William Sawyer (cricketer)
- William Sawyer (cricketer)
William Sawyer (born 3 December 1712 at Richmond, Surrey; died 2 April 1761 at Richmond) was an English cricketer.
Sawyer almost certainly began playing in the 1730s but it was not until a celebrated three-a-side game was played at the Artillery Ground on Monday 11 July 1743 that his name appears in reports. The "Daily Advertiser" declared that the six players involved were the "best in England". They were William Hodsoll (Dartford), John Cutbush (Maidstone) and Val Romney (Sevenoaks) playing as Three of Kent; and Richard Newland (Slindon), William Sawyer (Richmond) and John Bryant (Bromley) playing as Three of All-England [F S Ashley-Cooper, "At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742-1751", "Cricket" Magazine, 1900] . Hodsoll and Newland were captains. Kent won by 2 runs. The "London Evening Post" says the crowd was computed ("sic") to be 10,000. ]A return match was arranged at Sevenoaks Vine on Wed 27 July but it did not come off. The "Daily Advertiser" of Thursday 7 July reports that Ridgeway (first name unknown) was to play alongside Hodsoll and Romney. Then, on Friday 8 July, John Cutbush, known to have been a clockmaker from Maidstone, was named instead of Ridgeway [G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935] .]Sawyer's last known appearance was on Monday 31 August 1747 [ when he played in an eleven-a-side game for All-England v Kent at the Artillery Ground. The result is unknown but the match had been postponed earlier in the season because of a Parliamentary Election!]William Sawyer was an innkeeper in his native Richmond [ [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/ladstolords/biog.html#sawyer From Lads to Lord's – biography of William Sawyer] ] .
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