1754 English cricket season

Cricket season review November 2025 November 2025 1753 1753 English cricket season 1755 1755 English cricket season Details have survived of four historically important eleven-a-side matches in the 1754 English cricket season, and two notable single wicket matches.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. Dartford was the pre-eminent club. The Leeds Intelligencer, forerunner of the Yorkshire Post, began publication; it has always been a noted source for cricket in Yorkshire. Eleven-a-side matches London v Dartford 1 July, Artillery Ground.ACS 1981 23 The Daily Advertiser on Friday, 28 June, announced: "Wickets pitched at Twelve, and to begin play at One". London made 78 and 50; Dartford replied with 55 and 74/7. Dartford won by 3 wickets.Buckley 1937 2 Surrey v Sussex 22 July, Guildford.ACS 1981 23 The match was advertised as: "Guildford, Ripley, Thursley and the lower part of Surrey against Bolney, Brighton and the eastern part of Sussex". The stake was 20 guineas a side. Result unknown.Buckley 1935 33 Woolwich v Dartford 24 August, Barrack Field, Woolwich. Dartford won.Buckley 1937 2 Dartford v Woolwich 26 August, Dartford Brent. Woolwich won.Buckley 1937 2 Both of the Dartford v Woolwich games were mentioned in the same report by Read's Weekly Journal dated Saturday, 31 August: "Dartford won away & lost at home against Woolwich on Sat. & Mon., 24 & 26 Aug. respectively".Buckley 1937 2 Single wicket The Daily Advertiser on Friday, 28 June, announced for the same day a two-a-side game at Upper Fountain (the notice said: 'behind George Taylor's') in Deptford. The players were Tom Faulkner and Joe Harris against John Capon and Perry.Buckley 1937 2 On Tuesday, 24 September, there was a single wicket game at Brompton in Kent between the well-known Thomas Brandon of Dartford, and a player called Parr of Chatham. The stakes were five guineas each and Brandon won by 47 runs.Waghorn 1899 53 Other events 21–22 June (F–S). Midhurst & Petworth v Slindon on Bowling Green, Lavington Common.McCann 2004 48 The former apparently won by eight wickets, and the match seems to mark the swansong of Slindon as a great team, as they are not mentioned in the sources thereafter. Sussex cricket as a whole went into decline for many years and, although a number of inter-parish games were recorded over the next decade or so, it was not until 1766 that Sussex again took part in historically important matches. This temporary demise of Sussex is probably explained by the death of the 2nd Duke of Richmond in 1750. He was the greatest patron of Sussex cricket, and of Slindon in particular. His co-patron and good friend Sir William Gage, had died in 1744.George Edward Cokayne Complete Baronetage, Volume 1 1900 First mentions Clubs and teams Midhurst & PetworthMcCann 2004 48 WoolwichBuckley 1937 2 Players Parr (Chatham)Waghorn 1899 53 Venues Barrack Field, WoolwichBuckley 1937 2 Bowling Green, Lavington CommonMcCann 2004 48 Brompton (unspecified)Waghorn 1899 53 Guildford (unspecified)Buckley 1935 33 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 McCann Tim Timothy J. McCann Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century 2004 West Sussex Record Office Lewes 978-08-54450-55-8 https://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/Digital_editions/SRS-Vol-88.pdf 88 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:1754 in England