1732 English cricket season

The 1732 English cricket season was the 36th cricket season after the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of 12 matches.

1732 English cricket season

Cricket at this time was still played with two stumps and a cricket bat shaped like a hockey stick, which was the ideal implement for dealing with the rolled ball.

Recorded matches

Records have survived of twelve matches, 11 of which included London Cricket Club. This included matches against sides from Kent, Surrey and Middlesex as well as against a Essex and Hertfordshire side and other club sides such as Croydon. At least four matches were held at the Artillery Ground in Finsbury;[1][2] its groundsman, Christopher Jones, was mentioned in one newspaper report.[3] London were generally successful and one report suggests that they played 13 matches during the season and were undefeated.

First mentions

Clubs and teams

Teams played under the names Brentford & Sunbury and Essex & Hertfordshire, although neither team was an established club side.

Venues

References
  1. Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863, p.20. ACS: Nottingham.
  2. Other matches in England 1732, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  3. Buckley GB (1937) Fresh Light on pre-Victorian Cricket, p.1. Cotterell.

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
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