The 1743 English cricket season was the 47th cricket season since the earliest recorded eleven-a-side match was played. Details have survived of 18 eleven-a-side and three single wicket matches.
Scores at eight o’clock pm: London, Middlesex & Surrey 97 & 112–3; Kent 69. It was initially agreed to continue next day but Kent later "gave up the match".[5] The London, Middlesex & Surrey team was also described as Lord Montfort’s XI. Montfort was associated with the London club and seems to have been a noted patron of the game, although this match is the only one with which he can be directly associated. The Kent side was organised by Lord John Philip Sackville.
Scores are known: London 41 & 54; Sevenoaks 49 & 40. Sevenoaks had been 24/6 in the second innings at close of play on the first day, needing 23 to win.
Scores are known: London 70 & 97; BB&M 71 & 43. It was announced beforehand that: "the days being short, it is ordered that the wickets be pitched at 10 o’clock. This will be the last great match of the season".
A three-a-side game was played at the Artillery Ground on 11 July with six players who were stated to be "the best in England". They were William Hodsoll (Dartford), John Cutbush (Maidstone) and Val Romney (Sevenoaks) playing as Three of Kent; and Richard Newland (Slindon), William Sawyer (Richmond) and John Bryant (Bromley) playing as Three of All-England. Hodsoll and Newland were captains[3] and Kent won by 2 runs. The London Evening Post says the crowd was computed to be 10,000". A return match was arranged at Sevenoaks Vine on Wednesday, 27 July but it did not take place.[15]
A match at Finningham between teams from Finningham and Stradbroke in September is the earliest known reference to cricket in the county of Suffolk.[16]
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