1737 English cricket season
The 1737 English cricket season was the 41st cricket season since the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of seven significant matches. Frederick, Prince of Wales had become one of the sport's main patrons by this year.
Recorded matches
Records have survived of seven matches. London Cricket Club played in five of these, with the two other matches featuring combined London and Surrey sides. Kent sides were the opponents in three matches, whilst sides from Surrey and Essex as well as from Chertsey Cricket Club are also known to have played matches.[1][2]
Two unnamed players, one from Wandsworth and one from Mitcham, described as "two of the most celebrated sportsmen in the game", played a single-wicket match on Kennington Common in August.[3]
First mentions
A match at Ilford is the first match known to have definitely taken place in Essex. One played in July between Stansted and Hertford is the earliest known match to take place in Hertfordshire.[4]
Clubs and teams
- Brentwood
- Hertford
- Stansted
Players
- John Boots
- Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
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 1737, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- Maun I (2009) From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750, p.89. Roger Heavens ISBN 978 1 900592 52 9
- Maun, p. 87.
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