1770 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1769 1769 English cricket season 1771 1771 English cricket season Hambledon continued to be successful in the 1770 English cricket season, but only four historically important eleven-a-side matches are in the records.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. Matches On Thursday, 7 June, the Whitehall Evening Post said that a match had been played two days earlier on Richmond Green, but did not report the result. The teams were Essex and a combined Brentford & Richmond team.Buckley 1935 53 The combined London & Middlesex were to play Surrey, 20 & 21 August, on the Artillery Ground.ACS 1981 24 No result or other details are known.Maun 2011 214 The same applies to a Chertsey v Hampton scheduled for 11 September on Moulsey Hurst.Buckley 1937 5 Hambledon again played Caterham, but somewhat late in the year: 4 & 5 October on Broadhalfpenny Down.ACS 1981 24 Hambledon won by 57 runs, having scored 104 and 105 against Caterham's 74 and 78. No other details are known. The scores were recorded by Sussex lawyer John Baker, who was a spectator, in his diary.Maun 2011 216–217 Other events The Middlesex Journal on Thursday, 28 June, reported the death two days previously of a Mr Johnson, who was a goldsmith at London Wall. His death was 'occasioned by a blow which he received from a cricket ball on Thursday, 21 June near Islington'.Buckley 1935 53 There was a notice in the General Evening Post dated Tuesday, 7 August, that 'His Majesty (George III) has given a silver cup to be played for at cricket on the 20th inst. on Richmond Green, on account of the Princes having been much pleased with a Cricket match there on Mon. last'.Buckley 1937 5 No details of either match have been found. In the year of the so-called 'Boston Massacre', which occurred on Monday, 5 March, there was a report in the Middlesex Journal on Thursday, 16 August, that: 'about three days before the meeting of Parliament, a grand Cricket Match will be played by 11 of the Ministry against 11 of the Patriots, when great sport is expected'.Buckley 1935 53 First mentions Clubs and teams Brentford & RichmondBuckley 1935 53 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 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 Category:1770s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1770 in England