1767 English cricket season

1767 English cricket season

Details have survived of eight important cricket matches played in 1767. There are reports that Hambledon's success continued and the team staged some remarkable batting performances, but little is known of them.

There was a report concerning the "Laws of Cricket" in the Reading Mercury dated Monday, 8 June, which states: "The Articles of the Game of Cricket as settled in the year 1744 by the Society of Noblemen & Gentlemen at the Star & Garter in Pall Mall, may be had at the Printing Office in reading or of the newsmen, neatly printed on a whole sheet of fine writing paper, price only 3d, or on a pasteboard bordered with marble paper, price 6d".[1]

Important matches

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

date match title venue result source
6 July (M) Greenwich v London [2] Blackheath London won by 2 runs [3]
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Afterwards, an elegant dinner was provided at the Assembly Rooms.

4 August (Tu) Hampshire v Sussex [1] Broadhalfpenny Down Hampshire won [3]
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No details are known other than the outcome, which was given in the Reading Mercury of Mon 10 August.

There is a report of a second Hampshire v Sussex game on Sat 8 August, also won by Hampshire, but this may be a duplicate of the above as it is not recorded elsewhere.[4]

c.5 August (W) Bourne v Surrey [1] Bourne Paddock result unknown
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This was announced in the Kentish Weekly Post on 5 August. Bourne Club (Sir Horace Mann's team) had four given men so may have had a very useful side. The announcement says: Wickets to be pitched at 10 so the match may be played out that day (sic) on account of the Assizes. It is not known what date that day was, unfortunately. The Surrey team was probably Mr Henry Rowett’s Caterham Club.

Mon 17 August. There was a fives game on Richmond Green between Richmond and Brentford. King George III was present and ordered dinner for the players at The Feathers in Richmond. He also awarded a guinea each to the winners and half a guinea each to the losers.[2]

23 September (W) Richmond v Kingston [2] Richmond Green Kingston won by 2 wkts [3]
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Richmond scored 70 & 55; Kingston replied with 71 and 55-8.

c.21 September (M) Caterham v Hambledon [2] Duppas Hill, Croydon Hambledon won by 262 runs [3]
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A very large margin for the times and Hambledon reportedly had a partnership of 192 which was described in a contemporary report as the greatest thing ever known. This is the earliest known century partnership. The game was played for 200 guineas.

One source says the partnership was believed to have been between Tom Sueter and Edward Aburrow (i.e., Aburrow junior) but the primary sources do not name the players.[4]

The match report simply says "October" and that the game was played a few days earlier. As it took place near Croydon, the venue was almost certainly Duppas Hill.[2]

28 & 29 September (M-Tu) Hambledon v Caterham [2] Broadhalfpenny Down Hambledon won by 224 runs [3]
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Another huge margin of victory but no details have survived.

14 October (W) Caterham v Hambledon [2] Caterham Common Caterham won [3]
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This was played for £100 and, surprisingly, given the results of the two previous games, was won by Caterham.

First mentions

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 3 G. B. Buckley, Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, Cotterell, 1935
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 H T Waghorn, Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730-1773), Blackwood, 1899
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ACS, Important Matches, p. 23.
  4. 1 2 Ashley Mote, The Glory Days of Cricket, Robson, 1997
  • Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
  • Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.
  • 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.
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