Complex sentence: The common was one of the earliest London cricket venues and is known to have been used for major cricket matches in 1724 G B Buckley, "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935.
Split into simpler sentences: The common was one of the earliest London cricket venues and is known to have been used for major cricket matches in 1724. G. B. Buckley, "Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket", Cotterell, 1935.