1764 English cricket season

The 1764 English cricket season was the 21st season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of seven eleven-a-side matches between significant teams.

1764 English cricket season

The 1764 season marks the beginning of the "Hambledon Era" in earnest and it is believed to be about this time that the Hambledon Club was founded. A number of notable players are mentioned in sources for the first time, including three of the greatest 18th century players: Richard Nyren, John Small and Lumpy Stevens.

Matches

Seven eleven-a-side match between significant teams are known to have taken place.[1][2] Chertsey and Hambledon, by now the leading teams in cricket, played each other three times as did Norfolk and Suffolk.

  • 23 August - Norfolk v Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds Race Course
  • 28 August - Romford v Dartford - Romford Race Course
  • 10 September - Chertsey v Hambledon - Laleham Burway
  • 10 September - Norfolk v Suffolk - Scole Common
  • 12 September - Norfolk v Suffolk - Scole Common
  • 17 September - Hambledon v Chertsey - Broadhalfpenny Down
  • 21 September - Arundel v East Sussex - Henfield Common
  • 24 September - Chertsey v Hambledon - venue unknown

First mentions

Players
gollark: This is not very accurate, though.
gollark: In a market, if people don't want kale that much, the kale company will probably not have much money and will not be able to buy all the available fertilizer.
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.

References
  1. ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS. p. 23.
  2. Other matches in England 1764, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-02-10.

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.
  • Maun, Ian (2011). From Commons to Lord's, Volume Two: 1751 to 1770. Martin Wilson. ISBN 978-0-9569066-0-1.
  • Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.
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