1736 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1735 1735 English cricket season 1737 1737 English cricket season The earliest known instance of a tie happened in the 1736 English cricket season. The occasion was a three-a-side single wicket match between London and Surrey on Lamb's Conduit Field in Holborn. The season is also notable for the first appearances in sources of Chertsey Cricket Club and its Laleham Burway ground. Details of twenty historically important matches 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. Kent v Surrey Kent and Surrey met twice at the latter end of the season.ACS 1981 20 The first match was played 20 September on Kennington Common. Kent scored 41 and 53; Surrey replied with 71 and 24/8 to win by 2 wickets. During the match, an incident occurred in the crowd. Three soldiers apprehended a deserter but the crowd turned on them, rescued the deserter, and "after a severe discipline let them go about their business".Waghorn 1899 16–17Buckley 1935 14 The teams met again 4 October on Coxheath Common. First innings scores were level when it began to rain, though Kent still had five wickets in hand. No further play was possible, and the match ended in a draw.Waghorn 1899 17Maun 2009 83ACS 1981 20 Middlesex v Surrey Middlesex and Surrey played each other four times between 16 August and 22 September.ACS 1981 20 Middlesex won the first match on Chelsea Common by 9 runs. It was played for 50 guineas a side as reported in the General Evening Post on Tuesday, 17 August. They met again, 21 August, on Moulsey Hurst where Surrey won by 5 runs. The source says "there were about £100 to £60 for the (sic) Middlesex".Waghorn 1899 16Buckley 1935 13 Middlesex and Surrey played their third match 11 September, again on Moulsey Hurst, for 50 guineas a side, and Surrey won by 2 runs.Buckley 1935 13 The fourth match, due to be played 22 September on Lamb's Conduit Field, was announced the previous day in the London Evening Post, but there was no post-match report.Buckley 1935 14 London v Surrey London and Surrey met three times.ACS 1981 20 The first on 14 July was at the Artillery Ground. A report in the General Evening Post next day says: "London beat Surrey by 30 notches and had three men to go in". This is confusing but it may mean there was a declaration of sorts in the second innings.Buckley 1935 12 They met again 11 August on Barnes Common. A report in the Whitehall Evening Post on Saturday, 14 August refers to Surrey as "Barnes, Fulham and Richmond". It goes on to say that the next match on Tuesday, 17 August would be played "in the fields behind Powis House", meaning Lamb's Conduit Field in Holborn. It extends the hope that "the company will keep a good ring which was very much wanted at Barnes Common". Surrey won by 19 runs.Buckley 1935 12–13 After the third match, the Daily Gazetteer on Wednesday, 18 August stated that London beat Surrey by "upwards of 90 notches". The Whitehall Evening Post next day gave the scores, and repeated the report of the previous match by first referring to Surrey as "Barnes, Fulham and Richmond"; but it then talked about "the Surrey men". London scored 55 and 75; Surrey scored 31 and 13 so that London won the game by 86 runs. Two London batsmen in the second innings had a partnership of 51, which was a considerable achievement at the time, given the usual poor pitch conditions.Buckley 1935 13ACS 1981 20 London v Mitcham London and Mitcham played each other three times on Kennington Common. The first was on 13 May, but the result is unknown. In the second match on 22 June, London won by an unknown margin. The result of the third match on 2 September is unknown.Buckley 1935 12ACS 1981 20 Chertsey v Croydon There were three matches between Surrey clubs Chertsey and Croydon. Knowledge of them is from an announcement in Read's Weekly Journal dated Saturday, 3 July, about a deciding game on Richmond Green to be played on Monday, 5 July. In each of the first two matches, the home team won "by a great number of runs". The first was at Duppas Hill, in Croydon. The second match, at Laleham Burway, is the first important one known to have been played there.Buckley 1935 12ACS 1981 20 The third match was played 5 July on Richmond Green for £50. Chertsey scored 88 and 55; Croydon replied with 58 and 25/9. Croydon with one wicket standing still needed 61 runs to win when the clock struck eight, and the game was drawn.Buckley 1935 12Waghorn 1899 14ACS 1981 20 London v Chertsey The teams met 19 July at Laleham Burway, and 29 July at the Artillery Ground. A newspaper report of the first match says very large bets were laid on what became a "hard match", which London won "by a very few notches". The Chertsey team was the same eleven as played against Croydon at Richmond Green on 5 July.Waghorn 1899 14–15 In the second match, London scored 48 and 60; Chertsey made 97 and 12/2 to win by 8 wickets.Waghorn 1899 13 Single wicket A match was played Thursday, 24 June on Kennington Common in which London's Wakeland, the distiller, and George Oldner played together against two "famous" Richmond players who were "esteemed the best two in England". Unfortunately, the esteemed pair are not named, though one of them suffered serious facial injuries in the game when the ball came off his bat and hit his nose. The report rails against "human brutes" who insisted he should play on despite his injuries.Waghorn 1899 13–14 On Wednesday, 1 September, a "threes" match on Lamb's Conduit Field, in Holborn, between London and Surrey ended in cricket's earliest known tie. Different versions of the scores have been reported, but the teams totalled 23 runs each in their two completed innings. In one version, London scored 4 and 19 against Surrey's 18 and 5; in the other, London scored 5 and 18 against Surrey's 17 and 6.Bowen 1970 263Maun 2009 81 Other events On 9 July, London played against Streatham Cricket Club on White Lion Fields in Streatham, but the result is unknown. This is the only reference to a Streatham team in surviving sources.Buckley 1935 12 First mentions Clubs and teams ChertseyBuckley 1935 12 Streatham Cricket ClubBuckley 1935 12 Players George OldnerWaghorn 1899 13 Venues Barnes CommonBuckley 1935 12–13 Laleham BurwayBuckley 1935 12 White Lion Fields, StreathamBuckley 1935 12 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 One: 1700 to 1750 2009 Roger Heavens Cambridge 978-19-00592-52-9 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 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:1730s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1736 in England