1730 English cricket season

The 1730 cricket season was the 133rd in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of fourteen important matches and four notable single wicket matches.

The most noticeable aspect of the season is that it had the largest number of matches recorded to date, with much more coverage in the newspapers than in any previous season. The most significant aspect of the time, however, was the growing importance of the sport in metropolitan London and its surrounding areas. The Artillery Ground entered the historical record for the first time and it is clear that London Cricket Club was establishing predominance over its rivals, which were all representative of counties with teams called Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex all active.

The following matches are classified as important:

In a letter written by one Henry Forster two days earlier, he says: "Ye say in Chichester his grace (sic; i.e., Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond) is to play a cricket mach (sic) friday with Sr Willm Gaige (sic) on Bery (sic) Hill". No other details have been found and there is no certainty that the match was ever played.

The precise location was "a field near the lower end of Gray's Inn Lane, London". The original source reports "a cricket-match between the Kentish men and the Londoners for £50, and won by the former".

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