1748 English cricket season

The 1748 cricket season was the 151st in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of six important eleven-a-side and 18 single wicket matches. 1748 was the halcyon season of single wicket, perhaps never so popular before or since.

The following matches are classified as important:

The source recorded that: "It was esteemed all of a curious match, the odds being two to one on each side playing".

No details are known other than that Kent won and play commenced at two o'clock.

There was a brief report in the Whitehall Evening Post on Thursday, 16 June.

Wickets to be pitched at 2 o'clock.

Robert Colchin played as a given man for London; Tom Faulkner as a given man for Deptford & Greenwich.

The venue was reported as "Mr Siddle's new cricket-ground at Deptford".

June (date unknown). Tom Faulkner beat Robert Colchin at single wicket by one wicket. Colchin scored 40 and 5; Faulkner scored 45 and 1*. It was played sometime in June on Bromley Common.

Monday, 6 June. A "fives" game between Addington and The Rest, excluding Kent. Addington's players were Tom Faulkner, Joe Harris, John Harris, George Jackson and the shoemaker that lately came out of Kent! Their opponents were Stephen Dingate, Little Bennett, Maynard, Collins and Thomas Waymark.

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