1758 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1757 1757 English cricket season 1759 1759 English cricket season Details have survived of one major eleven-a-side match in the 1758 English cricket season, and one single wicket event.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. London & Surrey v Kent In the only "great match" of the season, the London & Surrey combine played against Kent.ACS 1981 23 The venue is uncertain, and it is possible that a return game took place at any of about five venues, but the report in the General Evening Post (three weeks later) is very ambiguous. This match was played 16/17 August, probably on the Artillery Ground, and was won by London & Surrey.Buckley 1935 37 Single wicket A "fives" game was held on Kennington Common in August. Tom Faulkner, one of the Harris brothers, and three more of the London club defeated five players from various Surrey clubs by three wickets.Waghorn 1899 54 Impact of the war The reduction in the number of matches was essentially due to the Seven Years' War. In G. B. Buckley's Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, he recorded a number of inter-parish games including: Saffron Walden v Cambridge; Faversham v Tenterden; Faversham v Dover; New Romney v Ashford. The presence of these and the absence of "great matches" suggests a lack of investment and resource in the game during wartime with the sport falling back onto its parish roots.Buckley 1935 37 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 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:1750s in cricket Category:English cricket seasons in the 18th century Category:1758 in England