1738 English cricket season

1738 English cricket season

Cricket formats	major, including single wicket

In the 1738 English cricket season, there were a reduced number of match reports. London featured in all the games reported. Chislehurst became a prominent club.

An advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury dated Tuesday 9 May 1738 is the earliest reference for cricket in Dorset. Twelve Dorchester men at Ridgway Races challenged twelve men from elsewhere to play them at cricket for the prize of twelve pairs of gloves valued at a shilling a pair.

Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Result
July	London & Surrey v Kent	Kennington Common	Kent won
A return match was played, but where or with what result was not recorded.
July	Chislehurst v London	Chislehurst Common	London won
A game that “turned several times” until finally being won by London. The rematch was arranged a week hence.
July	London v Chislehurst	Artillery Ground	Chislehurst won by 5 wkts
London scored less than 100 in their combined innings. Chislehurst had scored 73 in the first innings and won "without much difficulty".
11 August (F)	London v Mitcham	Artillery Ground	London won by 1 wkt
Mitcham totalled 117-20 in two innings; London 118-19 in two innings. Strangely, the only report of this was in the Warwickshire & Staffordshire Journal dated Thursday 17 August.
September	London v Chislehurst	Artillery Ground	London won
Betting on London at the start of the second innings was a guinea to a shilling.

External links

• Classification of cricket matches from 1697 to 1825
• CricketArchive – 1738 match list
• From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787