1783 English cricket season

1783 English cricket season

In the 1783 English cricket season, the Whitehall Evening Post reported on Tuesday, 8 July that "the 3rd Duke of Dorset’s cricketing establishment, exclusive of any betting or consequential entertainment, is said to exceed £1000 a year", a colossal sum at the time. A portrait of Lumpy Stevens was probably painted this year. The famous portrait is at Knole House, seat of the Duke of Dorset in Sevenoaks. Details of eleven matches are known.


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