1746 English cricket season

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1746 English cricket season

The Jacobite Rebellion was mostly over by the time the season began, since Culloden was fought on 16 April. Details of 15 matches survive.

- 12 May, Bromley vs Addington at Bromley Common. Addington won with great difficulty. A return match was planned at Mr Smith’s Pyd-Horse near the Artillery Ground, but there’s no report of it.
- 9 June, Addington & Lingfield (also called Middlesex) vs London & Surrey at the Artillery Ground. A Kent man helped London & Surrey as a given man. The match was sometimes called Middlesex v Surrey, but it was really a combined team game. Addington & Lingfield won by a large margin.
- 7 July, Duppas Hill, Croydon: Kent & Surrey vs Addington & Bromley. The crowd was almost ten thousand. Kipps of Eltham, a noted wicket-keeper, played as a given man for Addington & Bromley.
- The fixture’s name shows the strength of Addington and Bromley at the time.
- 3 July, Kent & Surrey won by 4 runs (noted by the London Evening Post), which also mentioned a ban on bringing in liquor to the parish.
- 4 August, England defeated Kent at the Artillery Ground. No other details are known about this match.
- A combined Bromley & Chislehurst team was to play Addington on 26 May at Bromley Common.
- 23 June, Kent & Surrey were scheduled to play at the Artillery Ground, with Kent consisting entirely of players from Bromley, Bexley, and Eltham.
- In July, London v Westminster, Addington & Bromley v Kent & Surrey, and London v Edmonton were all announced to be played at the Artillery Ground.
- In August, Kent vs England on Bromley Common was postponed or its outcome is not known; there was also a plan for a return match between London and Edmonton.
- 1 September, a combined Chislehurst & London team was to play Addington at the Artillery Ground for £50.
- 21 July, a four-a-side match at the Artillery Ground between Four Millers of Bray Mills and Four Best Players of Addington for £50; the result is unknown. Thomas Waymark had been employed at Bray Mills, so he was probably involved.
- 6 August, a three-a-side game at the Artillery Ground with six players regarded as England’s best: Robert Colchin and John Bryant (both Bromley) and Joe Harris (Addington) versus Stephen Dingate (Surrey), Val Romney (Sevenoaks) and Richard Newland (Slindon). Dingate’s team won. Hundreds of pounds were won and lost. Some newspapers had named John Harris in Long Robin’s team, but it was actually his brother Joe Harris who played.