Matches
| Date | Match Title | Venue | Result | |
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| 1 June (M) | Surrey v London | Charlwood, Surrey | Surrey won | |
| 15 June (M) | London v Surrey | Artillery Ground | result unknown | |
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The second match was announced in the report of the first. |
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| 15 June (M) | Slindon v Portsmouth | Stansted Park | Slindon won by 9 wkts | |
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This is the earliest report of a match involving Slindon, though the club must have been playing for some time beforehand. The Duke of Richmond in a letter said that "above 5000 people" were present. In a second letter, he gives the result. |
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| c.26 June (F) | Kent v London | Chislehurst | rained off | |
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An interesting comment about the Kent team was that it was "eleven out of three parishes for the county". Expectations were high but the whole day was ruined by the rain. |
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| 3 July (F) | London v Chislehurst | Artillery Ground | Chislehurst won by 60 runs | |
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"One of the best matches that has been played these many years"; however, Chislehurst seem to have won it easily enough by quite a large margin. |
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| 22 July (W) | Surrey v London | Richmond Green | tied | |
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This is the earliest known instance of a game being tied. Unfortunately the scores are not recorded but "the bets (were) drawn on both sides"! . |
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| c.31 July (F) | London v Surrey | Artillery Ground | result unknown | |
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Interest in this match must have been high after the previous one was tied but surprisingly there is no report. |
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| 7 September (M) | Surrey v Slindon | Merrow Down, Guildford | Slindon won | |
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The Duke of Richmond in a letter to Newcastle before the game spoke of "poor little Slyndon (sic) against almost your whole county of Surrey". Next day he wrote again, saying that "wee (sic) have beat Surrey almost in one innings". The Duchess of Richmond wrote to her husband on Wed 9 September and said she "wish’d..... that the Sussex mobb (sic) had thrash’d the Surrey mob". She had "a grudge to those fellows ever since they mob’d you" (apparently a reference to the Richmond Green fiasco in August 1731). She then said she wished the Duke "had won more of their moneys". |
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| 14 September (M) | London v Surrey | Artillery Ground | result unknown | |
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"Wickets to pitched at half an hour past 11 o’clock". |
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