1747 English cricket season

The 1747 cricket season was the 150th in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of 14 important eleven-a-side and seven single wicket matches. The single wicket form of the game was very popular among the gamblers of London and matches were disrupted because of a General Election.

The following matches are classified as important:

Pre-announced in the London Evening Post on Saturday, 9 May. No post-match report has been found.

Apparently, the match was unfinished on 29 May and the players agreed to play it out more than a week later. Curiously, that happened a week after the return match (see below) at the Artillery Ground.

The previous match (see above) being incomplete would "be played out on Tuesday next" at Duppas Hill. As a result, this return match was played before the first one was completed.

No details reported.

The source states: "They have played two matches this season, and each won one with great difficulty, being two days playing each match".

No details known other than that wickets were to be pitched at two o'clock. Two games between Kent and an England XI were due to be played at Bromley Common on Monday, 29 June and at the Artillery Ground on Wednesday, 1 July, but the source reports that both matches "are deferred on account of the gentlemen subscribers being engaged at several Elections". The Parliamentary Election of 1747 resulted in a Whig government under Henry Pelham (1694–1754). In those days, voting was limited to landed gentry (i.e., to fully paid up members of the Hanoverian aristocracy).

This was pre-announced in the Penny London Post of Wednesday, 1 July as "the deciding match" but there is no report of the game and no references to the earlier fixture(s).

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