- 1745 English cricket season
Infobox cricket season
season =1745 English cricket season
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cricket formats = first-class andsingle wicket
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county champions = Kent
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most catches =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" (inNorwich ) on Friday 17th inst. at 6 pm to settle rules for that manly diversion". A version of theLaws 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 theArtillery Ground . The teams wereWilliam Hodsoll (Dartford),Val Romney (Sevenoaks) andRichard Newland (Slindon) versusRobert 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, nearGuildford , 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 nearGodalming in Surrey, incidentally. Bramley is another Surrey village, also close to GodalmingH 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 Tues6 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
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