The 1749 English cricket season was the sixth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Seven eleven-a-side matches between...
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In the years from 1726 to 1750, cricket became an established sport in London and the south-eastern counties of England. In 1726, it was already a thriving...
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The 1748 English cricket season was the fifth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of six significant...
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The 1750 English cricket season was the seventh season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of six eleven-a-side...
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Events from the year 1749 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig) February – Admiralty revises the command structure...
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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (category India Test cricket captains)
5 January 1952), was an Indian prince and cricket player. He was the captain of the India's national cricket team during its tour of England in 1946. His...
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Phillip Hughes (category Cricket deaths)
who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales...
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1772. The list is by season, this being the season in which the player's name first appears in sources. Cricket underwent radical changes during the 18th...
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The purpose of this list is to identify all historically significant English cricket clubs and teams which played in significant matches, some of which...
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Chester-le-Street (section Cricket)
with the addition of the Old English word ceaster 'Roman fortification'. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary of 1749 gives the town as Chester...
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Thomas Waymark (category Use British English from February 2015)
but it is likely that he played cricket during the 1720s. The earliest definite mention of him is in the 1730 season when a match between the teams of...
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Robert Eures (category Use British English from March 2016)
unknown) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-18th century. He came from Bexley in Kent and played for Kent county cricket teams as well as for All-England...
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Origins of baseball (section Cricket)
playing "Bass-Ball" again in September 1749 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, against Lord Middlesex. The English lawyer William Bray wrote in his diary that...
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Addington Cricket Club fielded one of the strongest cricket teams in England from about the 1743 season to the 1752 season although the village of Addington...
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Frederick, Prince of Wales (category Cricket patrons)
Evening Post reported that Frederick attended "a great cricket match" at Kew on 27 July. By the 1733 season, Frederick was seriously involved in the game, in...
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George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (category Cricket patrons)
Board of Trade from 1748 to 1761, he aided the foundation of Nova Scotia, 1749, the capital Halifax being named after him. When Canada was ceded to the...
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University of Pennsylvania (section Cricket)
other universities since Franklin first convened the board of trustees in 1749, arguably making it the fifth-oldest. The university has four undergraduate...
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2010 AFL finals series (category 2010 Australian Football League season)
2010, culminating with the 114th AFL/VFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 25 September 2010. However, after Collingwood and St Kilda drew...
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Baseball (category Use American English from February 2019)
place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. This early form of the game was apparently brought to Canada by English immigrants...
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and writer Emily Bowes (1806–1857), religious poet and artist Mary Bowes (1749–1800), playwright and botanist Tim Bowler (living), children's writer William...
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both his 100th goal for the season and his 1000th career goal during the Sydney Swans v Fremantle game at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The Brisbane Bears...
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Ivy League (category Use American English from March 2024)
history, the university changed its officially recognized founding date to 1749, which was used for all of the nineteenth century, including a centennial...
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1748 in Great Britain: Other years 1746 | 1747 | 1748 | 1749 | 1750 Countries of the United Kingdom Scotland Sport 1748 English cricket season...
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The 2018 AFL season was the 122nd season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition...
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Saint Lucia (category Use British English from October 2013)
the public domain: Chichester, Henry Manners (1894). "Montagu, John (1688?-1749)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London:...
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1750 in Great Britain (category Use British English from May 2013)
– Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, aristocrat, philanthropist and cricket patron (born 1701) 3 October – 'Captain' James MacLaine (or Maclean), gentleman...
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game of "Base-Ball" took place in 1749 in Surrey, and featured the Prince of Wales as a player. William Bray, an English lawyer, recorded a game of baseball...
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Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c.1674) 2 December – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (born 1695) 1747 in Wales "History of Henry Pelham -...
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Telford (category Use British English from October 2013)
County Cricket League whilst St. George's Cricket Club play in Division One of the Shropshire County Cricket League. Shropshire County Cricket Club often...
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John Frame (cricketer) (category Use British English from October 2022)
and died in Dartford, Kent. His known career spanned the 1749 to 1774 English cricket seasons from the ages of 16 to 41. Frame was an outstanding fast...
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