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...

record of a single wicket match is in 1726. History of English cricket (1726–1750) List of earliest references in English cricket List of English cricketers...

In English cricket, the years from 1751 to 1775 are notable for the rise of the Hambledon Club and the continuing spread of the sport across England. The...

In 1726, a newspaper report named the players in a cricket match, the first time this ever happened. The players concerned were Perry of London and Piper...

Cricket, and hence English amateur cricket, probably began in England during the medieval period but the earliest known reference concerns the game being...

history of women's cricket can be traced back to a report in The Reading Mercury on 15 Aug 1745 and a match that took place between the villages of Bramley...

period from 1776 to 1800 saw significant growth and development in English cricket to the point that it became a popular sport nationwide, having outgrown...

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot) pitch with...

Cricket is a multi-faceted sport with different formats, depending on the standard of play, the desired level of formality, and the time available. One...

Club cricket is a mainly amateur, but still formal form of the sport of cricket, usually involving teams playing in competitions at weekends or in the...

purpose of this list is to identify all historically significant English cricket clubs and teams which played in significant matches, some of which may...

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...

Cricket is a format of the sport of cricket, considered the game’s most prestigious and traditional form. Often referred to as the "ultimate test" of...

First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or...

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny, KG, KB, PC, FRS (18 May 1701 – 8 August 1750) of Goodwood House near Chichester...

Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century, Sussex Record Society, 2004. "No. 9042". The London Gazette. 23 March 1750. p. 1. Deborah Fisher, Princes of Wales...

100-ball cricket is a short form of cricket designed to attract new audiences to the game with simplified rules, which was originally created by the England...

cricket status. List of English cricketers (1772–1786) List of English cricketers (1787–1825) List of English cricketers (1826–1840) List of English cricketers...

Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of Twenty20 cricket, in which each team plays a single innings with a maximum of twenty overs. The matches are played...

(abbreviated T20) is a shortened format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county...

International (ODI) is a format of Cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of fifty overs, with the...

Chalfield, Wiltshire, or else her lover John Hall of Bradford-on-Avon. He succeeded his grandfather in 1726, inheriting the Thoresby estate in Nottinghamshire...

form of women's international cricket. A women's Twenty20 international is a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between two of the International Cricket Council...

Lanes, reputed to have opened in 1726 at the junction of Green Lanes and Green Dragon Lane. The Victoria County History records that by 1752, the Green...

1723 for a match between a Surrey side and London. One of cricket's most famous paintings is Cricket at Moulsey Hurst, by Richard Wilson in 1780. The painting...

A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). London: George Allen & Unwin. ASIN B0014QE7HQ. Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. London:...

to Lord's, Volume One: 1700 to 1750. Cambridge: Roger Heavens. ISBN 978-19-00592-52-9. McCann, Tim (2004). Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century. Lewes:...

Jedediah Strutt (1726–1797). 1764: The spinning jenny invented by James Hargreaves (c. 1720–1778). 1767: Spinning frame invented by John Kay of Warrington....

real achievement would be to make landscape the equal of history painting. "British Watercolours 1750-1900: The Landscape Genre". Encyclopædia Britannica...

Limited overs cricket, also known as white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day. There...