English cricket in the 18th century
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This article provides an introduction to the more specific articles that cover the history of English cricket until 1815.
Cricket enjoyed continuous development until 1810, after which it was severely disrupted by the Napoleonic War until 1815 when a slow recovery began, so the term 18th Century is here used to cover the whole period from the first recorded "great match" in 1697 until the end of the Napoleonic War in 1815.
For cricket in 1816 onwards, see English cricket from 1816 to 1918.
Details were sparse at the beginning of the 18th Century and so the first 25 years are covered by one article: History of cricket 1697 - 1725.
From 1726 onwards, newspaper reports about cricket became more common and gradually provided more detail. The article called History of cricket 1726 - 1815 is a general overview of the period but contains within it a table of links to each season.
[edit] See also
| 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] Article and match sources
The above information is essentially driven out of various historical notes that have been accumulated over many years and so sources used originally may have been overlooked for the moment. But the sources certainly include:
- A Social History of English Cricket by Derek Birley
- 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: History of its Growth and Development by Rowland Bowen
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Chertsey Cricket Club website
- Dartford Cricket Club website
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- 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
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Cricketer magazine (Cktr)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
- 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
