ThreeDartford vEngland matches were played in the1759 Englishcricket season, but there were no notablesingle wicket matches.^{[note 1]}

Three matches betweenDartford andEngland were played in September from the 5th to the 12th. The first two were onDartford Brent, the third onLaleham Burway.^[5] In all three matches, Dartford hadTom Faulkner and Gascoigne ofLondon asgiven men. Dartford won the first match, and England the second, both by unknown margins. The deciding match was scheduled for Wednesday, 12 September, according to an announcement in theWhitehall Evening Post the previous day. Dartford won that by 3 wickets.^[6]

Arthur Haygarth refers to this "tri-series" on page 2 ofScores & Biographies, but only to the two games won by Dartford. He appears to believe that only those two games were played. He found the names of the players inBell's Life, dated 23 November 1845, but no scores.^[7]Bell's Life stated that the matches took place in 1765, and Haygarth says another account has 1762, but it is evident thatG. B. Buckley has got the dates (and the sequence) right as above.^[6][8]

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, Wakelin.

England, also apparently unchanged, was: Burchwood (Kent),John Edmeads (Surrey),Gill (Buckinghamshire, wk),Thomas Woods (Surrey, long stop),Stephen Harding (Surrey), John Haynes (Surrey),Durling (Kent), Saunders (Berkshire), Allen (Middlesex), Nyland (Sussex), Cheeseman (Sussex).

The main bowlers were stated to be Faulkner and Frame for Dartford; and Burchwood and Edmeads for England.John Edmeads was still playing forChertsey and Surrey in the 1770s.Gill of Buckinghamshire is the wicket-keeper in the scorecardedHampshire v England match of June 1772.^[7]

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