Green (Sussex cricketer)

Green (first name and dates unknown) was an English cricketer from Amberley, West Sussex who was active in the 1730s and 1740s, playing for Sussex in major cricket.^{[fc 1][fc 2]} There are definite mentions of Green in 1744 and 1747.

Career

On Saturday, 2 June 1744, he played for London against Slindon in the earliest match that has a surviving scorecard.^[1] On Monday, 18 June 1744, he played for All-England versus Kent.^[2] On Monday, 31 August 1747, he again played for All-England versus Kent.^[3]

As Green had established his reputation by 1744, he must have been active for some years previously and his career probably began in the 1720s or 1730s. Very few players were mentioned by name in contemporary reports and there are no other references to Green.

Footnotes

1. The term "major cricket" deserves some qualification. It is not limited to "first-class cricket" which is a misleading concept that is essentially statistical and may typically ignore the more important historical aspect of a match if statistical information is missing, as is invariably the case re matches played prior to 1772. From that season, scorecards began to be created habitually and there is a continuous and adequate, though incomplete, statistical record commencing in 1772. Major cricket in the Stuart and Hanoverian periods includes both single wicket and eleven-a-side games. Features of these matches include high stakes, large crowds and evidence that the teams are representative of several parishes, perhaps of whole counties. Except in rare instances, village cricket in the shape of a match played between two parish teams, would be classified as minor.
2. Note that surviving match records to 1825 are incomplete and any statistical compilation of a player's career in that period is based on known data. Match scorecards were not always created, or have been lost, and the matches themselves were not always recorded in the press or other media. Scorecard data was not comprehensive: e.g., bowling analyses lacked balls bowled and runs conceded; bowlers were not credited with wickets when the batsman was caught or stumped; in many matches, the means of dismissal were omitted.

References

1. McCann, p. 26.
2. Haygarth, p. 1.
3. McCann, p. 42.

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.
• Haygarth, Arthur (1862). Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744–1826). Lillywhite.
• Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-1-900592-52-9.
• 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.

External links

• Leach, John (2007). "From Lads to Lord's – 1744". Stumpsite. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011.