1778 English cricket season

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1778 English cricket season
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The 1778 English cricket season was the seventh in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of five first-class matches have survived.

Matches

Five first-class match scorecards survive from 1778, four of them involving Hampshire XIs.^[1]^[2]

29–30 June - England v Hampshire XI - Sevenoaks Vine^[3]
6–7 July - Hampshire XI v England - Itchin Stoke Down^[4]
10–11 September - Chertsey v England - Laleham Burway^[5]
24–25 September - Hampshire XI v Surrey XI - Broadhalfpenny Down^[6]
6–8 October - Surrey XI v Hampshire XI - Laleham Burway^[7]

Three other matches are known to have been played during the season, including a return match between Chertsey and an England side.^[8]

First-class debutants

The following players made their first known appearance during the 1778 season.

Boltwood
Henry Bonham (Hampshire)
Irons
Mansfield
Mills (Surrey)
Polden
Thomas Swayne (Chertsey/Surrey)

References

^ Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) (1981) A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863. Nottingham: ACS.
^ Results, English Domestic Season 1778, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-02-21.
^ England v Hampshire XI, scorecard, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
^ Hampshire XI v England, scorecard, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
^ Chertsey v England, scorecard, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
^ Hamoshire XI v Surrey XI, scorecard, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
^ Surrey XI v Hampshire XI, scorecard, Cricinfo. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
^ Other matches in England 1778, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2019-02-10.

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