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Chertsey Cricket Club

Chertsey Cricket Club in Surrey is one of the oldest in England. Its own website dates its founding as 1737 but in fact matches involving a Chertsey team date from 1736....

and Hambledon Club

Hambledon Club

The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches. By the late 1770s it was the foremost cricket club in England.-Foundation:...

, by now the leading teams in English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

, played each other three times in the 1764 English cricket season.

The 1764 season marks the beginning of the "Hambledon Era" in earnest. The team must have continued to make a name for itself ever since the tri-series v Dartford Cricket Club

Dartford Cricket Club

Dartford Cricket Club is one of the oldest in England and its origins go back to the early 18th century, perhaps earlier.See also: Dartford Brent...

in 1756, but there can be no doubt that the records of many matches have been lost.

Matches

Date	Match Title	Venue	Result
23 August (Th)	Norfolk v Suffolk	Bury St Edmunds Race Course	Norfolk won
This was reported in the Gazetteer & London Daily Advertiser on Tues 28 August.
28 August (Tu)	Romford v Dartford Dartford Cricket Club Dartford Cricket Club is one of the oldest in England and its origins go back to the early 18th century, perhaps earlier.See also: Dartford Brent...	Romford Romford Romford is a large suburban town in north east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Havering. It is located northeast of Charing Cross and is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the London Plan... Race Course	result unknown
This was announced in the Chelmsford Chronicle on Fri 24 August. Dartford was a leading club; it is interesting they travelled to play an Essex Essex county cricket teams Essex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. It is almost certain that cricket reached Essex by the 16th century and that it developed during the 17th century with inter-parish matches being... team on presumably level terms as this would suggest that playing standards in Essex were good at this time.
10 & 11 September (M-Tu)	Chertsey Chertsey Cricket Club Chertsey Cricket Club in Surrey is one of the oldest in England. Its own website dates its founding as 1737 but in fact matches involving a Chertsey team date from 1736.... v Hambledon Hambledon Club The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches. By the late 1770s it was the foremost cricket club in England.-Foundation:...	Laleham Burway Laleham Burway Laleham Burway is a tract of meadow land on the River Thames near Chertsey in Surrey. Part of it was a famous major cricket venue in the 18th century and the home of Chertsey Cricket Club.-Earliest known matches:...	Hambledon won by 4 wkts
The team scores were: Chertsey 48 and 127; Hambledon 76 and 100-6. The stakes were £20 a side. The Hambledon team is believed to have been: Richard Nyren Richard Nyren Richard "Dick" Nyren was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1760s and 1770s in the heyday of the Hambledon Club... (captain), John Small, Peter Stewart, William Hogsflesh William Hogsflesh William Hogsflesh was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s.His career ended in 1775 and he was a well known bowler, probably of quick medium pace, but his best years were before the sport's statistical record begins in 1772 and so most... , William Barber William Barber (cricketer) William Barber was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s. Originally from Walberton, near Chichester, he came to Hambledon to play after being "spotted" .Barber finished playing in 1777... , John Bayton, Osmond, John Woolgar, Edward Woolgar, Thomas Ridge Thomas Ridge (cricketer) Thomas Ridge was a prominent member of the Hambledon Club and played in a number of its cricket matches, including 6 known first-class appearances for Hampshire between 1768 and 1775.... and Squire Thomas Land. Hambledon at this time was sometimes referred to as "Squire Land’s Club". Chertsey is believed to have had three given men from Dartford, perhaps including John Frame John Frame (cricketer) John Frame was an English cricketer and arguably the first great fast bowler in the game's history... . Thomas "Daddy" White Thomas White (cricketer) Thomas "Daddy" White was a noted English cricketer.White played in the 1760s and 1770s; details of his early career are largely unknown but he retired in 1779. He is known to have appeared frequently for Surrey and All-England since recorded scorecards first became commonplace in 1772... and Edward "Lumpy" Stevens may have played for Chertsey. John Edmeads John Edmeads John Edmeads was an English cricketer who played for Chertsey Cricket Club, Surrey and All-England.... and Thomas Baldwin certainly did for they shared a partnership of 40. At the end of Monday’s play, Chertsey had scored 115 in their second innings (wickets unknown) and so led by 87. They added 12 in the morning and Hambledon needed exactly 100 to win. They scored them after being 4-3! Ashley Mote remarks that Richard Nyren Richard Nyren Richard "Dick" Nyren was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1760s and 1770s in the heyday of the Hambledon Club... travelled to this match leaving a six-months pregnant wife at home (at least, it is assumed she stayed at home!) for the author of The Cricketers of My Time, John Nyren John Nyren John Nyren was an English cricketer and author. Nyren made 16 known appearances in first-class cricket from 1787 to 1817... , was born in December.
10 September (M)	Suffolk v Norfolk	Scole Common	Suffolk won
12 September (W)	Suffolk v Norfolk	Scole Common	Suffolk won
The source reports these together and says Suffolk won (both?) "with the greatest of ease".
17 & 18 September (M-Tu)	Chertsey v Hambledon	Broadhalfpenny Down Broadhalfpenny Down Broadhalfpenny Down, situated on a hilltop about a mile from the rural village of Hambledon in Hampshire, was the home venue for first-class cricket matches of the Hambledon Club from 1753 to 1781... ?	Chertsey won by 2 wkts
The return match to the one a week earlier and it was probably at Hambledon but this is not certain. There are references in the Whitehall Evening Post Whitehall Evening Post The Whitehall Evening Post was a London newspaper, founded in 1718.It was started in September 1718 by Daniel Defoe; and was then published on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Defoe left it in June 1720, but it continued to exist until the end of the century. It closed in 1801, with issue... and the St James Chronicle both before and after the game.
24 September (M)	Chertsey v Hambledon	venue unknown	result unknown
The two clubs apparently agreed to stage a decider but it is not known if it ever took place.

First mentions

Richard Nyren
Richard Nyren
Richard "Dick" Nyren was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1760s and 1770s in the heyday of the Hambledon Club...
John Small
Peter Stewart
William Hogsflesh
William Hogsflesh
William Hogsflesh was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s.His career ended in 1775 and he was a well known bowler, probably of quick medium pace, but his best years were before the sport's statistical record begins in 1772 and so most...
William Barber
William Barber (cricketer)
William Barber was an English cricketer who played for the Hambledon Club in its great days during the 1760s and 1770s. Originally from Walberton, near Chichester, he came to Hambledon to play after being "spotted" .Barber finished playing in 1777...
John Bayton
Thomas Ridge
Thomas Ridge (cricketer)
Thomas Ridge was a prominent member of the Hambledon Club and played in a number of its cricket matches, including 6 known first-class appearances for Hampshire between 1768 and 1775....
Squire Thomas Land
Thomas Baldwin
Thomas Baldwin (cricketer)
Thomas Baldwin was an English professional cricketer who was prominent in major cricket matches during the 1760s.-Career:He was a member of the Chertsey Cricket Club who also played for Surrey .-External sources:*...

(Chertsey)

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