1749 English cricket season

The 1749 English cricket season was the sixth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket.

Matches

Seven eleven-a-side matches between significant teams are known to have taken place.^[1][2]

• 26 May – London & Bromley & Chislehurst v Addington – Artillery Ground
• June – Hastings v Pevensey – not known^[3]
• 2 June – England XI v Surrey – Dartford Brent
• 5 June – England XI v Surrey – Artillery Ground
• 21 June – London v Richmond & Ripley – Artillery Ground
• 26 June – Long Robin's XI v Stephen Dingate's XI – Artillery Ground
• 14 August – London v Bearsted – Artillery Ground

Single wicket matches

A series of three single wicket cricket matches took place between teams of five playing for England against Addington. The matches resulted from a challenge by the Addington players to meet any other five in England, with Addington considered the favourites to win. Addington won only one of the matches.^[4]

First mentions

Players

• John Frame (Surrey/Dartford/Kent)

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.
• McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.

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.
• Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.