• Source: 1780 English cricket season

    • The 1780 English cricket season was the ninth in which matches have been awarded retrospective first-class cricket status. The scorecards of four first-class matches have survived. The first six-seam cricket balls were used during the season.


    Matches


    Four first-class match scorecards survive from 1780, two of them matches between England sides and Hampshire XIs and two between sides organised by John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset and Horatio Mann.

    27–28 June – Duke of Dorset's XI v Sir Horatio Mann's XI – Sevenoaks Vine
    21–23 August – Sir Horatio Mann's XI v Duke of Dorset's XI – Bourne Paddock
    30 August – 1 September – England v Hampshire XI – Bourne Paddock
    20–22 September – Hampshire XI v England – Itchin Stoke Down
    Four other matches are known to have been played during the season, including one between a Kent XI and a Surrey XI and three involving Berkshire XIs, including one against an Oxfordshire XI.


    Other events


    Duke & Son of Penshurst made the first six-seam cricket ball during the year. It was presented to the Prince of Wales.


    Debutants


    John Freemantle (Hampshire)
    Gibson (Kent)
    Richard Hosmer (Kent)
    Richard Stanford (Kent)
    William Pattenden (Kent)


    Other events


    Duke & Son of Penshurst made the first six-seam cricket ball and it was presented to the Prince of Wales.


    References




    = Further reading

    =
    Altham, H. S. (1962). A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914). George Allen & Unwin.
    Birley, Derek (1999). A Social History of English Cricket. Aurum.
    Bowen, Rowland (1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development. Eyre & Spottiswoode.
    Major, John (2007). More Than A Game. HarperCollins.
    Underdown, David (2000). Start of Play. Allen Lane.

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