1779 English cricket season

Cricket tournament

The 1779 English cricket season was the eighth in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of five first-class matches have survived.

Matches

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Five first-class match scorecards survive from 1779, four of them matches between England sides and Hampshire XIs.^[1]^[2]

14–15 June – Hampshire XI v England – Itchin Stoke Down ^[3]
23–26 June – England v Hampshire XI – Sevenoaks Vine ^[4]
9–11 August – Surrey XI v Kent XI – Laleham Burway ^[5]
23 August – Hampshire XI v England – Broadhalfpenny Down ^[6]
13–16 September – England v Hampshire XI – Moulsey Hurst ^[7]

Five other matches are known to have been played during the season, including a match between Kent and Surrey at Bourne Paddock in July which was badly affected by rain.^[8] Others include early references to cricket in both Berkshire and Oxfordshire.^[9]

First-class debutants

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Berwick (Surrey and Hampshire)

References

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^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
^ Results, English Domestic Season 1779, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ Hampshire XI v England, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ England v Hampshire XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ Surrey XI v Kent XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ Hampshire XI v England, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ England v Hampshire XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019年03月02日.
^ Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
^ Other matches in England 1779, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019年02月10日.

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First-class debutants

References

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