User:BlackJack/Cricket

Tasks for a later date

 * see the sources found re Australian first-class matches in the 1851 article and talk page
 * use these in first-class cricket and extend article re all other countries (it's currently limited to GB!)
 * expand History of cricket (1726–63) – scope has been widened by increase of span from 1726–40
 * expand the Category:Sports events by year and month series
 * List of cricketers in Wills' Cigarettes Cricketers, 1928 – Bates next

New articles needed sometime

 * Odiham Down (a "new made ground" in 1780 – FL18C)
 * Maidenhead Thicket
 * The Nythe
 * Priestwood Common
 * Fast Bowlers v Slow Bowlers and a category
 * Horsmonden Cricket Club
 * Westminster Cricket Club – important matches 1735–52
 * Streatham Cricket Club
 * White Lion Fields (Streatham)
 * Holt Cricket Club (Norfolk)
 * Bury St Edmunds Cricket Club (Suffolk)
 * Kingston & Moulsey
 * Richmond & Moulsey

Biographies needing attention someday

 * Sam Redgate – improve and expand
 * Ned Wenman – expand
 * Cris Tinley – improve and expand
 * Michael Ellison – expand
 * George Dupuis – use footnote here as a model to explain career stats to 1825
 * Thomas Chambers – ditto, but re a player with no stats at all

Checks

 * all occasional teams against List of historically significant English cricket teams;
 * all players against List of early English cricketers to 1786;
 * all venues against List of cricket grounds in England and Wales (and its county sub-articles);
 * all traditional counties against List of earliest references in English cricket.

Being reviewed
In all the following, subject to exceptions noted per article:

done – standard intro opener; important match section: footnote; table layout; table width to 100%; first mentions section; references; external links; venues to 1770; two categories; omit double spacing; FLPVC citations; ACS citations; qa = start (all checked); ASW citations (1742–51 only)

to do (per season) – double-check all sources; update content; FL18C citations; TJM citations; WDC citations; WCS citations; IM citations; other books' citations; correct biblio and addl read sections; identify all first mentions and provide citations; link all clubs, players, venues, etc. in matchlists


 * 1747 English cricket season
 * 1748 English cricket season
 * 1749 English cricket season
 * 1750 English cricket season
 * 1751 English cricket season
 * 1752 English cricket season
 * 1753 English cricket season
 * 1754 English cricket season
 * 1755 English cricket season
 * 1756 English cricket season
 * 1757 English cricket season
 * 1758 English cricket season
 * 1759 English cricket season
 * 1760 English cricket season
 * 1761 English cricket season
 * 1762 English cricket season
 * 1763 English cricket season
 * 1764 English cricket season
 * 1765 English cricket season
 * 1766 English cricket season
 * 1767 English cricket season
 * 1768 English cricket season
 * 1769 English cricket season
 * 1770 English cricket season

Finished
C-class ratings are generally because the intro is too short for B-class (articles are of limited size due to lack of data) and there is bound to be a lack of supporting materials, especially images.


 * 1746 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1745 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1744 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1743 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1742 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1741 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1740 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1739 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1738 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1737 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1736 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1735 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1734 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1733 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1732 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1731 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1730 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1729 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1728 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1727 English cricket season – rated C-class
 * 1726 English cricket season – rated C-class

Other articles under review

 * Amateur status in first-class cricket
 * Berkshire county cricket teams
 * Broadhalfpenny Down
 * Dartford Cricket Club
 * Essex county cricket teams
 * Gentlemen v Players
 * Hambledon Club
 * Hampshire county cricket teams
 * History of English amateur cricket
 * History of cricket (1726–1763)
 * History of cricket to 1725 – substantial upgrade completed on 28 Dec 2016
 * Kent county cricket teams
 * List of cricket grounds in England and Wales
 * List of earliest references in English cricket
 * List of early English cricketers to 1786
 * List of historically significant English cricket teams
 * London Cricket Club
 * Manchester Cricket Club
 * Middlesex county cricket teams
 * Non-international England cricket teams
 * North v South
 * Nottingham Cricket Club
 * Sheffield Cricket Club
 * Surrey county cricket teams
 * Sussex county cricket teams

Club list redlinks

 * Cambridge Town Club is complete but check "other matches" first – 82 redlinks
 * London County is complete (1900 to 1904) – 29 redlinks
 * Manchester may be complete but check "other matches" first – numerous redlinks
 * Nottingham may be complete but check "other matches" first – 14 redlinks
 * Sheffield may be complete but check "other matches" first – 58 redlinks

Excerpt from At Lord's by Francis Thompson (1859–1907)
'For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast, 'And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,

'And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host
 * 'As the run-stealers flicker to and fro,
 * 'To and fro