1756 English cricket season

Details have survived of five eleven-a-side matches in the 1756 English cricket season, and one notable single wicket match.

The season may be said to mark the beginning of the so-called "Hambledon Era". The Hambledon team made its first recorded appearances in three matches against Dartford. Hambledon was then probably run by a parish organisation, rather than by the famous club itself, which is believed to have been formed in about 1765.

The Seven Years' War began in 1756 and ended in 1763. There was a reduction in the number of "great matches" while it lasted, as later happened in the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars. It is probable that cricket's first bowling revolution occurred sometime during, or soon after, the Seven Years' War. Bowlers were certainly pitching the ball by 1770, but there are no surviving reports to describe the reception that pitching had when it was tried and implemented.