Samuel Colchin (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1747 – 1779) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played in the 1770s. A nephew of

Robert Colchin Robert Colchin (1713 – 1750) was an English cricketer and match organiser of the mid-Georgian period at a time when the single wicket version of the game was popular. He was christened at Chailey in Sussex in 1713 and buried at Deptford in ...

,Samuel Colchin
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2022-03-21. a noted single wicket cricketer of the first half of the 18th century, Ashley-Cooper FS (1900) At the Sign of the Wicket: Cricket 1742–1751, ''Cricket'', 1900-04-26, p. 84.
Available online
at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2022-03-21.) he played in a total of 10 first-class matches, four of which were for Kent sides, all as a given man against Hampshire sides. He played five matches for England sides and made one top-level appearance for a Hampshire XI. Colchin was christened at

Bromley Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011. Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

in June 1747. He is last mentioned in June 1779 playing in a five-a-side single wicket match at the Artillery Ground for

John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset, KG (25 March 174519 July 1799) was the only son of Lord John Philip Sackville, second son of Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset. His mother was the former Lady Frances Leveson-Gower. He succeede ...

's team against Sir Horatio Mann's team. Buckley GB (1935) ''Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket'', p. 87. Birmingham: Cotterell & Co.

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