1745 English cricket season
The 1745 English cricket season was the second season following the earliest known codification of the Laws of Cricket. Recorded matches. Details of 22 eleven-a-side matches between significant teams have survived: Single wicket matches. A single wicket match between two teams of three took place on 24 June at the Artillery Ground. Other events. On 10 May, the "Ipswich Journal" reported that: "All lovers of Cricket are hereby desired to meet at Gray's Coffee House (in Norwich) on Friday 17th inst. at 6 pm to settle rules for that manly diversion". The report  is the earliest known mention of cricket in the county of Norfolk. A ladies match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford, between "XI Maids of Bramley" and "XI Maids of Hambledon" on 26 July. The players dressed in white but the Hambledon team wore red ribbons on their heads and the Bramley team wore blue ribbons. A return match was played on 6 August.