1745 English cricket season

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season = 1745 English cricket season


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The 1745 English cricket season was played against the background of the Jacobite Rebellion but this seemingly had little impact on cricket in south-east England. Single wicket contests were very popular with the gamblers.

Honours

* Champion County [An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by media or historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted] – Kent [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/histories/champions.html Champion counties from 1728] ]

Matches

Other events

"Fri 10 May". The "Ipswich Journal" reported that: "All lovers of Cricket are hereby desired to meet at "Gray’s Coffee House" (in Norwich) on Friday 17th inst. at 6 pm to settle rules for that manly diversion". A version of the Laws of Cricket having been published the previous year, was this a meeting of dissenters, perhaps? G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket", Cotterell, 1937]

"Mon 24 June". A game between two threes in the Artillery Ground. The teams were William Hodsoll (Dartford), Val Romney (Sevenoaks) and Richard Newland (Slindon) versus Robert Colchin (Bromley), J Harris (Addington) and John Bryant (Bromley). It is not known which of John or Joseph Harris was playing. Hodsoll’s side won by 7 runs .

"Fri 26 July". A ladies match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford, between "XI Maids of Bramley" and "XI Maids of Hambledon". They all dressed in white but the Hambledon lasses wore red ribbons on their heads and the Bramley lasses wore blue. This is Hambledon near Godalming in Surrey, incidentally. Bramley is another Surrey village, also close to Godalming H T Waghorn, "Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730-1773)", Blackwood, 1899] F S Ashley-Cooper, "At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742-1751", "Cricket" Magazine, 1900] . A further report says the ladies played a return match at Hambledon, Surrey on Tues 6 August G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935] .

First mentions

* William Anderson
* Robert Lascoe
* Broad (Addington)
* Norton (London)

References

External sources

* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/1745_ENG.html CricketArchive match lists]
* [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787]

Further reading

* H S Altham, "A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914)", George Allen & Unwin, 1962
* Derek Birley, "A Social History of English Cricket", Aurum, 1999
* Rowland Bowen, "Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
* David Underdown, "Start of Play", Allen Lane, 2000