1754 English cricket season
- 1754 English cricket season
In the 1754 English cricket season, Dartford was the pre-dominant club.
The "Leeds Intelligencer", forerunner of the Yorkshire Post, began publication. It has always been a noted source for cricket in Yorkshire.
Honours
* Champion County [An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by media or historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted] – Dartford/Kent [ [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/histories/champions.html Champion counties from 1728] ] ] Matches
Other events
"Fri 21 & Sat 22 June". Midhurst & Petworth v Slindon on Bowling Green, Lavington Common [Timothy J McCann, "Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century", Sussex Record Society, 2004] . The former apparently won by eight wickets and the match seems to mark the swansong of Slindon as a great team as they are not mentioned in the sources thereafter. Sussex cricket as a whole went into decline and, although a number of inter-parish games are reported over the next decade or so, it is not until 1766 that Sussex county cricket teams again take part in a major match. This temporary demise of Sussex is surely explained by the death of the Duke of Richmond in 1750. He was the greatest patron of Sussex cricket, and of Slindon in particular. His co-patron and good friend Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet died in 1744.]The "Daily Advertiser" on Friday 28 June announced for the same day a two-a-side game "behind George Taylor’s at Deptford". The players were Tom Faulkner and Joseph Harris v Capon and Perry "Tues 24 September". A single wicket game at Brompton in Kent between the well-known Thomas Brandon of Dartford and Parr of Chatham. The stakes were five guineas each and Brandon won by 47 runs [H T Waghorn, "Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730-1773)", Blackwood, 1899] .]References
External sources
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/1754_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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