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Bennett (London cricketer) refers to two English cricketers, probably brothers, who played for the famous London Cricket Club in the 1740s and 1750s. They also played for All-England teams and were prominent in the single wicket variety of the sport, which was hugely popular at that time. For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ...
There was definitely a London Club playing matches by 1722, when it was referred to in a game versus Dartford, but teams styled London are known as far back as 1707. ...
In cricket, the term All-England Eleven has been used for various non-international England teams since 1739 and it indicates that the Rest of England are playing against, say, MCC or an individual county side. ...
Unfortunately, very little is known about the Bennetts outside contemporary match reports. Their first names are not recorded anywhere and they are consistently referred to as "Little" Bennett and "Tall" Bennett, so we do know that they were not the same height! They are first noted in 1744 playing for London against Slindon. A small village nestled in woodlands in West Sussex. ...
In 1745, we find "Little" Bennett twice playing for Surrey but as a "given man". In 1752, they both played for Westminster against the famous Addington club. In 1753, "Tall" Bennett played against London as a given man for a Marylebone XI. The last we hear of them is in 1755 when they both took part in a "fives" match playing for London against Windsor & Eton on Kennington Common.
| English cricketers of 1701 to 1760 | | Edward Aburrow senior | William Anderson | Robert Bartholomew | William Bedle | John & Thomas Bell | "Little" & "Tall" Bennett John Bowra | Thomas Brandon | Alan Brodrick | James & John Bryant | Robert Colchin | John Cutbush | Stephen Dingate Durling | Robert Eures | Tom Faulkner | John Frame | Frederick, Prince of Wales | Sir William Gage | Stephen Harding John & Joseph Harris | William Hodsoll | George Jackson | Thomas Jure | Kipps | John Larkin | Robert Lascoe J Mansfield | John Mills | Richard Newland | Tom Peake | Duke of Richmond | Ridgeway | Val Romney Lord John Sackville | William Sawyer | George Smith | Edward Stead | Thomas Waymark Bartholomew (Surrey cricketer) refers to three noted Surrey cricketers of the mid-18th century. ...
William Bedle (born 1680 in Bromley; died 3 June 1768 at his home in Dartford) is the earliest English cricketer whose name has come down to posterity. ...
John Bell (born in 1718 at Dartford in Kent; died at Dartford in January 1774) was a noted English cricketer of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular. ...
Alan Brodrick (born 31 Jan 1702; died 8 June 1747) succeeded his father Alan Brodrick senior as Viscount Midleton on 29 August 1728. ...
The Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales (Frederick Lewis; 1 February 1707 â 31 March 1751) was a member of the British Royal Family, the eldest son of King George II. He was born into the House of Hanover and, under the Act of Settlement passed by the English Parliament, Frederick was...
Sir William Gage (born 1695 in Firle, East Sussex; died 1744) was a noted patron of English, particularly Sussex, cricket during its formative years in the early 18th Century. ...
Richard Newland (christened 2 March 1718 at Slindon, Sussex; died 29 May 1791 at Bath) was a noted English cricketer who played for the famous Slindon club under the patronage of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond. ...
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox (born at Goodwood, Sussex on 18 May 1701; died at Godalming on 8 August 1750) was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond. ...
William Sawyer (born 3 December 1712 at Richmond, Surrey; died 2 April 1761 at Richmond) was an English cricketer. ...
George Smith (died Monday 29 June 1761 at The Castle in Marlborough) was an English cricketer and also the keeper (i. ...
Edward Stead (aka Edwin Steed) (Maidstone, Kent, 1701 â 28 August 1735 in London) was a famous patron of English, particularly Kent, cricket during its formative years in the early 18th Century. ...
Thomas Waymark (probably born 17 June 1705 at Mitcham, Surrey; died ?) was a famous English cricketer in the first half of the 18th Century. ...
| References
- At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742 – 1751 by F S Ashley-Cooper in Cricket Magazine (1900) (ASW)
- Cricket Scores 1730 - 1773 by H T Waghorn (WCS)
- Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket by G B Buckley (FL18)
- Fresh Light on Pre-Victorian Cricket by G B Buckley (FLPV)
- Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 by Arthur Haygarth (SBnnn)
- Sussex Cricket in the Eighteenth Century by Timothy J McCann (TJM)
- The Dawn of Cricket by H T Waghorn (WDC)
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