1764 English cricket season

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Chertsey and Hambledon, by now the leading teams in the game, played each other three times in the 1764 English cricket season.

The 1764 season marks the beginning of the "Hambledon Era" in earnest, although the team must have continued to make a name for itself ever since the tri-series v Dartford in 1756. There can be no doubt that records of many matches have been lost.

[edit] Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Source	Result
23 August (Th)	Norfolk v Suffolk	Bury St Edmunds Race Course	FL18	Norfolk won
This was reported in the Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser on Tues 28 August.
28 August (Tu)	Romford v Dartford	Romford Race Course	FL18	result unknown
This was announced in the Chelmsford Chronicle on Fri 24 August. Dartford was a leading club; it is interesting they travelled to play an Essex team on presumably level terms as this would suggest that playing standards in Essex were good at this time.
10 & 11 September (M-Tu)	Chertsey v Hambledon	Laleham Burway	WCS	Hambledon won by 4 wkts
The team scores were: Chertsey 48 and 127; Hambledon 76 and 100-6. The stakes were £20 a side. The Hambledon team is believed to have been: Richard Nyren (captain), John Small, Peter "Buck" Stewart, William Hogsflesh, William Barber, Bayton, Osmond, John Woolgar, Edward Woolgar, Mr Thomas Ridge and Squire Lamb aka Land. Hambledon at this time was sometimes referred to as Squire Land’s Club. Chertsey is believed to have had three given men from Dartford, perhaps including John Frame. Thomas "Daddy" White and Edward "Lumpy" Stevens may have played for Chertsey. John Edmeads and Thomas Baldwin certainly did for they shared a partnership of 40. At the end of Monday’s play, Chertsey had scored 115 in their second innings (wickets unknown) and so led by 87. They added 12 in the morning and Hambledon needed exactly 100 to win. They scored them after being 4-3! GDC remarks that Richard Nyren travelled to this match leaving a six-months pregnant wife at home (at least, it is assumed she stayed at home!) for the author of The Cricketers of My Time, John Nyren, was born in December.
10 September (M)	Suffolk v Norfolk	Scole Common	WDC	Suffolk won
12 September (W)	Suffolk v Norfolk	Scole Common	WDC	Suffolk won
Mr Waghorn reports these together and says Suffolk won (both?) "with the greatest of ease". He has the dates wrong, saying Mon 9 September and Wed 11 September; but those dates were on the Sunday and the Tuesday.
17 & 18 September (M-Tu)	Chertsey v Hambledon	Broadhalfpenny Down?	FL18	Chertsey won by 2 wkts
The return match to the one a week earlier and it was probably at Hambledon but this is not certain. There are references in the Whitehall Evening Post and the St James Chronicle both before and after the game.
24 September (M)	Chertsey v Hambledon	venue unknown	FL18	result unknown
The two clubs apparently agreed to stage a decider but it is not known if it ever took place.