1759 English cricket season
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Three Dartford v All-England matches were played in the 1759 English cricket season and a number of well-known names were involved.
[edit] Matches
| Date | Match Title | Venue | Source | Result |
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| 5 & 6 September (W-Th) | Dartford v All-England | Dartford Brent | FL18 | Dartford won |
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Dartford had two given men: Tom Faulkner and Gascoigne of London. |
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| 6 & 7 September (Th-F) | All-England v Dartford | Dartford Brent | FL18 | All-England won |
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This one was arranged immediately after the previous game finished at noon on Thursday. We do not actually know when this game finished so it is only an assumption that they played into Friday. |
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| 12 September (W) | All-England v Dartford | Laleham Burway | FL18 | Dartford won by 3 wkts |
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FL18 records that the deciding match was scheduled for Wed 12 September from an announcement in the Whitehall Evening Post dated Tues 11 September. |
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Mr Haygarth refers to this "tri-series" on page 2 of S&B, but only to the two games won by Dartford. He appears to believe that only two games were played. He found the names of the players in both those matches in Bell’s Life dated 23 November 1845, but no scores. Bell’s Life stated that the matches took place in 1765 and Mr Haygarth says another account has 1762, but it is evident that Mr Buckley has got the dates (and the sequence) right as above.
Dartford’s team, evidently unchanged in all three games, was: Tom Faulkner, Gascoigne (both London, given men), John Frame, John Bell (wk), Potter (long stop), Thomas Brandon, Thomas Bell, Goldstone, Killick, Stevens (possibly Lumpy), Wakelin.
The All-England team, also apparently unchanged, was: Burchwood (Kent), John Edmeads (Surrey), Gill (Bucks, wk), Wood (Surrey, long stop), Stephen Harding (Surrey), John Haynes (Surrey), Durling (Kent), Saunders (Berkshire), Allen (Middlesex), Nyland (sic, Sussex), Cheeseman (Sussex).
The main bowlers were stated to be Faulkner and Frame for Dartford; and Burchwood and Edmeads for All-England.
The most intriguing names are Nyland, who could have been any of the Newland brothers or perhaps their famous nephew Richard Nyren; and Stevens, who may have been the great Lumpy himself, no less. Richard Nyren and Lumpy were both 24 in 1759.
John Frame, who began in the 1740s, played on into the 1770s. He was the greatest bowler in England before Lumpy, Brett and Harris came along. John Edmeads, assuming it is the same man, was still playing for Chertsey and Surrey in the 1770s. Gill of Bucks is probably the wicket keeper in the score-recorded Hampshire v England match of June 1772.
Wood the long stop is probably the frustrating Surrey player of the 1770s whose name has caused so much confusion given his namesake from Kent and the differing accounts in which he is either John or Thomas!
| English cricket teams in the 18th century |
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Berkshire | Essex | Hampshire | Kent | Leicestershire | Middlesex | Mitcham | Nottingham | Sheffield | Surrey | Sussex |
| English cricket venues in the 18th century |
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Artillery Ground | Bishopsbourne Paddock | Broadhalfpenny Down | Bromley Common | Dartford Brent | Duppas Hill |
| English cricket seasons to 1815 |
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1300 - 1696 | 1697 - 1725 |
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to 1815 • 1816-1863 • 1864-1889 • 1890-1918 • 1919-1945 • 1946-1968 • 1969-2000 • from 2001 |
[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)
[edit] Additional References
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- Cricket: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- Chertsey Cricket Club website
- Dartford Cricket Club website (DCC)
- From the Weald to the World by Peter Wynne-Thomas (PWT)
- Hambledon Cricket Chronicle by F S Ashley-Cooper (HCC)
- Hambledon: Men and Myths by John Goulstone (HMM)
- Kent Cricket Matches by F S Ashley-Cooper (KCM)
- Pre-Victorian Sussex Cricket by HF & AP Squire (PVSC)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Start of Play by David Underdown
- The Cricketer magazine (Cktr)
- The Glory Days of Cricket by Ashley Mote
- John Nyren's The Cricketers of my Time by Ashley Mote
- Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual): various issues
