1748 English cricket season

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The 1748 English cricket season was the fifth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Details have survived of six significant eleven-a-side and 18 single wicket matches. 1748 was the halcyon season of single wicket, perhaps never so popular before or since.^{[citation needed]}

Six matches between significant teams are known to have taken place.^[1][2]

• 10 June – Kent v England XI – Dartford Brent
• 13 June – England XI v Kent – Artillery Ground
• 14 June – Lambeth v London – Peckham Rye Common
• 18 July – London v Croydon – Artillery Ground
• 15 August – London v Deptford & Greenwich – Artillery Ground
• 23 August – Deptford & Greenwich v London – Upper Fountain, Deptford

A total of 18 significant single wicket matches are known to have taken place during 1748.^[3][4]

• The Rest – earliest known use of this name by a team in a single wicket match on 6 June. The team was made up of Stephen Dingate, Little Bennett, Maynard, Collins and Thomas Waymark. The other team involved in the match was Addington.^[4]

• John Colchin (Bromley)

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