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The Surrey and All-England cricketer called Durling (first name, date of birth and date of death unknown) was a noted player in the mid-18th century, although nothing is known of him outside mentions in match reports. 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. ...
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He played for the famous Addington Cricket Club and he is first recorded in the 1748 season when he took part in a "fives" match for high stakes alongside other leading players of the day, his team winning. Earlier the same year, on 6 June, in another "fives" game between Addington and "The Rest of England excluding Kent", Addington’s players were Tom Faulkner, Joe Harris, John Harris, George Jackson and the shoemaker that lately came out of Kent! As Durling was himself apparently new that season, it is possible that he was the mysterious shoemaker. In the 1748 English cricket season, Kent was the dominant county. ...
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In 1749, when All-England played his native Surrey and were a man short, they picked Durling from their opponents to complete the side. Later that year, when Addington played All-England in a "fives" match, Durling played for a very strong Addington side alongside Faulkner, Jackson and the Harris brothers.
Durling features in big matches through the 1750s, playing against Hambledon in 1756 and for All-England on other occasions including the games against Dartford in 1759. He is last recorded in the 1761 season. Hambledon (Cricket) Club was formed before 1750 and became prominent by 1756 when it played a series of three matches versus Dartford, which had itself been a major club for at least 30 years. ...
Dartford Cricket Club is one of the oldest in England and its origins go back to the early 18th Century, perhaps sooner. ...
The famous Chertsey Cricket Club was active in the 1761 English cricket season but overall there was again a scarcity of games due mainly to the war situation. ...
| 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. ...
Bennett (London cricketer) refers to two English cricketers, probably brothers, who played for the famous London Cricket Club in the 1740s and 1750s. ...
Alan Brodrick (born 31 Jan 1702; died 8 June 1747) succeeded his father Alan Brodrick senior as Viscount Midleton on 29 August 1728. ...
John Bryant (born c. ...
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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 – 28 August 1735 in London) was a famous patron of English, particularly Kent, cricket during its formative years in the early 18th Century. ...
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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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