1734 English cricket season
The 1734 English cricket season was the 38th cricket season since the earliest recorded eleven-aside match was played. Details have survived of seven matches.
Four counties (Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex) and two clubs (Croydon and London) took part in all the known games. Records have been found of the earliest known match at the Vine Cricket Ground in Sevenoaks.
Contents
1 Recorded matches
2 Other events
3 First mentions
3.1 Players
3.2 Venues
4 References
5 Bibliography
6 Further reading
Recorded matches
Records have survived of seven matches:[1][2]
| Date | Teams | Venue | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 June | Kent v London | Dartford Brent | London won | [3] |
| London beat Kent "though there was 6 to 4 laid against London in the middle of the game". | ||||
| 19 June | London v Kent | Artillery Ground | London won by an innings & 25 runs | [3] |
| Team scores are known: Kent 31 & 51; London 107. | ||||
| 25 July | Croydon v London | Duppas Hill, Croydon | Croydon won | [4] |
| No details are given of this game except the winners. The report includes a pre-announcement of the following game. | ||||
| 1 August | London v Croydon | Artillery Ground | London won | [3] |
| Reported in the Grub Street Journal of 8 August. | ||||
| 26 August | Surrey v London | Kennington Common | unknown | [3] |
| Pre-announced in the London Evening Post of 22 August: "the wickets to be pitched precisely between 12 and 1 o'clock". | ||||
| 6 September | Kent v Sussex | Sevenoaks Vine | Kent won | [5] |
Lord Middlesex (1710–1769) and his brother Lord John Philip Sackville (1713–1765) played for Kent with Sir William Gage for Sussex. The first known match at Sevenoaks Vine. | ||||
| 11 September | Sussex v Kent | Lewes | unknown | [5][6] |
| The report of the previous game states that "the same Gentlemen were to play on the Downs near Lewes in Sussex".[5] | ||||
Other events
A match between London and Sevenoaks arranged for 8 July on Kennington Common, was not played due to the non-appearance of the Sevenoaks team. The Whitehall Evening Post reported that according to the Articles of Agreement their deposit money was forfeited.[3] Articles of Agreement are first known to have been drawn up in 1727.
London issued a challenge "to play with any eleven men in England, with this exception only, that they will not admit of one from Croydon".[5] No surviving post-match report has been found and so there is no evidence that the game took place. There was a dispute between London and Croydon after the latter apparently failed to attend an arranged match between the two clubs. London were especially aggrieved that Croydon did this after "having been regaled with a good dinner".[7]
The St James Evening Post reported two injuries in a private match at the Artillery Ground: "...a stander-by had the misfortune to have his knee-pan put out by a blow from the ball, and another was much bruised in the face by a like accident".[3]
First mentions
Players
Charles Sackville, Lord Middlesex[5]
Lord John Philip Sackville[5]
Venues
Vine Cricket Ground, Sevenoaks[5]
References
^ ACS, p.20.
^ Other matches in England 1734, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^ abcdef Buckley, p.9.
^ Waghorn, p.6.
^ abcdefg Waghorn, p.7.
^ McCann, p.15.
^ Maun, pp.65–66.
Bibliography
ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Sussex Record Society.
Maun, Ian (2009). From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Roger Heavens. ISBN 978 1 900592 52 9.
Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood.
Further reading
Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.
