1759 English cricket season

The 1759 cricket season was the 162nd in England since the earliest known definite reference to cricket in January 1597 (i.e., Old Style – 1598 New Style). Details have survived of three important eleven-a-side and no single wicket matches. Three Dartford v Rest of England matches were played, a number of well-known names being involved.

The following matches are classified as important:

Dartford had two given men: Tom Faulkner and Gascoigne of London.

This one was arranged immediately after the previous game finished at noon on Thursday. It is not actually known when the game finished so it is only an assumption that they played into Friday.

The deciding match was scheduled for Wed 12 September from an announcement in the Whitehall Evening Post dated Tuesday 11 September.

Arthur Haygarth refers to this "tri-series" on page 2 of Scores & Biographies, but only to the two games won by Dartford. He appears to believe that only two games were played. He found the names of the players in both those matches in Bell’s Life dated 23 November 1845, but no scores.Bell’s Life stated that the matches took place in 1765 and Mr Haygarth says another account has 1762, but it is evident that G B Buckley has got the dates (and the sequence) right as above.

Dartford’s team, evidently unchanged in all three games, was: Tom Faulkner, Gascoigne (both London, given men), John Frame, John Bell (wk), Potter (long stop), Thomas Brandon, Thomas Bell, Goldstone, Killick, Stevens (possibly Edward "Lumpy" Stevens), Wakelin.

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