1735 English cricket season

The 1735 cricket season was the 138th in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of twelve important matches and one notable single wicket match.

Kent patron Edwin Stead, believed to have become a bankrupt, died aged 33 or 34 in London on Thursday, 28 August. The leadership of Kent cricket passed to the Sackvilles of Knole House, Sevenoaks. The county teams of which records exist in 1735 were Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex while London and Croydon remained the predominant town clubs.

The following matches are classified as important:

G. B. Buckley found four different notices of this match in the Whitehall Evening Post (WEP), the London Evening Post, the Weekly Register and the Grub Street Journal. The WEP called the game "Surrey v London" but the others all agreed it was "Croydon v London". The day of the match was Whit Tuesday. The Weekly Register (Saturday, 31 May) reported that "London beat Croydon with very great ease" on Wednesday, 28 May, and Ian Maun has recorded this as a second match, but it is almost certainly the same one, as Buckley recorded it, the Weekly Register getting the date wrong.

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