1743 English cricket season

Details have survived of 18 eleven-a-side and three single wicket matches.

The Cricket Match by Francis Hayman hangs at Lord's and depicts a game at the Artillery Ground and An Exact Representation of the Game of Cricket by Louis Philippe Boitard now hangs in the Tate Gallery.

Records have survived of ten significant matches:[1][2] A three-a-side game was played at the Artillery Ground on 11 July with six players who were stated to be "the best in England".

They were William Hodsoll (Dartford), John Cutbush (Maidstone) and Val Romney (Sevenoaks) playing as Three of Kent; and Richard Newland (Slindon), William Sawyer (Richmond) and John Bryant (Bromley) playing as Three of All-England.

A return match was arranged at Sevenoaks Vine on Wednesday, 27 July but it did not take place.