1735 English cricket season
The 1735 English cricket season was the 39th cricket season after the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of 10 top-class matches, nine played eleven-a-side and one single wicket match.
Kent patron Edwin Stead died in August and the leading patron of Kent teams became the Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset of Knole House in Sevenoaks.[1]
Recorded matches
Records have survived of nine eleven-a-side matches. Seven of these featured London Cricket Club and four featured each of Kent XIs and Surrey sides. Other sides known to have played matches include Croydon Cricket Club and Sussex XIs, whilst a combined London and Middlesex side played one match.[2][3]
Other matches believed to have been played include ones between an Acton & Brentford team and Harrow on Willesden Green and between Romford and Brentwood on Shenville Common. Westminster Cricket Club played in three known matches during the year, one against Greenwich Cricket Club in June and two against London in August.[4]
Single wicket matches
The General Evening Post of 7 August, announced a single wicket match would be played at Kennington Common on 11 August involving seven players of the London Club.[4]
References
- Buckley GB (1935) Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket, p.12. Cotterell.
- Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863, p.20. ACS: Nottingham.
- Other matches in England 1735, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- Buckley, p.11.
Further reading
- Altham HS (1962) A History of Cricket, Volume 1 London: George Allen & Unwin.
- Birley D (1999) A Social History of English Cricket. London: Aurum. ISBN 978 1 78131 1769
- Major J (2007) More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-718364-7
- Underdown D (2001) Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-century England. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780140283549