1750 English cricket season

The 1750 cricket season was the 153rd 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 four single wicket matches. Kent and Surrey played three inter-county matches.

In At the Sign of the Wicket, F. S. Ashley-Cooper gives the opinion that the Hambledon Club was founded in or about 1750, but there is no evidence to support this view and the club's origin is unknown. As the team was playing top-class cricket in the 1756 season (i.e., its earliest recorded matches), it seems likely that a local club of some kind was founded much earlier than 1750 as it must have risen to a position of prominence in Hampshire before being able to take on the likes of Dartford from 1756. It is possible, as with many later county clubs, that a parish club was in existence for a long time and was then subject to substantial reorganisation after its team became famous. This might explain the many "origins" of the Hambledon Club up to about the 1767 season.

The following matches are classified as important:

The teams played for 50 guineas and were composed entirely of players from Kent, London, Middlesex and Surrey.

Surrey scored 57 and 36; Kent replied with 54 and 40-7. No individual scores are known but the teams are.

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