1758 English cricket season

1758 English cricket season

1758 was the 62nd English cricket season since the earliest known important match was played. Details have survived of one important eleven-a-side and one single wicket match.

The reduction in the number of matches was perhaps due to the Seven Years' War. Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket records a number of parish games: e.g., 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.[1]

Cricket Scores 1730 – 1773 records a "fives" game on Kennington Common in August. Tom Faulkner, one of the Harrises and three more of the London Cricket Club defeated five players from various Surrey clubs by three wickets.[2]

Important matches

The following matches are classified as important:[note 1]

date match title venue result source
16 & 17 August (W-Th) London & Surrey v Kent [1] Artillery Ground? London & Surrey won [3]
notes

The venue is uncertain and it is possible 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.

Single wicket

    Other events

      First mentions

      Counties

        Clubs and teams

          Players

            Venues

              Notes

              1. ↑ First-class cricket was officially defined in May 1894 by a meeting at Lord's of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season. Pre-1895 matches of the same standard have no official definition of status because the ruling is not retrospective and the important matches designation, as applied to a given match, is based on the views of one or more substantial historical sources. For further information, see First-class cricket, Forms of cricket and History of cricket.

              References

              1. 1 2 G. B. Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
              2. ↑ H. T. Waghorn, Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730-1773), Blackwood, 1899
              3. ↑ ACS, Important Matches, p. 23.

              Bibliography

              • Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
              • McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
              • Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.
              • Waghorn, H. T. (1906). The Dawn of Cricket. Electric Press.
              • Wilson, Martin (2005). An Index to Waghorn. Bodyline.

              Further reading

              • ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
              • Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
              • Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
              • Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
              • Buckley, G. B. (1937). Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket. Cotterell.
              • Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
              • Maun, Ian (2011). From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770. Martin Wilson. ISBN 978-0-9569066-0-1.
              • Mote, Ashley (1997). The Glory Days of Cricket. Robson.
              • Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.
              • Leach, John (2008). "Classification of cricket matches from 1697 to 1825". Stumpsite. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011.
              • Leach, John (2007). "From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787". Stumpsite. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011.
              • Collins, A. R. (2016). "Historical Calendar". Dr A. R. Collins.
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