1750 English cricket season

1750 English cricket season
Cricket formats	first-class and single wicket

In the 1750 English cricket season, Kent and Surrey played three inter-county matches.

In At the Sign of the Wicket, F S Ashley-Cooper gives the opinion that the Hambledon Club was founded in or about 1750, but there is no evidence to support this view and the club's origin is unknown. As the team was playing top-class cricket in the 1756 season (i.e., its earliest recorded matches), it seems likely that a local club of some kind was founded much earlier than 1750 as it must have risen to a position of prominence in Hampshire before being able to take on the likes of Dartford from 1756.

It is possible, as with many later county clubs, that a parish club was in existence for a long time and was then subject to substantial reorganisation after its team became famous. This might explain the many "origins" of the Hambledon Club up to about the 1767 season.

Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Result
18 June (M)	Two Elevens^[1]	Artillery Ground	result unknown
The teams played for 50 guineas and were composed entirely of players from Kent, London, Middlesex and Surrey.
6 July (F)	Kent v Surrey^[1]	Dartford Brent	Kent won by 3 wkts
Surrey scored 57 and 36; Kent replied with 54 and 40-7. No individual scores are known but the teams are. Kent: William Hodsoll, Rawlings, John Bryant, James Bryant, Garrett, John Bell, Broad, Thomas Bell, Val Romney, Thomas Brandon, Howard. Surrey: Stephen Dingate, Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, George Jackson, Robert Bartholomew, John Frame, ? Frame, Maynard, John Capon, Perry. The first name of John Frame’s brother is unknown. Kent was without Robert Colchin, who had died in April aged 36.
9 July (M)	Kent v Surrey^[1]	Artillery Ground	Surrey won by 9 wkts
A return match. Kent scored 53 and 55; Surrey replied with 80 and 29-1 to win with some ease. The teams were unchanged from the first match but again no individual scores are known.
17 July (Tu)	Dartford v Addington^[1]	Dartford Brent	Dartford won by 6 runs
Dartford scored 46 and 34; Addington replied with 39 and 35. William Hodsoll and the two Bryants all played for Dartford as given men. According to the London Evening Post on Thursday 19 July, Dartford lost their last five second innings wickets in five successive deliveries by a mixture of caught and bowled. But they still made enough to win.
20 July (F)	Kent v Surrey^[1]	Artillery Ground	Kent won by 1 wicket
Surrey scored 55 and 42; Kent replied with 63 and 35-9 to win a very tight contest. A deciding match and again it was won by the team batting second. Five runs were still needed when the penultimate wicket fell. The teams were unchanged from the two previous matches but again there are no individual scores. The London Club ruled beforehand that players must reside in the county they play for. The Frames still lived at Warlingham in 1750, though John Frame was latterly associated with Dartford.
8 August (W)	London v Hampton^[1]	Artillery Ground	result unknown
No details reported.

Other events

Thurs 26 July. Five of Richmond played Five of London for a guinea a man on the Artillery Ground. No details are known.^[1]

Wed 8 August. Death of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond (1701 – 1750), who was arguably the greatest of the game’s early patrons, particularly of the Slindon Cricket Club and of Sussex cricket in general. His death was followed by an immediate slump in Sussex cricket and it is not until 1766 that a recovery can be discerned.^[1]

Mon 10 September. The first of three "fives" between Stephen Dingate and Tom Faulkner at the Artillery Ground. Faulkner won this one, which was played for fifty guineas. Teams were: Stephen Dingate, John Bryant, James Bryant, John Bell and Thomas Bell versus Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, Durling and Perry.^[1]

Fri 14 September. The second match ended in a tie, both sides totalling nine. As single-wicket rules applied, all batsmen were out. It is known they were all bowled (but not who by) except for Dingate who was caught in the 2nd innings, Thomas Bell who was run out in the 2nd innings and Joe Harris who was caught in the 2nd innings (apparently while trying to hit the winning run).^[1]

Mon 17 September. The third and deciding game of "fives" was won by Tom Faulkner’s side by an innings and one run. Dingate’s team scored 10 & 18 but Faulkner’s scored 29. Interestingly, the individual figures in the recorded score of Dingate’s second innings add up to 20 but 18 was definitely the correct total so one or more of the individual scores was wrong.^[1]

First mentions

Countries

Scotland (re a military match in Perth)

Counties

none

Clubs and teams

Players

Robert Bartholomew (Surrey)
Thomas Brandon (Dartford/Kent)
Frame (Surrey)
Garrett (Kent)
Rawlings (Kent)

Venues

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 F S Ashley-Cooper, At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742-1751, Cricket Magazine, 1900

Bibliography

Ashley-Cooper, F. S. (1900). At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751. Cricket magazine.
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.

Additional 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.
Marshall, John (1961). The Duke who was Cricket. Muller.
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.

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