1748 English cricket season explained

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The 1748 English cricket season was the fifth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of six significant eleven-a-side and 18 single wicket matches. 1748 was the halcyon season of single wicket, perhaps never so popular before or since.

Matches

Six matches between significant teams are known to have taken place.^{[1] [2]}

• 10 June – Kent v England XI – Dartford Brent
• 13 June – England XI v Kent – Artillery Ground
• 14 June – Lambeth v London – Peckham Rye Common
• 18 July – London v Croydon – Artillery Ground
• 15 August – London v Deptford & Greenwich – Artillery Ground
• 23 August – Deptford & Greenwich v London – Upper Fountain, Deptford

Single wicket matches

A total of 18 significant single wicket matches are known to have taken place during 1748.^{[3] [4]}

First mentions

Clubs and teams

• The Rest – earliest known use of this name by a team in a single wicket match on 6 June. The team was made up of Stephen Dingate, Little Bennett, Maynard, Collins and Thomas Waymark. The other team involved in the match was Addington.^[4]

Players

• John Colchin (Bromley)

Bibliography

• Book: ACS . Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians . A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863 . 1981 . ACS . Nottingham .
• Ashley-Cooper . F. S. . F. S. Ashley-Cooper . At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751 . 1900 . Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game . Cricket Magazine . London . 28863559.
• Book: Buckley, G. B. . G. B. Buckley . Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket . 1935 . Cotterell .

Further reading

• Book: Altham, H. S. . Harry Altham . A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) . 1962 . George Allen & Unwin .
• Book: Birley, Derek . Derek Birley . A Social History of English Cricket . 1999 . Aurum .
• Book: Bowen, Rowland . Rowland Bowen . Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development . 1970 . Eyre & Spottiswoode .
• Book: Major, John . John Major . More Than A Game . 2007 . HarperCollins .
• Book: Maun, Ian . Ian Maun . From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750 . 2009 . Roger Heavens . 978-1-900592-52-9.
• Book: Underdown, David . David Underdown . Start of Play . 2000 . Allen Lane .
• Book: Waghorn, H. T. . H. T. Waghorn . Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773) . 1899 . Blackwood .

Notes and References

1. ACS, p.22.
2. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/5/Other_matches_in_England_1748.html Other matches in England 1748
3. Ashley-Cooper, p.53.
4. Buckley, p.22.