1748 English cricket season

The 1748 English cricket season was the fifth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of six significant eleven-a-side and 18 single wicket matches. 1748 was the halcyon season of single wicket, perhaps never so popular before or since.^{[citation needed]}

Matches

Six matches between significant teams are known to have taken place.^[1][2]

• 10 June – Kent v England XI – Dartford Brent
• 13 June – England XI v Kent – Artillery Ground
• 14 June – Lambeth v London – Peckham Rye Common
• 18 July – London v Croydon – Artillery Ground
• 15 August – London v Deptford & Greenwich – Artillery Ground
• 23 August – Deptford & Greenwich v London – Upper Fountain, Deptford

Single wicket matches

A total of 18 significant single wicket matches are known to have taken place during 1748.^[3][4]

First mentions

Clubs and teams

• The Rest – earliest known use of this name by a team in a single wicket match on 6 June. The team was made up of Stephen Dingate, Little Bennett, Maynard, Collins and Thomas Waymark. The other team involved in the match was Addington.^[4]

Players

• John Colchin (Bromley)

References

Bibliography

• ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
• Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). "At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751". Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game. London: Cricket Magazine. OCLC 28863559.
• Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.

Further reading

• 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.
• Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
• Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-1-900592-52-9.
• Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.
• Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.