Earliest references to cricket in English and Welsh counties

This article records the first known references to cricket being played in the historic counties of England and Wales. Dates for the countries of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are also included. Note: Online databases are excluded from this page as the scope is historical, and NOT statistical.

List Surrey – c.1550 re John Derrick as a boy, and the 1597 Old Style (1598 New Style) Guildford court case; the world's earliest definite mention of cricket Kent – c.1610 re the match at Chevening, the world's oldest known organised match Sussex – 1611 re an ecclesiastical court case Hampshire – 1647 at Winchester College London – 1617 re Oliver Cromwell Oxfordshire – 1673 at the University of Oxford Middlesex – 1680; also the first mention re umpires Cambridgeshire – 1710 at the University of Cambridge

Essex – 1724 re the Chingford-Stead match Berkshire – 1727 at Eton College Gloucestershire – 1729 Buckinghamshire – 1730 Hertfordshire – 1732 Dorset – 1738 Bedfordshire – 1741 Huntingdonshire – 1741 Northamptonshire – 1741 Suffolk – 1743 Norfolk – 1745 Scotland – 1750 re a military match in Perth

Durham – 1751 Somerset – 1751 Warwickshire – 1751 Yorkshire – 1751 Northumberland – 1753 Derbyshire – 1757 Wales and Glamorgan – 1771 re local matches in Swansea Nottinghamshire – 1771 Wiltshire – c.1774 Leicestershire – 1776 Cheshire – 1781

Lancashire – 1781 Rutland – 1790 Ireland – 1792 re a military match in Dublin Lincolnshire – 1792 Shropshire – 1794 Devon – 1799 Cornwall – 1813 Staffordshire – 1817 Herefordshire – 1823 Westmorland – 1827 Cumberland – 1828 Worcestershire – 1829

See also County cricket First known use of English cricket venues (1610–1825) History of cricket to 1725 List of historically important English cricket teams List of occasional English cricket XIs

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