1749 English cricket season

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In the 1749 English cricket season, the popularity of single-wicket may have waned as there is a greater proportion of eleven a side games in the year’s reports.

1 Matches
2 Other events
3 Main Sources
4 Additional References

[edit] Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Source	Result
29 May (M)	London & Bromley v Addington	Artillery Ground	ASW	result unknown
No details reported.
? June	Hastings v Pevensey	venue unknown	ASW	result unknown
Hardly any details are known but it was apparently played for a hundred guineas.
2 & 3 June (F-S)	All-England v Surrey	Dartford Brent	ASW	Surrey won by 2 wickets
All-England scored 89 and 42; Surrey replied with 73 and 59-8. No individual performances are known. All-England had Durling of Addington (in Surrey) as a given man; Surrey had James and John Bryant as given men. The Bryants were natives of Bromley in Kent. John Frame was associated with Dartford but was actually born in Surrey, at Warlingham in 1733. All-England: Robert Colchin, William Hodsoll, Robert Eures, Val Romney, John Larkin, Jones, John Bell, J Mansfield, Richard Newland, Joseph Budd, Durling. Surrey: Stephen Dingate, Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, George Jackson, Maynard, ? Bennett, John Bryant, James Bryant, Humphreys, John Frame. We do not know which of "Little" or "Tall" Bennett played for Surrey.
5 June (M)	All-England v Surrey	Artillery Ground	ASW	drawn
All-England scored 71 and 47. Surrey scored 89 in their first innings but bad light prevented them chasing their target of 30. Presumably the match had to be finished (or left unfinished) on the one day. No individual performances are known. The two teams were unchanged from the match on 2 & 3 June.
21 June (W)	London v Richmond & Ripley	Artillery Ground	ASW	result unknown
No details reported.
26 June (M)	Long Robin’s XI v S Dingate’s XI	Artillery Ground	ASW	result unknown
The game was arranged by the members of the London Cricket Club and played for a hundred guineas a side. William Hodsoll was due to play for one side or the other but had to withdraw. We do not know who replaced him. Long Robin’s XI: Robert Colchin, John Bryant, J Mansfield, James Bryant, John Bell, Robert Eures, Val Romney, Durling, John Colchin, John Bowra, John Larkin. S Dingate’s XI: Stephen Dingate, Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, George Jackson, John Frame, Humphreys, "Little" Bennett, Tom Peake, John Capon, Thomas Jure.
14 August (M)	London v Bearsted (Kent)	Artillery Ground	FL18	London won "with great ease"
London won with great ease. It was stated that Bearsted was the best team in Kent, having beaten all other parishes in their neighbourhood.

[edit] Other events

Mon 10 July. Five of All-England defeated Five of Addington at the Artillery Ground. The match was played for fifty guineas a side and was the result of a challenge by the Addington players to meet any other five in England. Betting was 8-1 in favour of Addington.

Addington: Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, George Jackson, Durling.

All-England: Robert Colchin, John Bryant, Robert Eures, John Bell, Thomas Waymark.

Mon 17 July. In a return match, the same Addington five beat the same All-England five for fifty guineas.

Wed 26 July. In a deciding match, All-England won by 2 runs. They scored 11 and 12; Addington replied with 16 and 5. The prize this time was 100 guineas. All-England made two changes to their team with James Bryant and Val Romney replacing John Bell and Thomas Waymark. Addington’s five were unchanged.

ASW reports a game at White Conduit Fields on Wed 2 August involving 22 members of the London Club. The report states that the venue was in use before 1720 but that the White Conduit Club was not established until 1780. On the site was the White Conduit Tavern, erected in about 1648, and this was a favourite halting-place for those who had walked out a short distance from London. In 1749, the Tavern was owned by William Curnock and shortly afterwards by Robert Bartholomew, the Surrey cricketer.

Mon 28 August. ASW records Long Robin’s XI v T Faulkner’s XI at the Artillery Ground for sixty guineas a side but the teams were not top-class and had several players making up the numbers. Tues 29 August. Portsmouth versus Fareham & Titchfield on Portsmouth Common is the earliest reference to an actual match being played in Hampshire, although the game was first recorded in the county 102 years previously. The Portsmouth team, which was described as those living on the Common, won by great odds. (FL18)

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[edit] Main Sources

Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians - various publications
At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 - 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)