The 1747 English cricket season was the fourth season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket.
Details of 14 matches between significant teams have survived.[1][2]
The two games between Kent and England were due to be played at Bromley Common on 29 June and at the Artillery Ground on 1 July, but the source reports that both matches "are deferred on account of the gentlemen subscribers being engaged at several Elections", referring to the Parliamentary Election of 1747.
A single wicket cricket match between five players of Slindon against five of Dartford at the Artillery Ground on 6 July was the result of a challenge by Slindon, published in the Daily Advertiser on 29 June, to play "five of any parish in England, for their own Sum". The announcement advised interested parties: "If it is accepted of by any, they are desir'd to go to Mr Smith, who has Orders to make Stakes for them".[3][4] Matches followed against Bromley on 8 July and Hadlow on 10 and 15 July at the same ground. Another game resulting from Slindon's five-a-side challenge. Details unknown.[5]
In early August, two single wicket matches at the Artillery Ground which were organised by the 2nd Duke of Richmond[5] and on 5 September a three-a-side game took place, again at the Artillery Ground, between teams led by Robert Colchin and Stephen Dingate.[3][6]
According to Rowland Bowen, cricket was first played in New York this year.[7] This is, however, doubted by Ian Maun, who states that "no contemporary record of cricket in New York is known before 1751".[8]