| Hadlow Cricket Club | |
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 The pavilion. | |
| Team information | |
| Established | before 1747 |
| Home venue | Hadlow cricket ground |
Hadlow Cricket Club was one of the early English cricket clubs, formed in the early to mid eighteenth century. Hadlow is a village in the Medway valley near Tonbridge in Kent.
A cricket club at Hadlow was known to exist during the 18th century and players from it known to have played during the 1747 English cricket season. F S Ashley-Cooper referred to a quote which described it as "a famous parish for cricket". [1] The Penny London Post reported that a match was to be played between the club and Dartford Cricket Club as "the deciding match". [2] Five players from the club played five from Slindon Cricket Club during the same year. [1]
The last mention of the original Hadlow club is a match against Addington Cricket Club in 1751. [3]
Cricket is still played at Hadlow. The modern club was first mentioned in 1819 and the present ground is located off Common Road, to the north of the village. The pavilion dates from 1864 and cost £42.10s to build. The club fields teams in the Kent County Village League. [4]
In the 1772 English cricket season, it became normal practice to complete match scorecards and there are surviving examples from every subsequent season. Scorecards from 1772 have been found for three eleven-a-side matches in which the Hampshire county team played against an England team, and for one top-class single wicket match between Kent and Hampshire. The three Hampshire v England matches have been unofficially recognised by certain sources as first-class, although no such standard existed at the time. Prior to 1772, only four scorecards have survived, the last from a minor match in 1769.
Thomas Waymark was an English professional cricketer in the first half of the 18th century. He was probably born at Mitcham in Surrey in June 1705. He is one of the earliest known players on record.
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Events in world sport through the years 1751 to 1755.
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