulkner and William Durling as given men.Buckley 1937 3 First mentions Players William Piper (Chertsey)Buckley 1935 39–40 Charles Sears (Chertsey)Buckley 1935 39–40 Shock White (Brentford)Buckley 1935 39–40 Venues The Crown, Billericay.Buckley 1935 39–40 Chapeltown Moor, LeedsBuckley 1937 3 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 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 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:1761 in England Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century