1749 English cricket season

The 1749 cricket season was the 152nd in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of five important eleven-a-side and three single wicket matches. The popularity of single wicket may have waned as there is a greater proportion of eleven-a-side games in the season's surviving reports.

The following matches are classified as important:

No details reported.

Hardly any details are known but it was apparently played for a hundred guineas.

All-England scored 89 and 42; Surrey replied with 73 and 59-8. No individual performances are known.

All-England had Durling of Addington (in Surrey) as a given man; Surrey had James and John Bryant as given men. The Bryants were natives of Bromley in Kent. John Frame was associated with Dartford but was actually born in Surrey, at Warlingham in 1733.

All-England: Robert Colchin, William Hodsoll, Robert Eures, Val Romney, John Larkin, Jones, John Bell, John Mansfield, Richard Newland, Joseph Budd, Durling.

Surrey: Stephen Dingate, Tom Faulkner, Joseph Harris, John Harris, George Jackson, Maynard, ? Bennett, John Bryant, James Bryant, Humphreys, John Frame.

It is not known which of "Little" or "Tall" Bennett played for Surrey.

All-England scored 71 and 47. Surrey scored 89 in their first innings but bad light prevented them chasing their target of 30. Presumably the match had to be finished (or left unfinished) on the one day. No individual performances are known. The two teams were unchanged from the match on 2 & 3 June.

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