1776 English cricket season
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Matches
Seven first-class match scorecards survive from 1776, all of them involving Hampshire XIs playing either Kent XIs or Surrey XIs.[1][2]
- 5–7 June - Hampshire XI v Kent XI - Moulsey Hurst[3]
- 25–26 June - Kent XI v Hampshire XI - Sevenoaks Vine[4]
- 2–4 July - Hampshire XI v Kent XI - Broadhalfpenny Down[5]
- 15–17 July - Kent XI v Hampshire XI - Sevenoaks Vine[6]
- 22–24 July - Hampshire XI v Kent XI - Broadhalfpenny Down[7]
- 6–8 August - Surrey XI v Hampshire XI - Laleham Burway[8]
- 26–28 August - Hampshire XI v Surrey XI - Broadhalfpenny Down[9]
Three other matches not between county sides are known to have been played during the season. Full scorecards do not survive from these matches.[10]
In the 6–8 August Surrey v Hampshire match at Laleham Burway, John Wood and Lumpy Stevens made a last-wicket partnership of 43 to win the match for Surrey. This was the first known one-wicket margin in a first-class match, while Wood and Stevens' newly established record for the highest last-wicket partnership to win stood until 1877, when the Gentlemen added 46 for the last wicket to win the 2–4 July Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's.
Other events
A notice in the Leicester Journal of 17 August is the earliest known mention of cricket in Leicestershire.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
First mentions
Richard Aubrey Veck made his debut in first-class cricket during the season.
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 1776, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Hampshire XI v Kent XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Kent XI v Hampshire XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Hampshire XI v Kent XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Kent XI v Hampshire XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Hampshire XI v Kent XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Surrey XI v Hampshire XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Hampshire XI v Surrey XI, scorecard, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ↑ Other matches in England 1776, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
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Further reading
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