The 1782 English cricket season was the 11th in which matches have been awarded retrospective

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

status. The scorecards of four first-class matches have survived. The great fast bowler David Harris made his first-class debut and the

Hambledon Club The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches. By the late 1770s it was the foremost cricket club in England. Foundation The origin of the club, based near Hambledon in rural Hampshire, ...

moved to Windmill Down as a new home venue.

Matches

Four first-class match scorecards survive from 1782, three of them matches between Kent XIs and Hampshire XIs. The other match was between a Hampshire XI and an England side.

Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) was founded in England in 1973 for the purpose of researching and collating information about the history and statistics of cricket. Originally called the Association of Cricket Statis ...

(ACS) (1981) ''A Guide to Important Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles 1709 – 1863''. Nottingham: ACS.Results
English Domestic Season 1782, CricInfo. Retrieved 2019-03-11.

Other events

The ''Hampshire Chronicle'' reported in June the first meeting on Windmill Down, referring to the ground as "a field called the New Broad Halfpenny adjoining to the Town of Hambledon".Buckley GB (1935) ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'', p.94. Cotterell.

First mentions

* David Harris *

Joey Ring John "Little Joey" Ring (1758 at Darenth, Kent – 25 October 1800 at Bridge, Kent) was an English cricketer who played for Kent. Joey Ring was one of Kent's best batsmen in the late 18th century and was employed by Sir Horatio Mann at Bourne a ...

Matches

Other events

First mentions

References

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