In cricket, which English county one-day side is known as the Phantoms?
1757 English cricket season 1757 English cricket season 1757 was the 61st English cricket season since the earliest known important match was played. Details have survived of two important eleven-a-side matches and of no single wicket ones. A match in September between Wirksworth and Sheffield at Brampton Moor, near Chesterfield, is the earliest reference to cricket in Derbyshire. Although cricket is known to have been played in Sheffield since 1751, this may be the earliest indication of the Sheffield Cricket Club from which Yorkshire County Cricket Club eventually evolved. The following reference is contained in "William White’s History & General Directory of the Borough
County cricket County cricket Inter-county cricket matches are known to have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales. Since the late 19th century, there have been two county championship competitions played at different levels: the County Championship, a first-class competition which currently involves eighteen first-class county clubs among which seventeen are English and one is from Wales; and the Minor Counties Championship, which currently involves nineteen English county clubs and one club that represents several Welsh counties. County cricket started in the eighteenth century, the earliest known inter-county match