Matches
| Date | Match Title | Venue | Result | |
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| 24 June (Tu) | Kent v Sussex | Walworth Common | result unknown | |
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The match was for fifty pounds per side with a play or pay rule agreed. |
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| 30 July (Wed) | Dartford v London | Dartford (precise venue not specified) | result unknown | |
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The teams were described as "the Gentlemen of Dartford and London"; the stake was fifty pounds. |
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| 5 August (Tu) | Gentlemen of Middlesex v Gentlemen of London | The Woolpack, Islington | result unknown | |
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The venue was described as "in the Field behind the Woolpack Back Gate near Sadler’s Wells", the match having a stake of £50 per side. Several sources have listed the match in 1728 due to an error in original research. |
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| 5 August (Tu) | London v Dartford | Kennington Common | Dartford won "very much" | |
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Described thus: "a great Cricket Match at Kennington Common between the Londoners and the Dartford men, for a considerable Sum of Money, Wager and Betts, and the latter beat the former very much". |
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| 28 August (Th) | Mr Edward Stead’s XI v Sir William Gage’s XI | Penshurst Park | Sir William Gage’s XI won by an innings? | |
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This match seems to have resulted in the earliest known innings victory as Gage's XI "got (within three) in one hand, as the former did in two hands, so the Kentish men (i.e., Stead's XI) threw it up". The report added re Thomas Waymark that "a groom of the Duke of Richmond signalised himself by extraordinary agility and dexterity". |
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| ? Sept | Sussex, Surrey & Hampshire v Kent | Lewes | result unknown | |
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This is the first time that Sussex and Hampshire are used in a team name, though not individually. |
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