1770 English cricket season
- 1770 English cricket season
Only four match reports have been found from the 1770 English cricket season. Hambledon continued to be successful.
Honours
* Champion County [An unofficial seasonal title proclaimed by media or historians prior to December 1889 when the official County Championship was constituted] – Hambledon/Hampshire [ [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/histories/champions.html Champion counties from 1728] ] ] Matches
Other events
"Tues 26 June". The "Middlesex Journal" on Thurs 29 June reported the death of a Mr Johnson, who was a goldsmith at London Wall. His death was "occasioned by a blow which he received from a cricket ball on Thurs 21 June near Islington" [.]There was a notice in the "General Evening Post" dated Tues 7 August that "His Majesty (i.e., George III) has given a silver cup to be played for at cricket on the 20th inst. on Richmond Green, on account of the Princes having been much pleased with a Cricket match there on Mon. last" [G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket", Cotterell, 1937] . No details of either match have been found.]In the year of the so-called "Boston Massacre", which occurred on Mon 5 March, there was a report in the "Middlesex Journal" on Thurs 16 August that: "about three days before the meeting of Parliament, a grand Cricket Match will be played by 11 of the Ministry against 11 of the Patriots, when great sport is expected" [G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935] .]References
External sources
* [http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Seasons/1770_ENG.html CricketArchive match lists]
* [http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html From Lads to Lord's; The History of Cricket: 1300 – 1787]
Further reading
* H S Altham, "A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914)", George Allen & Unwin, 1962
* Derek Birley, "A Social History of English Cricket", Aurum, 1999
* Rowland Bowen, "Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development", Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
* Ashley Mote, "The Glory Days of Cricket", Robson, 1997
* David Underdown, "Start of Play", Allen Lane, 2000
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