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|Headline=Cricket's First County Match? | |Headline=Cricket's First County Match? | ||
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|Text=<p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons</a>, accessed 10/17/08:</p> | |Text=<p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons</a>, accessed 10/17/08:</p> | ||
<p>"The earliest known match involving county teams or at any rate teams bearing the names of counties. The match was advertised in the <i>Post Man</i> dated Saturday June 25, 1709. The stake was £50.</p> | <p>"The earliest known match involving county teams or at any rate teams bearing the names of counties. The match was advertised in the <i>Post Man</i> dated Saturday June 25, 1709. The stake was £50.</p> | ||
<p>"Some authors have suggested the teams in reality were "Dartford and a Surrey village", but this contradicts evidence of patronage and high stakes. It is likely that Dartford, as the foremost Kent club in this period, provided not only the venue but also the nucleus of the team, but there is no reason at all to doubt that the team included good players from elsewhere in the county. The Surrey team will equally have been drawn from a number of Surrey parishes and subscribed by their patron."</p> | <p>"Some authors have suggested the teams in reality were "Dartford and a Surrey village", but this contradicts evidence of patronage and high stakes. It is likely that Dartford, as the foremost Kent club in this period, provided not only the venue but also the nucleus of the team, but there is no reason at all to doubt that the team included good players from elsewhere in the county. The Surrey team will equally have been drawn from a number of Surrey parishes and subscribed by their patron."</p> | ||
<p>The Wikipedia entry credits the website "From Lads to Lords: The History of Cricket 1300-1787", at <a href="http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html">http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html</a></p> | <p>The Wikipedia entry credits the website "From Lads to Lords: The History of Cricket 1300-1787", at <a href="http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html">http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html</a></p> | ||
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| Text | From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1697_to_1725_English_cricket_seasons, accessed 10/17/08: "The earliest known match involving county teams or at any rate teams bearing the names of counties. The match was advertised in the Post Man dated Saturday June 25, 1709. The stake was £50. "Some authors have suggested the teams in reality were "Dartford and a Surrey village", but this contradicts evidence of patronage and high stakes. It is likely that Dartford, as the foremost Kent club in this period, provided not only the venue but also the nucleus of the team, but there is no reason at all to doubt that the team included good players from elsewhere in the county. The Surrey team will equally have been drawn from a number of Surrey parishes and subscribed by their patron." The Wikipedia entry credits the website "From Lads to Lords: The History of Cricket 1300-1787", at http://www.jl.sl.btinternet.co.uk/stampsite/cricket/main.html |
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