1765 English cricket season
The 1765 English cricket season was the 22nd season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of five eleven-a-side matches between significant teams.
Matches
Five eleven-a-side match between significant teams are known to have taken place.[1][2]
- 19 August - Surrey v Dartford - Artillery Ground
- 26 August - Leeds v Sheffield - Chapeltown Moor, near Leeds
- 5 September - Sheffield v Leeds - Sheffield
- 9 September - Chertsey v Richmond - Laleham Burway
- 16 September - Richmond v Chertsey - Richmond Green
Other events
A notice in the Salisbury Journal on 16 September announced that: The Cricket players of the parish of Portsea (in Hampshire) will play the game of Cricket with any parish in the said County for 20 guineas each match, home and home. It is not known if the challenge was taken up.[3]
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References
- ACS, p.23.
- Other matches in England 1765, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
- Buckley.
Bibliography
- ACS (1981). A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
- Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
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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