Details have survived of two eleven-a-side matches in the1757 Englishcricket season, but no notablesingle wicket matches.^{[note 1]} This was the first full season since the outbreak of theSeven Years' War in May 1756.

There was only one "great match" in 1756, played 25 and 26 July on theArtillery Ground betweenLondon andSurrey.^[5] Surrey batted first, and scored 84, to which London replied with 89. Surrey batted until close of play when they were apparently 126/4. It seems that London batted when play restarted on Tuesday morning and scored 71. The primary source concludes: "so that Surrey beat London by 50 notches and had six wickets to knock down". That suggests there may have been adeclaration by Surrey. However, there are conflicting versions because theLondon Chronicle on Tuesday, 26 July, reported the close of play score on Monday as "(Surrey) had three hands put out but had got 117 notches ahead". That would make the close of play score 122/3, so it seems they received a slightly premature report, as confirmed in another source.^[6][7][8]

On 26 August,Chertsey playedHampton onMoulsey Hurst. As reported in theGeneral Evening Post next day, Chertsey won, but the margin was not mentioned.^[6]

A match in September between Wirksworth andSheffield at Brampton Moor, nearChesterfield, is the earliest reference to cricket inDerbyshire. Although cricket is known to have been played inSheffield since 1751, this may be the earliest indication of theSheffield Cricket Club from whichYorkshire County Cricket Club eventually evolved.^[9]

The following reference is contained inWilliam White's History & General Directory of the Borough of Sheffield (1833). In his introductory history, Mr White says:In 1757 we find the Town Trustees attempting the abolition of brutal sports by paying 14s6d to the cricket players onShrove Tuesday "to entertain the populace and prevent the infamous practice of throwing at cocks". He does not give the primary source from which he himself derived the information but it would likely be in parish or town records of some kind which may or may not still exist. There is a reference to the same in Waghorn who quotes his source as the much laterRecords of theBurgery of Sheffield (1897) by Jno. D Leader (p. 382) which dates the contract as 6 February 1757 (which may have been a Julian date as 6 February 1757 in the Gregorian Calendar was a Sunday).^[10]

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