1733 English cricket season
The 1733 English cricket season was the 37th cricket season after the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of 12 matches. Two local matches played in Hampshire are the earliest known to have been played in the county.
Recorded matches
Records have survived of twelve matches. These include matches played by club sides such as London Greenwich and Croydon Cricket Clubs, matches including sides playing under the names of patrons such as Frederick, Prince of Wales and Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet and those involving sides playing under the names of counties, such as Kent sides.[1][2]
The earliest known matches in Hampshire took place at Stubbington and Titchfield, near Portsmouth when a team of bachelors were beaten twice by a team of married men.[3]
First mentions
1733 saw the earliest known match played in Hampshire.
Clubs and teams
- Ealing & Acton
- Frederick, Prince of Wales' XI
- Middlesex & Surrey
Venues
References
- 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 1733, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- Maun I (2009) From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750, p.59. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978 1 900592 52 9
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