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1772 is a notable season in English cricket history because it is from then that '''surviving scorecards''' are common. We have three scorecards from 1772, all involving Hambledon matches, and there are some for every single season since then, giving us a continuous record albeit an incomplete one. In the match list below and for all future seasons in this series, there are hyperlinks to surviving scorecards on '' CricketArchive ''. MATCHES Sheffield v Nottingham may have been the first 11-a-side game between the two clubs that eventually became Yorkshire CCC and Nottinghamshire CCC . The "Kent" team on 25 June was not fully representative of the county as Kent players were involved in the Hampshire v All-England game being played at the same time. LEADING BATSMEN Comparative Performance Scoring is a statistical method that seeks to equate historic batting with modern batting, by attempting to remove the disparity in actual scores caused by prevailing pitch conditions. This disparity was evident until about 1900 when pitch preparation methods began to improve generally. Essentially, it computes each batsman's score in terms of a prospective match total worth 1000 (i.e., the batsman's runs per mille) and the results are accumulated as per actual scores to give an overall season performance. The method is very useful for comparing historic batsmen with modern batsmen in terms of runs per mille of each match's total; therefore it assumes that standards of batsmanship at the highest level have remained consistent since first-class (i.e., county standard) teams were originally formed. Obviously, exceptional players like W G Grace and Don Bradman will always "buck the trend". The method has a limitation in that it cannot usefully be applied to matches which are reduced to minimal play by bad weather, etc. It should be noted that comparative performance scoring is only used to provide an ''illustration'' of each batsman's merit and should not be taken too literally. Source: quarterly journals of the Association Of Cricket Statisticians And Historians . LEADING BOWLERS No bowling figures are available. The most notable bowlers of the time were Edward "Lumpy" Stevens of Chertsey, John Frame of Dartford and Hambledon's Thomas Brett , Richard Nyren , William Barber and William Hogsflesh . LEADING FIELDERS & KEEPERS No fielding figures are available. The two most famous wicket keepers of the time were Thomas Sueter of Hambledon and William Yalden of Chertsey. FOCUS John Small Senior ( Hambledon ) In the absence of bowling and fielding figures in the three surviving scorecards, it is inevitably a batsman who is the subject of the focus in this first of the continuous scorecarded seasons. But, as the figures indicate, it is doubtful if any bowler would have been in contention with John Small senior, who was famously described in John Nyren 's classic ''The Cricketers of My Time'' as a "''star of the first magnitude''" (i.e., a superstar). His superiority over all his rivals in 1772 certainly supports that view. ARTICLE & MATCH SOURCES The above information is essentially driven out of various historical notes that have been accumulated over many years and so sources used originally may have been overlooked for the moment. But the sources certainly include:
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