- Recorded matches
- Other events
- First mentions Players Venues
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
{{Use British English|date=March 2015}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}{{Infobox cricket tournament | previous_year = 1733 | previous_tournament = 1733 English cricket season | next_year = 1735 | next_tournament = 1735 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. 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 | [8] | 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 | [8][5] | The report of the previous game states that "the same Gentlemen were to play on the Downs near Lewes in Sussex".[8] | |
Other eventsA 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".[6] 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 mentionsPlayers- Charles Sackville, Lord Middlesex[6]
- Lord John Philip Sackville[6]
Venues- Vine Cricket Ground, Sevenoaks[6]
References1. ^ACS, p.20. 2. ^[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/4/Other_matches_in_England_1734.html Other matches in England 1734], CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-01-06. 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 Buckley, p.9. 4. ^Waghorn, p.6. 5. ^McCann, p.15. 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Waghorn, p.7. 7. ^Maun, pp.65–66.
Bibliography- {{cite book |last=ACS |first= |authorlink=Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians |title=A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863 |year=1981 |publisher=ACS |location=Nottingham |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Buckley |first=G. B. |authorlink=G. B. Buckley |title=Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket |year=1935 |publisher=Cotterell |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=McCann |first=Tim |authorlink=Timothy J. McCann |title=Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century |year=2004 |publisher=Sussex Record Society |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Maun |first=Ian |authorlink=Ian Maun |title=From Commons to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750 |year=2009 |publisher=Roger Heavens |isbn=978 1 900592 52 9}}
- {{cite book |last=Waghorn |first=H. T. |authorlink=H. T. Waghorn |title=Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773) |year=1899 |publisher=Blackwood |isbn=}}
Further reading- {{cite book |last=Altham |first=H. S. |authorlink=Harry Altham |title=A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) |year=1962 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Birley |first=Derek |authorlink=Derek Birley |title=A Social History of English Cricket |year=1999 |publisher=Aurum |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Bowen |first=Rowland |authorlink=Rowland Bowen |title=Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development |year=1970 |publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Major |first=John |authorlink=John Major |title=More Than A Game |year=2007 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=}}
- {{cite book |last=Underdown |first=David |authorlink=David Underdown |title=Start of Play |year=2000 |publisher=Allen Lane |isbn=}}
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