INDEX TO SCORECARDS...Eton College v Marylebone Cricket Club Eton 27 Toronto CC v Trinity College...

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INDEX TO SCORECARDS Scorecards in red have had additional details added in the Second Edition

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1815 Walsingham & Fakenham v Litcham, Dunham & Brisley Hampton Green 6

1818 Woking v Shere Woking 7

c 1838 Kegworth v Diseworth Kegworth 8

c 1859 Chalcots v Bow (London) 9

1867 Thornton Heath v Broad Green (Croydon) Thornton Heath 10

1868/69 Wills’ Side v Ross’s Side Wallsend, Aus 11

1872 Thornbury v Bedminster Rangers Alveston 12

1874 Rev Munro’s XI v Oakham Grammar School Oakham 13

1875 France’s XI v Hirst’s XI Earls Heaton 14

1875/76 Marlborough v Undaunted Sydney, Aus 15

1878 Civil Service Supply Assocn v Simpkin, Marshall & Co Holloway 16

Kintore v Kemnay Kintore, Sco 17

1880 Unknown v Unknown Clevedon 18

1880/81 Croydon v Cambridge Juniors XVIII Sydney, Aus 19

1881 Thornbury v Clifton Victoria Alveston 20

Meriden v Nether Whitacre Meriden 21

1881/82 Unknown v Unknown Bendigo, Aus 24

1882 Ashcombe Park v Tunstall Cheddleton 25

Essendon v Hatfield Essendon 26

Eton College v Marylebone Cricket Club Eton 27

Toronto CC v Trinity College School Ex & Present Toronto, Can 28

Exmouth v Incogniti Exmouth 32

1882/83 Newcastle v IFW Bligh’s XI Newcastle, Aus 33

Unknown v Unknown Sydney, Aus 34

Coy’s Diggings v Redcastle (act 1881/82) Redcastle, Aus 35

1883 Stockbridge v Abbotts Ann Stockbridge 36

AE Barton’s XI v Portsmouth Grammar School Portsmouth 37

Surrey v Rutland Kennington 38

1883/84 East Melbourne v Fitzroy Melbourne, Aus 39

1884 Wimborne v Poole Poole 40

Royal Engineers v Royal Marines Portsmouth 41

1884/85 Wentworth XV v Adelaide Federal XI Wentworth, Aus 42

1885 South of Hampshire v North of Hampshire Southampton 43

St Benedict’s v Liverpool Pupil-Teachers Liverpool 44

Alliance v Granville London 45

Beckenham v Bexley Beckenham 46

King’s College & Clare College LVC v Unknown Cambridge 47

1885/86 Carisbrook v Excelsior Dunedin, NZ 48

1886 Freemantle v All Saints Southampton 49

Buckhurst Hill Juniors v Loughton Juniors Buckhurst Hill 50

Linby v Woodborough Linby 51

1887 AN Hornby’s XI v Church Minshull Nantwich 52

Crewkerne v Axminster Crewkerne 53

1887/88 Erskine v Deaf Mutes Melbourne, Aus 54



1888 School House v Laxton House Oundle School 57

1890 Harrow Constitutional v St Pancras United Harrow 58

Yorkshire Gentlemen v Heworth Revellers York 59

1890/91 Sydney v Warwick Sydney, Aus 60

1891 West Wratting Park v Fitzwilliam Hostel West Wratting 62

Royal Artillery NCOs v GG Hearne’s XI Catford 63

1892 Streatham v Marylebone Cricket Club Streatham 64

Lincoln Lindum v Old Reptonians Lincoln 65

AC Bell’s XII v Melksham Choir Seend Cleeve 66

Devonshire Park v GW Morrison’s XI Eastbourne 67

1893 Manchester Club & Ground v N and E Ridings of Yorkshire Castleford 68

Gentlemen of North Wales v Marylebone Cricket Club Llandudno 69

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1893 Bourton Vale v Marylebone Cricket Club Bourton on the Water 70

1894 CT Hoare’s XIII v Free Foresters Chesterton 71

1895 Beccles College v St Aubyn’s, Lowestoft Beccles College 72

1st Royal Munster Fusiliers v Army Service Corps Dublin, Ire 73

Ontario Hospital v Forest Club London, Can 74

1895/96 Burwood v Paddington Sydney, Aus 75

Unknown v Unknown Eshowe, RSA 76

Melbourne CC III v East Melbourne III Melbourne, Aus 77

Madras Salt Department v 45th Field Battery RA Madras, Ind 78

1896 Andover v Basingstoke Andover 79

1897 Leamington Collegiate School v Stratford Commercial School Leamington 80

1897/98 Central Cumberland v Hawkesbury District Sydney, Aus 81

Middle Brighton v Cheltenham Middle Brighton, Aus 82

1898 A Conan Doyle’s XI v JV Macmillan’s XI Hindhead 83

1898/99 West Adelaide v Sturt Adelaide, Aus 84

Napier United A v Napier United B Hastings, NZ 85

Railways CC First XI v Next XV Petersburg, Aus 86

1899 Eastbourne College v Blue Mantles Eastbourne 87

Appleby Grammar School v Appleby CC Appleby 88

Plymouth Garrison v Marylebone Cricket Club Plymouth 89

St Mary’s Kensal v Willesden Green Chiswick 90

1899/1900 Melbourne CC II v Fitzroy II Melbourne, Aus 91

W McGowan’s XII v Badesi Ram’s XII Patiala, Ind 92

1900 Leigh v Newton Church Leigh 93

Arkley v West Herts Arkley 94

Eastbourne v Trinity Wanderers Eastbourne 95

1900/01 Derwent v Wellington Hobart, Aus 96

Myrtlefold Association v Omeo Myrtlefold, Aus 97

1901 AC Benson’s House v HV Macnaghten’s House Eton College 98

1901/02 E Company v A Company, 2nd Hampshire Regiment Barberton, RSA 99

Sturt v North Adelaide Adelaide, Aus 100

1902 Cowley House School v Oakfield School High Barnet 101

Ampleforth College v Gilling Ampleforth College 102

Rendcomb v Chedworth Rendcomb 103

Castle v Junior Hawks Clapham 104

Frindsbury v Rainham Frindsbury 105

1902/03 Carpenterian Reformatory v Waratah (Sydney) Eastwood, Aus 106

Redfern v Paddington Sydney, Aus 107

1903 St Lawrence v St Peter’s, Thanet Broadstairs 108

1903/04 Reynards Rd Methodist Ch v St Augustine’s, Moreland Coburg, Aus 109

1904 Laxton House v Sidney House Oundle School 110

Tewkesbury Grammar School v Eldersfield School Tewkesbury 111

Honor Oak II v Brunswick Honor Oak 112

Folkestone v Honor Oak Folkestone 113

Leinster v County Kildare Dublin, Ire 114

1904/05 Richmond Second XI v Melbourne University Second XI Melbourne, Aus 115

Clarendon v McLaren Vale Adelaide, Aus 116

Ramblers v Town Bloemfontein, RSA 117

1905 Cotton House v Littlefield Marlborough College 118

King’s Regiment v Royal Field Artillery Aldershot 119

1906 Manor House School Second XI v Camberwell GS Second XI Clapham 120

Carmarthenshire v An Essex County XI Llanelly 121

St Lawrence v Marylebone Cricket Club Canterbury 122

1906/07 East Brunswick v South Melbourne Footballers Melbourne, Aus 123

1907 Norbury College v Oakdene Norbury 124

Chiswick Park v Lancing Old Boys Chiswick Park 125

1908 Porthill v Crewe Alexandra Stoke-on-Trent 126

1908/09 Bexley Oriental v Bexley Sydney, Aus 127

Queen’s College v Hutchins School Hobart, Aus 128

1909 Perambulators v Etceteras Cambridge 129

Folkestone v Oxford University Authentics Folkestone 130

1909/10 Melbourne University v Sydney University Melbourne, Aus 131

Havelock v Whareriti Auckland, NZ 132

Burwood v Middle Harbour Sydney, Aus 133

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1910 St Mark’s Church Lads Brigade v Centam Clapham 134

1910/11 Taruheru v Wanderers Gisborne, NZ 135

Patiala v Kashmir Ambala, Ind 136

1911 West of Scotland Second XI v Poloc Second XI Glasgow, Sco 137

1911/12 Unknown v Unknown Sydney, Aus 138

1912 Old Buckenham Hall v Harrow Blues Attleborough 139

1912/13 Royal Engineers v Royal Garrison Artillery Diyatalewa, SL 140

1915 Baildon Green v Saltaire Baildon Green 141

1917 9th Brigade, Canadian Exp Force v Canadian ASC France 142

1917/18 Railways & PWD v Government Services Colombo, SL 143

1918 Windhill v Saltaire Bradford 144

1918/19 Port Chalmers District HS v Kaikorai School Port Chalmers, NZ 145

1919/20 Murphy Brothers Pipeworks v North A Wellington, NZ 146

1920 School House A v Ferox Hall Tonbridge School 147

South Lee AC v Old Stillnessians Lee 148

1920/21 Small Arms Factory No. 1 v Bowenfels Lithgow, Aus 149

Pickwick v Wanderers Bridgetown, B’dos 150

Port Adelaide v Colts Adelaide, Aus 152

1921 Marlborough College v Col RMT Gillson’s XI Marlborough 153

Imperial Service College v Incogniti Windsor 154

Hughenden v Woodcroft Bristol 155

1921/22 Central Mission v Ngaio Wellington, NZ 156

1922 Cliffe v Eastrington Cliffe 157

Watford v Stanmore Watford 158

Wattstown v Ferndale Co-operative Wattstown 159

Eastbourne v Uppingham Rovers Eastbourne 160

Redhill Wednesday XI v Major JRE Cunliffe’s XI Outwood 161

1922/23 Penrith-Waratah v St Mary’s Penrith, Aus 162

1923 Eastbourne v FH Gresson’s XII Eastbourne 163

1923/24 East Torrens v Sturt Adelaide, Aus 164

1924 Holmesdale School, Reigate v Horley Council School Reigate 165

1924/25 Wanderers v Wakefield Nelson, NZ 166

Eden v University Auckland, NZ 167

Farnham v Half Axes XV Stuart Town, Aus 168

1925/26 Linwood 7th Grade v Cathedral Grammar School Christchurch, NZ 169

Warringa v Public Works Sydney, Aus 170

1926 Horley v HC Furness’s XI Horley 171

1926/27 North Fitzroy United v Coles CC Melbourne, Aus 172

1927 Westfield Lodge v School House A Bps Stortford College 173

1927/28 Ceylon v New Zealanders Colombo, SL 174

1928/29 J Bayley & Sons v Marcus Clark Sydney, Aus 175

1929 Dawsmere v Long Sutton Scouts Dawsmere 176

Totteridge v Fortess CC Totteridge 177

1930 Bedford School v Marylebone Cricket Club Bedford 178

Hythe v Free Foresters Hythe 179

Mitre House v Priory House Repton School 180

1930/31 Smithfield v Aliwal North Smithfield, RSA 181

1931 Reading School v Marylebone Cricket Club Reading 182

1932 Married v Single (South Woodford CC) South Woodford 183

1932/33 Marimallappa HS v Bangalore Wesleyan HS Mysore, Ind 184

1933 Wendover v Weston Turville Wendover 185

Beaconsfield v Old Harvistians Beaconsfield 186

Childwell Choir Boys v Garston Choir Boys Liverpool 187

1934 Sir Julien Cahn’s XI v Bedfordshire Nottingham 188

Sir Julien Cahn’s XI v Leicestershire Gentlemen Stanford on Soar 189

1934/35 Lane Cove v North Shore Gas Company Sydney, Aus 190

Pennant Hills v Carlingford Sydney, Aus 191

1935/36 East Fremantle v Workers Fremantle, Aus 192

1936 Gt Harwood Council of Soc Servs v Blackburn Gamecock Great Harwood 193

Great Western Railways v Concert Artistes Association Castlebar Park 194

1938 Eastbourne v Liverpool Pilgrims Eastbourne 195

Hounslow Second XI v Malden Wanderers Second XI Hounslow 196

1938/39 Rajindra Gymkhana v JD Antia’s XI Patiala, Ind 197

Griffith v Temora Griffith, Aus 198

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1939/40 Lomaloma v HMS Leith Lomaloma, Fiji 199

1940 Lancing College v Westminster School Lancing 200

1940/41 Burwood United v Summer Hill Sydney, Aus 201

1941 Navy House v ‘Navy XI’ Port Said, Egypt 202

School House v Unknown Canford School 203

1943 Malvern College v Merchant Taylor’s School Malvern 204

1946 Southgate v Enfield Southgate 205

1946/47 Bittern v Somerville Melbourne, Aus 206

Callen Park v Postal Sydney, Aus 207

1947 Sidmouth v South Oxfordshire Amateurs Sidmouth 208

St George’s School Under-10s v Hardenwick School U-10s Harpenden 209

1947/48 St Alban’s Epping v Burwood Baptist Sydney, Aus 210

1948 North Stamford Boys v South Stamford Boys Stamford 211

1948/49 Marrickville Presbyterian v Unknown Sydney, Aus 212

1949 Stratford Police Division v Warwick Police Division Tiddington 213

Woolwich Garrison v Nore Command Woolwich 214

1949/50 St James, Croydon v Unknown Sydney, Aus 215

Queen’s College v Selborne College Queenstown, RSA 216

1950/51 Sea Point Boys HS v Lansdowne Cape Town, RSA 217

Griffith v Griffith Teachers Griffith, Aus 218

Thornley Waratahs v Unknown Sydney, Aus 219

1951 Bookham v Electrical Trades CT Association Bookham 220

Headstone v Maurice Pinner 221

1951/52 Gladesville-Henley v Unknown Sydney, Aus 222

1952/53 ? Mahinda College v Galle Galle, SL 223

1954 Wadworth v Roche Abbey Wadworth 224

1956/57 Mahendra College v Government College (Rupar) Patiala, Ind 225

1959 Municipality v Irrigation Department Colombo, SL 226

1959/60 Australian Abrasives v Fairfield High School Sydney, Aus 227

St Benedict’s College v St Anne’s College Colombo, SL 228

1961 Cranborne v Bournemouth Electric Cranborne 229

1962 Hockley v Brentwood Radio Hockley 230

United Services v Bromley Wanderers Morden 231

1962/63 Baroda Schools v Gujarat Schools Poona, Ind 232

Strathmore v Strathmore North Strathmore, Aus 233

1964 Elgin v Ross County Elgin, Sco 234

1964/65 St Kilda v Essendon Melbourne, Aus 235

1965/66 West Zone Schools v Central Zone Schools Bombay, Ind 236

St Andrew’s v Methodist Ararat, Aus 237

Panania-Easts v Regent’s Park Sydney, Aus 238

1966 Taunton’s School v Glen Eyre Southampton 239

Toronto v Victoria Park Toronto, Can 240

1966/67 St Brendan’s College v MCCC Devonport, Aus 241

Seaforth v Pittwater Sydney, Aus 242

1967/68 Marlborough College A v Bohally Intermediate School Blenheim, NZ 243

Fairfield Patrician Brothers v St Barnabas Sydney, Aus 244

Bradma v Fort Vijay Bombay, Ind 245

Granville HS v James Ruse HS Sydney, Aus 246

1968 Svanholm v Ringsted Svanholm, Denmark 247

1968/69 Beachport Colts v Cellulose Colts Millicent, Aus 248

Buller v West Coast Westport, NZ 249

Municipals v Union Port Elizabeth, RSA 250

1969 Leverington A v Schweppes Leverington 251

Schweppes v Barroway Drove Wisbech 252

1969/70 West Torrens v Woodville Adelaide, Aus 253

St John’s v Punchbowl Soccer Sydney, Aus 254

West Killara v West Pymble Sydney, Aus 255

1970 St John’s School, Leatherhead v Epsom College Leatherhead 256

1973/74 Georges River–Penshurst v Auburn-Lidcombe Sydney, Aus 257

1974/75 Revesby Workers Club v St Felix No. 2s Sydney, Aus 258

1975 Clifton v Frenchay Bristol 259

ICI Organics Division v Fodens Sandbach 260

1975/76 Sri Lanka Army v University of Peradeniya (?) Colombo, SL 261

1977/78 Ananda College v St Joseph’s College Colombo, SL 262

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1978/79 Sandown HS Under-13s v King Edward VII School Under-13s Johannesburg, RSA 263

1979 RAEC Beaconsfield v JATE Brize Norton Beaconsfield 264

1979/80 Wanderers v Unknown Sydney, Aus 265

1981 Old Gaytonians III v Entech Harrow 266

Hymers College Under-12s v Pocklington School Under-12s Hull 267

1981/82 Redcliffe-Sandgate v University Brisbane, Aus 268

Unknown v Unknown E Thomastown, Aus 269

1982/83 Bankstown-Canterbury v Sydney University Sydney, Aus 270

Narrikup v Centrals Mount Barker, Aus 271

1990/91 Beecroft v West Pennant Hills Sydney, Aus 272

1994 Bishop Auckland Juniors v Newton Aycliffe Juniors Bishop Auckland 273

1994/95 Campbell’s Creek v Muckleford Campbell’s Creek, Aus 274

Winston Hills v Unknown Sydney, Aus 275

1995/96 Metropolitan East v Metropolitan West Penrith, Aus 276

1996/97 Sutherland v Unknown Sydney, Aus 277

1998/99 Bayside Muddies v Ranatungas Brisbane, Aus 278

2016/17 Easterns Women U-19s v Mpumalanga Women U-19s Pretoria, RSA 279

2017/18 Central/Stirling Black v West Augusta Port Augusta, Aus 280

A reminder of the significance of the numerals and colour-coding used in the headings to these scorecards:

1 (Green) Scorecards containing a significant level of detail of the match in question, or at least of the

innings in which the notable performance occurred. 2 (Yellow) Scorecards for which very few details, if any, of the match or performance have been found,

but for which the compiler has, at this stage, no reason to doubt that the Grossworthy performance really did take place.

3 (Orange) Scorecards of matches in which research to date has raised serious doubts in my mind as to

whether the performance noted by Gross actually took place, but where as yet it has not been possible to establish this beyond reasonable doubt. The reasons for these doubts are explained in the notes below the scorecards.

4 (Pink) Scorecards where research has shown beyond reasonable doubt that Gross was in error in

including the match in his lists. Again, the reasons leading to this conclusion are explained below the scorecard. Although as a result of this research these matches do not, after all, feature a Grossworthy performance, they are included in the Index and in the ‘Scores’ so that it is not thought that they have been omitted from the present study by oversight.

5 (Blue) Scorecards of matches that are already in the CA database, but where research has either

produced significant new details over and above those in the current CA scorecard, or else has shown that the scorecard in CA is to a greater or lesser extent erroneous. (For example, there are two cases where CA includes two different scorecards for the same match, neither of which tallies fully with the details tracked down for the present exercise in contemporary newspapers; in both cases, a note of the various differences between the scorecards is given here, together with the present writer’s assessment of which is the ‘best’ or most credible version of the scorecard.)

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Walsingham, Fakenham & Hempton v Litcham, Dunham & Brisley 1815 2 Venue Hempton Green, Norfolk Date 1 August 1815 Result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Litcham, Dunham & Brisley innings

No details known

Walsingham, Fakenham & Hempton innings

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 Source: Norfolk Chronicle & Norwich Gazette, 5 August 1815. The date of the match is also given in Cricket 1910 page 387. The Walsingham (etc) side was dismissed for 0 – the first recorded instance of this feat. No other details of the match are extant. The 0 all-out in this match is referred to in Cricket for 1900 page 243. Gross names the fixture as ‘Walsingham & Fakenham’, and gives the venue as ‘Hampton Green’. The contemporary Gazette gives the details as here, as broadly does Wisden (e.g. 2019 page 1352 which refers to it as An Eleven of Fakenham, Walsingham and Hempton v An Eleven of Licham, Dunham and Brisley). Wisden says the match was in July, possibly based on their interpretation of ‘Tuesday last’ in the newspaper.

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Woking v Shere 1818 1 Venue Woking, Surrey Date 21 August 1818 Result Match tied Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Woking First innings Second innings

Total (all out) 71 (all out) 71 Shere First innings Second innings

Total (all out) 71 (all out) 71

Source: The match is noted in the Windsor & Eton Express of 23-30 August 1818 and the Morning Advertiser of 31

August 1818, both of which give the date as 21 August. It is also noted in the Hampshire Chronicle of 21 August. This four-way tie is noted by Gross, and is also mentioned in S&B vol 1 page 117, which gives the date of the match

as 22 August, and says that no scorecard could be found. Over 200 years on, that remains the position. Additional information from Harry Watton.

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Kegworth v Diseworth 1838 (?) 3 Venue Kegworth, Leicestershire Date ‘about the 1838 season’ Result Diseworth won by 1 run Toss Umpires Diseworth innings

Total (all out) 1 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 O M R W Kegworth innings

Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Gross’s list of ‘Small innings totals’ records as follows: “1 [all out] Kegworth, v Diseworth (0), Kegworth, 1838 (Kegworth thus won by one run)”. Yet Diseworth’s apparent score of 0 all out is not included in the same list. The situation is further confused by references to the match in Cricket 1900 (page 243) and The Cricketer in 1941 (21 June, page 171), which say that Diseworth were all out for 1 and Kegworth made 0. This order of events has been followed here, but without special confidence. No other details have been traced. The match is not recorded in S&B, nor in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA. (The item in Cricket says that the score[card] of this “unique” match is lost.) Kegworth and Diseworth are/were two villages in NW Leicestershire, close to the borders with Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire (and nowadays near Junction 24 of the M1).

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Chalcots v Bow [1859] 1 Venue Not known Date ‘about 1859’ Result Bow won by an innings and 61 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Chalcots First innings Second innings

H Payne not out 24 not out 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extras w3 3 w1 1

Total (all out) 27 (all out) 11 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/27 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?,

8/?, 9/?, 10/11 O M R W Bow First innings

Extras

Total (all out) 99 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/99 O M R W Source: Scores & Biographies Volume VI page 344 S&B: “Chalcots is (it is believed) a club meeting on the Eton and Middlesex ground.” Gross names the losing team as Chalcot, and also gives Chalcot as the venue. However, Chalcots seems more likely – there was land of that name in Hampstead (near Swiss Cottage), owned by Eton College. The name Chalcots persists today as the name of a council estate centred on Adelaide Road and Fellows Road in NW3. Four matches between Chalcots [sic] and Bow between 1861 and 1863 have been traced in the contemporary press, but no others, in a search covering the period 1856 to 1864.

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Thornton Heath v Broad Green (Croydon) 1867 1 Venue Thornton Heath, Surrey Date 5 August 1867 Result Broad Green (Croydon) won by an innings and 18 runs Toss Umpires Carroll, not known Thanks: HW Thornton Heath First innings Second innings

J Tidd b A Dartnell 0 b A Dartnell 2 B Kemp b A Dartnell 0 b Benwell 6 Weston b A Dartnell 0 c Harding b A Dartnell 0 Levins c E Randall b A Dartnell 0 b Benwell 6 Goddard c W Dartnell b A Dartnell 0 b A Dartnell 13 Mills c Harding b A Dartnell 0 c Harding b T Dartnell 3 Lawrence b A Dartnell 0 c Todd b Benwell 13 Simpkins b A Dartnell 0 b A Dartnell 0 Thomas b A Dartnell 0 b Benwell 0 Bishop not out 0 run out 3 ‘A Muff’ b A Dartnell 0 not out 1 Extras 0 2

Total (all out) 0 (all out) 49 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/49 O M R W O M R W A Dartnell 0 10 4 Benwell 4 T Dartnell 1 Broad Green (Croydon) First innings

W Todd b Levins 0 H Randall b Levins 0 G Steadman b Levins 0 W Dartnell b Goddard 19 A Dartnell c Mills b Levins 8 J Fowles not out 4 T Dartnell b Levins 10 J Benwell b Goddard 12 + E Randall b Goddard 0 T Todd b Goddard 2 C Harding lbw b Levins 2 Extras 4

Total (all out) 67 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/67

O M R W Levins 6 Goddard 4 Source: Bell’s Life 10 August 1867; S&B vol 10 page 230. Also given by Gross in vol 4 no. 3 of the Journal of The Cricket Society. The match is also noted in the Sporting Gazette for 17 August. Albert Dartnell’s own memories of the match were reported in the Surrey Evening Echo and reprinted in Cricket 1909 page 242. He bowled fast underarm leg-breaks. T (Thomas) Dartnell was his father, and in all probability W Dartnell was Albert’s older brother William. (Family details from ancestry.co.uk) Some sources give the dismissal of Goddard in Thornton Heath (1) as ‘c W Randall b [A] Dartnell’, but this is a clear error. W Dartnell, as given in Bell’s Life and S&B, is preferred here.

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Wills’ Side v Ross’s Side 1868/69 1 Venue Wallsend, New South Wales Date 9 November 1868 Result Wills’ Side won by 19 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ Wills’ side First innings Second innings

J Clement c Lennard b Butts 0 (10) c Lovell b J Curry 1 J Eves b Butts 10 (7) b Ross 5 W Wills b Ross 0 (1) c Butts b J Curry 2 R Curry c W Steel b Butts 2 (8) run out 3 B Wells not out 18 (13) b Ross 0 M Curry run out 5 b Ross 4 R House b Ross 3 J Broadhead b Lovell 0 (4) b J Curry 3 J Barnes b Ross 2 (12) c and b Ross 1 R Cummings b Ross 0 (11) b J Curry 0 A McLauchlin b Ross b Lennard 4 (9) b J Curry 1 W Davis run out 0 (14) not out 0 M Hepple (2) c Lennard b Ross 2 R Hand (3) b Ross 2 J Hater (5) c R Steel b J Curry 0 Extras 5 1

Total (all out) 49 (all out) 25 Fall 1-10 not known; 11/49 1-12 not known; 13/25 O M R W O M R W Butts 3 Ross 6 6 Lovell 1 Lennard 1 J Curry 6 Ross’s side First innings Second innings

J Parkes b M Curry 3 (14) not out 0 W Duncanson b M Curry 3 (4) b M Curry 1 J Lennard b M Curry 3 (9) b M Curry 5 W Steel b M Curry 0 (8) b M Curry 0 H Lovell b M Curry 0 (7) b M Curry 3 *A Ross b Wells 0 b M Curry 0 J Steel b M Curry 0 (3) b M Curry 0 W Murray b M Curry 2 (11) b M Curry 0 W Barnes b M Curry 4 (2) c R Curry b M Curry 0 R Steel lbw b [bowler unknown] 0 (13) b M Curry 0 W Tamsett not out 3 (1) b Wells 1 W Butts lbw b [bowler unknown] 0 (5) run out 8 J Curry (10) b M Curry 5 R Lavis (12) c GW Wills b M Curry 7 Extras 5 2

Total (all out) 23 (all out) 32 Fall 1-10 not known; 11/23 1-12 not known; 13/32 O M R W O M R W M Curry 7 11 Wells 1 1

Source: Newcastle Chronicle 14 November 1868, which reports the match as having been played “the other day … between two elevens chosen from the members of the United Cricket Club, Mr Wells being captain of one eleven and Mr Ross of the other”. Both Wells and Wills played for one side, and the paper heads the scorecard of this team as “Mr Wills’ side”. So who was the captain? Gross says Wills, but on unknown evidence.

12 men batted for each side in their first innings, and 14 in their second. It is not known if ‘GW Wills’ who caught Lavis in Ross (2) was a substitute, or ‘W Wills’ given his full initials.

If the two lbws were taken by Mathew Curry, as is possible (the source does not identify the bowler in question, neither does it comment on Curry’s success in the game), then Gross’s crediting him with 20 wickets in the match is correct: but 20 out of 24 rather than out of 22 as suggested by Gross’s description of the match as ‘Wills XII v Ross’s XII’. However, Alfred James has advised that Curry only took eight wickets (not nine) in Ross (1), and that therefore his actual tally was only 19 out of 24.

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Thornbury v Bedminster Rangers 1872 1 Venue The Ship Field, Alveston, Gloucestershire Date 21 May 1872 Result Thornbury won by an innings and 246 runs Toss Umpires Thornbury First innings

EM Grace run out 211 W Smith b Cox 32 T Hudson retired 3 E Hatcher b Mallard 10 A Pocock c Cox b J Ellis 4 F Gayner b J Ellis 0 WO Chambers c and b J Ellis 0 H Harwood st J Ellis b Mallard 0 A Collings b Cox 2 JN Vogan b Cox 3 F Sturge not out 0 Extras 26

Total (all out) 291 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/291 O M R W Cox 3 Mallard 2 J Ellis 3 Bedminster Rangers First innings Second innings

EH Cook b Gayner 2 b Grace 0 J Spurrier b Grace 6 hit wicket b Grace 0 JC Mallard b Grace 5 b Grace 0 J Ellis b Grace 0 c and b Grace 6 H Greenway b Grace 0 b Grace 0 J Sims b Gayner 6 b Grace 11 A Cox b Grace 0 c Hatcher b Grace 2 F Young b Grace 2 b Gayner 0 W Ellis lbw b Grace 1 b Gayner 1 H Blackmore b Grace 0 not out 0 WH Partridge not out 1 b Gayner 0 Extras 0 2

Total (all out) 23 (all out) 22 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/23 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/22 O M R W O M R W Gaynor 2 3 Grace 8 7

Source: Bristol Times & Mirror 24 May 1872 EM Grace hit 16 fours and six sixes in his innings of 211, and then took 15 wickets in Rangers’ two innings.

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Rev Munro’s XI v Oakham Grammar School 1874 3 Venue Oakham, Rutland Date 1874 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that CI Thornton scored 188 out of 210 runs for Munro’s XI. It is not clear whether 210 was his side’s

all-out score (in which case he scored 89.52% of his side’s runs, or a higher figure of extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Thornton was at the wicket.

The match is not recorded in S&B, nor in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA. Two newspapers at

the BL may clarify the position – the Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury, and the Market Harborough Journal. Oakham Grammar School no longer exists under that name, and I have not traced any record suggesting that this was the earlier name of the school now known (and known for at least the last 100 years) simply as Oakham School. But it might have been.

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James France’s v Messrs Hirst’s 1875 1 Venue Dewsbury Clarence Ground, Earls Heaton, West Yorkshire Date 14 June 1875 Result Messrs Hirst’s won by an innings and 41 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW James France’s First innings Second innings

Hemingway b Constable 0 b Crabtree 2 Day b Constable 0 not out 1 Hetherington b Constable 0 b Constable 0 Heald b Crabtree 0 b Constable 0 Lodge b Crabtree 0 b Constable 0 Hellery b Crabtree 0 b Crabtree 0 Firth b Crabtree 0 b Crabtree 0 Chalk b Crabtree 0 b Crabtree 0 Renard b Constable 0 b Crabtree 8 Leeman b Constable 0 run out 1 Dews not out 0 b Constable 1 Extras 0 0


9/?, 10/13 O M R W O M R W Constable 2 0 5 4 Crabtree 2 0 5 5 Messrs Hirst’s First innings

Lister b Hemingway 1 J Halstead b Hemingway 2 G Halstead b Hemingway 7 Archer b Heald 0 E Halstead c Chalk b Hemingway 3 Constable not out 24 Smallwood c Chalk b Hemingway 0 Crabtree c Leeman b Heald 7 Hodgson c and b Renard 4 Auty b Renard 2 Preston run out 2 Extras 2

Total (all out) 54 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/54

O M R W Hemingway 5 Heald 2 Renard 2 Source: Dewsbury Reporter 19 June 1875. The scores of France’s two innings are given in one of Ernest Gross’s books of scorecards. Discrepancies over certain names (Hellery/Ellery, Renard/Rayner, and Leeman/Leming) are here resolved in favour of the version in the contemporary newspaper. Gross says that France’s side’s first innings lasted 17 balls, implying 2 overs for one bowler and 2.1 for the other. It is not known which of Constable and Crabtree bowled the first over. Research by Harry Watton (from whom all the new information has come) suggests that this was a match between two works XI, representing Hirst, Brooke and Hirst of the Airedale Chemical Works at Hunslet, and James France’s carpet manufacturers of Dewsbury – and not between two elevens selected by a Mr France and a Mr Hirst, as implied by Gross’s naming of the fixture as ‘France’s XI v Hirst’s XI’. This credible suggestion has been used in naming the two sides here.

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Marlborough v Undaunted 1875/76 1 Venue Alliance Ground, Moore Park, Sydney Date 8 April 1876 Result Undaunted won by 10 wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ, HW Undaunted innings

Thomson b Chapman 0 Kirk b McDonald 0 Eaton c – Cooke b McDonald 0 S Ivory c – Cooke b McDonald 0 E Cooper b Chapman 0 -Fancourt c Edwards 0 Haigh c – Cooke 0 Brown b McDonald 0 Scrutton c – Cooke 0 Penny c McDonald 0 -Fancourt not out 0 Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Chapman 0 2 McDonald 0 4 Marlborough innings

FG Ward hit wicket b - Fancourt 1 T Richardson c - Fancourt 2 T Chapman b Eaton 5 Clay b Eaton 5 W Eldridge c Kirk 2 McDonald c Ivory 1 Miller b Eaton 5 W Cooke not out 24 M Cooke c Scrutton 7 Edwards c Haigh 1 Harman c – Fancourt 1 Extras 9


O M R W - Fancourt 1 Eaton 3 Source: The News, Shoalhaven, Broughton Creek & Ulladulla Advertiser 22 April 1876; Northern Star (Lismore, NSW) 13 May 1876. The details in the Advertiser are said to be reprinted from The Echo, but that source has not been located. As both Undaunted opening batsmen got off the mark, their score must have been at least 1 when they lost their first wicket: hence the result is confirmed as a ten-wicket win. The Marlborough scorecard in the Advertiser totals to 63, and that figure is also given in the paper’s match report. This figure is therefore preferred to the total of 93 as given in the Northern Star (which does not have any scorecard details). The Advertiser also confirms that Undaunted batted first. The Advertiser does not name the bowlers responsible for many dismissals, but Ken Piesse’s Extraordinary book of Australian cricket, on page 97, says that the Marlborough wickets were shared between opening bowlers Tom Chapman and McDonald.

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Civil Service Supply Association v Simpkin, Marshall & Co 1878 1 Venue Hitchcock’s Ground, Holloway, Middlesex Date 18 May 1878 Result Civil Service Supply Association won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Civil Service Supply Association innings

Grout c and b Goodwin 7 Walder run out 6 Evans run out 0 Webb b Goodwin 1 Glynn b Goodwin 8 Foreman b Goodwin 0 Poulten not out 0 Phillips c Beck b H Mull 1 Cooper c H Mull b Hanson 3 Squires b Freeman 0 Glover c -Mull b Freeman 0 Extras b1, w4 5

Total 31 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/31

O M R W Goodwin 4 Freeman 2 H Mull 1 Hanson 1 Simpkin, Marshall & Co innings

Freeman b Grout 0 W Mull b Webb 0 Hanson b Grout 0 Goodwin b Grout 0 Smith b Webb 0 Guillaume c Grout b Webb 0 H Mull run out 0 Peltowe b Grout 0 Beck not out 0 Watson b Grout 0 Vibert b Grout 0 Extras b1 1

Total 1 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/1

O M R W Grout 0 6 Webb 0 4 Source: S&B Vol XIV page 494; The Referee (London) 19 May 1878 There are several differences between the sources regarding players’ names. The names given here are from S&B, which has been preferred (despite the greater topicality of The Referee) because they are more consistent, and for the most part more believable. The variants in The Referee are Forman for Foreman, Mullett for H Mull (but ‘Mull’ is credited with a hand in the wickets of Phillips and Cooper; S&B credits these to H Mull); Kelton for Peltowe; and Walsor for Watson . The Referee also lists the last four in the CSSA innings in the order Squires – Glover – Phillips - Cooper. It is not clear from the sources which side batted first, or which player named Mull caught Glover in the CSSA innings.

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Kintore v Kemnay 1878 3 Venue Kintore, Aberdeenshire Date 1878 season Result Toss Umpires Kintore innings

(all out) 1 Kemnay innings

(all out) 0 Gross lists Kintore as being all out for 1, that one run being an extra, and defeating Kenmay [sic – surely a misprint for the nearby village of Kemnay), who were all out for 0, by one run. But as with the 1838 instance in Leicestershire, Kemnay’s apparent score of 0 all out is not included in any of Gross’s lists. There are no references to such a match in S&B, nor in any of the Aberdeen Press & Journal, the Aberdeen People’s Journal, or the Buchan Times (all in the BNA). Various other newspapers available at the British Library have not been checked.

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Unknown v Unknown 1880 2 Venue Walton Lodge, Clevedon, Somerset Date 1880 season Result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that in a school match, LCH Palairet took seven wickets with consecutive deliveries. Palairet’s biography in S&B says that the feat was performed at Rev S Cornish’s school at Walton Lodge, Clevedon. Palairet (born 27.5.1870) would have been barely 10 years old at the time. The feat is mentioned in Darren Senior’s Lives in Cricket volume on Palairet, but with no more information about the match or its scores. There is no mention of the feat in newspapers in the BNA. The British Library has the Clevedon Mercury on microfilm for the year in question, and one or maybe two Weston-super-Mare newspapers, but these have not yet been investigated. A profile of Palairet in Cricket 30 July 1891 mentions him playing for Rev Cornish’s side at Walton Lodge in 1880, but makes no specific reference to a performance of ‘7 in 7’.

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Croydon v Cambridge Juniors XVIII (but see Notes) 1880/81 4 Venue Moore Park, Sydney, NSW, Australia Date 16 October 1880 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Players per side: See notes

Gross says that A Denius [sic] took all 17 wickets in [one of] the Cambridge Juniors innings, with an analysis of

18-6-32-17. If correct, this would equal the greatest number of wickets taken by a bowler who dismissed all of his opponents in a single innings.

However, Gross appears to be in error. A drawn match between the two sides is reported in the Sydney Morning

Herald of 19 October, with a full scorecard (summarised: Cambridge 55 all out (Dennis [sic] six wickets), Croydon 33-4 (W Dennis 16). Some reports in other newspapers include the words ‘Dennis obtained 16’, but that appears to refer to runs and not wickets. Moreover, the scorecard in the SMH indicates that this was an 11-a-side match, not 11 v 18 (or even 18 v 18).

The return fixture the following April is also referred to in the contemporary press, but the scores of that match

contain nothing unusual or memorable. No 17-wicket feat for Croydon, or by Dennis, is reported in Australian papers seen in Trove in any of seasons 1879/80, 1880/81 or 1881/82.

The 1880/81 match is consistently referred to in the NSW press as simply ‘Croydon v Cambridge’, and the above

title (as given by Gross) appears to be incorrect. Notwithstanding Dennis being given the initial ‘W’ in the SMH in October, reports of later matches by Croydon give the initial ‘A’, as recorded by Gross.

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Thornbury v Clifton Victoria 1881 1 Venue The Ship Field, Alveston, Gloucestershire Date 1 August 1881 Result Clifton Victoria won on first innings by 42 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Thornbury First innings Second innings

EM Grace lbw b Nichols 10 c Ford b Greenough 131 GB Crossman b Nichols 3 c sub b Wookey 9 BR Thompson b Wookey 5 run out 13 DD Pontifex b Nichols 0 c Wookey b Doresa 15 CS Bengough b Nichols 0 absent - + CM Kennedy c Doresa b Nichols 4 (2) b Wookey 43 HP Thurston b Nichols 33 c Nichols b Greenough 8 T Smith c Doresa b Wookey 2 b Doresa 3 GH Grace b Nichols 0 b Greenough 4 SB Day b Nichols 4 not out 4 HC Thurston not out 0 c Wookey b Doresa 9 G Phillips c Nichols b Doresa 1 lbw b Greenough 0 Extras 3 10

Total (all out) 65 (all out) 247 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?,

11/65 1/125, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/247

O M R W O M R W Nichols 15 15 8 Wookey 2 2 Doresa 1 3 Greenough 4 Clifton Victoria First innings

WS Ford c Kennedy b EM Grace 0 GB Nichols b EM Grace 0 A Greenough c Crossman b EM Grace 19 F Arrowsmith c Thompson b EM Grace 3 O Coleman lbw b EM Grace 1 H Wookey st Kennedy b EM Grace 28 C Doresa not out 26 CH Powell c and b EM Grace 7 A Mizen c Thompson b EM Grace 6 J Ware b EM Grace 1 H Vincent st Kennedy b EM Grace 3 J Brown c Pontifex b EM Grace 0 Extras 13

Total (all out) 107 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?,

11/107

O M R W EM Grace 11 Source: Bristol Mercury 4 August 1881 EM Grace took all 11 wickets in the Clifton Victoria innings, and then scored a century. Additional information and corrections from Western Daily Press 4 August 1881, courtesy of Harry Watton. This newspaper states that Nichols bowled 15 overs and conceded 18 runs.

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Meriden v Nether Whitacre 1881 5 Venue Meriden, Warwickshire Date 6 August 1881 Result Meriden won on first innings by 73 runs Toss Umpires KSW Meriden First innings

B Skidmore b Handscombe 4 R Thompson b Fifield 18 H Hicken hit wicket b Cupit 12 W Watson c and b Fifield 1 A Garratt b Fifield 2 W Boden b Fifield 0 J Glover b Fifield 1 J Sharp c Greenway b Fifield 14 SP Thompson b Handscombe 2 W Thompson not out 1 F Fitter b Handscombe 2 Extras b8, lb2, w6 16

Total (all out) 73 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/73 O M R W Handscombe 3 Fifield 6 Cupit 1 Nether Whitacre First innings Second innings (following on)

Oldham c Watson b Hicken 0 Smith b Watson 0 Greenway b Hicken 0 T Cupit c Fitter b Hicken 0 (1) c SP Thompson b Watson 2 Handscombe c and b Watson 0 (2) not out 17 J Boonham b Hicken 0 T White b Watson 0 T Fifield b Hicken 0 (3) not out 3 W Keightley hit wicket b Hicken 0 Dabbs b Hicken 0 Dale not out 0 Extras 0 b3, lb2 5

Total (all out) 0 (for 1 wicket) 27 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 1/? O M R W O M R W Hicken 0 7 Watson 0 3 1 There are currently (May 2020) two versions of the scorecard of this match on Cricket Archive, with many differences between them – including the match-date, the name of one of the teams, and whether or not one of the sides had a second innings. A third version of the scorecard has also been traced in the Coventry Independent Journal of 17 August 1881.

The scorecard as presented here is considered by the present writer to be the most accurate and complete that can be compiled using these three sources, together with other sources including local gazetteers (for team-names) and census information (for the most reliable spelling of players’ surnames).

The result as given here is based on the conclusion – not 100% certain - that Meriden batted first

A fuller explanation of the choices made in compiling the above scorecard is given on the following pages.

For the record, no scorecard or other details of the match have been found in any of the following newspapers: the Birmingham Daily Post, the Birmingham Daily Mail, or the Coventry Times. Other possible newspapers, as yet unchecked, include the Birmingham Daily Gazette, Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, the Coventry Standard, the Coventry Herald, and the Coleshill Chronicle. The last-named is now (December 2020) in the BNA, but excluding the editions for 1881. Initials for some of the Nether Whitacre players have been taken from scorecards of the team’s matches as given in this newspaper in 1880 and 1882.

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MERIDEN v NETHER WHITACRE 1881 - ISSUES There are currently two versions of the scorecard of this match in Cricket Archive:

• Version 1: CA ref misc254448 (as printed in Scores & Biographies)

• Version 2: CA ref misc343894 (as printed in James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual, or ‘Red Lilly’)

These two scorecards differ very substantially from each other, and both are different from the only scorecard found to date in a contemporary newspaper, that in the Coventry Independent Journal (hereafter CIJ) of 17 August 1881. The following is an assessment of the various alternatives contained within these three scorecards. 1 Team names Version 1 names the two teams as Meriden and Whitacre Nether; version 2 and the CIJ as Meriden and Nether Whitacre. Gazetteers contemporary with the match, as well as today’s Ordnance Survey gazetteer, and reports of the cricket team’s matches in the Coleshill Chronicle in the 1880s, consistently name the latter village as Nether Whitacre, and there seems no doubt that that was the correct name of the side in this match. The village of Nether Whitacre lies about 10km SSE of Tamworth and about 18km NE of the centre of Birmingham. It is some 7km north of the rather larger village of Meriden. 2 Match date and venue Version 1 says the match was played at Forest Hall, Meriden on 6 August 1881, and thus identifies Meriden as the home team. Version 2 has the match at Coton Road, Whitacre Heath on 13 August 1881, and has Nether Whitacre as the home team. The scorecards of the two matches are far too similar for there to be any question of the two CA scorecards referring to two completely different matches. The CIJ says explicitly that “This match was played at Meriden on August 6th, and resulted in an easy victory for the home team”. There seems to be no reason to doubt these details from the only known local and contemporary source. Reference to the match can also be found in the history of Nether Whitacre CC entitled Cow pats and cricket bats, written by Maurice Barnett and viewable online at the club’s Play-Cricket.com website. This too gives the date as 6 August, and the venue as Meriden. Verdict on issues 1 and 2: The match was played at Meriden on 6 August 1881, and the fixture is correctly identified as ‘Meriden v Nether Whitacre’. 3 Order and number of innings, and the result Version 1 has Nether Whitacre batting first, and also gives details of a brief second innings for that side. Version 2 and the CIJ both have Meriden batting first, and make no mention of either side batting for a second time. Version 1 has the result as a draw, whereas version 2 says that Meriden won by 73 runs. The CIJ also refers to the result being “an easy victory for the home team”. The issue of the result is relatively easy to resolve. As this was a one-day match, it would have been decided on first innings alone, unless a result were to be obtained via completed second innings. Even if a side batted again after both first innings had been completed, and had not completed its second innings, the result of the match could not be given as a draw: the result would be based on first-innings performances alone. In this case, even if Nether Whitacre batted a second time, their second innings was not completed. So version 1 is wrong to give the result as a draw: the winners, because they scored more runs in their first innings, were Meriden. Whether their win was by 73 runs, or by the number of wickets that they had remaining when they passed Nether Whitacre’s first-innings score (which must have been ten, since Nether Whitacre made 0 in their first innings, and both Meriden openers scored at least one run) depends on which side batted first.

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That question is more difficult to settle. Even if Meriden batted first and then dismissed their opponents for 0, there is no reason why the third innings of the match – if there was one – should not have been played by Nether Whitacre: following on if they had batted after Meriden first time round, or else, if they had batted first, just going in again in the normal way after the completion of both teams’ first innings. Under the Laws of cricket as they stood at the time, a team was required [sic – it was compulsory] to follow on if they were 60 or more runs behind their opponents on first innings in a one-day match. There is no compelling evidence either way as to the order in which the teams batted – or indeed whether either side embarked upon a second innings. On balance, I think it likely that Nether Whitacre did bat a second time – the scorecard details given for their second innings in Version 1 contain nothing out of the ordinary to suggest that they may have been ‘invented’, and one can understand the two teams wanting to carry on playing after the two first innings must have been completed early in the scheduled hours of play. Purely based on the fact that two of the sources give Meriden batting first, I currently favour that order of innings (which means that Nether Whitacre must have followed on), but a note is needed to the scorecard to indicate that this is conjecture only. Verdict: The scorecard should be written to show Meriden batting first, and to show Nether Whitacre starting a second innings when following on. The result will therefore be a win for Meriden by 73 runs. But all this should be qualified in a note to the scorecard. 4 Players’ names The names of the players, or the spellings of their names, differ in several respects between the three versions. The differences are as follows:

• Meriden’s number 5 batsman is named as A Garratt in both Version 2 and the CIJ, but as A

Revenhall in Version 1.

• Nether Whitacre’s number 8 is spelled Fyfield in Version 1, but as Fiefield in Version 2 and the

CIJ.

• Nether Whitacre’s number 9 is spelled Keighlley in Version 1, Keighley in Version 2, and Keightley

in the CIJ.

• Versions 1 and 2 both have Meriden’s numbers 1 and 3 as E Skidmore and E Hicken respectively,

but the CIJ has them as B Skidmore and H Hicken.

A check of surnames as given in the 1881 census for the area indicates that Fifield and Keightley are the correct spellings of those players’ names. There is no persuasive evidence either way on the other issues noted. On balance, and in the absence of any supporting evidence for the names and initials given in Versions 1 and 2, I favour – with no great confidence - following the contemporary versions as given in the CIJ. Verdict: The spellings Fifield and Keightley should be used in the Nether Whitacre card, and the CIJ should be followed in identifying other players as A Garratt, B Skidmore and H Hicken. [The corrected spellings for these names are used in the remainder of this note.] 5 Other scorecard differences Various other differences between the scorecards have been identified:

• Only Version 1 gives any breakdown of Extras, and does so only for Meriden’s first innings and

Nether Whitacre’s second.

• Version 1 and the CIJ both give Keightley ‘hit wicket b Hicken’ in Nether Whitacre(1); Version 2

has him lbw to the same bowler.

• Version 1 has Watson ‘c Fifield b [unknown] in the Meriden innings, while Version 2 and the CIJ

both give ‘c and b Fifield’.

Again with no special confidence, and for the same reason as given above, I favour going with the CIJ’s version of the dismissal details of Keightley and Watson. In the absence of any alternative to the Extras breakdown as given in Version 1, I am willing to accept this as it stands. Verdict: Use the Extras breakdown from Version 1, and the dismissal details from the CIJ.

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Unknown v Unknown 1881/82 3 Venue Bendigo, Victoria Date 1881/82 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that FR Spofforth took all 20 wickets for his side in a match at Bendigo in 1881/82, conceding 48 runs in the process – and that all 20 wickets were ‘bowled’. There is no reference to such a match in any newspaper in Trove, nor in Cricket for 1882. It is referred to in newspaper coverage of some later instances of ‘all 20’ in Australia, but Cashman’s biography of Spofforth (The ‘Demon’ Spofforth pages 114-115) casts considerable doubt on the alleged occurrence: apparently many have sought it, but none have found.

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Ashcombe Park v Tunstall 1882 3 Venue Ashcombe Park, Cheddleton, Staffordshire Date 6 May 1882 Result Ashcombe Park won by an innings and 57 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW Tunstall First innings Second innings

J Woolwich st S Bowcock b [unknown] 0 L Laton b Walker 0 J Fitchford lbw b Walker 1 D Madeley b Walker 0 J Adams b Walker 0 S Williett b Walker 0 J Plant not out 0 Jarvis c Chell b Walker 0 W Fitchford c Wardle b Walker 0 J Higgins b Walker 0 G Booth b Walker 0 Extras 1

Total (all out) 2 (all out) 6 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/2 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/6 O M R W O M R W Walker 3.1 3 0 9 [unknown] 1 1 Ashcombe Park First innings

+ S Bowcock b Laton 13 H Wardle b Madeley 1 O Bowcock run out 10 G Peacock b Madeley 1 J Walker b Madeley 15 F Byrne b Madeley 0 J Chell not out 11 H Wright b Madeley 5 G Devereux b Madeley 0 E Harvey b Laton 0 JD Hargreaves c Madeley b [unknown] 0 Extras 9

Total (all out) 65 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/65 O M R W Laton 2 Madeley 6 [unknown] 1

Source: Leek Times 13 May 1882. The match was not reported in the Staffordshire Sentinel

From the Leek Times: “James Walker (late professional at Ashcombe Park) performed the unparalleled feat of taking eight wickets in eight consecutive balls, viz five wickets clean bowled, two caught and one lbw. [His] analysis is a splendid one, showing nine wickets in 13 balls for no runs. [Tunstall’s] bowling was very good, but their fielding and batting weak”. This description does not allow the identification of the eight batsmen who were dismissed successively.

Gross says that Walker took 9-0 in 11 balls (2.3 overs). This may have been his sequence rather than his full innings return.

The Leek Times gives W Fitchford as caught by ‘G Wardle’ – if so, he was not one of his side’s batting XI.

Walker’s feat is challenged as a fiction by Old Ebor in the Yorkshire Evening Post of 2 May 1898, in which he says that the Tunstall captain denied that any such match had taken place. The Sportsman of 10 November 1882 states that “there appears to have been some mistake in the title of the team that thus distinguished (?) itself.” So it may be that the event was genuine enough, but that the side opposing Ashcombe Park was not properly known as ‘Tunstall’. There is no further reference to the match – either as a correction or in a letter to the Editor – in the Leek Times in any edition between May and early November 1882.

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Essendon [Juniors] v Hatfield [Juniors] 1882 3 Venue Essendon, [Hertfordshire] Date 30 May 1882 Result Not known Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 (?) Thanks: HW

Gross says that A Causton took 19 wickets for Essendon in this match, which he refers to simply as Essendon v Hatfield. The achievement is referred to in Cricket 1882 page 181, where it is stated to have been in a 12-a-side match between ‘Essendon Junior and Hatfield Junior’. Cricket says that Causton took 19 wickets and threw out the 20th [though if this were a 12-a-side game there were two other wickets to fall as well]. From the date of 30 May given in Cricket, this is assumed to be a match between two villages in Hertfordshire rather than a match in Melbourne, Victoria. Trove records a few matches by Essendon in the 1881/82 season, but has no reports of any team called Hatfield, nor any record of a feat matching that reported for Causton. Evidence found by Harry Watton confirms that this match was in Hertfordshire and not Melbourne. The match has been sought without success in the Hertfordshire Mercury and the Herts Advertiser. One Essendon match was reported in the former in 1882, but not this one (and no player named Causton is referred to in the brief report).

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Eton College v Marylebone Cricket Club 1882 4 Venue Eton College, Buckinghamshire Date 20 June 1882 Result MCC won by an innings and 14 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Marylebone Cricket Club First innings

CI Thornton c Lucas b Jardine 0 F Barry b Brownlow 16 C Marriott c Bainbridge b Jardine 17 CC Clarke c Cave b Jardine 19 Lord Eskdaill b Richards 7 JHM Hare lbw b Jardine 2 HF de Paravicini c Richards b Jardine 1 GH Goldney c Cave b Richards 7 GH Portal not out 50 O’Shaughnessy run out 16 + R Pilling c K-Hugessen b Brownlow 0 AJ Fothergill c Grenfell b Brownlow 8 Extras b2, lb4, w6, nb1 13

Total (all out) 156 Fall 1/0, 2/?, 3/42, 4/62, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/89, 9/143,

10/?, 11/156

O M R W Jardine 31 7 51 5 Brownlow 17.3 4 45 3 Richards 19 6 32 2 Marchant 3 0 15 0 Eton College First innings Second innings (following on)

RJ Lucas b Fothergill 13 b Fothergill 3 *HW Bainbridge c Pilling b Fothergill 6 c Pilling b Portal 8 RH Pemberton st Pilling b Fothergill 0 not out 19 WF Cave b Fothergill 11 c Goldney b Fothergill 4 J Hargreaves run out (Fothergill) 6 c Hare b Portal 1 CM Knatchbull-Hugessen c Thornton b Fothergill 0 lbw b Fothergill 3 AC Richards c Thornton b Fothergill 4 c Hare b Fothergill 3 F Marchant c Pilling b Fothergill 11 b Fothergill 1 C Bogle-Smith b Fothergill 3 b Goldney 3 CA Grenfell not out 3 b Fothergill 3 JR Brownlow b Fothergill 4 b Goldney 4 IF Jardine st Pilling b Fothergill 9 b Goldney 2 Extras lb2 2 b8, lb5, w3 16


11/72 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/70

O M R W O M R W Fothergill 31.3 19 28 10 24 13 21 6 Portal 2 Goldney 3 Source: Windsor & Eton Express 24 June 1882. Also reported in other newspapers at the time. Also Eton College Chronicle 10 July 1882 Gross says that AJ Fothergill took all 11 wickets in Eton College (1), but this is not correct, although he had a hand in all 11 dismissals. Some contemporary newspaper reports confirm that “Fothergill dismissed ten of the batsmen … and threw out the other one.” F Barry (MCC) is named as such in the Windsor & Eton Express, but the name H Whitfield is given in the Eton College Chronicle.

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Toronto Cricket Club v Trinity College School Ex & Present 1882 5 Venue Caer Howell, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Date 14 July 1882 Result Trinity College Ex & Present Toss Toronto CC won on first innings Umpires Players per side: 12 Trinity College School Ex & Present First innings Second innings

JS Howard c Helmcken b Foy 1 b Foy 4 AC Allan b Helmcken 0 b Helmcken 0 EC Cayley c Clarke b Helmcken 0 b Helmcken 0 AC Macdonell c Behan b Helmcken 5 not out 9 BC Morris b Helmcken 5 not out 9 RM Ross b Foy 3 *CJ Logan b Helmcken 24 DM Howard c Boulton b Helmcken 1 JH Ince b Helmcken 0 Martin b Foy 4 AH Scott b Helmcken 1 HJ Campbell not out 0 Extras 5 1

Total (all out) 49 (for 3 wickets) 23 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/2, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/?,

11/49 1/?, 2/?, 3/?

O M R W O M R W Helmcken 17.1 8 19 8 8 3 9 2 Foy 17 2 25 3 7 1 13 1

Toronto CC First innings

CH Sproule c Martin b McDonell 3 WH Merritt b DM Howard 5 GGS Lindsey b McDonell 0 RR Boulton b Allan 4 AM Daly b Logan 19 HD Helmcken b Logan 11 GB Behan b Logan 0 LJ Clarke run out 1 AG Foy b Logan 0 AG Brown b McDonell 64 JO Heward c Allan b Logan 2 GN Morrison not out 133 Extras 7

Total (all out) 249 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/,

10/51, 11/249

O M R W DM Howard 24 2 63 1 Macdonell 21.1 2 48 3 Allan 13 3 17 1 Logan 24 9 31 5 JS Howard 9 0 35 0 Ross 8 2 18 0 Cayley 6 0 22 0 Ince 4 0 8 0 There are currently (May 2020) two versions of the scorecard of this match on Cricket Archive, with many differences between them. A third version of the scorecard is given, with a match report, in the Toronto Daily Mail of 15 July 1882. The scorecard as presented here is considered by the present writer to be the most accurate and complete that can be compiled using these three sources. Particular uncertainties remain however regarding the name of the School side, and the initials of ‘Brown’ who shared in Toronto’s big last-wicket partnership.

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A fuller explanation of the choices made in compiling the above scorecard is given on the following pages.

TORONTO v TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL 1882 – ISSUES There are currently two versions of the scorecard of this match in Cricket Archive:

• Version 1: CA ref misc21552

• Version 2: CA ref misc411693

These versions differ in several respects from each other, and from the match report and scorecard in the Toronto Daily Mail (hereafter TDM) of 15 July 1882 (the day after the match). The following is an assessment of the merits of the various alternatives contained within these three scorecards. 1 Team Names Version 1 has Toronto Cricket Club v Trinity College School Past & Present; Version 2 has Toronto v Trinity College School Rovers; TDM has Trinity College School (Ex & Present) v Toronto Cricket Club. For the Trinity side, I see no reason not to go with the name by which this team was twice referred to at the time in the TDM – on 14 July before the match, and on 15 July when reporting it. ‘Past & Present’ may roll better off the tongue, but there is no evidence that it was the name by which the team was known at the time. Against this, however, it is noted that other matches involving many of the same Trinity players are reported in the TDM on 15 and 17 July under the team-name ‘Trinity College School Rovers’. Nevertheless, the fact that the newspaper used the ‘Ex and Present’ name for the Toronto match while on the same day using the ‘Rovers’ name for two other matches (all played on different dates) suggests that there was method behind the use of the ‘Ex and Present’ rather than the ‘Rovers’ name for the Toronto match. The Toronto side is consistently named in the TDM as Toronto Cricket Club, and it was surely a club side rather than one representing the city as a whole. 2 Venue Versions 1 and 2 both give this as ‘Caer Howell, Toronto’, while the TDM on 15 July just has “At the Toronto grounds” (and also, unhelpfully, in its pre-match notice “on the grounds of the home team”). In his listing of the match’s record 11th-wicket partnership, Gross gives the venue as ‘Fort Hope, Toronto’. Caer Howell is (or was at the time) the home ground of Toronto CC, while Port [sic] Hope is the location of Trinity College, some miles from the city itself. The venue as given in the TDM on 15 July seems clear that Toronto were the home team, and so Caer Howell would be the correct name of the venue. This also means that the fixture should be named with Toronto CC as the home side. Verdict on issues 1 and 2: The match was ‘Toronto CC v Trinity College School Ex & Present’, and was played at Caer Howell, Toronto. 3 The result Version 1 says the match was drawn; Version 2 says it was a win for Toronto on first innings. No result is mentioned in the TDM. This was a one-day match. The conventions of the time were that such a match would be played over a single innings, but there was no reason why a team should not play (or start) its second innings if time and the players’ enthusiasm permitted. Only if both teams’ second innings were played out would the result be determined as if it had been arranged as a two-innings match; otherwise the result would be decided by first innings. Thus once both teams had completed a first innings, a definite result to the match was inevitable – it could not be left as a draw. In this case, Toronto CC outscored their opponents on first innings, and as the two second innings were not completed the result must be a win for Toronto CC on first innings. Strictly it was a win by the number of wickets still in hand when Trinity’s first-innings total was passed, but this figure is not known. Verdict: Toronto CC won on first innings by an unknown number of wickets. 4 The toss and captains Version 1 says that the winners of the toss are not known; version 2 says the toss was won by Toronto. The report in the TDM is explicit that it was in fact Trinity who won the toss, and I know of no evidence to challenge this.

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Neither CA version identifies a captain for either side. The TDM refers to Logan as the Trinity captain, and again there is no evidence on which to dispute this. The captain of the Toronto side is not identified in any source seen to date. Verdict: The toss was won by the Trinity side, who were captained by CJ Logan. 5 Players’ names and initials The scorecard in the TDM does not give any players’ initials, other than to distinguish JS and DM Howard in the Trinity side. Versions 1 and 2 both give initials for all 24 players, and are consistent for all but three of them: Version 1 has JG Daly, FR Martin and J Brown, while Version 2 has AM Daly, Martin [no initial] and AG Brown. These three apart, reports of other matches in 1882 in the TDM confirm that players bearing the initials in Versions 1 and 2 played in senior cricket in Toronto in that season. There seems no reason to doubt the Version 1 and 2 initials of these 21 players. For Daly, CA has JG Daly playing several matches for Toronto-based sides in 1859 and 1860, then nothing until reappearing for a few matches in 1882; while it shows AM Daly appearing in several matches in 1882, though none in any other season. The TDM has a player named AM Daly appearing in matches in the city both before and after the Trinity game, and like CA it never has JG and AM Daly playing together. It seems to me that there is a strong balance of argument in favour of AM Daly being the cricketer who played against Trinity; the apparent 22-year gap in JG’s career seems likely to be an error. I can find no FR Martin an any match in the TDM in the 1882 season (to the end of August), although a player named EK or EKC Martin appears in a number of scorecards. I have no specific evidence that the Martin in the Trinity game was or was not FR, or that it was or was not EKC. On balance, I consider it best to leave this player’s name as just ‘Martin’, pending any firmer evidence of his identity coming to light. The case of Brown is more significant, since he was one of the participants in the record-breaking 11th-wicket partnership in this match. The TDM has a player named AG Brown playing for Toronto both before and after the Trinity game, but does not have any games featuring a ‘J Brown’ in the season to the end of August 1882. It may also be significant that a news item about the match – without a scorecard – from “a Canadian correspondent” that appeared in Cricket on 3 August 1882 (on page 197) refers to the man in the partnership as AG Brown. (It may be borne in mind that the TDM did not give the player’s initials, so this correspondent must have derived the initials ‘AG’ from some other source: he was not simply copying the details from the TDM.) CA has ‘J Brown’ playing for Toronto in two matches in 1882 (and no others in other years), but shows AG Brown as having a lengthy career in matches in the city. I feel there is clear balance here in favour of the view that the player in the Toronto side was AG Brown – which is the name given by Gross. One other issue concerns the spelling of the Trinity bowler Macdonnell (as given in Versions 1 and 2) or Macdonell (as in the TDM, both in this match and in several other matches in the same season). CA names this cricketer as Angus Claude Macdonnell (1861-1924). A search of ancestry.co.uk reveals that Angus Claude Macdonell, with the same birth and death dates as the player in CA, was a Conservative member of the Canadian parliament between 1904 and 1921. Some online family trees spell the surname as MacDonell, but in this instance I favour the orthography given on the Canadian Parliament’s website. So Macdonell it is. 6 Dismissal of Clarke for Toronto The TDM shows Clarke and Morrison as both ‘not out’ in the Toronto innings, whereas CA’s versions 1 and 2 both have Clarke ‘run out’. The TDM states that ten men were out before the big last-wicket partnership in this innings; one of those must have been Clarke. The ‘run out’ option seems by far the most likely correction to the TDM scorecard, bearing in mind too that their bowling figures show only ten of Toronto’s 11 wickets falling to bowlers. Run out is therefore favoured. 7 The size of Toronto’s last-wicket partnership The partnership for the last wicket in Toronto’s innings appears to be a record for an 11th wicket in any organised match, so it is desirable to establish its size beyond reasonable doubt.

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Version 1 of the scorecard shows the 10th wicket falling at 52 and the 11th at 249, and has a note to the scorecard saying that Brown and Morrison added 197 for the last wicket. Version 2 shows the 9th wicket falling at 51, has no figure for the score at the fall of the tenth wicket, and has the 11th wicket falling at 249. This time there is a note saying that the last-wicket partnership was worth 198 runs – which means that the compilers of this card must have understood the tenth wicket to have fallen at 51. The TDM gives very few fall of wicket details. An early reference is to the first three wickets of the Trinity innings producing “but two runs”, which is a detail lacking in both the other versions of the scorecard. More significantly, its report later says “At the fall of the tenth wicket Toronto was but two ahead … the Torontos’ first innings [later] terminated for the sum of 249”. Both the report in the paper, and its scorecard, confirm that Trinity’s all-out score in their first innings was 49 (as do versions 1 and 2). This means that the tenth wicket must have fallen at 51 and not 52, thus making the 11th-wicket partnership worth 198 (as given by Gross, and as noted at the time in the item in Cricket mentioned earlier). I strongly suspect that the fall of wickets details given in Version 2 are simply an error, and that the compiler meant to write ‘9/?, 10/51, 11/249’ – which would tally with the details in the TDM, and would be consistent with the note below that particular scorecard in CA. Such an error may not be wholly unexpected when writing up the fall of wickets in a 12-player innings. I have seen no evidence to support Version 1’s figure of 52 for the score at the fall of the tenth wicket, or for the partnership being 197 as stated in that version. In the absence of any such evidence, and in the face of explicit contemporary evidence for the score of 51 at the fall of the tenth wicket and a final partnership of 198, I see no reason to question the TDM details. Verdict: Toronto’s tenth wicket fell at 51, and the 11th-wicket partnership was worth 198. In addition, the third wicket of the Trinity first innings fell at a score of 2.

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Exmouth v Incogniti 1882 1 Venue Exmouth, Devon Date 9, 10 August 1882 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires R Thoms, Willis Thanks: HW Incogniti First innings

J Smith b Underwood 28 TW Wilson c Wheat b Underwood 3 W Lindsay b Arnold 16 DD Pontifex c Cripps b Arnold 28 E Leese b Wheat 54 C Awdry b Wheat 19 + GL King c Wilson b Underwood 26 E Giberne b Arnold 6 OB Martyn c Peach b Wheat 137 CWM Dale not out 99 AWL Hemming run out 6 Extras b14, lb8, w1 23

Total (all out) 445 Fall 1/13, 2/42, 3/62, 4/92, 5/136, 6/161, 7/176,

8/200, 9/406, 10/445

O M R W Underwood 9 3 Arnold 10 3 Wheat 7 3 Wilson 3 0 Peach 0 0 Blogg 0 0 Exmouth First innings Second innings (following on)

*WH Arundell c King b Pontifex 81 not out 82 Underwood c Martyn b Lindsay 21 c Pontifex b Smith 13 FB Blogg st King b Pontifex 13 b Pontifex 14 L Wilson b Dale 7 b Giberne 85 Capt Walter run out 5 c Martyn b Smith 6 AJ Cripps b Pontifex 0 Wheat b Dale 4 WW or HW Peach b Wilson 25 CE Jenkins b Dale 0 JSG Grenfell not out 0 (6) not out 16 Arnold c Lindsay b Wilson 2 Extras b8, lb1, w2 11 b9, lb2, w1 12

Total (all out) 169 (for 4 wickets) 228 Fall 1/?, 2/102, 3/122, 4/?, 5/132, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/169 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?

O M R W O M R W Pontifex 3 1 Lindsay 1 Dale 3 Wilson 2 Smith 2 Giberne 1 Source: Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 10 and 11 August 1882; Exmouth Journal 12 August 1882; Cricket 24 August 1882, page 251. The match is also referred to in Sporting Life (15 August 1882) but not in The Sportsman.

Close of Play Day 1: Incogniti 415-9 (Dale 75, Hemming 0).

Gross says that Martyn and Dale added 206 for the ninth wicket for Incogniti, in about 75 minutes. This partnership is corroborated by the two local newspapers [the Gazette’s report that the eighth wicket fell at 290 is a clear misprint, not repeated in the Journal]. Martyn’s innings of 137 included 19 fours, one five and two sixes.

Additional information from Harry Watton.

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Newcastle v IFW Bligh’s XI 1882/83 4 Venue Newcastle, NSW Date 8, 9 December 1882 Result Match drawn Toss Newcastle Thanks: HW Umpires Players per side: Newcastle 18, Bligh 11 Newcastle First innings Second innings

W Smith st Tylecote b Steel 13 c Barnes b Steel 3 C Lawrence jnr b Steel 2 st Tylecote b Steel 4 J Freeman c Barnes b Steel 1 c Bligh b Steel 2 J Butler b Steel 0 c Vernon b Steel 3 GW Webb c Tylecote b Bates 3 st Tylecote b Steel 7 WW McGlinchey c and b Studd 8 c Barlow b Studd 5 W Davidson c Alexander b Steel 0 st Tylecote b Steel 0 J Maddison c Bligh b Studd 12 b Steel 7 B Morley c Barnes b Studd 7 st Tylecote b Steel 3 C Lawrence snr c Tylecote b Studd 5 b Studd 0 JR Hall st Tylecote b Steel 1 c Barnes b Steel 3 L Symon c Tylecote b Steel 3 c and b Studd 0 + R Bryant run out 11 st Tylecote b Studd 0 E Webb b Steel 0 not out 1 W Tracy b Studd 0 J Rodgers not out 1 (15) b Studd 12 J Wood st Tylecote b Studd 0 (16) not out 2 Ryder b Studd 0 (17) c Tylecote b Steel 0 Extras 0 lb2 2

Total (all out) 67 (for 15 wickets) 54 Fall 1 to 16 not known, 17/67 1 to 15 not known O M R W O M R W Steel 38 20 36 7 38 15 29 10 Bates 13 9 9 1 Barlow 11 9 4 0 Studd 16.2 10 10 7 37 17 23 5 Read 4 1 8 1 IFW Bligh’s XI First innings

*IFW Bligh st Bryant b Ryder 22 W Barnes c Ryder b GW Webb 13 RG Barlow c C Lawrence snr b Tracy 39 CFH Leslie c Smith b Butler 51 CT Studd b Ryder 0 AG Steel c Tracy b GW Webb 29 WW Read c Morley b GW Webb 64 + EFS Tylecote c E Webb b Maddison 33 W Bates not out 34 GF Vernon c - Webb b Ryder 41 G Alexander c Maddison b Tracy 2 Extras b9, nb2 11

Total (all out) 339 Fall 1/24, 2/47, 3/123, 4/123, 5/154, 6/?, 7/?,

8/270, 9/336, 10/339

O M R W O M R W Tracy 28 11 30 2 Maddison 27 7 30 0 Davidson 15 5 12 0 Morley 4 1 4 0 GW Webb 46 9 102 3 Wood 4 1 3 0 Ryder 76 22 70 3 Butler 8 1 7 1 Smith 20 7 30 0 Lawrence snr 13.2 7 18 0

/ continued in next columns Lawrence jnr 5 1 20 0

Source: Cricket Archive misc29212

Gross says that Tylecote made three stumpings off successive deliveries from Steel, but there is no reference to such a feat – or even to Steel performing the hat-trick – in the detailed match reports in contemporary Australian newspapers (the Sydney Mail and the Sydney Evening News). The hat-trick is however confirmed in RG Barlow’s book Forty seasons of first-class cricket, where it is recorded that Tylecote had a hand in all three victims – catching one and stumping the other two. Gross was thus incorrect in crediting him with a ‘stumping nat-trick.

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Unknown v Unknown 1882/83 2 Venue Royston College, Sydney, NSW Date 1882/83 season Result Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ, HW

Gross records that in a college match, SMJ Woods took seven wickets with consecutive deliveries. He would have been about 15 years old at the time. No record of this performance has been traced in Trove, or in any UK source (including newspapers in BNA). Woods’ feat is noted, with no further details, on page 94 of Ken Piesse’s Extraordinary book of Australian cricket. Piesse says that he was playing for the College side. Alfred James has advised that “the performances of Poidevin [pages 55 and 56] and Woods have been sought for years, without success”. In The Cricketer 12 May 1923, Woods reminisced about his playing days at Royston College, but although referring to some specific performances for the College he made no mention of a ‘7 in 7’.

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Coy’s Diggings v Redcastle 1881/82 1 Venue Redcastle, Victoria Date December 1881/January 1882 Result Coy’s Diggings won by an innings and 6 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW, WR Redcastle First innings Second innings

Sinclair Reid

Total (all out) 29 (all out) 12 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/29 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/12 O M R W O M R W Pettifer 8 W Hipgrave 6.3 6 0 10 Coy’s Diggings First innings

Pettifer W Hipgrave

47 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/47 O M R W Sinclair Reid Gross says that A Hipgrave took ten wickets for no runs in a match for Heathcote in 1882/83. He says the match was at Sydney, but Heathcote is actually in Victoria, about 110km north of Melbourne. There must be grave doubts as to whether this was a genuine performance. No such instance is reported in the local newspaper serving the area around the relevant dates (the McIvor Times & Rodney Advertiser), although it mentions two matches in which J Hipgrave and W Hipgrave [surname sometimes given as Hipgraves] both played either for Whoo [sic] or for Heathcote. Gross’s recording of this feat appears to derive from an item in Cricket 1883 page 41, which refers to “the last three performances of a bowler of the Heathcote Club, named Hipgrave [no initial] [being] ten wickets for no runs, nine wickets for one, and five wickets for s ix runs.” This in turn picked up a similar report in the Sportsman (Melbourne) on 10 January 1883, which was also repeated in several other Australian newspapers including the Sydney Bulletin, as referred to in the item in Cricket (and probably the source of Gross’s reference to the 10-0 being recorded at Sydney). Gross also includes the alleged performance of 9-1 in his lists, again giving it as being for Heathcote v Unknown at Sydney. But no such bowling figures are recorded anywhere in the McIvor Times. In the two matches in which it gives full reports, W Hipgrave or Hipgraves is shown as taking 6-4 and 0-8 for Whoo in a match on 28 October 1882, and 3-20 and 6-8 for Heathcote in a match on 1 January 1883. These two matches were given full coverage, and it seems highly unlikely that any other significant games were played in the area over this period – and certainly not matches that would allow the bowler to squeeze in the three performances recorded in The Sportsman before 10 January 1883. Unless there was also a Heathcote club at Sydney around the same time, and one of its successful bowlers was named A Hipgrave, I believe that this performance is probably included in Gross’s lists in error. The match has now been traced. It took place a season earlier than reported by Gross, and was reported in the McIvor Times of 12 January 1882, which says that it was played “recently”. Thanks to Wiliam Rice (Cricket Victoria).

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Stockbridge v Abbotts Ann 1883 1 Venue Commons Down, Stockbridge, Hampshire Date 7 May 1883 Result Stockbridge won by 10 wickets Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Abbotts Ann First innings Second innings

C Oram b Martin 8 b Martin 3 Farr b Martin 2 not out 6 Allen b Martin 10 b Martin 1 F Bloxham b Martin 0 b Martin 2 Dear b Martin 11 b Martin 1 Batchelor b Martin 0 b Martin 18 Seaward b Martin 0 c and b Martin 0 Dewey not out 1 c and b Martin 6 Taylor b Martin 0 b Martin 0 Webb b Martin 1 c and b Martin 4 C Robard b Martin 0 b Martin 0 Extras 7 2


9/?, 10/43 O M R W O M R W Martin 10 10 Stockbridge First innings Second innings

L Day b Allen 1 C Herring c Seaward b Bloxham 3 L North b Dewey 29 (1) not out 4 W Snelling lbw b Bloxham 6 F Tarrant c Batchelor b Bloxham 1 F Eggar b Dewey 6 W Baverstock b Dewey 0 R Wickham not out 15 (2) not out 3 J Judd b Dewey 0 J Martin run out 6 J Wakeford b Dewey 4 Extras 8 0

Total (all out) 79 (for no wickets) 7 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/79

O M R W O M R W Allen 1 Bloxham 3 Dewey 5 Source: Hampshire Advertiser 12 May 1883; Hampshire Chronicle 19 May 1883 The successful bowler was James Martin (1860-1941). There is a biographical note of him on page 258 of S&B vol XV. The Hampshire Chronicle and S&B confirm that the three wickets in Abbotts Ann (2) that were not ‘bowled’ were all ‘caught and bowled’ [and not ‘caught unknown b Martin’]. Reports vary of how many runs Martin conceded in the match, but the most likely figure is around 40: contemporary reports say that he took his wickets at 2 runs apiece. The report in Reynold’s Newspaper of 13 May that he averaged “a little over 4 runs per wicket” may be rejected as clearly wrong, since this would have required Martin to have conceded all, or virtually all, of the runs scored by his opponents.

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AE Barton’s XI v Portsmouth Grammar School 1883 3 Venue Portsmouth, Hampshire Date 1883 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW, JS

Gross records that AE Barton scored 112* out of 124 runs for Southsea Rovers in a match against the School in 1883, but James Lillywhite’s Cricketer’s Annual for 1884 (pp 232 and 237) indicates that this performance was recorded when playing for his own side – and that the runs were made in 65 minutes. It is not clear whether 124 was his side’s all-out score (in which case he scored 90.32% of his side’s runs, or a higher figure if extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Barton was at the wicket. Lillywhite’s Annual also gives Barton’s bowling figures for the two innings as 15-10-8-5 and 10-6-9-6, but gives no other scorecard details. The match is not noted in the Portsmouth Times or any other newspaper in the BNA, but various other local newspapers in the British Library may be worth exploring. There is no record of this match in the 1883 issue of the Portsmouth Grammar School magazine, which lists and gives the results of all 14 of the school’s matches for the season (information gratefully received from John Sadden, the school’s archivist.

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Surrey v Rutland 1883 3 Venue Kennington Oval, Surrey Date 1883 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross says that D Shuttleworth (206*) and L D’Arcy (176) shared a partnership of 364 for the fifth wicket for Rutland in this match.

Efforts to find out more have drawn a total blank, and I am very sceptical as to the genuineness of this alleged performance.

No match against Rutland is recorded in Surrey’s scorebook for 1883 (seen at the Surrey History Centre), and no such match is recorded in Wisden for that year, or in any newspaper in the BNA (searched from 1881 to 1885 inc), or in 1883 editions of the Rutland Echo. The occurrence is not known to county experts Brian Cowley (Surrey) or Richard Holdridge (Leicestershire). No players named either Shuttleworth or D’Arcy are shown in any Rutland side of this period for which scores have been seen, nor are any players of those names listed contemporaneously for clubs in Cricket Archive.

Other newspaper that may have covered Rutland are available at the British Library, but without greater certainty as to the genuineness of this performance I have been reluctant to follow them up.

Two articles on Rutland Cricket were printed in The Cricketer in the early 1960s. An item on 1961 page 400 says that the Highest Innings Total ever recorded for Rutland was 301 made in 1882, while there is no mention of the feat recorded by Gross in an article by Rowland Bowen on page 459 of the 1961/62 Winter Annual. Both articles reinforce the case for believing that Gross was in error in listing this match and partnership in his records.

Harry Watton has discovered that a club named Rutland CC played in the Islington area of north London in the 1860s (and into the 1870s), which looks promising; but a search through the Islington Gazette in the BNA between the years 1860 and 1890 has not identified any matches for the club in the 1880s, nor any matches at any time against Surrey or a spin-off such as Surrey Club & Ground, nor any involving players named Shuttleworth or D’Arcy. The mystery remains.

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East Melbourne v Fitzroy 1883/84 1 Venue East Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Date 13, 20, 27 October 1883 Result East Melbourne won by an innings and 601 runs Toss Fitzroy Umpires Thanks: Ken W Fitzroy First innings Second innings

C Showers b McShane 16 absent - J Topping b Midwinter 15 st Lewis b Midwinter 11 Allan c Hastings b McShane 3 absent - J Lowe b Midwinter 0 (6) not out 1 A Shee run out 7 absent - Phillips b Midwinter 3 (5) c Boyle b Midwintger 0 E Prentice not out 7 (1) b Midwinter 0 T Hayes b Midwinter 2 (4) b Trapp 3 Atherton b Midwinter 5 (3) c Robertson b Midwinter 5 Newman b Midwinter 0 absent - J Trinnick absent - absent - Extras b2, lb1 3 nb1, others 3 4

Total (all out) 55 (all out) 24 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/55 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/24 O M R W O M R W McShane 13 3 22 2 (2) 1 0 9 0 Midwinter 13 4 30 6 (1) 5 2 5 4 Trapp 3 0 6 1 East Melbourne First innings

TU Groube b Atherton 55 HJH Scott run out 77 TP Horan run out 49 + PM Lewis c Allen b Phillips 237 EP Hastings b Atherton 8 VB Trapp c sub (Robertson) b Lowe 65 HA Musgrove b Phillips 48 WR Robertson b Phillips 18 PG McShane c Showers b Phillips 58 *HF Boyle c and b Phillips 2 WE Midwinter not out 0 Extras b53, lb14, nb1 68

Total (all out) 680 Fall 1/112, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/,

10/680

O M R W Shee 30 1 111 0 Atherton 29 8 83 2 Hayes 27 3 70 0 Allan 16 3 49 0 Phillips 47.4 13 98 5 Topping 22 1 64 0 Lowe 27 3 86 1 Prentice 3 1 9 0 Newman 7 1 21 0 Showers 8 0 26 0 Source: The Weekly Times (Melbourne) 27 October 1883; The Australasian 3 November 1883; The Sportsman (Melbourne) 17, 24 and 31 October 1883

Close of play: Day 1 – E Melbourne 142-1 (Scott 63, Horan 9); Day 2 – E Melbourne 432-5 (Lewis 111, Musgrove 20); Day 3 – Fitzroy 24-5 (Lowe 1)

After play ended on 27 October, “the remaining men were to bat on Monday [29th] but the inclement weather kept all but one of them away, and so the Fitzroy skipper decided to give up the match, which therefore terminated in favour of the East by an innings and 601 runs” (The Australasian 3 November 1883). [So is ‘absent’ correct?]

This was a match in the McLean Challenge Cup competition (the senior Melbourne club competition of the day). Further information from Ken Williams.

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Wimborne v Poole 1884 1 Venue Poole CC Ground, Dorset Date 11 June 1884 Result Poole won by an innings and 13 runs Toss Umpires KSW Wimborne First innings Second innings

C Newman b Knight 1 c Seymour b Styring 23 Rev Williams st Carter b Hill 0 b Knight 0 Micklethwaith c Purton b Knight 4 c Hill b Knight 0 Staden b Knight 1 c Carter b Knight 0 Cox b Hill 2 b Knight 0 Rev Huyshe b Knight 0 run out 0 E Smith b Knight 0 b Styring 0 C Ellis b Knight 0 b Knight 0 -Newman b Hill 4 b Knight 2 F Budden b Knight 0 b Styring 0 Stewart not out 0 not out 0 Extras 2 2


8/?, 9/?, 10/27 O M R W O M R W Knight 10 9 1 7 18 6 Hill 11 3 Styring 3 Poole First innings

Seymour b Newman 13 HD Corbett b Newman 10 Knight b Newman 0 FS Styring b Staden 7 J Stephens b Newman 0 E Hill c Ellis b Micklethwaith 1 Purton run out 15 + J Carter lbw b Newman 2 E McCalla b Newman 1 H Milledge c Ellis b Newman 2 Cross not out 0 Extras 3

Total (all out) 54 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/54 O M R W Newman 7 Micklethwaith 1 Staden 1 Source: Poole & Bournemouth Herald 19 June 1884; Bournemouth Guardian 14 June 1884. Also noted in Cricket 26 June 1884 page 237, and the Dorset County Chronicle 19 June 1884 (which notes Knight’s bowling figures but not Newman’s batting achievement). The match is not noted in the Dorset County Express. The above full score – the only full score yet seen - is from the Poole & Bournemouth Herald. Whereas Gross says that W Newman [sic] scored all 23 off the bat in Wimborne (2), and other versions of the scorecard give the total as including 4 extras (b2, lb1, w1), the Herald only gives 2 extras (type unspecified) and credits ‘- Newman’ with 2 runs. It is not known which version is correct, but if it is the above version, the batting feat of C (or W) Newman does not qualify for any of the lists in this project. The Poole Telegram, not yet seen, may support one version or the other. It is also not known whether the successful bowler ‘Newman’ was or was not the opening batsman, or whether the wickets were in fact shared between the two players named Newman. Staden sometimes given as Stadden..

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Royal Engineers v Royal Marines 1884 1 Venue United Services Ground, Portsmouth Date 15, 16 August 1884 Result Royal Engineers won on first innings by 476 runs Toss Umpires Royal Marines First innings

Lt Curteis c Hamilton b Dumbleton 21 Capt Robilliard c Dumbleton b Young 3 Lt Drury c von Donop b Young 13 Lt Binney c Drummond b van Donop 9 Lt Nelson b von Donop 2 Capt Wright not out 79 Maj Heathcote c Bonham-Carter b von Donop 2 Capt Hayes b Dumbleton 5 Lt Corydon c Jones b Fellowes 31 Lt Percy c Renny-Tailyour b Fellowes 19 Lt O’Brien b Fellowes 4 Extras b7, lb3 10

Total (all out) 198 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/198 O M R W Dumbleton 2 Young 2 von Donop 3 Fellowes 3 Royal Engineers First innings

Lt C Wingfield-Stratford run out 4 Lt HN Dumbleton c Drury b Nelson 325 Capt von Donop b Binney 25 Lt TE Hamilton run out 15 Capt CL Young c Binney b Robilliard 204 Lt EW Walton b Corydon 22 Lt TFB Renny-Tailyour b Nelson 0 Maj J Fellowes b Curteis b Corydon 9 Lt AG Drummond not out 23 Lt H Bonham-Carter c Binney b Corydon 4 Lt L Jones b Nelson 11 Extras b15, lb15, w2 32

Total (all out) 674 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/109, 4/573, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/674

O M R W Nelson 3 Binney 1 Robilliard 1 Corydon 3 Source: Sporting Life 18 August 1884; Field 23 August 1884; noted in Cricket 1899 pp 195, 481 and 484 Close of play, Day 1: Royal Engineers 168-3 (Dumbleton ?, Young ?) Dumbleton hit 37 fours in his 325, and Young 22 fours and two sixes in his 204 The above card largely follows that in Field, but there are some differences as compared with the card in the Sporting Life. Marines’ number 9 batsman is given as Capt Corydon in Field, Lieut Congdon in Sporting Life; in the RE innings, Sporting Life gives Young as stumped by Binney rather than caught; and Sporting Life names the RE number 4 as Lt S Hamilton rather than TE. Initials and batting order in the RE side are taken from Field (few initials are given in Sporting Life), but the RE number 1 is named as ‘Lieut Winfield-Stratford’ in the Sporting Life, and ‘Mr CW Stratford’ in Field; I have compromised. Field gives the rank ‘Lieutenant’ in the RE side only to Dumbleton; all others shown as Lieutenants in Sporting Life (and here) are just ‘Mr’ in Field.

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Wentworth XV v Adelaide Federal XI 1884/85 1 Venue Wentworth, New South Wales Date 26, 27 December 1884 Result Adelaide Federal XI won by an unknown margin Toss Wentworth XV Umpires Players per side: Wentworth 15, Adelaide 11 Wentworth XV First innings Second innings Third innings

Balchin 13 *Chatto Extras

Total (all out) 36 (all out) 24 (all out) 27 Fall O M R W O M R W O M R W Giffen 25 8 12 9 Caterer 7 4 11 4 Traynor 17 14 Adelaide Federal XI First innings

G Giffen 64 H Blinman 28 JE Gooden 29 J Boddiner 38 JF Traynor TA Caterer Extras

Total (all out) 192 Fall 1-88, 10-192

Others not known

O M R W

Source: South Australian Register, Adelaide Observer and Evening Journal (Adelaide), 27/29 December 1884 and 3 January 1885. The match was referred to in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) on 24 December 1884 as ‘the first intercolonial cricket match between South Australia and New South Wales’, but the visiting team was more generally referred to as the ‘Adelaide Federal XI’ while the home side was not remotely a representative NSW team. As initially announced, the Adelaide squad also included G Liston, T Green, R Castle, HC Burnet, F Stanton, T Coats or Coates, AJ Diamond, WB Carr and R Giffen. A player named Nicholson is also referred to in reports. It is not known which, if any, of these made up the full XI for the match. Traynor took all 14 wickets when Wentworth batted a third time after being still well behind after two innings.

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South of Hampshire v North of Hampshire 1885 4 Venue Banister’s Park, Southampton Date 8, 9 May 1885 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires T Best, J Tuck Thanks: HW North of Hampshire First innings Second innings

AB Heath b Dible 0 Tovey b Dible 8 (1) not out 5 E Barratt c and b Dible 0 AW Parvin c Lacey b Willoughby 0 F Walkinshaw c Armstrong b Dible 1 E Sheldrake c Calder b Armstrong 66 J Adams b Willoughby 0 W Raynbird c [unknown] b Dible 4 (2) not out 9 CM Kennedy b Armstrong 24 H Baldwin not out 0 Young b Armstrong 0 Extras b1, lb1, w1 3 b1 1

Total (all out) 106 (for no wicket) 15 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/38, 5/105, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/106

O M R W O M R W Dible 5 Willoughby 2 (2) Armstrong 3 (1) South of Hampshire First innings

W Wallace c Barratt b Tovey 0 G Underdown b Barratt 8 H Armstrong c Tovey 9 C Elwes c Tovey b Young 26 H Calder b Tovey 1 FE Lacey not out 181 Willoughby b Young 6 JH Darby c Adams b Sheldrake 1 E Hall b Barratt 98 JG Crowdy c Barratt b Young 14 Dible b Sheldrake 25 Extras b23, lb4, w2 29

Total (all out) 398 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/123, 8/295, 9/358,

10/398

O M R W Barratt 37 8 82 2 Tovey 16 6 44 3 Baldwin 18 2 49 0 Raynbird 26 3 64 0 Young 23 6 56 3 Parvin 11 1 39 0 Sheldrake 16.1 4 35 2 Source: Hampshire Advertiser 6 and 13 May 1885. Also noted in Cricket 14 May 1885 page 122

Close of Play, Day 1: South of Hampshire 123-7 (Lacey 60)

Gross says that Lacey and Hall added 228 for the eighth wicket in the South innings, but from the fall of wickets details in the Advertiser the partnership was only worth 172. Lacey’s innings of 181 included 23 fours.

Sources credit the catch of Raynbird in North (1) to ‘Heath’ – which if correct was presumably his team-mate AB Heath fielding as a substitute. But this is not explicitly corroborated in the source.

This was a match arranged to celebrate the opening of what became the county ground at Northlands Road; at the time, the ground was referred to as Banister’s Park. [CA is wrong to say that matches were played at Northlands Road as early as 1878.]

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St Benedict’s v Liverpool Pupil-Teachers 1885 2 Venue Liverpool Date 4 July 1885 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross says that J Cottrell took all ten wickets for no runs in an innings for St Benedict’s. The feat is noted in Cricket 1885 page 255, which is the source of the date of 4 July and which adds that six of the wickets came off successive deliveries. (This 6 in 6 is also recorded by Gross.) Cricket gives the bowler’s name as Cottrall rather than Cottrell. The performance is not recorded in any newspapers currently (March 2020) in the BNA. The summary scores of one match by St Benedict’s are given in the edition of the Liverpool Mercury for 2 July, but there is no mention in the following edition of the match against the Pupil-Teachers. Various other Liverpool newspapers are available for inspection at the BL, but these have not yet been followed up. The successful bowler is named as Cattrall in The Sportsman and Sporting Life for 7 July, and in the Bury Free Press and the Huddersfield Examiner (both 11 July), but as Catterall in the Preston Herald of 8 July. (Information from Harry Watton.)

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Alliance v Granville 1885 1 Venue Drayton Park, London Date 25 July 1885 Result Alliance won by 37 runs Toss Umpires Alliance innings

F Rae Extras

Total (all out) 37 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/37 O M R W Granville innings

Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0

O M R W Rae 0 10 Source: Sporting Life 28 July 1885; Cricket 1885 pp 297 and 477. The match is also noted briefly in some other contemporary papers, but with no further details.

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Beckenham v Bexley 1885 1 Venue Beckenham, Kent Date 1 August 1885 Result Bexley won by 10 wickets and batted on Toss Bexley Umpires Thanks: HW Bexley innings

LA Shuter c AM Inglis b Marriott 31 WB Friend c Lambrick b RE Inglis 8 J Shuter b RE Inglis 0 WW Mann c AM Inglis b Wyld 4 EC Friend c sub b Wyld 0 Capt Johnstone b Wilson 8 WC Jackson c Lambrick b Wilson 1 HG Wyld c Chater b Wyld 18 D Moffatt b Wyld 3 RF Sandon not out 1 J Sandon absent Extras b3 3

Total (all out) 77 Fall O M R W Marriott 1 RE Inglis 2 Wyld 4 Wilson 2 Beckenham innings

L Wilson not out 246 WG Wyld not out 203 CM Lambrick Rev FR Marriott AM Inglis PD Chater GH Collier RE Inglis P Northcote TJ Green HS Taylor Extras b16, lb1, w4 21

Total (for no wicket) 470 Fall O M R W Source: Sporting Life 3 August 1885; Cricket 1885 page 317. Also noted in the Morning Post, The Sportsman and the London Evening Standard on 3 August 1885. Also in Kentish Mercury (nd). Beckenham batted through to the call of Time.

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King’s College & Clare College Long Vacation Club v Unknown 1885 4 Venue Cambridge Date 1885 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that in separate matches for the LVC in this summer, LGB Ford scored 92* out of 103, and 81 out of 86. It is not clear from Gross whether 103 and 86 were his side’s all-out score, or just the number of runs added while Ford was at the wicket. The Sporting Life and Bell’s Life both report some matches by the Kings & Clare LVC. Both report that Ford made 92* out of his side’s 189 all out v Jesus LVC on 20 July – so the figure of 92* out of 103 would appear to be only the number of runs added while he was at the crease. None of the other match-scores reported show Ford as scoring 81, or his side as being all out for 86. On balance, it is concluded that Gross’s 81 out of 86, if it happened at all (which is entirely possible) was also an ‘at the crease’ proportion rather than a ‘whole innings’ proportion.

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Carisbrook v Excelsior 1885/86 3 Venue Carisbrook, Dunedin, New Zealand Date 7, 14 November 1885 Result Carisbrook won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Excelsior innings

E Briggs run out 0 A Briggs b TL Austin 1 A Shepherd b Dixon 5 J Aitken c EJ Austin b Dixon 1 McGregor st Collinson b TL Austin 4 Johns c Cargill b Dixon 0 Cameron b Dixon 0 Hindle b – Austin 0 James Aitken not out 0 Cooper ? absent AN Other ? absent Extras 1

Total (all out) 12 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/12 O M R W TL Austin 2 Dixon 4 [unknown] 1 Carisbrook innings

+ ET Collinson c – Briggs b Johns 11 WG Dixon run out 219 A Smith b – Briggs 6 TL Austin b Cooper 59 EJ Austin run out 67 W Fitzgerald c Shepherd b – Briggs 2 J Russell b McGregor 37 F Davies not out 7 J Fleming b McGregor 26 R Nantes c Shepherd b McGregor 2 A Cargill absent - Extras 19

Total (all out) 458 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/458 O M R W Johns 1 Cooper 1 McGregor 3 [unknown] 2 Gross says that WG Dixon scored 219 and took all ten for 10 runs for Carisbrook in this match. The above scorecard is taken from the Evening Star (Dunedin) of 9 and 16 November 1885. Dixon’s score of 219 is confirmed, but he is only shown as taking four wickets in Excelsior’s innings of 12 all out (in which only nine batsmen are listed). There is no reference, either in this newspaper or in any others available in Papers Past, to Excelsior having a second innings (and surely bowling figures of 10-10 would have got some notice?). However, James Lillywhite’s Cricketers’ Annual 1887 (page 280) also records Dixon’s feat, giving his bowling figures as 13-9-10-10. If this is correct, Excelsior must have had a second innings. If they did, it is unclear whether the figures of 10-10 were taken in a single innings, or across the two Excelsior innings. It would seem that Gross may have been in error in including this alleged performance in his lists.

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Freemantle v All Saints 1886 1 Venue Southampton Common, Southampton Date 5 June 1886 Result All Saints won by an innings and 72 runs Toss Umpires Freemantle First innings Second innings

A Simms b Cochran 2 b Cochran 0 A Maton b Young 2 b Young 0 L Loader c Elcock b Young 0 b Young 0 W Smith c Cochran b Young 2 c Cochran b Young 0 E Morgan b Cochran 1 b Cochran 0 G Powell b Cochran 0 c Dykes b Young 0 W Stride b Young 0 b Cochran 0 S Corry run out 0 st Whitcher b Young 0 A Chandler c Elcock b Cochran 0 st Whitcher b Young 0 W Pearce b Young 0 not out 0 G Bungay not out 0 b Cochran 0 Extras 1 0

Total (all out) 8 (all out) 0 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/8 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0,

9/0, 10/0 O M R W O M R W Young 4 0 4 5 (2) 2 2 0 6 Cochran 4 1 3 4 (1) 3 3 0 4 All Saints First innings

G Joyce c Pearce b Maton 9 H Elcock b Chandler 5 A Raymond c Maton b Chandler 6 + A Whitcher b Maton 9 J Cochran c Pearce b Chandler 7 W Whale b Maton 7 J Young b Chandler 27 H Heden c Loader b Stride 7 W Cox b Stride 1 E Waterman not out 1 A Dykes c Bungay b Stride 0 Extras 1


O M R W Maton 3 Chandler 4 Stride 3 Source: Southampton Observer 12 June 1886; Southampton Times 12 June 1886 “The day was beautifully fine, and as the ground was in good condition, it was decidedly in favour of the batsmen” (Southampton Observer)

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Buckhurst Hill Juniors v Loughton Juniors 1886 1 Venue Buckhurst Hill, Essex Date 13 September 1886 Result Buckhurst Hill Juniors won by an innings and 57 runs Toss Umpires Loughton Juniors First innings Second innings

EF Nicoll not out 21 c Marshall b Watson 29 A Mayor run out 0 b Watson 0 W Sharp b Watson 0 c Godlonton b Watson 12 R Sharp b Watson 0 c Watson b CC Palmer 0 LA Nicoll b Watson 0 b CC Palmer 6 G Morris c Watson b CC Palmer 0 c Godlonton b CC Palmer 1 Hardingham c and b CC Palmer 0 c Godlonton b CC Palmer 0 Kettlewell run out 0 not out 1 C Hundley b Watson 0 c Godlonton b Watson 2 Oxley b Watson 0 b CC Palmer 0 S Mayor absent - b Watson 7 Extras b1 1 5


8/?, 9/?, 10/63 O M R W O M R W Watson 5 5 CC Palmer 2 5 Buckhurst Hill Juniors First innings

E Derouet b W Sharp 15 F Godlonton run out 2 A Watson b EF Nicoll 40 A Derouet b W Sharp 9 CC Palmer b W Sharp 15 R Gadsdon b A Mayor 10 A Marshall b A Mayor 0 A Barwell b R Sharp 3 E Nash b LA Nicoll 19 G Conquest b R Sharp 4 S Palmer not out 4 Extras 18

Total (all out) 142 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/142 O M R W W Sharp 3 EF Nicoll 1 A Mayor 2 R Sharp 2 LA Nicoll 1 Source: Cricket 16 September 1886 pp 420 and 423 The spelling of all surnames given here are as in Cricket. EF Nicoll, who scored all the runs off the bat in Loughton’s first innings, was 13 years old.

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Linby v Woodborough 1886 2 Venue Linby, Nottinghamshire Date 6 September 1886 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW

Gross says that FR Whitworth took 19 wickets in this match for ‘Lindley’, with the 20th batsman being run out. The feat was reported in Athletic News on 14 September 1886, and in Cricket two days later (on page 420). The match is noted in the Mansfield Reporter of 10 and 16 September 1896, where the home team is named as Linby (a village some 8 miles from Woodborough) and the bowler is identified as Frank K Whitworth aged 19 – presumably the player of that name already included in the CA database. The newspaper gives his bowling figures for the two innings as 12-4-8-10 and 17-12-19-9 respectively, but gives no other details of the match scores. (Information from Harry Watton.) Whitworth’s feat is not known to Peter Wynne-Thomas, and neither is it recorded in any of these newspapers: Nottingham Journal, Nottingham Daily Express, Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham Guardian, or the Mansfield & North Notts Advertiser.

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AN Hornby’s XI v Church Minshull 1887 1 Venue Parkfields, Nantwich, Cheshire Date 8 June 1887 Result AN Hornby’s XI won by an innings and 141 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: Hornby 11, Church Minshull 14 Church Minshull First innings Second innings

J Cobbe b Briggs 3 absent - B Booth c Forbes b Briggs 2 b Barlow 1 F Davies b Briggs 0 run out 2 A Plant st Pilling b Briggs 0 b Barlow 0 TD Mellor c Barlow b Briggs 0 c Pilling b Briggs 4 RC Bancroft c Barlow b Briggs 0 b Barlow 0 W Madders b Briggs 0 c Norton b Barlow 5 GL Jackson b Briggs 0 not out 0 R Newton b Briggs 0 c Pilling b Briggs 4 F Pace b Briggs 0 b Briggs 2 G Newton b Briggs 0 b Briggs 5 A Robinson c Barlow b Briggs 3 b Barlow 0 G Fairhurst c Barlow b Watson 6 b Barlow 0 J Barnett not out 0 b Briggs 1 Extras 2 1


11/?, 12/?, 13/16 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/?, 12/25

O M R W O M R W Briggs 8.2 7 5 12 6 5 Watson 1 Barlow 6 AN Hornby’s XI First innings

*AN Hornby b Mellor 6 RG Barlow c Davies b Mellor 25 J Briggs b Mellor 96 W Robinson b Mellor 0 E Roper c Robinson b Mellor 6 A Watson b Booth 9 + R Pilling b Mellor 23 Forbes b Booth 3 A Norton not out 1 G Sandlands b Mellor 2 O Henshall b Booth 0 Extras 11

Total (all out) 182 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/182

O M R W Mellor 7 Booth 3 Source: Cheshire Observer 11 June 1887 and Crewe & Nantwich Chronicle 11 June 1887, supplemented from Cricket 1887 page 201. Not reported in the Crewe Guardian. The match was played to mark the opening of a new ground at the Nantwich home of AN Hornby. Johnny Briggs reportedly took six wickets with consecutive deliveries in Church Minshull (1) – his last five balls prior to the lunch interval (at which point his analysis read 7-7-0-10) and his first ball after the interval. He thus took his first 11 wickets without conceding a run. In his Lives in Cricket volume on Briggs, Stuart Brodkin says (on page 39): “[Briggs] finished with 11 for 5, although some reports suggest that his figures were, in fact, 17 for 11” (The latter were indeed his match figures). Brodkin says that his opponents were “15 [sic] local cricketers from the neighbouring village of Minshull Vernon”. There is no mention of this match in any of three other biographies of Briggs seen in the Lord’s library (Tebay, Williamson, and a third more contemporary book consisting mainly of anecdotes etc).

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Crewkerne v Axminster 1887 1 Venue Viney Bridge, Crewkerne, Somerset Date 11 June 1887 Result Crewkerne won by an unknown number of wckets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Axminster innings

W Charlesworth c Barnes b Haine 0 G Harris c S Morse b Millard 0 BL Gerrish not out 50 + R Langdon b Millard 0 J Cann b Millard 0 S Davis b Haine 0 J Gerrish b Haine 0 JF Cox b Millard 0 W Bidwell b Haine 0 J England run out 0 W Pearce absent - Extras b1, lb1 2

Total (all out) 52 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/52 O M R W Haine 4 Millard 4 Crewkerne innings

Rev C Barnes c Harris b BL Gerrish 59 S Morse b BL Gerrish 3 J Wheatley c England b BL Gerrish 0 W Millard b BL Gerrish 1 G Elers b Harris 11 Dr WAW Smith st Langdon b BL Gerrish 1 W Alford b BL Gerrish 12 H Haine b Charlesworth 3 C Tomkins c Harris b BL Gerrish 4 A Hart b BL Gerrish 5 E Morse not out 15 Extras 8

Total (all out) 122 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/122 O M R W BL Gerrish 8 Harris 1 Charlesworth 1 Source: Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 13 June 1887; Bridport News 17 June 1887; Chard & Ilminster News 18 June 1887. The match is also mentioned in various other newspapers, including the Taunton Courier, the Devon Evening Express, and the Western Gazette issues of 17 June 1887. The Western Gazette (alone) says that Axminster had a second innings, in which they reached 47-7. Some of the scorecards name the Crewkerne no. 11 as ‘E Morse’, others as ‘E Moore’. All sources credit the catch of Harris in the Axminster innings to ‘S Morse’ rather than just ‘Morse’, and for that reason I favour ‘E Morse’ as the number 11. ‘E Morse’ is also seen as playing in other Crewkerne fixtures in this season. Some newspapers say that Haine and Millard each took four wickets for no runs in the Axminster innings, but that seems unlikely.

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Erskine v Deaf Mutes 1887/88 2 Venue Melbourne, Victoria Date 15, 22 October 1887 Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that J Bryant took all 20 wickets for Erskine in this match – all bowled - and this is corroborated by newspapers in Trove (The Argus 25 October 1887, and The Sportsman (Melbourne) of 26 October). Gross (alone) says that his 20 wickets cost 56 runs in total. The newspapers record that this was a match for the Rupertswood Trophy, and that as well as Bryant, Erskine used three other bowlers in the innings. But no scores or scorecard details are given.

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Unknown v Unknown [School match] 1887/88 2 Venue Burraga, Sydney, NSW Date 1887/88 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ

Gross says that LOS Poidevin took 19 wickets in a school match at Burraga in 1887/88, but the match has not been traced in Trove. This may or may not be the same match as that in which Poidevin is stated by Gross to have scored 271* and taken an all-ten, which was also at Burraga in 1887/88. Alfred James has advised that “the performances of Poidevin [here] and Woods [page 34] have been sought for years, without success”.

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Unknown v Unknown 1887/88 2 Venue Burraga, Sydney, NSW Date 1887/88 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ

Gross says that LOS Poidevin scored 271* and took an all-ten in a match at Burraga in 1887/88, but the match has not been traced in Trove. This may or may not be the same match as that in which Poidevin is stated by Gross to have taken 19 wickets, which was a school match at Burraga in 1887/88. Alfred James has advised that “the performances of Poidevin [here] and Woods [page 34] have been sought for years, without success”.

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School House v Laxton House 1888 1 Venue Oundle School, Northamptonshire Date 26, 29 May 1888 Result School House won by 517 runs Toss Umpires School House First innings Second innings

RE Lewis b Hammond 0 c Hammond b Mayou 58 CH Farmer c Mayou b Hammond 4 b Mayou 8 *RAA Beresford not out 102 not out 307 H Sutthery b Hammond 24 b Mayou 6 CF Badeley c Preston b Hammond 0 b Hammond 1 WHV Reade b Hammond 6 b Hammond 58 JCA Rigby c and b Mayou 9 b Hammond 2 GB Lane b Mayou 8 c Preston b Mayou 0 WN Dickson b Mayou 0 c Robinson b Mayou 3 EH Farmer c Palmer b Hammond 0 b Mayou 9 TC Vipan b Hammond 2 b Mayou 10 Extras 7 22

Total (all out) 162 (all out) 484 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/162 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/484

O M R W O M R W Hammond 7 3 Mayou 3 7

Laxton House First innings Second innings

CE Morgan c CH Farmer b Beresford 7 c Dickson b Sutthery 1 DC Grose b Beresford 6 b Sutthery 1 A Ritchie c Badeley b Beresford 10 c Lewis b Sutthery 6 AC Hammond b Beresford 2 not out 7 FR Mayou not out 44 run out 8 CL Robinson b Beresford 4 c CH Farmer b Badeley 1 CS Palmer b Beresford 0 b Badeley 0 HL Preston lbw b Badeley 8 b Badeley 0 EB Bostock b Badeley 0 c Lewis b Sutthery 0 CE Andrews b Badeley 0 c Lane b Sutthery 4 JW Bostock run out 1 b Sutthery 0 Extras 15 4


9/?, 10/32 O M R W O M R W Beresford 6 Badeley 3 3 Sutthery 6 Source: The Laxtonian (Oundle School magazine) for July 1888, courtesy of Elspeth Langsdale (Oundle School Archivist). Scorecard also in Sporting Life 2 June 1888, and the match is noted in Cricket 1888 p 185 There are various differences between the scorecards in The Laxtonian and in Sporting Life, but the former has been preferred. Principal differences: Sporting Life has Laxton (1) all out 101 (with adjustments to certain batsmen’s scores), with Bostock dismissed ‘b Beresford’ (which would have been his seventh wicket in the innings). His Wisden obituary (1942) also says that he took seven wickets in the innings. The Laxtonian makes no further reference to this game, or to Beresford’s performance in it. In its scores of other matches, it shows that Beresford made 225* for the school v Old Oundelians on 14/15 June 1888, which may have been his next innings after this game. In the meantime School House had played another house match, but it is not clear whether Beresford played in it, as the magazine does not give the full score; if he did, he scored less than 30, since School House were dismissed for 87 in their only innings, in which Sutthery made 58.

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Harrow Constitutional v St Pancras United 1890 1 Venue Harrow Recreation Ground, Middlesex Date 3 May 1890 Result St Pancras United won by 209 runs Toss St Pancras United Umpires Thanks: HW St Pancras United innings

Keys b Stephenson 51 WA Towerzey not out 100 AF Hankins not out 49 JW Wood J Roberts HL King DT Morgan Fordham G Killick Rowe Stanley Extras 9

Total (for 1 wicket, declared) 209 Fall 1/? O M R W Stephenson 1 Harrow Constitutional innings

Groom b Hankins 0 Barwell b Killick 0 Earley b Hankins 0 Cooper b Hankins 0 Liddell b Hankins 0 Stephenson b Killick 0 Ashby b Hankins 0 Trotter b Hankins 0 Conway b Hankins 0 Walter not out 0 Kay b Hankins 0 Extras 0


O M R W Hankins 4 4 0 8 Killick 3 3 0 2 Source: Sporting Life 7 May 1890; Cricket 1890 page 110; Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette 10 May 1890; players’ initials from the Maidenhead Advertiser 20 August 1890. Cricket states that Harrow Constitutional were “dismissed in seven overs” – whether that was a full seven overs (as assumed here) or ‘within seven overs’ is not absolutely clear. Additional information from Harry Watton.

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Yorkshire Gentlemen v Heworth Revellers 1890 1 Venue York, Yorkshire Date 16 August 1890 Result Yorkshire Gentlemen won on first innings by 21 runs Toss Umpires Yorkshire Gentlemen First innings

Lt-Col Lees c and b Randon 0 Capt Savile b Whittaker 7 + ES Carter b Randon 6 A Siddall lbw b Randon 17 JT Wisker c Taylor b Whittaker 0 G Fairfax c Hancock b Randon 1 B Fairfax b Whittaker 10 T Whitehead b Whittaker 27 S Richardson b Johnson 3 H Nixon lbw b Johnson 0 EB Firth not out 0 Extras 0


10/71

O M R W Randon 4 Whittaker 4 Johnson 2 Heworth Revellers First innings Second innings

W Watson b Siddall 8 st Carter b Wisker [17] GH Nelson b Siddall 2 not out 6 W Johnson st Carter b Wisker 14 WS Whittaker b Siddall 0 st Carter b Wisker 1 H Randon run out 14 b Siddall 32 T Watson c Siddall b Wisker 4 T Rhodes c Siddall b Wisker 1 st Carter b Wisker 0 H Smith st Carter b Wisker 0 st Carter b Wisker 0 J Hancock c sub b Wisker 3 st Carter b Wisker 0 WJ Grey not out 4 b Siddall 0 FJ Taylor b Wisker 0 b Wisker 1 Extras 0 0

Total (all out) 50 (for 8 wickets) 57 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/50 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?

O M R W O M R W Wisker 6 6 Siddall 3 2 Source: Sheffield Daily Telegraph 18 August 1890. The Sheffield Daily Telegraph gives the innings details in the order shown here, but it seems more likely that the Revellers batted first and third. Wisker performed the hat-trick in Heworth Revellers (2), all three victims being stumped by Rev ES Carter. It is not clear which were the three batsmen concerned. The latter feat is also noted in the Lives in Cricket volume on ES Carter (on p.66) The Telegraph does not give a score for Watson in Revellers (2), but to make the total add to the stated 57 he would have had to score 17. Both GF and EG Lees, and both JH and RC Savile, played for the Yorkshire Gentlemen in 1890. As they are not specifically so identified in the scorecard in the newspaper, they have here been given their military ranks. The names of the sides as given here are believed to be correct; other variants (Haworth Revellers; York Revellers [for the Gentlemen’s XI]) have also been seen.

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Sydney v Warwick 1890/91 1 Venue University Oval, Sydney Date 7, 14, 21 February 1891 Result Sydney won by an innings and 439 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ Warwick First innings Second innings

Scanlon c Noble b McGraw 13 (4) b Newell 3 G Watson c McGraw b Clarke 14 (1) hit wicket b Newell 0 F Elliott run out 0 absent - JR Nash b Noble 30 (2) b McGraw 1 W Johnston b Newell 27 (3) c Gregory b Newell 7 Paton b Newell 0 (5) not out 2 Wilson b Newell 0 absent - Hadley run out 12 absent - Simpson c Noble b Newell 0 (7) b Newell 9 Colless lbw b Noble 3 (6) c Clarke b McGraw 0 + Nunn not out 0 absent - Extras 2 lb1 1

Total (all out) 101 (all out) 23 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/80, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/101 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/23 O M R W O M R W Newell 4 9 4 Noble 2 McGraw 1 13 2 Clarke 1 Sydney First innings

ACK Mackenzie lbw b Nash 0 AE Clarke run out 24 HJW Robinson b Nash 8 JT Cottam b Nash 10 AL Newell c Nunn b Colless 7 R McGraw c Paton b Johnston 0 + J Searle c Paton b Hadley 13 SE Gregory b Hadley 235 EG Noble b Paton 227 W Templeton not out 23 J Robinson run out 2 Extras 14

Total (all out) 563 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/66, 9/529, 10/563 O M R W Nash 3 Hadley 2 Paton 1 Colless 1 Johnston 1

Source: Referee (Sydney) 11, 18, 25 February 1891; Sydney Morning Herald 11 February 1891 [there is nothing on this match in any later edition]; Sydney Mail 14 February 1891; Cricket 1891 page 42. The match was also noted in various other newspapers outside NSW. Close of Play: Day 1 – Sydney 106-7 (Gregory 12, Noble 27); Day 2 – Sydney 563 all out. See notes on following page

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The edition of Referee for 25 February gives Warwick (1) 107 all out, losing by an innings and 433 runs. The above card, from earlier editions of the paper, totals correctly to 101. The earlier editions have also been followed over players’ names; the 25 February paper gives Johnson, Scanlan, Payten and Corless [all sic] in the Warwick XI. The spelling ‘Payton’ has also been seen. Gross (and also The Sportsman [Melbourne] on 18 Feb) say that Gregory and Noble added 442 for Sydney’s eighth wicket, but no fall of wicket details are given in any source. The Referee says the partnership added 463, of which 423 were added on the second day of the match (in 3¼ hours). From the CoP score on Day 1, this implies that the seventh wicket fell at 66, and the eighth at 529. The Sportsman again gave the size of the partnership in its edition of 25 Feb, this time with a figure of 469 (though the last digit is uncertain). Cricket says that the 8th wicket fell at 563, but this is clearly incompatible with the above scorecard. Further investigation reveals that the Sydney newspapers (Evening News, Referee, Town & Country Journal) all give the size of the partnership as 463, while those from elsewhere (Sportsman and Herald from Melbourne, and the Adelaide Observer) all give a figure of 442. I am inclined to go with the more local sources. However, Alfred James reports that the Sydney CC Annual Report, as cited in the Sydney Morning Herald of 29 August 1891, gives the size of the partnership as 421. This figure does not tally with any of the more detailed information as cited in the previous paragraph, and in the absence of firmer confirmation I still prefer to favour the figure of 463. Most sources indicate that the dismissal of Noble – who was first out, to end the partnership - was ‘bowled’, but the Referee gives it as ‘st – b Paton’, while another source (unknown) gives it as ‘st Nunn b Paton’. The SMH is alone in giving the dismissal of Cottam earlier in the innings as ‘st Simpson b Nash’. The identity of ‘Noble’ in the eighth-wicket partnership is uncertain. Gross has ‘EG’, Cricket in 1899 (page 195) has ‘MA’, the Referee (11 Feb) has ‘E’; and Referee (18 Feb), The Age (Melbourne, 16 Feb), the South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, 21 Feb) all have ‘A’. It may have been MA (who was sometimes known as ‘Alf’), who would have been just past his 18th birthday when this match was played; this is consistent with newspaper reports that suggest that the batsman in the partnership was an up and coming player rather than an established one. However, this might also apply to his brother EG (Ted) Noble, who would have been just 26, although he had not yet played first-class cricket for NSW. Alfred James says that it was certainly EG Noble who shared in the partnership (as does the Sydney CC annual report referred to earlier), and I have accepted this. In the Sydney innings, J Robinson was a substitute for J Davis, who had had to leave the ground early. Further information from Alfred James.

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West Wratting Park v Fitzwilliam Hostel 1891 1 Venue West Wratting, Cambridgeshire Date 21 May 1891 Result No result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW West Wratting Park innings

WN Cobbold b Stubbs 163 WR Gray not out 218 HR Mayer FW Bedford J Openshaw EC Clay WH Napier A Hill A Whittaker C Vaudry FA Breuil Extras 59

Total (for 1 wicket) 440 Fall 1/440 O M R W Fitzwilliam Hostel - did not bat

Stubbs Source: Sporting Life 23 May 1891; The Graphic 30 May 1891; Cricket 1891 page 493 Other potential sources examined: Cambridge Daily News, Cambridge Chronicle, Cambridge Independent Press Cobbold is described in the Sporting Life as a “well-known Old Carthusian football international” The names of the West Wratting numbers 10 and 11 have been corrected by reference to the scorecards of other matches in Cricket between 30 April and 12 May 1891 (research by Harry Watton).

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Royal Artillery NCOs v GG Hearne’s XI 1891 2 Venue Rushey Green, Catford, Kent Date 1891 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that FJ Bailey recorded a hat-trick of stumpings in this match for the NCOs. The match, or the feat, is not recorded in Cricket, nor in any newspaper in the BNA. Various possible options at Lewisham library/archives have yet to be explored.

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Streatham v Marylebone Cricket Club 1892 1 Venue Streatham, Surrey Date 16 July 1892 Result Streatham won on first innings by 60 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Marylebone Cricket Club First innings Second innings

ET Hodgson lbw b Bettington 0 b Morgan 0 + Davenport b Brann 2 c Bettington b Thesiger 6 SR Jackson c Thesiger b Brann 4 c Thesiger b Bambridge 25 J Turner c Trollope b Bettington 1 absent - AD Pougher c Higson b Bettington 13 c and b Thesiger 10 AC Broadbent run out 1 b Bettington 0 TP Hilder b Brann 1 b Morgan 10 CW Aston Key c Higson b Bettington 3 b Morgan 9 W Bird not out 0 not out 0 Geeson run out 20 b Thesiger 3 HR Jardine c Trollope b Dixon 0 c Higson b Morgan 1 JFW Taylor c Brann b Dixon 3 c Scott b Thesiger 0 Extras b6, lb2 8 b2 2


11/56 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/66

O M R W O M R W Bettington 4 1 Brann 3 Dixon 2 Morgan 4 Thesiger 4 Bambridge 1 Streatham First innings

FJ Dixon c Aston Key b Pougher 1 JH Bettington c Geeson b Pougher 16 WS Trollope st Davenport b Pougher 0 WG Thesiger b Pougher 24 G Brann st Davenport b Pougher 14 CL Morgan b Pougher 0 HH Scott st Davenport b Pougher 27 AN Morley c Aston Key b Pougher 6 EC Bambridge b Pougher 0 NC Bailey c and b Pougher 0 WR Higson st Davenport b Pougher 19 E Bailey not out 0 Extras b9 9


11/116

O M R W Pougher 11 Source: MCC Scores for 1892

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Lincoln Lindum v Old Reptonians 1892 1 Venue Lincoln Date 27, 28 July 1892 Result Lincoln Lindum won by an innings and 80 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Lincoln Lindum First innings

H Ellison b Palairet 13 *GF Wells-Cole c Ford b Glover 100 W Melbourne lbw b Palairet 36 AK Brook c Barrington b Ford 44 F Tweed b Glover 2 AF Fellowes c Barrington b Ford 12 RJ Mee b Ford 9 RM Weldon b Ford 0 F Thornton st Palairet b Barrington 16 T Brown c Dewhurst b Exham 9 RA Strawson not out 14 Extras 17

Total (all out) 272 Fall 1/29, 2/105, 3/162, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/272

O M R W Ford 38 11 73 4 Palairet 25 9 60 2 Exham 12.1 0 41 1 Kearsey 7 2 12 0 Forman 5 0 16 0 Glover 9 0 26 2 Barrington 6 1 17 1 Dewhurst 4 1 10 0 Old Reptonians First innings Second innings (following on)

GB Barrington b Mee 0 (3) b Mee 2 JH Kelsey b Mee 5 (4) st Brown b Mee 17 LCH Palairet b Mee 0 (5) b Mee 13 FGJ Ford b Mee 0 c Ellison b Mee 0 RG Tomlinson not out 33 (1) b Mee 41 ACS Glover c Ellison b Mee 3 c Melbourne b Wells-Cole 28 PG Exham b Mee 13 c Ellison b Mee 6 GP Dewhurst b Mee 0 b Mee 0 EF Kearsey b Mee 11 not out 0 JG Lecky b Mee 7 lbw b Mee 0 Rev AFE Forman b Mee 0 (2) b Mee 3 Extras 6 4

Total (all out) 78 (all out) 114 Fall 1/1, 2/1, 3/1, 4/8, 5/14, 6/34, 7/?, 8/64, 9/78,

10/78 1/12, 2/?, 3/48, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/114

O M R W O M R W Mee 17 3 40 10 18.1 3 60 9 Strawson 16 5 32 0 4 0 12 0 Wells-Cole 14 4 38 1 Source: Lincolnshire Chronicle 29 July 1892; Sheffield Independent 28 July 1892; Sheffield Daily Telegraph 29 July 1892; Sporting Life 29 July 1892 Close of play, Day 1: Old Reptonians (1) 49-7 (Tomlinson 24, Kearsey 1) RJ Mee took a hat-trick in the Old Reptonians first innings (Barrington, Palairet, Ford) Additional information from the Derby Mercury 3 August 1892, courtesy of Harry Watton.

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AC Bell’s XII v Melksham Choir 1892 2 Venue Seend Cleeve, Wiltshire Date 30 July 1892 Result Not known Toss Umpires Players per side: 12

Gross says that HS Thynne took ten wickets for no runs in an innings for Bell’s side, with a final analysis of 10-10-0-10. The feat is noted in Cricket 1892 page 341, which confirms that this was a 12-a-side match, and that all the players were under 15 years of age. The performance is also recorded in the Wiltshire Times for Saturday 13 August 1892, which says the match was played on ‘Saturday week’, which might have been 30 July (as given here), or just possibly 6 August. The venue is given as Seend Cleeve, which is a hamlet separate from Seend. This report confirms the age of the players and the analysis of 10-10-0-10, but does not give any other details of the match. It is not noted in any other newspapers currently (March 2020) in the BNA.

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Devonshire Park v GW Morrison’s XI 1892 1 Venue Devonshire Park, Eastbourne Date 31 August 1892 Result Devonshire Park won by 370 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Devonshire Park innings

S Colman b Lawrence 209 P Coles not out 247 H Rathbone W Johnson GF Jackson PG Rathbone AR Jackson R Scott Holmes V King Farlow W Onslow Secker S Elmsley Extras 16

Total (for 1 wicket, declared) 472 Fall 1/472 O M R W Lawrence 1 GW Morrison’s XI innings

KP Brown c and b Johnson 1 BG Lawrence b Johnson 5 F Wall c AR Jackson b Coles 25 GH Lyon b GF Jackson 16 ER Storr b GF Jackson 0 GW Morrison b GF Jackson 0 EM Rose b Johnson 11 JH Kentish b GF Jackson 1 RK Kentish c Coles b Johnson 4 W Worthington c sub b Coles 1 R Price not out 1 Extras 22

Total (all out) 92 Fall O M R W Johnson 4 Coles 2 GF Jackson 4 Source: Eastbourne Chronicle 3 September 1892; Sporting Life 1 September 1892; Cricket 1892 page 421. See also Cricket 1907 pp 65-66. Also mentioned in the obituary of Stanley Colman (Surrey) on page 47 of The Cricketer Spring Annual 1926. Most sources, including Cricket, The Sportsman, the Evening Standard (London), and several other papers printed on the day following the match, give the Devonshire Park score as 472 (as here), and that is also the figure given by Gross. Sporting Life is on its own in giving the score as 462, with six Extras rather than 16, but the weight of contemporary evidence favours the figure of 472. Colman hit 23 fours in his 209, and Coles hit 30 fours in his 247*

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Manchester Club & Ground v North & East Ridings of Yorkshire 1893 1 Venue Castleford, Yorkshire Date 5, 6 June 1893 Result Manchester Club & Ground won by an innings and 26 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 N & E Ridings First innings Second innings

RW Frank lbw b Lord 8 c and b Mold 15 W Frank c and b Lord 10 c Thornber b Mold 0 HJE Marsden b Mold 5 lbw b Mold 0 GH Aitken b Mold 9 b Mold 2 Baker c Pilling b Lord 23 b Mold 9 A Worsley b Mold 4 not out 30 Bell st Pilling b Lord 4 b Mold 0 Butler c Mold b Lord 6 b Mold 0 H Walton c Heap b Mold 10 b Mold 0 Bookless not out 6 b Mold 32 G Baynes c Howe b Lord 13 b Mold 1 + Cass b Mold 6 b Mold 0 Extras 6 1


11/104 1/125, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/90

O M R W O M R W Mold 21.1 3 50 5 19 6 50 11 Lord 21 4 48 6 18 9 39 0 Manchester C & G First innings

E Rowley hit wicket b Bell 16 JG Heap b Walton 3 Tinsley b Walton 5 Yates b Butler 71 CH Benton c Walton b Bookless 20 R Howe c Aitken b Butler 15 C Hartley b Butler 0 JO Fullalove not out 53 + R Pilling b Butler 3 H Thornber b Butler 0 AW Mold st Cass b Butler 2 Lord b Walton 10 Extras 22


11/220

O M R W Butler 25 8 67 6 Walton 22.2 12 40 3 Baynes 13 6 33 0 W Frank 4 2 14 0 Bell 9 5 8 1 Bookless 11 6 15 1 Baker 11 4 21 0 Source: Manchester Courier 7 June 1893; Manchester Evening News 6 June 1893 Close of play, Day 1: Manchester C & G 185-9 (Fullalove and Lord not out) Mold took all 11 wickets in his opponents’ second innings. His figures include a hat-trick, and two wickets in two balls to end the innings.

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Gentlemen of North Wales v Marylebone Cricket Club 1893 1 Venue Llandudno, Caernarvonshire Date 18, 19 August 1893 Result MCC won by an innings and 212 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Gents of North Wales First innings Second innings

GH Pugh c RH Moss b A Hearne 3 c H Moss b A Hearne 0 FE Woodhead c Gorton b A Hearne 21 lbw b Martin 0 FH Cunliffe c RH Moss b A Hearne 0 c RH Moss b Martin 5 P Knight lbw b Martin 23 c and b Martin 0 HER Harrison b A Hearne 1 c Gorton b A Hearne 4 HO Knight b A Hearne 9 b Martin 2 WE Pryce-Jones b A Hearne 0 b A Hearne 3 J Rodway b A Hearne 5 b Martin 0 TB Blackwell b Martin 0 not out 7 H Mostyn b A Hearne 4 b A Hearne 0 T Bibbey not out 0 b A Hearne 23 Extras b2 2 0


9/?, 10/44 O M R W O M R W A Hearne 17 8 5 Martin 2 5 Marylebone CC First innings

A Hearne not out 200 RH Gorton run out 0 GG Hearne b HO Knight 68 Martin c Woodhead b Mostyn 4 RJH Arbuthnot c Harrison b Mostyn 20 RH Moss b HO Knight 8 H Moss b Harrison 4 J Rowland-Ellis not out 1 GF Hearne AH Jones E Smith Extras b16, nb3 19

Total (for 6 wickets, declared) 324 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/23 O M R W HO Knight 2 Mostyn 2 Harrison 1

Source: Liverpool Mercury 21 August 1893, MCC Scores for 1893. The match is not noted in Cricket. Close of play, Day 1: MCC 316-5 (A Hearne 196, H Moss 4)

RH Moss playing for MCC is the reverend gentleman who had a long-interrupted first-class career.

There is some doubt about the identities of the fielders named Moss who took four catches in the match for MCC. The MCC book of scores credits all four to ‘R Moss’, while the Mercury credits that of Pugh in NW(2) to H Moss – this has been followed here, but with no overwhelming evidence either way. There is also some uncertainty as to whether the player scoring 68 in the MCC innings was GG Hearne or GF Hearne, both of whom definitely played in the match. The MCC book credits the runs to GG, but the Mercury and the Montgomeryshire County Times both credit them to GF. The MCC book also has GG batting at 3, and GF at 9, in the match four days previously against Shropshire, and on balance that order has been preferred here. H Moss, J Rowland-Ellis, AH Jones and E Smith, playing for MCC, are all referred to in the MCC book as ‘subs’.

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Bourton Vale v Marylebone Cricket Club 1893 1 Venue Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs Date 24, 25 August 1893 Result Marylebone Cricket Club won by 74 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Marylebone Cricket Club First innings Second innings

Capt WH Wyld b Painter 13 c Painter b Le Marchant 1 EG Bromley-Martin b Painter 7 lbw b Painter 10 GE Bromley-Martin b Painter 0 c Clifford b Painter 31 JA Gibbs b Painter 8 st Hartwell b Painter 30 WF Fulton b Le Marchant 6 c Matthews b Painter 29 Board b Painter 3 b Painter 11 RW Byass b Painter 7 b Painter 0 Richardson b Painter 0 c Matthews b Painter 11 Hon E Ponsonby b Painter 3 b Painter 2 WW Whitmore b Painter 16 b Painter 31 AH Butler c Beecher b Painter 5 b Painter 0 F Needham not out 4 not out 8 Extras b4 4 b4, lb1 5


11/76 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/169

O M R W O M R W Painter 10 10 Le Marchant 1 1 Bourton Vale First innings Second innings

JR Painter c Board b Needham 17 c Richardson b Needham 16 WC Moore run out 15 b Needham 12 B Rendall b Richardson 13 b Richardson 1 Capt B Le Marchant b Richardson 12 b Richardson 2 G Causton c Board b Richardson 27 b Richardson 1 Capt Beecher b Richardson 3 c EG B-Martin b Richardson 11 Hon AB Bathurst b Needham 2 b Richardson 3 Maj Butler b Needham 0 b Needham 5 + F Hartwell c EG B-Martin b Needham 10 b Needham 7 W Matthews not out 3 run out 0 H Clifford c Ponsonby b Richardson 4 b Needham 0 HE Rose b Richardson 2 not out 0 Extras b1, w1 2 b2, w1 3


11/110 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/61

O M R W O M R W Needham 4 5 Richardson 6 5 Source: MCC Scores for 1893. The match was not reported in the contemporary Cheltenham Chronicle, nor the Cheltenham Looker-on. On the MCC side, it is possible that ‘Board’ was JH Board, but ‘Richardson’ was definitely not Tom Richardson, who was playing in a Test match at Old Trafford on these dates.

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CT Hoare’s XIII v Free Foresters 1894 1 Venue Bignell, Chesterton, Oxfordshire Date 25, 26 July 1894 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Players per side: 13 Thanks: HW CT Hoare’s XIII First innings Second innings

SD Maul c Appleby b Hickley 2 c and b Marshall 11 E Jakeman c Leatham b Hickley 10 not out 6 WH Draper b Hickley 18 b Harding 0 WS Case c Hanbury b Hickley 5 b Hickley 14 H Tubb b Appleby 0 b Harding 3 PC Smith c Hanbury b Harding 38 lbw b Hickley 21 H Allen b Appleby 8 b Harding 12 FG Morgan c Hanbury b Leatham 11 st Hanbury b Harding 1 F Dickenson hit wicket b Harding 32 b Harding 2 CJ Stratton b Harding 2 c Savory b Harding 2 Polley c Hill b Appleby 27 lbw b Hickley 7 + R Renn b Harding 21 c Becher b Hickley 4 CT Hoare not out 0 not out 4 Extras 6 17

Total (all out) 180 (for 11 wickets) 104 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/,

11/?, 12/180 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/, 10/, 11/?, O M R W O M R W Hickley 4 4 Appleby 3 Harding 4 (2) 6 Leatham 1 Marshall 1 Free Foresters First innings

+ E Hanbury b Polley 1 HGS Hughes b Polley 9 HE Cobb st Renn b Polley 35 C Harding b Polley 1 AE Leatham c Jakeman b Polley 13 J Hill b Maul 10 JF Marshall c Renn b Jakeman 1 Lt-Col Rice b Maul 2 Capt Becher b Maul 9 CF Hickley b Maul 7 A Appleby c and b Maul 0 JH Savory st Renn b Draper 125 E Rutter not out 41 Extras 26


11/?, 12/280

O M R W Polley 5 Maul 5 Jakeman 1 Draper 1 Source: Annals of the Free Foresters (WKR Bedford et al) pp 345-346; Bicester Herald 27 July 1894. The match was not reported in the Banbury Guardian, the Banbury Beacon, or the Banbury Advertiser. Also mentioned in the obituary of E Rutter on page 47 of The Cricketer Spring Annual 1926.

Gross says that Savory and Rutter [the former Middlesex player Edward Rutter] added 165 for the 12th wicket for the Free Foresters, which if correct means that the 11th wicket fell at 115. This is not specifically referred to in the Annals, which however does say that “when Rutter joined Savory a follow-on was still on the cards”. At the time, in a two-day game the follow-on was mandatory for a team that was 120 runs or more behind its opponents. So if the score had reached 115 by this point the follow-on had (under the prevailing Laws of Cricket) already been avoided. (However, if this had been arranged as a one-day game, the follow-on figure was only 60 runs, in which case the figure of 115 at the fall of the 11th wicket would indeed have still left the follow-on as a possibility.)

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Beccles College v St Aubyn’s, Lowestoft 1895 1 Venue Beccles College, Suffolk Date 29 May 1895 Result Beccles College won by an innings and 100 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Beccles College First innings

CH Goode b Hodsell 5 JC Barnacle b Hodsell 3 GL Jessop c Hinde b Hodsell 10 Sgt Daley b Bartram 4 JM Morris st Shea b Hodsell 73 HH Hockey b Bartram 5 EL Roberts b Hodsell 1 AJ Cunningham c Payne b Bartram 2 FR Gosling c Hodsell b Bartram 6 V Tooth b Landfield 7 CW White not out 2 Extras 0

Total (all out) 118 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/118 O M R W Hodsell 5 Bartram 4 Landfield 1 St Aubyn’s, Lowestoft First innings Second innings

GW Sanders b Jessop 2 absent - HW Hinde c Daley b Morris 4 c and b Jessop 0 + RP Shea c Jessop b Morris 4 run out 1 GBP Hodsell b Jessop 1 b Jessop 0 PH Chignell c Barnacle b Jessop 2 not out 3 ODB Payne b Jessop 0 b Jessop 0 C Landfield b Jessop 0 b Jessop 0 CR Partridge b Jessop 0 b Jessop 0 Bartram b Jessop 0 b Jessop 0 NL Lycett not out 0 b Jessop 0 G Williams b Morris 1 [unknown dismissal] b Jessop 0 Extras 0 3

Total (all out) 11 (all out) 7 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/11 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/7 O M R W O M R W Jessop 7 4 3 7 4 3 1 8 Morris 3 Source: Yarmouth Independent 1 June 1895; East Anglian Daily Times 25, 30 May and 1 June 1895 There are several differences between the scorecard details in the two sources. The Independent says that St Aubyn’s were all out for 11 in their first innings but the individual scores total to 14 (as here). The Daily Times (30 May) gives an all-out total of 12 with Hinde out for 2 rather than 4; their scorecard then correctly adds to 12. In St Aubyn’s second innings, the scores above are as published in the Independent, but the Daily Times has Hodsell out for 3, Chignell out for 0, and Williams left 0*. Both versions total to 7. The Independent is the only one of the two sources to give details of batsmen’s dismissals, but it does not give a mode of dismissal for Williams in St Aubyn’s second innings. From the bowling analysis – repeated in both sources, although they disagree on the number of maidens bowled by Jessop in St Aubyn’s (1), with the Independent giving 4 and the Daily Times 3 – Williams [or Chignell, if Williams was in fact the not-out batsman] must have been dismissed by Jessop – but whether bowled or by some other form of dismissal is unknown. All sources are agreed that Jessop took three hat-tricks in the match, and that he took six wickets in the course of seven deliveries in St Aubyn’s second innings. Information on players names and initials from East Anglian Daily Times 25 May and 1 June, from Harry Watton.

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1st Royal Munster Fusiliers v Army Service Corps 1895 1 Venue The Curragh, Dublin Date 12 June 1895 Result 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers won by nine wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Army Service Corps innings

SSM McBride run out 0 Pte Rowley b Broadway 8 CSM Flood b Broadway 20 Mr CH Lewis c Rickard b Fitzgerald 1 CSM Frost b Broadway 6 Driver McVicar b Broadway 0 Cpl Gooding not out 3 SS Geast b Broadway 0 Driver Biddle b Broadway 0 Pte Perry b Broadway 4 Pte Lane absent Extras 9

Total (all out) 51 Fall O M R W Broadway 14 7 Fitzgerald 1 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers innings

Capt WC Oates not out 313 Mr WA Hutchinson b Lewis 28 Pte F Fitzgerald not out 287 Mr CHP Jarrett Mr GA Webb Maj Clough Mr V Rickard Sgt Ashleigh Sgt Broadway Pte Tehane Pte O’Neill Extras 30

Total (for 1 wicket) 658 Fall 1/35 O M R W Lewis 1 Source: Irish Times 13 June 1895; also reported in the Irish Independent 13 June and the Cork Constitution 14 June. Also noted (in less detail) in Cricket 1895 page 217; the Bedfordshire Advertiser 21 June; and the Lancashire Daily Post 22 June. The match all took place on a single day, in which 709 runs were scored. The Fusiliers’ innings (or perhaps the partnership of 623*) lasted 285 minutes. Reports note that “nearly every man on the [ASC] team bowled” during the Fusiliers’ innings. In the ASC team, SSM, CSM and SS are the players’ ranks, not their initials.

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Ontario Hospital v Forest Club 1895 3 Venue London, Ontario, Canada Date 11 July 1895 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: SM

Gross records that Rev FW Terry scored 130 out of 143 runs made off the bat for Ontario Hospital. It is not clear whether 143 was his side’s all-out score minus extras (in which case he scored 90.90% of his side’s runs off the bat), or just the number of runs added while Barton was at the wicket. The performance is noted in Cricket 1895 page 314, which names Terry’s side as ‘London Asylum’. The Toronto Saturday Night newspaper for 13 July mentions that Terry scored 130 in this game, but gives no other details. Some other Toronto newspapers for 1895 have recently been added to the BNA, but at present (March 2020) they do not extend as far into the year as July. There are also 15 Ontario newspapers for 1895 at the British Library, but these have yet to be explored. Stephen Musk casts doubt on Terry’s achievement: the Toronto press reports a match between London Asylum and Forest on 3 July 1895 in which Terry made 130*, but CS Hyman made 128 in the same innings (final total not stated).

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Burwood v Paddington 1895/96 1 Venue Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Date 30 November, 7, 21 December 1895 Result Paddington won by 565 runs on first innings Toss Burwood Umpires Burwood innings

J Ashdown b S McKenzie 0 DOS Jones b S McKenzie 9 *WB Fairfax not out 98 W Brown lbw b Hogan 26 F Meares b Noble 8 G Rogers c Bannerman b Noble 1 E Rogers c and b Noble 0 W McLeod lbw b Noble 1 W Marsden run out 1 W Dight st Kelly b Noble 1 T Farry b Noble 11 Extras 5

Total (all out) 161 Fall 1/1, 2/23, 3/84, 4/94, 5/?, 6/96, 7/123, 8/?, 9/?,

10/161

O M R W S McKenzie 23 10 38 2 Callaway 7 3 17 0 Hogan 11 1 32 1 Noble 30.1 15 50 6 Bannerman 7 2 19 0 Paddington innings

PVJ Macnamara c Jones b E Rogers 46 *AC Bannerman c Ashdown b McLeod 122 AC Mackenzie c Meares b McLeod 155 MA Noble lbw b E Rogers 113 R Alderson retired out 113 + JJ Kelly not out 106 EJ Hogan not out 22 S McKenzie A Callaway [unknown] [unknown] Extras 49

Total (for 5 wickets) 726 Fall 1/94, 2/326, 3/361, 4/555, 5/646 O M R W G Rogers 21 2 87 0 E Rogers 40 7 168 2 McLeod 37 2 176 2 Dight 24 3 109 0 Ashdown 8 0 42 0 Meares 13 0 56 0 Marsden 3 0 12 0 Brown 5 1 17 0 Fairfax 3 0 10 0

Source: Sydney papers as follows: Evening News 2 and 9 December; Sydney Morning Herald 2 and 23 December; Sunday Times 8 and 22 December; Daily Telegraph 9 and 23 December; Referee 11 and 24 December Close of Play: Day 1 – Paddington 26-0 (Macnamara 15, Bannerman 5); Day 2 – Paddington 374-3 (Noble 20, Alderson 6) The SMH gives the Paddington total as 725, and the Referee as 727; but 726 is the figure more generally given. Burwood fielded one man short on Day 3.

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Unknown v Unknown 1895/96 2 Venue Eshowe, Zululand, South Africa Date ? 1 January 1896 Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that G Essery took 19 wickets in a ‘local match’ at Eshowe in the 1895/96 season. The only available newspaper for this period is the Natal Mercury, but it makes no specific reference to this feat, though its match reports confirm that G – sometimes GV – Essery played for Eshowe in the earlier part of that season. On 10 January 1896 the paper reported that “the Zululand Challenge Cup was played off [at Eshowe] on the 1st and 2nd inst … the three local clubs competed, Eshowe [i.e. Eshowe CC] playing the Garrison [Eshowe Garrison CC] on New Year’s Day, when an easy victory was gained by nine wickets. The next day the winners played the [Eshowe] Wanderers and it proved an exciting match, the ECC eventually winning by three wickets.” A full scorecard is given of the latter match (in which Essery definitely played), but no score details are given of the former. There is no direct evidence that the match in which Essery took 19 wickets was that on 1 January against the Garrison, but that seems distinctly possible from the available reports. ‘G Essery’ was very probably Guy Vivian Essery, b. 25.6.1875 at Durban and died 4.10.1958 at Unhlali, Natal (information from the Chapman family tree on ancestry.co.uk).

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Melbourne Cricket Club Third XI v East Melbourne Third XI 1895/96 1 Venue Melbourne, Victoria Date 15 February 1896 Result Melbourne CC Third XI won by an unknown number of wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires East Melbourne Third XI innings

McLeod 39 Clarke 28 Waxman F Trott Hoddle Extras


10/86

O M R W Thomas 17 7 Culpitt 16 3 Melbourne CC Third XI innings

F Sheahan 50 CS Green 28 Russell 19 J Quirk 18 R McKinnon 16 Culpitt 15 AJ Philpott 11 + SM Simson ME Thomas Extras


10/179

O M R W Waxman Trott Hoddle Source: The Age (Melbourne) 17 February 1896 The report in The Age confirms that ME Thomas took four wickets in four balls in the East Melbourne innings, all of them stumped by SM Simson.

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Madras Salt Department v 45th Field Battery RA 1895/96 4 Venue Madras, India Date 18 January 1896 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that EHD Sewell scored 74 out of 78, and 51 out of 56, for the Salt Dept in this match. It is not clear whether 78 and 56 were his side’s all-out totals (in which case he scored 94.87% and 91.07% of his team’s runs in the respective innings, and 93.28% of his team’s runs in the match), or just the number of runs added in each innings while Sewell was at the wicket. The latter appears to be the case, as in Cricket 1902 page 115 FS Ashley-Cooper records that in this match Sewell “claimed 125 of the 134 runs obtained whilst in” [my emphasis]. The match is not noted in Cricket. There are potentially two contemporary Madras newspapers (the Mail and the Times) at the British Library, but these have not yet been explored.

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Andover v Basingstoke 1896 1 Venue Andover, Hampshire Date 2 July 1896 Result Andover won on first innings by 112 runs Toss Umpires F Best, unknown Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Basingstoke First innings Second innings

Cordery b Richardson 0 run out 1 Ransome b Richardson 2 c Donaldson b Colebrook 13 H Baldwin c Pain b Richardson 5 c sub b Hooper 20 Harrold retired hurt 0 FH Bacon b Richardson 1 (4) not out 8 Sutton not out 10 (5) c Bloxham b Hooper 7 Hill b Richardson 0 (6) b Colebrook 3 Raynbird b Richardson 0 Henry b Richardson 0 Lewis b Richardson 3 Wagstaff b Richardson 0 Boxall b Richardson 0 Extras 3 7

Total (all out) 24 (for 5 wickets) 59 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/24 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/59 O M R W O M R W Richardson 7 10 Colebrook 2 Hooper 2 Andover First innings

Pain b Harrold 6 Donaldson c Boxall b Baldwin 43 Woodgate c and b Baldwin 2 Wilkinson c Henry b Baldwin 1 Lamb b Harrold 5 Bloxham b Harrold 4 Hooper b Harrold 2 T Richardson c Ransome b Cordery 38 Rev Leigh not out 14 Colebrook c Hill b Cordery 0 Hendley b Baldwin 0 Brathwaite b Cordery 1 Extras 20


10/136

O M R W Harrold 4 Baldwin 4 Cordery 3 Source: Salisbury & Winchester Journal 4 July 1896; Southampton Echo 3 July 1896; Evesham Standard 18 July 1896; Cricket 1896 page 290. Tom Richardson (Surrey & England) took the last seven wickets in Basingstoke (1) with seven successive deliveries – the first (Baldwin) caught at point, the others all bowled. He did not bowl in the second innings. H Baldwin and FH Bacon were Hampshire professionals.

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Leamington Collegiate School v Stratford Commercial School 1897 1 Venue Leamington, Warwickshire Date July 1897 Result Collegiate School won by an innings and 85 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Stratford Commercial School First innings Second innings

E Yardley b Sharp 0 b Sharp 0 F Ayres c and b Branigan 0 b Sharp 0 S Wright c Gray b Sharp 0 c and b Branigan 0 J Pullen b Sharp 0 b Branigan 1 S Pullen b Branigan 0 run out 0 H Hodges c Lenton b Sharp 0 not out 0 H Hopkins run out 0 c and b Sharp 0 B Wallis c Sharp b Branigan 0 c Deverell b Branigan 0 J Crawhurst not out 1 run out 0 T Ball b Branigan 0 b Branigan 1 W Smith b Branigan 0 b Sharp 0 Extras 0 1

Total (all out) 1 (all out) 3 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/3 O M R W O M R W Sharp 4 4 Branigan 5 4 Leamington Collegiate School First innings

S Gray b Yardley 21 H Sharp b Yardley 11 F Eldridge b Hodges 0 R Deverell b Yardley 14 W Eldridge c and b Yardley 10 N Cortes b Hodges 8 H Hurlston b Hodges 10 L Weekes b Smith 0 L Lenton b Smith 0 W Branigan not out 5 R Harrison c Yardley b Smith 1 Extras 8

Total (all out) 89 Fall O M R W Yardley 4 Smith 3 Hodges 3 Source: Leamington Daily Circular 16 July 1897; Cricket 22 July 1897 page 301; Gross’s scorecard. The match was not noted in the Leamington Courier. Branigan and Sharp bowled unchanged for the Collegiate School, returning match figures of nine for 1 and eight for 2 respectively. Additional information from the Warwick & Warwickshire Advertiser 17 July 1897, courtesy of Harry Watton. This source also names the Stratford numbers 9 and 10 as J Crowhurst and F Ball

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Central Cumberland v Hawkesbury District 1897/98 1 Venue Parramatta Cricket Ground, Sydney, NSW Date 4 October 1897 Result Central Cumberland won by a concession Toss Central Cumberland Thanks: HW, AJ Umpires Players per side: C Cumberland 11, Hawkesbury 10 Central Cumberland innings

LW Pye not out 239 E Miller c and b Smith 32 T Docker b Harris 2 JC Wilson b Poidevin 195 *WD Loveridge WP Howell (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) Extras 66

Total (for 3 wickets) 534 Fall 1/96, 2/98, 3/534 O M R W Smith 1 Harris 1 Poidevin 1 Tuckerman 0 Howard 0 Wallach 0 Pitt 0 Sweeny 0 Hawkesbury District - did not bat

R Harris NR Poidevin S Smith S Tuckerman R Howard H Wallach J Pitt W Sweeny G Woodhill AN Other Extras

Total Fall

Source: Scorecard in Gross’s records; Sydney Morning Herald 5 October 1897; Cricket 1899 pages 27 and 195. Further information from Windsor & Richmond Gazette 2 and 9 October 1897, and the Cumberland Argus 9 October 1897 (research by Harry Watton and Alfred James). SMH: “At 4 o’clock the score stood [at] 534 runs for three wickets. The Hawkesbury men then declined to proceed any further with the game”. Hawkesbury initially named a squad of 12 players for this match, plus three emergencies. In the event, only five of these initial selections – Harris, Smith, Howard, Wallach and Pitt – turned up for the match, and the side found five late substitutes to make up the 10-man side eventually fielded. One of these was NR Poidevin, father of LOS. In the Central Cumberland innings, the bowlers conceded at least the following number of runs: Smith 48, Harris 12, Poidevin nk, Tuckerman 48, Howard 58, Wallace 31, Pitt 10 and Sweeny 12.

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Middle Brighton v Cheltenham 1897/98 1 Venue Higinbotham’s Meadow, Middle Brighton, Victoria Date 15, 22 January, 5 February 1898 Result Cheltenham won by an innings and 606 runs Toss Umpires Monk, Williamson Thanks: Ken W, HW Cheltenham First innings

H Beulke c Whitby b Staples 14 F Chandler b Richmond 0 R Woff c Whitby b Blackham 94 A Hewitt c Whitby b W Robinson 105 S Chandler lbw b Whitby 194 A Organ b Moulton 50 A Chandler b Hickling 54 S Cullin b Richmond 35 C Judd not out 66 C Wawn c sub b Moulton 10 F Groves c and b Blackham 30 Extras 30

Total (all out) 682 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/,

10/682

O M R W W Robinson 120 1 Staples 65 1 Whitby 63 1 Moulton 69 2 Hickling 63 1 Blackham 66 2 J Robinson 25 0 Beulke 68 0 Richmond 96 2 Middle Brighton First innings Second innings (following on)

Blackham c – b F Chandler 2 run out 0 J Robinson b Hewitt 0 b S Chandler 0 Moulton b Hewitt 2 run out 6 W Robinson c - b Hewitt 4 c – b S Chandler 6 Richmond c – b Hewitt 5 lbw b Hewitt 0 Whitby c – b F Chandler 5 lbw b S Chandler 2 Smith c – b F Chandler 9 not out 6 A Beulke b F Chandler 0 c – b S Chandler 0 Hickling not out 3 c Cullin b S Chandler 5 Henrichsen b F Chandler 1 b S Chandler 3 Staples absent - absent - Extras 10 7

Total (all out) 41 (all out) 35 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/41 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/35 O M R W O M R W F Chandler 5 Hewitt 4 1 S Chandler 6 Source: Southern Cross (Brighton) 12 February 1898; Ballarat Star 9 February 1898; Oakleigh Leader (Victoria) 15 January and 12 February 1898; The Age 20 January and 8 February 1898. Also noted in Cricket 1898 p 42 and 1900 p 339.

Close of play: Day 1 – Cheltenham 312-3 (Woff 63, S Chandler 115); Day 2 – Cheltenham 551-6 (Organ 48, Cullin 17)

Across the two innings of Middle Brighton, S Chandler took six wickets for 11 runs, F Chandler took five for 14, and A Hewitt five for 34. The identities of many of the catchers are not known.

Hewitt and Cullin sometimes given as Hewett and Cullen. This was a match in the Brighton-Moorabbin District Competition.

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A Conan Doyle’s XI v JV Macmillan’s XI 1898 2 Venue Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey Date 2 August 1898 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

One of the most frustrating untraced performances! Gross says that wicket-keeper PCW Trevor made six stumpings in the Macmillan innings, and this performance is also noted in Cricket 1898 page 471, without any score details. There is also an allusion to what may well have been this performance in Cricket 1903 page 11, where a correspondent to the magazine states that “rumour has it that a Capt Trevor” made eight dismissals in an innings “three or four years ago in a country-house game”. Conan Doyle’s side played several matches at his home at Undershaw during the first week of August 1898, most of which are reported in some detail in local or sporting newspapers. But the match on Tuesday 2 August appears to have gone unnoticed. It is not referred to in any of the national sporting papers, nor in the Farnham, Haslemere & Hindhead Herald, the Surrey Advertiser or the Surrey & Hampshire News, nor in any newspaper available at the Surrey History Centre at Woking. An approach to the Sherlock Holmes Society has also drawn a blank. In a detailed reply, they have responded that although Doyle’s papers record that he played in matches on 1, 3, 4 and 5 August 1898, there is no reference to a match on 2 August (with thanks to Nicholas Utechin). There is at present no reason to doubt the veracity of this alleged performance, but it is strange that it has not been possible to track down any more details of the match.

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West Adelaide v Sturt 1898/99 1 Venue Adelaide Oval Date 29 October, 5, 19 November 1898 Result Sturt won on first innings Toss Umpires West Adelaide First innings Second innings

G Giffen b Trott 58 C Bailey c and b Hay 8 (1) b Winnall 0 BTR Bailey c Osman b Hay 0 (2) b Winnall 2 V Hugo st Thomas b Winnall 0 (3) c Trott b Hay 4 G Sparks c Winnall b Hay 0 not out 80 G Parkin st Thomas b Winnall 28 (7) not out 78 M Lynch c Chinner b Winnall 9 N Thallon c Green b Trott 11 (4) b Hay 9 T Fitzpatrick st Thomas b Winnall 2 AJ Hurley not out 4 (6) c Scrymgour b Winnall 0 W Monk c Scrymgour b Winnall 0 Extras b9, lb4, w1 14 b3, lb7 10

Total (all out) 134 (for 5 wickets) 183 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/38, 5/105, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/134 1/?, 2/?, 3/6, 4/?, 5/31

O M R W O M R W Winnall 17.4 3 40 5 21 4 58 3 Hay 17 4 33 3 18 2 51 2 Hewer 3 1 6 0 Green 8 1 19 0 (3) 6 2 20 0 Trott 11 5 22 2 (4) 3 0 23 0 Hack (5) 3 1 8 0 Scrymgour (6) 3 0 18 0 Sturt First innings

FT Hack not out 117 TE Osman c Thallon b Hugo 0 AE Trott c Monk b Giffen 0 H Hay c Monk b Hugo 1 P Robertson b Giffen 0 + AC Thomas b Giffen 10 CH Winnall c Giffen b Hugo 5 H Chinner c Monk b Parkin 25 AE Green c Hurley b Hugo 148 BV Scrymgour b Hugo 11 W Hewer absent hurt - Extras b4, lb8, w1 13

Total (all out) 330 Fall 1/0, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/19, 6/24, 7/75, 8/315,

9/330

O M R W Giffen 31 8 88 3 Hugo 38 20 58 5 Parkin 6 1 32 1 Fitzpatrick 21 6 61 0 Sparks 6 0 34 0 BTR Bailey 7 1 24 0 C Bailey 4 0 20 0 Source: Adelaide Observer 5, 12, 26 November 1898; The Advertiser (Adelaide) 21 November 1898 Close of Play, Day 1 – Sturt 6-4 (Hack 4, Thomas 1); Day 2 – Sturt 299-7 (Hack 108, Green 143) Gross gives the eighth-wicket partnership between Hack and Green as worth 233 runs, but the Adelaide Observer confirms the fall of wickets as here, making the partnership worth 240. Green scored 148 of the partnership’s runs. George Giffen was absent on the final day of the match.

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Napier United A v Napier United B 1898/99 1 Venue Heretaunga School Ground, Hastings, New Zealand Date 21, 28 January, 4 February 1899 Result Napier United A won by an innings and 254 runs Toss Napier United B Umpires Spraggon & HB Whyte; - Philson officiated later in the match Thanks: HW Napier United B First innings Second innings

* Harold B Lusk b Marshall 72 absent - CH Cato b Cotterill 19 (1) b Wilson 1 J Wolstenholme b Marshall 12 b Wilson 5 W Hughes run out 1 run out 16 W Young b Marshall 22 (2) lbw b Marshall 14 RD Kelly run out 26 b Marshall 9 H Martin b Wilson 36 not out 33 CW Cato c and b Marshall 19 b Wilson 12 Scott b Marshall 0 c and b Dixon 7 J Hughes not out 6 run out 1 AH Barnett b Wilson 2 b Wilson 0 Extras 22 20

Total (all out) 237 (all out) 118 Fall 1/50, 2/104, 3/111, 4/114, 5/150, 6/183,

7/222, 8/?, 9/?, 10/237 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/118

O M R W O M R W Marshall 28 4 80 5 10 57 2 Wilson 23 5 81 2 13 26 4 Cotterill 8 0 32 1 Hallamore 4 0 21 0 Dixon 3 14 1 Napier United A First innings

+ RG Hallamore lbw b W Hughes 38 B Cotterill b W Hughes 2 E Macassey c CH Cato b W Hughes 1 A Balfour c Martin b Wolstenholme 0 WP Finch b Wolstenholme 6 HC Wilson b W Hughes 200 *G Marshall not out 252 WG Wood b W Hughes 2 AJ Dixon b CW Cato 2 C Sainsbury b W Hughes 27 EF Severne b Martin 23 Extras 56

Total (all out) 609 Fall 1/8, 2/14, 3/15, 4/39, 5/61, 6/421, 7/?, 8/?,

9/509, 10/609

O M R W W Hughes 47 198 6 Wolstenholme 39 103 2 CW Cato 13 65 1 Scott 15 75 0 Martin 10 55 1 Kelly 5 25 0 Source: Hawkes Bay Herald 23 and 30 January, 6 February 1899; Hastings Standard (NZ) 30 January 1899; Daily Telegraph (Napier) 30 January 1899; Cricket 1899 page 119 Close of play: Day 1 – Napier United A 30-3 (Hallamore 18, Finch 5); Day 2 – Napier United A 475-8 (Marshall 165, Sainsbury 19) The stand of 360 for the sixth wicket for ‘A’ is confirmed in the Hawkes Bay Herald.

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Railway CC First XI v Next XV 1898/99 2 Venue Petersburg, South Australia Date 18 February 1899 Result Not known Toss Umpires Players per side: 11 v 15

Gross records that AC Crossman recorded a hat-trick of stumpings in this match for the First XI, off the bowling of V Frisby. Two references – but no scores – have been found in Trove to corroborate the occurrence: First, a letter in the Evening Journal (Adelaide) on 25 February 1899 from the Hon Sec to the North-East Cricket Association: “Petersburg, Feb 20th, Dear Sir – During the progress of a game of cricket here on Saturday last, between the First XI and the Next XV of the Railway Cricket Club, the wicketkeeper of the first XI stumped three men off three successive balls … the bowler was V Frisby, slow leg-break, and the stumper was AC Crossman. M Bush, in the same game, secured nine wickets for ten runs, including the hat-trick”. The second reference is in the Adelaide Observer of 15 April 1899, which mentions Crossman’s achievement and also draws attention to the feat of four stumpings off successive deliveries recorded for Melbourne Thirds in 1895/96 (qv).

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Eastbourne College v Blue Mantles 1899 1 Venue The Saffrons, Eastbourne Date 15 May 1899 Result Blue Mantles won on first innings by 350 runs Toss Blue Mantles Umpires Thanks: HW Blue Mantles First innings

JH Kelsey not out 136 HM Braybrooke not out 256 JW Mitchell FD Curtis BB de la Bere WA Sparling HH Lawrence GH Wilmer L Levy AH Margetson WJ Courtney Extras 11

Total (for no wicket, declared) 403 Fall O M R W Eastbourne College First innings Second innings (following on)

*FM Browne b de la Bere 4 (4) b Kelsey 3 JN Kidd c Margetson b de la Bere 15 (1) c Kelsey b Sparling 11 EG Langdale b Lawrence 11 (6) not out 15 AE Begg run out 1 (3) c Braybrooke b Kelsey 9 VFF Ward c and b Lawrence 6 c Sparling b Braybrooke 4 C Romer b Lawrence 6 (7) c Mitchell b Braybrooke 13 HA Bromilow c Kelsey b de la Bere 3 (8) b Braybrooke 2 S Goldsmith b de la Bere 4 H Brooker not out 0 (2) b Braybrooke 19 GP Thirkell c Braybrooke b Lawrence 3 (9) not out 0 OC Tudor b Lawrence 0 Extras 0 13

Total (all out) 53 (for 7 wickets) 89 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/53 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/? O M R W O M R W de la Bere 39 4 Lawrence 14 5 Kelsey 2 Sparling 1 Braybrooke 4 Source: Eastbourne Gazette 17 May 1899, Eastbourne Chronicle 20 May 1899; The Eastbournian vol XV no. 150 (16 June 1899); Cricket 1899 page 138. Wilmer, Levy and Margetson were players from Eastbourne College who played for Blue Mantles to make up their full eleven. Braybrooke hit 41 fours, and Kelsey 13 fours.

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Appleby Grammar School v Appleby Cricket Club 1899 1 Venue Appleby Grammar School, Westmorland Date 20 May 1899 Result Appleby Cricket Club won by an innings and 19 runs Toss Appleby Grammar School Umpires Appleby Grammar School First innings Second innings

RE Leach c T Walton b F Potts 0 not out 37 T Jackson run out 0 lbw b F Pott 0 W Harris b F Potts 0 b F Potts 0 HA Counsell c and b F Potts 0 b Dryden 0 J Sowerby b F Potts 0 c Chatfield b Dryden 3 W Savage b F Potts 0 b Dryden 0 C Hallam c J Walton b F Potts 0 run out 5 C Smith c Brown b Dryden 0 b J Walton 4 F Forrest b F Potts 0 b F Potts 2 E Salkeld b Dryden 0 b Dryden 0 HD Pattinson not out 0 b Dryden 0 Extras 0 2


9/?, 10/53 O M R W O M R W Dryden 3 3 0 2 5 F Potts 2.1 2 0 7 3 J Walton 1 Appleby CC First innings

F Potts b Counsell 19 J Brown b Harris 28 DA Dryden c and b Counsell 2 J Walton b Counsell 1 T Potts b Harris 6 F Chatfield b Counsell 1 G Heelis c and b Counsell 8 W Watson c Jackson b Counsell 0 W Elliott b Counsell 0 D Slack b Harris 0 T Walton not out 0 Extras 7


O M R W Counsell 7 Harris 3 Source: Penrith Times 23 May 1899; Carlisle Journal 23 May 1899; Penrith Observer 23 May 1899. The match was also noted in the Lakes Herald of 26 May, and the Maryport Advertiser, the Wigton Advertiser, and the Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, all of 27 May. Gross says that F Potts took 7-0 in 13 balls in the school’s first innings, including two hat-tricks. Contemporary reports confirm the two hat-tricks, but say that the seven wickets were taken in 11 balls (Carlisle Journal, Maryport Advertiser) or else in two overs and one ball (Penrith Observer, Cumberland & Westmorland Herald). The correct figure may depend on the number of balls to an over used in this game. The change to the law introducing the six-ball over was not made until May 1900, so the likelihood is that this game used the five-ball over and that Potts only delivered 11 balls in the first innings. RE Leach was the school’s headmaster.

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Plymouth Garrison v Marylebone Cricket Club 1899 4 Venue Mount Wise, Plymouth, Devon Date 18, 19 August 1899 Result MCC won by an innings and 29 runs Toss Umpires MCC First innings

AH Luard c Tandy b Waller 42 GG Hearne b Tandy 125 WS Case c Hibbard b Waller 0 HE Rawson c Hill b Waller 6 EHM Elliot run out 5 WAJ West b Aston 5 N Monckton b Aston 0 Capt Phillips b Aston 4 H Richardson c Hill b Waller 1 JH Bulloch lbw b Monro 26 HF Brunskill not out 57 Extras b4, lb2, w1 7

Total (all out) 278 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/278 O M R W Waller 4 Tandy 1 Aston 3 Monro 1 Plymouth Garrison First innings Second innings (following on)

EN Tandy b Hearne 19 c Bulloch b Richardson 12 Capt Monro b Hearne 4 b Hearne 5 Maj Crowther run out 0 b Hearne 6 Capt Hill b Hearne 12 b Hearne 4 H Wadlow b Richardson 22 c Richardson b Hearne 16 JA Hibbard c Elliot b Richardson 9 c Rawson b Richardson 0 Maj Curteis lbw b Hearne 26 b Hearne 11 HM Harris b Hearne 2 not out 15 Aston not out 26 b Hearne 21 RCS Waller b Hearne 0 b Hearne 15 HJ Dawson run out 12 b Hearne 4 Extras lb4 4 b4 4

Total (all out) 136 (all out) 113 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/136 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/113 O M R W O M R W Hearne 6 8 Richardson 2 2

Source: MCC match scores for 1899 Gross says that GG Hearne (125) and HF Brunskill (57*) added exactly 200 for the tenth wicket in the MCC innings. However, the above scorecard, from an unimpeachable source, shows this to have been impossible. The two batsmen plus Extras only aggregated 189 runs between them, and for the partnership to have reached any great size would have required Hearne to have scored remarkably slowly in the early part of his innings. This performance is surely included in Gross’s lists in error.

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St Mary’s Kensal v Willesden Green 1899 4 Venue Chiswick, Middlesex Date 1899 season Result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that both sides were dismissed for 0 in this match. But I have grave doubts about the veracity of this. Surely such an event would have found its way into the local newspapers, and maybe the national sports papers – but it doesn’t. The Willesden Chronicle says that Willesden Green were due to play ‘Kensal’ away on 12 August 1899, but there is no mention of the match in subsequent editions of that paper. Other local newspapers seen that might have reported any such instance, but don’t, are the Kilburn Times, the Paddington Times, and the Paddington Gazette. The BL library lists four other local newspapers that might assist (the Paddington & West London Mercury, the Paddington Chronicle, the Advertiser (Queen’s Park), and the Post, Kilburn, Paddington & Hampstead Echo), but all are unfit to produce for researchers. Harry Watton suggests, persuasively, that Gross mistakenly interpreted a football score in a match between these teams (a scoreless draw in April 1899) as a cricket score.

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Melbourne Cricket Club Second XI v Fitzroy Second XI 1899/1900 1 Venue Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Victoria Date 25 November 1899 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Melbourne CC Second XI innings

W MacGregor not out 146 Jennings 38 Russell 19 Tiernan 18 Wilkinson 16 (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) (unknown) D White not out 70 Extras

Total (for 9 wickets) 344 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/70, 8/?, 9/100 O M R W Burrell 4 Smart 3 McKirdy 2 Fitzroy Second XI innings

Burrell McKirdy Smart

Source: Weekly Times (Melbourne) 2 December 1899; Cricket 1900 page 9; The Age (Melbourne) 25, 27 November 1899; The Australasian 2 December 1899. MacGregor and White added 244* for the tenth wicket – in about 40 minutes, according to contemporary reports. The Australasian confirms that Dan White batted at number 11, but the position of McGregor in the batting order is not known. The Age gives McGregor’s initial as F rather than W. Further information from Harry Watton.

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W McGowan’s XII v Badesi Ram’s XII 1899/1900 1 Venue Maharajah of Patiala’s Ground, Patiala, India Date January 1900 Result Badesi Ram’s XII won by 251 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW W McGowan’s XII First innings Second innings

KM Mistry c Brockwell b Patiala 21 b Brockwell 49 W McGowan c Nanak Ram b Patiala 23 b Brockwell 0 A Warburton c Baboo b Patiala 7 run out 0 HH Kour Sahib b Brockwell 1 c Mahabirchand b Patiala 2 Williams c Badesi Ram b Tarachand 52 b Brockwell 10 Goormuck Singh c Patiala b Brockwell 0 b Nanak Ram 0 G McGowan run out 17 b Brockwell 9 P McGowan b Brockwell 14 c sub (Modi) b Patiala 10 J Maddon b Brockwell 9 run out 5 Narain Singh c Mahabirchand b Tarachand 0 c Patiala b Brockwell 0 F Marshall c Gokalchand b Patiala 1 not out 0 D Marshall not out 0 b Brockwell 0 Extras 24 7


11/169 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/?, 11/99 O M R W O M R W Patiala 4 2 Brockwell 4 6 Tarachand 2 Nanak Ram 1 Badesi Ram’s XII First innings Second innings

W Brockwell lbw b Mistry 150 run out 103 Gokulchand lbw b Mistry 5 run out 1 Badesi Ram run out 7 c Mistry b Maddon 33 Maharaja of Patiala b W McGowan 0 b W McGowan 15 L Tarachand b W McGowan 6 c and b Mistry 11 Hadi Hussain c Williams b W McGowan 6 b Maddon 3 R Baboo c Williams b Mistry 2 not out 30 Rugbirchand run out 17 Nanak Ram c sub b Mistry 35 (8) not out 61 Gokalchand not out 3 Brij Lal b W McGowan 0 Mahabirchand b Mistry 1 Extras 21 6

Total (all out) 253 (for 6 wickets) 263 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?,

11/253 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?

O M R W O M R W Mistry 5 1 W McGowan 4 1 Maddon 2 Source: Times of India 31 January 1900; Cricket 29 March 1900 page 39; Sporting Life 27 February 1900

The Times of India and Cricket give the result as a win by 251 runs, but all sources print the innings in the order given here. It is not known if in fact Badesi Ram’s side batted first and declared their second innings, or if they batted on after winning - in which case the victory should be expressed in terms of wickets. The matter is further complicated by the fact that the sources give different totals for McGowan (1) – Sporting Life gives 169 (followed here) while The Times and Cricket give 166 – and the individual totals in some innings do not sum correctly to the stated totals. So whether ‘251 runs’ is the correct figure, if indeed the victory was by tuns, is uncertain.

The spelling of some names has been adjusted as compared with that given in the sources, to match the spellings used in Cricket Archive.

Gross says that Brockwell scored two centuries and took 13 wickets in the match, but the scorecards in both sources show him only taking ten.

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Leigh v Newton 1900 4 Venue Church Leigh, Cheshire Date 30 June 1900 Result No result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Leigh innings

JW Unsworth b Huish 32 Mayall c Turton b Huish 4 E Williams c Carson b Mitchell 13 Williams b Turton 64 JW Turner b Huish 14 W Stewart c Williams b Huish 4 W Hindley not out 4 JM Pass b Turton 0 ST Garside not out 11 S Wilson JR Hilton Extras 21

(for 7 wickets) 167 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/167 O M R W Huish 4 Mitchell 1 Turton 2 Newton innings - Did not bat

Carson Huish Mitchell Turton Williams

Source: Leigh Chronicle 6 July 1900 Gross records that Newton were dismissed for 0 in this match. The match, reportedly in the North Staffordshire League (though that is uncertain), is referred to in Cricket 1900 page 243 which also states that Newton were dismissed for 0, citing an article in The Sportsman of 2 July 1900, which gives the scores as ‘Leigh 167-7d; Newton 0’. It is assumed that this is the source of Gross’s noting of the match. However, the Leigh Chronicle confirms that there was no further play after the fall of Leigh’s seventh wicket as a result of rain. Thus Newton did not bat at all, and Gross was in error in recording this as an instance of a side ‘all out 0’.

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Arkley v West Herts 1900 1 Venue Arkley, Hertfordshire Date 7 July 1900 Result Arkley won by 136 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Arkley innings

H Williams c Burrows b Melbourne 91 EW Bishop b White 6 C Turner b Hoyer-Millar 5 Birch b White 0 GL Jessop b White 43 EY Drew b Burrows 25 GW Hammond b White 52 WH Robson b White 8 GP Blizard not out 9 JH Robson HG Elton AS Farmer Extras b8, w4 12

Total (for 8 wickets, declared) 251 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/251 O M R W White 18 1 103 5 Hoyer-Millar 12 2 56 1 Burrows 8 1 35 1 Fox 6 0 25 0 Melbourne 3 0 21 1 West Herts innings

White b Jessop 23 JH Hickin b Jessop 33 RH Melbourne b Jessop 0 FE Burrows c Williams b Jessop 0 FG Wolfe b Jessop 7 Fox c JH Robson b Jessop 20 C Hoyer-Millar b Jessop 8 FE Crisp b Jessop 7 J Scanlon b Jessop 6 CH Little b Jessop 2 Picton b Jessop 4 Harrison not out 1 Extras b2, lb1, nb1 4


11/115

O M R W Jessop 22.5 5 59 11 Blizard 5 0 22 0 Birch 7 3 13 0 Hammond 4 1 10 0 Turner 6 2 7 0 Source: Herts Advertiser 14 July 1900; Cricket 1900 page 271 Gilbert Jessop took all 11 wickets in his opponents’ innings. The West Herts no. 8 is named as Scanton in the Advertiser, but as Scanlon in Cricket, and in other match reports in the Herts Advertiser. Their no. 10 is Pioton in the scorecard of this match in the Advertiser, but Picton in Cricket and in cards of earlier matches in the Advertiser.

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Eastbourne v Trinity Wanderers 1900 1 Venue The Saffrons, Eastbourne, Sussex Date 13, 14 August 1900 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Eastbourne First innings Second innings

HR Browne b Tagart 39 AC Miller c Harwood b Johnstone 14 (1) lbw b Johnstone 10 EM Crosse st Watney b Johnstone 15 (2) b Johnstone 6 J Shuter c Watney b Johnstone 33 (3) b Whitfield 12 Nixon b Johnstone 53 AG Topham c Anderson b Johnstone 7 (4) lbw b Tagart 16 ME Pavri c Watney b Tagart 45 (5) c Watney b Whitfield 5 FW Bush c Anderson b Tagart 17 (6) b Druce 6 EO Tagart not out 6 (7) not out 13 EB Green c Davenport b Tagart 6 (8) not out 4 + R Collins c Whatford b Johnstone 1 Extras 18 3

Total (all out) 254 (for 6 wickets) 75 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/254 O M R W O M R W Johnstone 106 6 19 2 Tagart 62 4 22 1 Whitfield 27 2 Druce 2 1 Trinity Wanderers First innings Second innings (following on)

HJ Davenport b Nixon 0 (2) c Pavri b Nixon 36 CA Anderson c Collins b Nixon 0 (4) c Collins b Pavri 18 NO Tagart b Nixon 1 (5) b Pavri 12 HM Harwood c Collins b Pavri 5 (6) b Nixon 1 EAC Druce b Nixon 0 (7) not out 201 GL Whatford b Nixon 4 (8) b Nixon 4 + GN Watney c Bush b Pavri 1 (9) b Pavri 2 VP Johnstone c Topham b Pavri 9 (10) st Collins b Pavri 120 GS Whitfield b Nixon 16 (11) not out 1 WH Whatley b Pavri 19 (3) b Pavri 33 JS Richardson not out 15 (1) b Miller 6 Extras 1 15

Total (all out) 71 (for 9 wickets, declared) 449 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/71 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/149,

9/442 O M R W O M R W Nixon 34 6 127 3 Pavri 36 4 156 5 Miller 51 1 Source: Sporting Life 14-15 August 1900; Cambridge Independent Press 17 August 1900; Eastbourne Chronicle 18 August 1900 Close of play, Day 1: Trinity Wanderers (2) 40-1 (Davenport and Whatley not out) The ninth wicket partnership of 293 between Druce and Johnstone is reported to have taken “a little over 2 hours” (2h 5m in the Eastbourne Chronicle). Druce was 195* when Johnstone was out; his side batted on to enable him to reach his 200, at which point they declared. Druce hit 23 fours and one six (the shot that took him from 195 to 201); Johnstone hit 13 fours.

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Derwent v Wellington 1900/01 1 Venue Upper Cricket Ground, Hobart, Tasmania Date 3, 10, 17 November 1900 Result Wellington won on first innings Toss Umpires CJ Eady with S Wild, J Masterton and CW Butler Thanks: HW Derwent First innings

R Hawson c Gatehouse b Burn 25 S Hawson c F Dodds b N Dodds 11 D Paton b N Dodds 11 C McAllen b LH Macleod 28 GH Bailey b LH Macleod 5 J Hudson not out 106 K Bailey b N Dodds 5 H Teague c F Dodds b LH Macleod 2 G Trappes b McDowall 21 R Burgess b Reeves 20 HL Facy b Burn 45 Extras 15

Total (all out) 294

Fall 1/29, 2/45, 3/64, 4/75, 5/88, 6/93, 7/96, 8/137, 9/184, 10/294

O M R W N Dodds 34 5 87 3 Burn 28.2 3 62 2 LH Macleod 19 1 64 3 McDowall 3 0 12 1 Reeves 9 2 16 1 Douglas 5 2 9 0 M Macleod 4 0 15 0 Davies 4 0 14 0 Wellington First innings

LH Macleod c S Hawson b K Bailey 1 M Macleod c Facy b K Bailey 16 N Dodds c S Hawson b Paton 62 K Burn lbw b Paton 40 + GH Gatehouse lbw b R Pawson 247 B Davies c R Hawson b K Bailey 6 OH Douglas not out 200 F Dodds c Burgess b K Bailey 57 D McDowall c sub b R Hawson 0 H Reeves [unknown] Extras 42

Total (for 8 wickets) 671 Fall 1/8, 2/33, 3/100, 4/135, 5/150, 6/520, 7/665, 8/671 O M R W S Hawson 26 2 93 0 K Bailey 56 10 139 4 R Hawson 28.4 4 98 2 Paton 39 3 131 2 Trappes 21 4 67 0 Teague 16 3 47 0 Hudson 8 0 27 0 Facy 3 0 22 0

Source: The Mercury (Hobart), The Examiner (Launceston), and Tasmania News (Hobart), all 5, 12 and 19 November 1900; Cricket 1901 p8.

Close of play: Day 1 – Derwent 294 all out; Day 2 – Wellington 285-5 (Gatehouse 111, Douglas 40)

Gatehouse and Douglas added 370 for Wellington’s sixth wicket. In the Wellington innings, the substitute who caught McDowall is named variously as Campbell or Campbrell. A player named as A Cambrell played in the return match in January 1901 (Herald 21 January 1901) – so three to choose from!

The 11th player in the Wellington side was probably either Seager or Hayton, both of whom were named in the Wellington squad for the match as given in the Herald on 2 November.

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Myrtleford Association v Omeo 1900/01 2 Venue Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia Date 1900/01 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: Ken W, HW

Gross says that J Paul took 19 wickets in this match for Myrtleford Association. No report of the game has been traced in Trove, or elsewhere (including Cricket).

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AC Benson’s House v HV Macnaghten’s House 1901 1 Venue Eton College, Eton, Buckinghamshire Date July 1901 Result AC Benson’s House won on first innings by 378 runs Toss Umpires HV Macnaghten’s House First innings Second innings

ES Wyndham c GW Lyttelton b Herbert 26 b GW Lyttelton 16 FR Pollock b Herbert 16 not out 3 Leatham b Herbert 3 c Herbert b GW Lyttelton 45 GJP Senhouse b GW Lyttelton 3 c Eliot b GW Lyttelton 0 HDD Pender c Herbert b GW Lyttelton 34 c CF Lyttelton b GW Lyttelton 0 Balfour c GW Lyttelton b Herbert 5 c Cadogan b GW Lyttelton 12 E Turnour c Cadogan b GW Lyttelton 5 M Bevan b – Lyttelton 0 HEA Platt b Herbert 3 JF Lambton b – Lyttelton 5 Weldon not out 0 Extras 12 5

Total (all out) 107 (for 5 wickets) 81 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5-81 O M R W O M R W GW Lyttelton 3 4 Herbert 5 1

AC Benson’s House First innings

HW Grosvenor c Senhouse b Pender 6 GW Lyttelton not out 260 MRHM Herbert not out 201 AMG Cadogan Campbell EH Ryle Buxton EHJC Eliot JD Balgonie CF Lyttelton FC Montgomerie Extras 18

Total (for 1 wicket, declared) 485 Fall 1/9 O M R W Pender 1 Source: Eton College Chronicle 31 July 1901 (with thanks to Philip Defriez) The source only gives surnames (and ‘ma’ and ‘mi’ for the two Lytteltons). Initials have been derived from the Eton College Registers. Where no initials are given, it is because there were two or more boys of the same name at the College at the time of the match. It is not known which Lyttelton dismissed Bevan and Lambton in Macnaghten (1). If the bowler concerned was GW Lyttelton in both cases, then he and/or Herbert had a hand in every one of the 15 dismissals in the two innings of Macnaghten; and they, and no others, dismissed between them nine of the ten batsmen in Macnaghten (1), and two of the five in Macnaghten (2). This was a house cup match.

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E Company, 2nd Hampshire Regiment v A Company, 2nd Hampshire Regiment 1901/02 1 Venue Barberton, Transvaal Date 30, 31 October 1901 Result E Company won by 138 runs Toss Umpires E Company First innings Second innings

Capt AC Richards not out 101 b Ashby 185 Pte Kendrick b Ashby 2 c sub (Collins) b Painter 5 Cpl Inggs b Farmer 0 b Farmer 0 Sgt Pragnell b Farmer 0 b Ashby 6 Cpl Crease b Ashby 0 b Farmer 1 Pte Brown b Painter 0 b Painter 0 Pte Gray b Ashby 0 c Ashby b Farmer 3 Pte Prior b Painter 2 b Budden 0 Pte Miller b Painter 0 b Painter 0 Sgt Haines b Painter 0 not out 0 Pte Sims c Chandler b Painter 1 b Budden 5 Extras 8 16


10/114 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?,

8/?, 9/?, 10/221 O M R W O M R W Ashby 3 2 Farmer 2 3 Painter 5 3 Budden 2 A Company First innings Second innings

Lt HF Ashby b Pragnell 14 not out 69 Farmer b Richards 28 c Richards b Pragnell 2 Painter c and b Richards 3 c Brown b Pragnell 19 Handysides c Haines b Richards 2 b Pragnell 11 Harrold b Richards 2 run out 1 Budden b Pragnell 1 b Pragnell 1 Harder b Richards 0 b Pragnell 3 Sgt Mills b Richards 0 b Richards 11 Corp Chandler b Richards 0 absent - Corp French not out 5 b Richards 2 Walder c Sims b Richards 1 b Pragnell 2 Extras 13 7


10/69 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/128

O M R W O M R w Pragnell 2 6 Richards 8 2 Source: The Field 7 December 1901. Also noted in the Pall Mall Gazette 9 December 1901, and various other newspapers across the country; and in Cricket 1901 page 472, and in an article by Gross in the Journal of The Cricket Society Vol 3 no 3, page 19 Arthur Carew Richards (1865-1930) played first-class cricket for Hampshire (4 matches), and has an obituary in Wisden. In this match he made 88.60% of his side’s first innings total (95.28% of the runs off the bat), and 83.71% of their second innings total (90.24% of the runs off the bat). In all he scored 85.37% of his side’s runs in the match, and 91.96% of the runs made off the bat.

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Sturt v North Adelaide 1901/02 1 Venue Unley Oval, Adelaide Date 1, 8 March 1902 Result Match drawn Toss North Adelaide Umpires Thanks: HW North Adelaide First Innings

WJ Adey b Hay 12 JP Atkinson c Bushell b Hewer 19 JH Pellew st NW Jolly b Winnall 30 *JC Reedman c NW Jolly b Hay 45 FJ Dickinson b Hay 53 N Claxton b Hewer 12 A McKechnie b Hewer 33 EH Kekwick not out 227 RBC Rees b Hay 48 + A Welsby b Hay 2 JGF Matthews not out 141 Extras (b 2, lb 7, nb 1, w 1) 11

Total (for 9 wickets) 633 Fall 1/?, 2/32, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/220, 8/?, 9/344 O M R W Hay 31 9 149 5 Hewer 32 3 122 3 Winnall 30 3 110 1 Hack 22 4 99 0 Rofe 13 0 63 0 BD Jolly 2 0 9 0 Chinner 8 1 36 0 Bushell 2 0 21 0 Osman 2 0 13 0 Sturt - did not bat

FT Hack HGW Chinner JJ Bushell WJ Osman BD Jolly NW Jolly PJ Rofe H Hay WA Hewer CH Winnall [unknown] Extras

Total Fall Source: Scorecard from Geoff Sando (Adelaide); plus the Register, the Advertiser, and the Express & Telegraph (all Adelaide), issues of 3 and 10 March 1902. Details of captain and WK for North Adelaide from Harry Watton. Close of play, Day 1: North Adelaide 220-7 (Kekwick 13) Kekwick (spelling taken from G Sando; other versions have been seen, but Kekwick [sic] is an established surname) and Matthews added 289* for the tenth wicket. Some sources (the Express & Telegraph, and the Advertiser) say 298*, but the Register group of papers, along with Gross and Sando, give 289*, and that has been followed here. Comments (from Geoff Sando): With three matches remaining, North Adelaide had a significant lead in the Premiership competition. Their position would be almost unassailable if they could prevent Sturt from winning this match. There were suggestions that Sturt had prepared a perfect batting wicket to aid their run chase on the second day. In response, North Adelaide showed an intent to bat for as long as possible, and in the end they batted throughout the match.

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Cowley House School v Oakfield School 1902 1 Venue High Barnet, Middlesex Date June 1902 Result Not known Toss Umpires Cowley House School innings

EHE Morgan not out 129 Cox b Welch 0 Furlong b Langfier 0 Etheridge c Jack b Langfier 0 Goddard (major) b Langfier 0 Mee b Langfier 0 Goddard (minor) c Jack b Varley 0 Glaisby run out 1 Tidmarsh b Fraser 0 Meikle c Jack b Fraser 0 Bennett b Fraser 0 Extras 4


10/134

O M R W Welch 1 Langfier 4 Varley 1 Fraser 3

Oakfield School innings

Fraser Jack Langfier Varley Welch Extras

Total Fall O M R W Source: Article by Gross in Journal of The Cricket Society Vol 4 no 2, page 40. Morgan’s performance was also noted in various contemporary local newspapers, including the Gloucestershire Echo of 30 June, the Edinburgh Evening News of 3 July, and the Scottish Referee of 11 July. No details of Oakfield School’s innings are known. Morgan was a teacher at Cowley House School.

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Ampleforth College v Gilling 1902 1 Venue Ampleforth College, Yorkshire Date 12 July 1902 Result Ampleforth College won by nine wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Thanks: AC Gilling innings

Extras

Total (all out) 74 Fall O M R W Ampleforth College innings

EC Pilkington b [unknown] 0 OM Williams not out 119 WJ Lambert not out 282 Extras 21

Total (for 1 wicket) 422 Fall 1/0 O M R W Source: Ampleforth Journal [college magazine] 8 (1903) page 114; Yorkshire Evening Post 14 July 1902. The match was not noted in the Thirsk & District News. In the event of scorecard discrepancies, the [few] details in the Ampleforth Journal have been preferred. The scorecard in the Yorkshire Evening Post has Williams 120* and the total 423-1 dec. The match is also mentioned in Cricket 1902 page 299, but with several differences in the scores: Gilling all out 79, Ampleforth 426-1 (no declaration mentioned), Williams 121*, Extras 23, and the dismissed batsman R Pilkington. Gross gives the second-wicket partnership as 423. This does not tally with the college’s own report of the match. I infer that the ‘correct’ figure is 422, in which case the fall of wicket was 1/0. From the Archivist at Ampleforth College, 30 October 2020: “The College was doing so well, and Wilfrid Lambert in particular, that the local village side (most of whom were probably College employees) thought it would be nice for a bright youngster to do well, so they continued the match long after the necessary total had been reached. And it was a small ground. That is the story, the Tradition.” The brief reference in the Ampleforth Journal confirms that the match was played at the College, and that it was the result of a challenge to the First XI by Gilling.

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Rendcomb v Chedworth 1902 1 Venue Rendcomb, Gloucestershire Date 16 August 1902 Result Chedworth won by an innings and 35 runs Toss Umpires Rendcomb First innings Second innings

T Redmond b P Coates 0 b Miller 5 + T Hassett c – Hallett b Miller 0 run out 2 W Nevill run out 0 b P Coates 0 C Culling b Miller 0 c Miller b P Coates 2 W Hayward c T Bartlett b P Coates 0 c Pinchin b P Coates 1 W Combes c Grinnel b P Coates 0 c Fry b P Coates 0 W Leach b Miller 0 c Pinchin b – Bartlett 1 W Harris b P Coates 0 b P Coates 0 J Temple c J Hallett b Miller 0 b Miller 3 S Temple b Miller 0 not out 0 A Gegg not out 0 b P Coates 1 Extras 0 0


9/?, 10/15 O M R W O M R W P Coates 0 4 6 Miller 0 6 2 -Bartlett 1 Chedworth First innings

J Miller c and b Harris 7 F Fry st Hassett b J Temple 0 J Hallett c Leach b Harris 8 E Bartlett c Combes b Harris 0 O Bartlett c J Temple b Leach 6 P Coates b Leach 13 T Bartlett c Redmond b Gegg 6 W Pinchin b Leach 0 C Grinnel b Leach 3 W Hallett b Leach 4 R Coates not out 0 Extras 3


O M R W Harris 3 J Temple 1 Leach 5 Gegg 1 Source: Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Standard 23 August 1902. The match is also noted in the Gloucestershire Echo of 23 August, but is not mentioned in contemporary editions of either the Cheltenham Chronicle or the Cheltenham Examiner. Gross gives the venue as Chedworth, but the newspaper source confirms that the match was at Rendcomb. (The newspaper gives the spelling Rendcombe, but the shorter version is correct.)

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Castle v Junior Hawks 1902 2 Venue Clapham Common, London Date 23 August 1902 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross says that J Watts took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for the Castle side. The feat is noted in Cricket 1902 page 388, which names the bowler as Joseph Watts. It is not noted in the Clapham Observer, the South London Press, or any other South London paper held at Lambeth Archives. Nor is it recorded in any other newspapers currently (March 2020) in the BNA. Harry Watton has noted, from the Daily News (London) of 29 June 1904, that there were two sides in the South London Auxiliary Cricket Association in 1904 (two years after this match) named Junior Hawks and Castle Yard (sic). It would seem very likely that these were the two teams in this match in 1902, but that has not yet been confirmed.

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Frindsbury v Rainham 1902 3 Venue Frindsbury, Kent Date 1902 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that J Stebbing took eight wickets with eight consecutive deliveries for Frindsbury in this match, but research to date casts considerable doubt on this. James Stebbing was the pro for Rochester CC around this time, and played occasionally for Kent II. The Rochester & Chatham Journal and the Rochester & Chatham Standard for 1902 have both been checked at the British Library, and although Stebbing is shown as playing regularly for Rochester, he is not seen in any Frindsbury team (although the latter’s matches, and an occasional Rainham match, are reported in those papers). Further checking showed that The Cricketer in 1954 (Winter Annual page 549) says the feat was performed in 1898, but there is no mention of it in any newspaper in BNA, or in Cricket, in either that year or in 1902. Wisden first recorded the feat in 1911, assigning it to the 1902 season. Checks at the Medway Archive Centre of various local newspapers for the area between 1896 and 1905 (the Chatham Observer, the Chatham Standard, the Chatham & Rochester News) have failed to find any mention of the feat, and neither have they ever shown Stebbing playing for any local team other than Rochester.

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Carpenterian Reformatory v Waratah (Sydney) 1902/03 2 Venue Brush Farm, Eastwood, NSW, Australia Date 1 January 1903 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross says that CSB Cochrane (317) and AG Burgoyne (28*) shared a partnership of 245 for the tenth wicket for the Reformatory side in this match. The performance is noted in the Sydney Morning Herald on 3 and 7 January 1903, which confirms the partnership of 245 for the last wicket, but gives no other score details. Gross refers to the home side as ‘Brush Farm Reformatory (Carpentaria)’, but the correct name is as given in the match-header above. The spelling ‘Carpentarian’ is sometimes seen, but the initial foundation was named after social reformer Mary Carpenter, and ‘Carpenterian’ is used in the official documents under which the Reformatory was established. Gross is the only source seen that names the triple-centurion as ‘CSB Cochrane’ (which he does twice, once in his list of 300s and once in his list of large 10th-wicket partnerships). The SMH and other sources just give him as CB Cochrane, which is believed to be correct.

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Redfern v Paddington 1902/03 1 Venue Redfern Oval, Sydney Date 31 January, 7 February 1903 Result Paddington won by an innings and 443 runs Toss Umpires Paddington First innings

VT Trumper st Prescott b Hanigan 335 D Gee b Newton 172 WR Iredale c Jesson b Hanigan 37 F Gow st Prescott b Houghton 3 P Winning b Hanigan 11 EG Noble b Houghton 6 R Carty b Houghton 24 AC Bannerman not out 14 A Marshall c Sone b Houghton 2 JJ Kelly c Sone b Houghton 0 MA Noble not out 0 Extras b13, lb1 14

Total (for 9 wickets declared) 618 Fall 1/423, 2/554, 3/558, 4/572, 5/572, 6/588,

7/609, 8/617, 9/617

O M R W E Hume 10 0 120 0 Prowse 15 0 114 0 W Hume 8 0 45 0 Hanigan 11 0 70 3 Creswick 6 0 57 0 Foster 2 0 21 0 Sone 6 2 34 0 Houghton 15 5 40 5 Jesson 3 0 39 0 Newton 9 0 64 1 Redfern First innings Second innings (following on)

E Hume c Trumper b MA Noble 14 (10) not out 4 T Foster c Gee b MA Noble 15 (8) c MA Noble b Marshall 4 A Hanigan run out 13 (5) c Iredale b Marshall 48 G Houghton c and b MA Noble 0 (9) c MA Noble b Marshall 17 AT Sone c Marshall b Trumper 1 (6) lbw b Gee 16 E Newton b MA Noble 2 (3) b Carty 7 W Jesson c Iredale b MA Noble 0 c Kelly b Gee 7 EA Creswick c Marshall b MA Noble 2 (4) c Trumper b Carty 5 + F Prescott not out 5 (1) b EG Noble 1 E Prowse c Trumper b MA Noble 0 (2) lbw b Carty 7 W Hume absent hurt - absent hurt - Extras 1 6

Total (all out) 53 (all out) 122 Fall 1/30, 2/31, 3/33, 4/34, 5/37, 6/37, 7/43, 8/48,

9/53

O M R W O M R W MA Noble 13.1 3 27 7 Trumper 13 3 25 1 EG Noble (1) 9 3 32 1 Carty (2) 11 2 32 3 Gee (3) 8 1 32 2 Marshall (4) 5.2 0 21 3 Source: Paddington innings – Charles Davis rescore in The Cricket Statistician 186 pp 33ff. Redfern innings from Sydney Morning Herald 9 February 1903. FoW in Redfern (1) from Sydney Sportsman. No FoW traced for Redfern (2). Close of play, Day 1: Paddington 618-9 (Bannerman 14*, MA Noble 0*) Trumper batted 180 minutes for his 335, made off 205 balls with 39 fours and 22 fives. He was third out, at 558. Gee batted 140 minutes, faced 147 balls, and hit 24 fours and two fives. F Gow was absent ill on the second day of the match, and Paddington fielded only ten players (The Referee, 11 February 1903)

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St Lawrence v St Peter’s, Thanet 1903 1 Venue Broadstairs, Kent Date 23 May 1903 Result St Lawrence won on first innings by 46 runs Toss Umpires St Lawrence First innings Second innings

A Latter b Wright 4 HE Green c Roffey b Wright 3 run out 16 Maj Salmon st Winter b Wright 20 st Winter b Porch 3 G Neame b Taylor-Jones 3 c Thomas b Porch 2 Capt Partridge b Wright 3 b Taylor-Jones 17 Fairservice b Wright 18 not out 104 HM James lbw b Taylor-Jones 2 not out 8 A Fielder not out 19 st Winter b Porch 1 H Pine c Johnston b Wright 4 H Williams st Winter b Wright 2 b Porch 0 Preston run out 3 b Porch 8 Extras 8 22

Total (all out) 94 (for 7 wickets) 181 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/94 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/? O M R W O M R W Wright 7 Taylor-Jones 2 1 Porch 5 St Peter’s, Thanet First innings

RB Porch c Latter b Fielder 12 E Taylor-Jones c Fairservice b Fielder 17 RM Thomas c and b Fairservice 6 RA Brandram b Fielder 0 + CE Winter b Fielder 0 OW Wright b Fielder 0 N Roffey b Fielder 0 DA Bacon b Fielder 0 RVL Johnston b Fielder 0 R Schofield b Fielder 0 WO MacArthur not out 9 Extras 4

Total (all out) 48 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/48 O M R W Fielder 23 9 Fairservice 22 1 Source: The Field 30 May 1903; Thanet Advertiser 30 May 1903 Gross says that Fielder took 9 wickets in the space of 11 deliveries in the innings of St Peter’s, Thanet. The contemporary sources credit him with 5 in 5, 7 in 8, 8 in 11, and 9 in 13. The batsmen’s scores in St Lawrence (2) are as in The Field. The scorecard in the Advertiser switches the scores of Green and Neame, giving Green 2 and Neame 16.

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Reynards Road Methodist Church v St Augustine’s Church, Moreland 1903/04 1 Venue Coburg, Victoria, Australia Date 23 January 1904 Result Reynards Road Methodist Church won by an unknown number of wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Thanks: HW St Augustine’s First innings Second innings

N Haythorpe b Bashford 1 b Bashford 10 G Tacon c McKernon b Bashford 0 c R King b Bashford 4 J Bickley b Bashford 6 (6) b Bashford 0 L Hoyling b Bashford 0 (8) not out 8 *H Tate c and b Bashford 0 c and b Bashford 3 W Fleming b Bashford 0 (7) b Bashford 6 O Neuendorf c and b Bashford 2 (3) b Bashford 7 + L Fox b Bashford 3 (4) b Bashford 3 G Draeger not out 3 b Bashford 0 H Betteson b Bashford 0 b Bashford 2 E Byer b Bashford 1 b Bashford 2 Extras b2, nb1 3 b3, lb1 4


9/?, 10/49 O M R W O M R W Bashford 5.2 6 9 10 9 0 20 10 Farmer 5 1 7 0 2.4 0 13 0 R King 2 1 12 0 Reynards Rd Methodist Ch First innings Second innings

R King b Betteson 3 (4) b Fox 0 L Wakelin c Hoyling b Haythorpe 0 (6) not out 11 R Farmer b Haythorpe 6 (1) b Haythorpe 22 J McKernon b Betteson 11 (3) c Fox b Haythorpe 5 T Lee b Betteson 0 (2) not out 12 H Woolacot st Fox b Betteson 5 *SW King c and b Betteson 6 (5) c and b Tate 1 C Bashford c Haythorpe 3 S Huntington c and b Haythorpe 0 E Kier b Betteson 3 H Swan not out 0 Extras b1 1 b4 4

Total (all out) 38 (for 4 wickets) 55 Fall 1/?, 2?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/38 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? O M R W O M R W Haythorpe 6 1 19 4 6 0 15 2 Betteson 5 0 18 6 2 0 8 0 Neuendorf 1 0 7 0 Hoyling 1 0 4 0 Fox 2.4 0 12 1 Tate 2 0 5 1 Source: Cricket 1904 pages 384 (also noted on pp 377 and 457); Launceston Examiner 23 July 1904 [reprinted from The Age of 21 July 1904]. Also noted by Gross in an article in the Journal of The Cricket Society vol 4 no. 2 page 44. The successful bowler was definitely named Cyril Bashford (see e.g. the Sydney Morning Herald 14 April 1904, and the North Western Advocate (Tasmania) 25 July 1904), and was probably Cyril Harcourt Roslyn Bashford (1888-1970). Military records confirm that this CHR Bashford was a Methodist. The number of overs credited to each bowler in St Augustine’s (2) cannot be correct. ‘Hoyling’ is given as ‘Hayling’ by Gross. Gross also gives Bashford figures of 10-4 in the first innings, but 10-9 as given here (and in the contemporary sources) totals accurately.

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Laxton House v Sidney House 1904 1 Venue Oundle School, Northamptonshire Date June 1904 Result Laxton House won by an innings and 681 runs Toss Laxton House Umpires Laxton House First innings

WM Horsfall b Scruby 44 RH Platts b Scruby 25 CA Armitage c Morris b Smith 31 *C Gimson run out 267 VG Adendorff c Morris b Coombs 322 HD Phelps c Morris b Smith 29 + HRS Bree b Scruby 6 CM Horsfall c Dowson b Smith 31 GV Colchester c Dowson b Coombs 14 W Cox not out 4 JAR Armitage c Walker b Coombs 3 Extras 76

Total (all out) 849 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/150, 4/635, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/849

O M R W Walker 205 0 Smith 237 3 Scruby 131 3 Lound 13 0 Winstanley 31 0 Tabor 96 0 Morris 31 0 Coombs 29 3 Sidney House First innings Second innings (following on)

AP Smith b WM Horsfall 7 b Colchester 9 LC Walker b Gimson 9 b Colchester 2 J Scruby c Cox b Gimson 1 b Adendorff 4 OC Winstanley c CA Armitage b Adendorff 23 c CM Horsfall b Adendorff 0 CR Tabor c Platts b Gimson 4 c JAR Armitage b Adendorff 6 WJ Dowson b Gimson 0 c Platts b Adendorff 1 AKM Halliley b Colchester 21 b Adendorff 17 HA Lound b Adendorff 0 c Gimson b Adendorff 4 D Ewen c and b Colchester 0 not out 19 JO Morris not out 0 b Adendorff 15 PG Coombs b Adendorff 0 b Adendorff 7 Extras 1 18

Total (all out) 66 (all out) 102 Fall O M R W O M R W Adendorff 8 3 39 8 Gimson 26 4 (3) 26 0 WM Horsfall 19 1 CM Horsfall 12 0 Colchester 0 2 (2) 19 2 Source: The Laxtonian (Oundle School magazine) for July 1904, courtesy of Elspeth Langsdale (Oundle School Archivist)

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Tewkesbury Grammar School v Eldersfield School 1904 1 Venue Swilgate Meadow, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire Date 13 July 1904 Result Tewkesbury Grammar School won by 36 runs (see notes) Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Tewkesbury GS First innings Second innings

SN Priestlay hit wicket b Seyers 0 HH Rix c Clements b Seyers 3 WG Essex b Seyers 11 WE Cook b Seyers 2 60 W Chandler c Rock b Clements 2 RB Merrell b Seyers 10 CE Tysoe b Clements 2 HJ Clarke c Clements b Seyers 1 L Paxman c and b Clements 5 DP Morgan not out 1 F Coombe b Seyers 0 Extras 12

Total (all out) 49 (for 4 wickets, declared) 96 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/49 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?

O M R W O M R W Seyers 7 Clements 3 Eldersfield School First innings Second innings

C Clements b Priestlay 0 E Turner not out 6 E Rock b Priestlay 0 B Seyers b Priestlay 0 21 J Clarke b Priestlay 0 F Barley b Priestlay 3 F Fowler c Cook b Priestlay 1 28 H Phillips b Priestlay 0 T Jackson c Chandler b Priestlay 0 W Jackson b Priestlay 0 W Bevan b Priestlay 0 Extras 6

Total (all out) 16 (all out) 93 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/16 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/93 O M R W O M R W Priestlay 4.3 4 0 10 33 6 Cook 4 10 0 Source: Tewkesbury Register 16 July 1904; Tewkesbury Weekly Record 16 July 1904; Gloucester Citizen 16 July 1904; Cricket 1904 page 281. Also noted in various other papers round the country (including the Cheltenham Chronicle but not the Cheltenham Register).

The fullest match score is in the Tewkesbury Weekly Record, but it is not clear from their report whether Eldersfield School were all out in their second innings (in which case the Grammar School won by 36 runs over two innings) or not (in which case, the win was by 33 runs on first innings).

Stanley Priestlay took four wickets in his opening over (w.ww.w). He was one of four brothers to play for the school this year, the others being Ray, Donald, and JH (sometimes given as JE). He took 70 wickets for the school in the season (avge 5.37) and also scored their only century (in all he scored 334 runs in 20 innings with 1 not-out, avge 17.58). His family name is given consistently as ‘Priestlay’ at the time of his birth, but it appears to have been changed at some point to ‘Priestley’, which is the name recorded for Stanley in WW1 rolls of honour, and the name by which his brother (Sir) Raymond was known in his career as a geologist and Antarctic explorer.

The players’ initials as given above follow those in the Weekly Record of 16 July, but in scorecards of the Grammar School’s other matches in the season there are several variations: WG, GW and WC Chandler; DJ Morgan; FS Coombe. GW Chandler and DP Morgan are the most frequently-seen variations. ‘Cook’ is sometimes given as ‘Cooke’.

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Honor Oak II v Brunswick 1904 1 Venue Honor Oak, Surrey Date 1 August 1904 Result Honor Oak II won by an unknown number of wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Brunswick innings

Handley b Bates 1 H Butcher c Tobitt b Bates 2 Jope c and b AR Cutbush 1 Reynolds b Bates 16 CA Woodbridge lbw b Bates 2 Brierley b Young 9 Warren b Young 17 Shrimpton c Bates b Young 56 Edmonds c Tobitt b Young 0 Desmoulins b AR Cutbush 10 A Beck b Young 6 Gray not out 0 Extras 6


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O M R W Bates 4 AR Cutbush 2 Young 4 Honor Oak II innings

W Falkner b Reynolds 0 AR Cutbush b Gray 44 RR Crump b Reynolds 6 RF Tobitt c and b Gray 60 WR Young b Jope 35 MA Jackson c and b Jope 42 HA Bates not out 259 VF Critchley not out 104 Peacock FG Cutbush Manalon Mobsby Extras 16

Total (for 6 wickets) 566 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/? O M R W Reynolds 2 Gray 2 Jope 2 Source: With one exception, the above card is from Cricket 1904 page 327 (11 August edition). A note in the previous edition (4 August, page 314) gave some different details, with Brunswick all out for 133 and Honor Oak II scoring 569-6 (Bates 267* with ten sixes, Critchley 105*). The only variant above to the card of 11 August is to give Critchley 104* rather than 101* (as in Cricket). The score of 104 is given by Gross, and with that adjustment the score adds correctly. Gross credits Bates and Critchley with an unbroken stand of 367 for Honor Oak II’s seventh wicket (in which case their sixth wicket would have fallen at 199), but the size of the stand is not noted in either edition of Cricket. Further information from the South London Press 6 August 1904, courtesy of Harry Watton. The name of the Honor Oak number 10 looks improbable; a player named Mansell appeared in other matches for this side, so this may be a mistype in the newspaper. The paper confirms Critchley 104* rather than 101*.

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Folkestone v Honor Oak 1904 1 Venue Folkestone, Kent Date 15, 16 August 1904 Result Honor Oak won by 211 runs Toss Umpires Honor Oak First innings Second innings

EG Hayes c Katinakis b Hampson 72 not out 201 SJ Dickason b Hampson 1 c Katinakis b Hampson 16 G Adams b Edwards 10 c Maclaren b Fleming 15 F Tobitt c Norman b Hampson 24 b Fleming 0 W Young b Fleming 25 not out 45 C Campbell c Edwards b Hampson 18 c Ingram b Hampson 15 SS Williams b Hampson 21 + Barton c Hope b Fleming 0 b Ingram 20 W Hallett b Hampson 3 FG Cutbush not out 1 EW Sedley run out 1 Extras 9 44

Total (all out) 194 (for 5 wickets) 356 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/194 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/? O M R W O M R W Hampson 6 2 Edwards 1 Fleming 2 2 Ingram 1 Folkestone First innings Second innings

AC Edwards c Barton b Young 12 b Hayes 2 FOT Hawkes b Young 12 b Hayes 8 J Hampson b Young 0 b Hayes 6 CEW Hope c Hayes b Young 43 b Hayes 11 RG Maclaren b Young 2 b Hayes 12 Maj Fleming c Cutbush b Young 22 c Hallett b Hayes 18 CG Beasley c Dickason b Young 7 lbw b Campbell 8 MD Katinakis c Hallett b Hayes 6 b Hayes 11 E Ingram b Hayes 4 c Barton b Campbell 35 Maj Isacke not out 3 st Barton b Hayes 1 EC Norman b Hayes 0 not out 1 Extras 7 7


9/?, 10/120 O M R W O M R W Young 7 Hayes 3 8 Campbell 2

Source: Folkestone Herald 20 August 1904 Surrey (and future England) player Ernest Hayes scored a double-century and took 11 wickets in the match.

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Leinster v County Kildare 1904 1 Venue Rathmines, Dublin Date 2, 3 September 1904 Result Leinster won by an innings and 56 runs Toss Umpires County Kildare First innings Second innings

*Sir J Kennedy c Peterson b RH Lambert 2 c RH Lambert b Peterson 9 HAG Aylmer b RH Lambert 7 b RH Lambert 3 EM Lucas c sub b Donovan 1 (1) c SD Lambert b Donovan 1 H de Burgh c Myerscough b Thompson 119 b RH Lambert 0 JG Blackburn b Donovan 36 absent - W Harrington b RH Lambert 4 b RH Lambert 25 A Aylmer b Donovan 0 b RH Lambert 1 W Keys c Peterson b RH Lambert 79 b RH Lambert 0 JJ James not out 12 (2) run out 2 Col Cooke b RH Lambert 0 not out 1 L Lerrit c Peterson b RH Lambert 0 b RH Lambert 0 Extras 9 3

Total (all out) 269 (all out) 45 Fall 1/1, 2/11, 3/25, 4/106, 5/114, 6/119, 7/248,

8/264, 9/266, 10/269 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, 4/6, 5/28, 6/38, 7/40, 8/45, 9/45

O M R W O M R W RH Lambert 36.3 9 105 6 10.2 3 29 6 Donovan 30 7 86 3 6 3 3 1 Peterson 8 0 46 0 4 0 10 1 Thompson 8 0 23 1 Leinster First innings

CR Faussett c HAG Aylmer b Harrington 0 N Peterson c A Aylmer b James 63 RH Lambert not out 256 *SC Smith b Harrington 6 SD Lambert b Harrington 10 SHG Fleming b Keys 7 EJ Donovan c HAG Aylmer b Keys 0 HA Hartford not out 9 SS Myerscough AB Thompson RW Stuart Extras 19

Total (for 6 wickets, declared) 370 Fall 1/0, 2/172, 3/206, 4/294, 5/329, 6/333 O M R W Harrington 29 2 164 3 Keys 24 1 102 2 James 14 1 63 1 De Burgh 3 0 22 0

Source: Daily Express (Dublin) 5 September 1904; Sport (Dublin) 10 September 1904; Kildare Observer 10 September 1904 Close of play, Day 1: Co Kildare (1) 232-6 (De Burgh 100+, Keys 74) Some versions of the score have Cooke 4* in Co Kildare (2), and an innings total of 48 (fall: 8/45, 9/48). HAG Aylmer is sometimes named as H Hendrick-Aylmer. RH Lambert hit 38 fours in his innings of 256*.

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Richmond Second XI v Melbourne University Second XI 1904/05 1 Venue Richmond, Melbourne, Victoria Date 14, 21 January 1905 Result Richmond Second XI won by an innings and 609 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: Ken W, HW Richmond Second XI First innings

J Francis [details unknown] 239 Fulton [details unknown] 162 RW Plaisted [details unknown] 117 FG Murdoch [details unknown] 106 FJ Cox [details unknown] 74 AB Curphey [details unknown] 64 Brain Kelly Extras

Total (all out) 867 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/867 O M R W Melbourne University Second XI First innings Second innings

Sutton 29 15 Morris not out 27 13 Ross 55 Robertson 31 Jones 26 Extras

Total (all out) 182 (all out) 76 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/182 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/, 10/76 O M R W O M R W Brain 22 2 39 1 Kelly 30 2 21 3 Murdoch Source: Weekly Times (Melbourne) 28 January 1905; The Age 16, 21, 25 January 1905; The Argus (Melbourne) 24 January 1905; The Australasian 28 January 1905. Also noted in Cricket 1905 page 42. For Melbourne University, Robertson is shown as scoring 31 in The Age, but 41 in The Argus. It is also reported that Murdoch took 1-10 in one innings or the other of Melbourne University, but it is not clear which. The batting order in the teams’ innings is not known. Further information from Harry Watton and Ken Williams.

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Clarendon v McLaren Vale 1904/05 1 Venue Adelaide, South Australia Date 18 March 1905 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Clarendon innings

H Payne not out 204 V Payne not out 125 Extras

Total (for 6 wickets, declared) 367 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/? O M R W McLaren Vale innings

M Waye not out 39 F Wilson [unknown dismissal] 17 Extras

Total (for 2 wickets) 56 Fall 1/?, 2/? O M R W Source: The Advertiser (Adelaide) 21 March 1905; The Register (Adelaide) 25 March 1905; The Observer (Adelaide) 1 April 1905. Gross says that the Paynes added 334* for the sixth wicket, but from the limited details in the newspaper sources the partnership must have been for the seventh wicket. Either way, if the figure of 334 is correct the last wicket to fall in the Clarendon innings must have gone down when the team had scored 33 runs. The newspapers do not confirm the actual size of the partnership.

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Ramblers v Town 1904/05 3 Venue Bloemfontein, South Africa Date 1904/05 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that CG Fichardt (229) and L Richardson (113) added 401 for the second wicket for Ramblers. If so, the partnership must have included at least 59 extras. The match is not reported in the Bloemfontein Post covering the 1904/05 season, although many Ramblers’ matches are reported in that paper. None of their printed scores included a player named Richardson, but a player of that name did well in one match for Grey College, so may have played for Ramblers as well. Could the season of the match be wrong? Another Bloemfontein newspaper, The Friend, has not yet been checked at BL. No such match is reported in Cricket in 1904, 1905 or 1906.

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Cotton House v Littlefield 1905 1 Venue Marlborough College, Wiltshire Date 1, 8 June 1905 Result Cotton House won by an innings and 421 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Cotton House First innings

*HJ Goodwin run out 365 GV Sturgeon lbw b Lagden 73 MP Thorburn c Outerbridge b Uhthoff 83 PHR Jephson not out 3 E Clover CL Norman FG Mirfield + RHAD Love S Giffard RT Ainsworth AC Wolfson Extras 30

Total (for 3 wickets, declared) 554 Fall 1/276, 2/540, 3/554 O M R W Lagden 1 Uhthoff 1 Reiss 0 Fagan 0 Littlefield First innings Second innings (following on)

SL Reiss b Goodwin 5 run out 15 RK Uhthoff b Goodwin 1 b Goodwin 0 HP Hill c Jephson b Thorburn 6 b Goodwin 5 A Tylor b Thorburn 0 c Mirfield b Goodwin 35 CFF Fagan b Goodwin 2 b Goodwin 4 + LC Outerbridge b Goodwin 13 hit wicket b Ainswortrh 0 WH Bucknall c Ainsworth b Goodwin 7 c Clover b Goodwin 0 JM Du Buisson c Wolfson b Goodwin 0 st Love b Goodwin 9 HC Marshall c Sturgeon b Thorburn 6 b Goodwin 5 RE Field b Goodwin 4 b Goodwin 0 JC Petherick not out 0 not out 2 RO Lagden absent ill - absent ill - Extras 5 9

Total (all out) 49 (all out) 84 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/49 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? , 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/84 O M R W O M R W Goodwin 7 8 Thorburn 3 Ainsworth 1 Source: The Marlburian, June 1905 (courtesy of Grainne Lenehan, Marlborough College Archivist); Cricket 1910 page 98. Close of play, Day 1: Cotton House 416-1 (Goodwin 268, Thorburn not out) Twelve players are listed for Littlefield. It is assumed that Lagden was ill on the second day of play, and was replaced by a full substitute. RE Field is listed as a professional, and so may be presumed to have been the replacement player. The Marlburian does not give bowling figures for each innings, but says that Goodwin took 15 wickets for 57 in the match. Goodwin was later to captain Warwickshire.

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King’s Regiment v Royal Field Artillery 1905 1 Venue Aldershot, Hampshire Date 21 June 1905 Result King’s Regiment won by 3 wickets Toss Umpires KSW Royal Field Artillery First innings Second innings

Clarke Dyke Holloway Rich Extras


10/117 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/65 O M R W O M R W King’s Regiment First innings Second innings

Capt Harrington c and b Holloway 1 Capt TW Sheppard c Holloway b Dyke 156 c Dyke b Holloway 0 Lt Gunner b Rich 1 b Dyke 0 Maj Edridge b Holloway 3 b Holloway 0 Col Evans c Dyke b Holloway 0 Maj Nicholson c Dyke b Holloway 0 not out 10 Lt Marshall b Holloway 0 c Clarke b Holloway 0 Cpl Phillips b Dyke 0 not out 0 Cpl Nield b Dyke 4 b Holloway 0 Lt Uniacke not out 1 b Holloway 0 Lt Brook b Dyke 0 b Dyke 0 Extras 3 7


10/169 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?

O M R W O M R W Holloway 5 5 Dyke 4 2 Rich 1 Source: Cricket 29 June 1905 page 333. Also noted in Athletic News 26 June 1905. Not reported in The Field or, surprisingly, in the Aldershot News on 23 or 30 June (or 7 July), although those papers report many other military matches. In their second innings, King’s Regiment lost seven wickets while chasing a target of 14. TW Sheppard played one first-class match for Hampshire in 1905, and one for Worcestershire in 1909. He was the great-uncle of Rev DS Sheppard. In his first innings of this match he scored 92.31% of his side’s runs, and 93.98% of the runs scored off the bat.

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Manor House School Second XI v Camberwell Grammar School Second XI 1906 1 Venue Manor House School, Clapham, London Date 23 May 1906 Result Camberwell GS Second XI won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Manor House School Second XI innings

Extras 10

Total (all out) 29 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/29, 9/29,

10/29

O M R W Martin 4 4 0 10 Camberwell Grammar School Second XI innings

EP Martin Extras

Total (all out) 78 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/78 O M R W Source: Cricket 1906 pp 170 (citing The Sportsman) and 180; London Daily News 25 May 1906. The cited item in The Sportsman has not been traced. Manor House School was in Clapham; it was the alma mater of (among others) Digby Jephson. No reference to the match has been found in the Clapham Observer, the South London Press, or in other newspapers at Lambeth Archives. Martin took a hat-trick, and five wickets in six balls, in his fourth over. His ball-by-ball analysis read

..w… | ww…. | .w.w.. | ww.www It is not known in which order the teams batted, so the exact result cannot be stated.

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Carmarthenshire v An Essex County XI 1906 1 Venue Stradey Park, Llanelly, Carmarthenshire Date 9, 10 July 1906 Result An Essex County XI won by an innings and 310 runs Toss An Essex County XI Umpires P Waller and D Hinder An Essex County XI First Innings

EJ Freeman c Morgan b Light 12 JWHT Douglas lbw b Gee 14 D Reese b Gee 0 CP McGahey not out 305 VJ Woodward c Watkins b Howell 39 TAL Whittington c Barclay b Howell 5 PH David b Gee 7 FS Perrin c Gee b Light 1 B Tremlin c FL Rees b James 160 DR Upsdale not out 0 CH Douglas Extras 31

Total (for 8 wickets declared) 574 Fall 1/22, 2/22, 3/42, 4/136, 5/145, 6/196, 7/200,

8/574

O M R W Light 2 Gee 3 Howell 2 James 1 Carmarthenshire First Innings Second Innings (following on)

FL Rees c and b Tremlin 0 not out 55 H Howell b Reese 35 b Tremlin 0 Barclay c Woodward b Tremlin 14 run out 10 NL James c David b McGahey 14 b Tremlin 0 BP Rees lbw b - Douglas 43 b McGahey 14 E Gee c Reese b - Douglas 32 c CH Douglas b McGahey 4 HW Seymour b Tremlin 7 run out 2 Light c and b Tremlin 0 b Tremlin 1 E Cook lbw b - Douglas 6 c Whittington b Tremlin 0 JN Morgan c - Douglas b Tremlin 0 c CH Douglas b Tremlin 0 DT Watkins not out 6 b McGahey 0 Extras 20 1

Total (all out) 177 (all out) 87 Fall 1/0, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/177 1/1, 2/22, 3/23, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/87 O M R W O M R W Tremlin 5 25 5 Reese 1 McGahey 1 26 3 - Douglas 3 Source: Compiled from scorecards and reports in Cricket 1906 page 291; Evening Express (Cardiff) 9, 10 and 11 July 1906; Llanelly Mercury 12 July 1906; and the Llanelly & County Guardian 12 July 1906. Also seen: Carmarthen Journal 13 July 1906

Close of play, Day 1: An Essex County XI 574-8 (McGahey 305, Upsdale 0)

The Carmarthenshire players’ initials as given here are taken from the Evening Express edition of 11 July, but on other days James is given the initials WK and WL, Gee given the initial C, and Morgan given the initials JA.

Gross says the partnership between McGahey and Tremlin was worth 263 runs, but this is undoubtedly incorrect. The above reconstruction gives an entirely plausible figure of 374.

McGahey hit 41 fours and ten sixes in his innings of 305*. Fred Rees definitely carried his bat through Carmarthenshire’s

second innings.

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St Lawrence v Marylebone Cricket Club 1906 1 Venue St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Date 13, 14 August 1906 Result Marylebone Cricket Club won by an innings and 27 runs Toss Umpires St Lawrence First innings Second innings

A Latter c Bomford b Newstead 26 lbw b Llewellyn 19 Munds c sub b Llewellyn 29 c D’Aeth b Smith 88 Rev W Rashleigh c Bomford b Newstead 4 c Bomford b Searight 118 J Dean b Llewellyn 7 b Llewellyn 1 AO Snowden c Hulton b Newstead 29 st Bomford b Llewellyn 11 Hon W James b Llewellyn 1 b Llewellyn 8 AM Hilton st Bomford b Llewellyn 15 c Newstead b Smith 0 J Snowden not out 3 c Newstead b Smith 21 Skinner b Newstead 0 b Llewellyn 12 A Ffrench Blake b Newstead 0 b Llewellyn 2 Clinch b Newstead 1 not out 6 Extras b1, lb2 3 b6, lb5, w1 12

Total (all out) 118 (all out) 298 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/118 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/298 O M R W O M R W Llewellyn 4 6 Newstead 6 Smith 3 Searight 1 Marylebone Cricket Club First innings

CT Studd c Hilton b Skinner 6 Smith b Skinner 5 Maj LNH D’Aeth b Skinner 2 CB Llewellyn retired out 203 JT Newstead retired out 200 JG Howard not out 4 + H Bomford c Dean b Skinner 8 H van Booven c Blake b Clinch 0 Capt HF Searight AE Gibson C Hulton Extras b10, lb5 15

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 443 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/443 O M R W Skinner 4 Clinch 1 Source: MCC Scores for 1906; The Sportsman 16 August 1906; Sporting Life 18 August 1906 There are various differences in players’ names as between the sources. Sporting Life has G Salter, not A Latter (as in MCC and The Sportsman); Sporting Life has G Mac Hilton, and The Sportsman A MacHilton, rather than MCC’s AM Hilton; Sporting Life and The Sportsman both have CE Harris playing for MCC, not AE Gibson; and Sporting Life has Murds, not Munds (as in MCC and The Sportsman). I have followed the MCC book in all cases. Gross names the MCC number 1 as CT Smith, but all three contemporary sources agree on CT Studd. Llewellyn and Newstead added exactly 400 for MCC’s fourth wicket, but the scores at the falls of the relevant wickets are not given in any of the sources.

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East Brunswick v South Melbourne Footballers 1906/07 1 Venue Brunswick Recreation Reserve, Melbourne Date 9, 16, 23 February 1907 Result South Melbourne Footballers won on first innings by 324 runs Toss South Melbourne Footballers Umpires Thanks: Ken W, HW South Melbourne Footballers First innings

Birch c Robertson b Burrell 11 Riddell b Dick 1 Craven b Dick 6 Sykes c McSperrin b Ross 78 Hoban c Ross b Eckersall 18 A Dowsing c Etheridge b Ross 61 A Franks b Bartlett 104 Casey lbw b Dick 15 J Kyle not out 153 *+ Elms st Whitfield b Eckersall 5 WR Robertson b Burrell 82 Extras 28

Total (all out) 562 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/342,

10/562

O M R W Dick 128 3 Ross 110 2 Burrell 73 2 Eckersall 71 2 Bartlett 76 1 Robertson 23 0 Lowe 35 0 Giller 18 0 East Brunswick First innings Second innings (following on)

Robertson c Sykes b Kyle 0 (4) c Franks b Craven 14 Lowe c Birch b Robertson 0 lbw b Robertson 13 Etheridge c Hoban b Robertson 10 (1) run out 3 Burrell c Sykes b Robertson 22 Ross lbw b Robertson 4 (3) b Franks 31 Dick st Elms b Robertson 2 (5) st Elms b Franks 3 McSperrin c Birch b Robertson 7 Bartlett b Franks 31 (6) not out 26 *W Giller c Elms b Robertson 51 (7) not out 15 Eckersall not out 0 +Whitfield run out 0 Extras 11 8

Total (all out) 138 (for 5 wickets) 113 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/32, 6/42, 7/56, 8/130,

9/?, 10/138

1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?

O M R W O M R W Robertson 77 7 23 1 Kyle 22 1 Franks 16 1 13 2 Craven 31 1 Source: Cricket 1907 page 58; The Age (Melbourne) 25 February 1907

Close of play: Day 1 - SMF 42-2 (Birch 6, Sykes 25); Day 2- SMF 392-9 (Kyle 51, Robertson 18)

Kyle and Robertson (the former Test player) added 220 for the tenth wicket. Robertson definitely batted at number 11, but Kyle’s position in the batting order is not known.

This was a match in the Victoria Junior Association (the third tier of local club cricket). There are no reports that East Brunswick ever batted.

Cricket (1907 page 58) and Gross both refer to the winning team as ‘South Melbourne Juniors’, but the above is correct.

Full scorecard (courtesy Harry Watton) from The Record (South Melbourne) 9, 16, 23 Feb, 2 Mar 1907; The Argus (Melbourne) 18, 25 Feb 1907 ; and The Age (Melbourne) 25 Feb 1907. Additional information from Ken Williams.

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Norbury College v Oakdene 1907 1 Venue Norbury, Surrey Date 8 June 1907 Result Norbury College won by an innings and 34 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Oakdene First innings Second innings

C Frew c WH Barnard b Robinson 0 c H Mayes b Robinson 0 H Smith b R Mayes 0 c WH Barnard b R Mayes 0 J McQuade b Robinson 0 c Biscoe b R Mayes 1 H Daws st Baker b R Mayes 0 st Baker b Robinson 0 B Simons st Baker b R Mayes 0 b R Mayes 0 J Goodall b R Mayes 0 run out 0 B Daws b R Mayes 0 c Biscoe b Robinson 0 G Bowers c Billings b R Mayes 0 b R Mayes 1 R Field st Baker b R Mayes 0 b Robinson 1 J Le Roy b R Mayes 0 st Baker b R Mayes 1 C Ford not out 0 not out 0 Extras nb1 1 0

Total (all out) 1 (all out) 3 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/3 O M R W O M R W R Mayes 0 7 2 5 Robinson 0 3 1 4 Norbury College First innings

F Barnard c Bowers b Frew 3 EE Edmonds b Frew 0 WH Barnard b Frew 0 P Robinson b Bowers 13 +LC Baker b Frew 3 R Mayes b Frew 0 E Holt c and b Frew 4 H Humphreys b Frew 0 C Biscoe b Bowers 2 J Billings not out 3 H Mayes b Bowers 2 Extras 8

Total (all out) 38 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/38 O M R W Frew 7 Bowers 3 Source: Cricket 27 June 1907 p 233; Croydon Guardian & Surrey County Gazette 22 June 1907. Not reported in the Croydon Chronicle. Details of some players’ names or initials, and between the names of the bowlers taking particular wickets, differ between the sources. The versions in Cricket have been preferred, chiefly because in that version the number of wickets taken by each bowler tallies with the scorecard details. Differences in the Gazette: for Oakdene, D Smith, J McCabe, Simmons, and Goodal (and no initial for Le Roy); for Norbury College, Edmunds and H Humphreys; dismissals of Daws (1) and Bowers (2) both credited to Robinson rather than R Mayes. The Gazette refers to Oakdene as “a junior team”. Despite Oakdene’s low aggregate, only one College batsman bettered it – yet his side won by an innings and 34 runs.

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Chiswick Park v Lancing Old Boys 1907 1 Venue Chiswick Park, Middlesex Date 20 July 1907 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Chiswick Park innings

N Robertson c Caldwell b HC Greenfield 26 AC Finnis b Caldwell 45 A Eddy b Caldwell 33 HS Burrington b HC Greenfield 14 GT Knight c Harper b Caldwell 14 RL Finnis not out 141 HC Pearson b HC Greenfield 4 GA Massey c Harper b HC Greenfield 0 WHL Horton not out 101 HS Castle G Brandon Extras b14, lb1 15

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 395 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/? O M R W HC Greenfield 4 Caldwell 3 Lancing Old Boys innings

BE Mathieson b Brandon 53 AE Clark b Burrington 24 N Fulford-Brown c AC Finnis b Burrington 35 AC Greenfield c Knight b Eddy 19 HC Greenfield not out 67 TF Fielding not out 22 JB Caldwell ENG Harper W Butt P St John AF Greene Extras b18, lb6 24

Total (for 4 wickets) 245 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? O M R W Brandon 1 Burrington 2 Eddy 1 Source: The Sportsman 24 July 1907; The Field 27 July 1907; The People 21 July 1907. The match is also noted in Cricket 1907 page 299. In cases of doubt or disagreement between the sources, players’ names and initials have been taken from The Field, which appears to be the most reliable in this instance. Gross says that RL Finnis and WHL Horton added 245* for Chiswick Park’s eighth wicket. This partnership, and its size, are not mentioned in the above sources, though it would be consistent with the scorecard.

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Porthill v Crewe Alexandra 1908 4 Venue Porthill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Date 2 May 1908 Result Porthill won by 6 wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Malkin & Horne Thanks: HW Crewe Alexandra innings

E Osborne b Barnes 10 CE Gresty b Barnes 4 G Price st Poole b Barnes 0 WS Caldwell b Eardley 6 F Moorhouse c SH Wood b Barnes 1 F Bennett b Eardley 7 AE Meadowcroft st Poole b Barnes 1 A Cope c Poole b Barnes 0 T Dean b Eardley 6 R White not out 2 FG Thompson b Eardley 2 Extras 2

(all out) 41 Fall 1/7, 2/7, 3/?, 4/?, 5/22, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/41 O M R W Barnes 11 1 17 6 Eardley 10.5 3 22 4 Porthill innings

P Knight c Gresty b Moorhouse 4 + J Poole b Price 0 SG Heath c White b Cope 18 SH Wood b Cope 14 SF Barnes b Gresty 2 WH Wood b Cope 4 C Bickerton c Osborne b Cope 11 AP Wood c White b Cope 5 HF Wood c Meadowcroft b Bennett 34 J Marsh c Bennett 10 H Eardley not out 14 Extras 15

(all out) 131 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/131 O M R W Moorhouse 12 4 24 1 Price 12 4 18 1 Cope 12 3 23 5 White 2 1 5 0 Gresty 4 0 12 1 Meadowcroft 2 0 10 0 Bennett 6 2 12 2 Caldwell 3 0 8 0 Source: Staffordshire Sentinel 25 April, 2 May and 4 May 1908. This was a match in Division 1 of the North Staffordshire & District League.

Gross says that SF Barnes took six wickets in six balls for Porthill. But this is a misreading of the actual event. Cricket 1908 page 121 records that in this match “SF Barnes, fresh from his Australian trip, took six wickets for six runs in a total of 41.” A report in Athletic News also says that Barnes took six wickets for six runs. Neither makes any reference to these wickets coming from consecutive deliveries, and there is no mention of such a feat in the Staffordshire Sentinel’s match report on 2 May, or associated with its scorecard on 4 May. So it appears that Gross very probably mistook ‘6 for 6’ for ‘6 in 6’ – though even that was not his complete analysis for the innings.

The full scorecard confirms that a ‘six in six’ was not possible.

There is also a reference in the Sentinel of 2 May to Barnes recording a ‘double hat-trick’ for Porthill v Silverdale in May 1907. But from match reports in the same paper, this was clearly two separate hat-tricks, and not six wickets in six balls.

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Bexley Oriental v Bexley 1908/09 1 Venue Bexley, Sydney, NSW Date 5, 12 December 1908 Result No result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Bexley Oriental innings

H Veale c Birch b Rose 0 A Cooper c Lardner b Smith 228 H Scope b Rose 3 A Thompson b Rose 0 *H Donnan c and b Rose 353 A Harrison b Birch 42 A Cooper b Preddy 34 W Kenwood run out 71 B Wright b Rose 0 J McGarry not out 24 J Farr not out 5 Extras b13, lb2, w7, nb1 23

Total (for 9 wickets) 784 Fall 1/2, 2/16, 3/16, 4/422, 5/537, 6/600, 7/745,

8/745, 9/771

O M R W Rose 39 4 168 5 Brierley 23 1 106 0 Smith 39 3 180 1 Tuckwell 8 0 63 0 Dadswell 18 0 107 0 Birch 7 1 27 1 Preddy 7 1 41 1 Lardner 2 0 25 0 Bexley - did not bat

A Birch T Brierley H Cox O Dadswell C Lardner A Preddy C Rogers W Rose A Smith S Tuckwell AN Other Source: St George Call (Kogarah, NSW) 12 and 19 December 1908; Sydney Sportsman 30 December 1908; Alfred James: Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the NSW Districts Cricket Association 1903 to 2003; Cricket 1909 pages 10 and 26. Close of play, Day 1: Bexley Oriental 341-3 (Cooper 190, Donnan 135) Bexley Oriental batted right through both the days allocated for the match – there was no declaration. Gross records that the Cooper/Donnan partnership was worth 426, but all contemporary sources give 406, as here. Alan Cooper hit 42 fours in his 228, and Harry Donnan hit 54 fours in his 353 This was a match in the St George Association

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Queen’s College v Hutchins School 1908/09 1 Venue Upper Cricket Ground, Hobart, Tasmania Date 5 April 1909 Result Queen’s College won by ten wickets (and batted on) Toss Queen’s College Umpires Hutchins School innings

Butler 15

Total (all out) 23 Fall O M R W Freeman 14 2 Newton 9 7 Queen’s College innings

J Barnett not out 185 AC Newton not out 213 Freeman Extras 2

Total (for no wicket) 400 Fall O M R W Source: The Mercury (Hobart) 6 April 1909; Cricket 1909 page 154

There is definitely no apostrophe in Hutchins

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Perambulators v Etceteras 1909 1 Venue Fenner’s, Cambridge Date 20, 21, 22 May 1909 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires AF Bannister, GH Watts Thanks: HW Etceteras First innings Second innings

FT Mann c Tyer b Griffin 66 c sub b Reunert 56 WH Ramsbotham c Burton b Lyttelton 7 c Griffin b Reunert 31 JF Ireland c Reunert b Buchanan 25 c Falcon b Reunert 43 DC Collins c Reunert b Griffin 109 b Griffin 14 CCG Wright lbw b Griffin 0 b Buchanan 38 JWW Nason run out 8 (4) c Tyer b Tennyson 32 HW Priestley c Crommelin-Brown b Falcon 13 c Doll b Griffin 20 JHB Lockhart lbw b Griffin 23 c sub b Reunert 4 + HR Holme b Buchanan 4 not out 3 LH Adams b Buchanan 1 c Tyer b Reunert 4 E Olivier not out 0 c Tennyson b Falcon 21 Extras b15, lb6, w4, nb1 26 b15, lb10, w3 28

Total (all out) 282 (all out) 294 Fall 1/8, 2/62, 3/149, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/282 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/294 O M R W O M R W Lyttelton 15 0 42 1 10 3 21 0 Reunert 8 1 24 0 21.1 3 80 5 Doll 3 0 23 0 Buchanan 8.4 1 27 3 (3) 8 2 36 1 Falcon 7 0 34 1 (4) 7 1 37 1 Tennyson 9 0 40 0 (5) 10 1 24 1 Griffin 16 3 66 4 (6) 13 0 68 2 Perambulators First innings Second innings

MHC Doll c Wright b Olivier 19 st Holme b Lockhart 4 AA Tyer st Holme b Lockhart 15 c Nason b Olivier 6 M Falcon c Mann b Priestley 54 c Ramsbotham b Lockhart 12 AW Griffin lbw b Lockhart 15 c Mann b Olivier 21 DCF Burton st Holme b Lockhart 5 (1) c and b Lockhart 0 JN Buchanan st Holme b Lockhart 4 c Nason b Lockhart 0 JL Crommelin-Brown st Holme b Lockhart 79 (3) b Lockhart 0 NC Tufnell st Holme b Lockhart 34 MEC Baggallay not out 1 C Reunert b Adams 32 st Holme b Lockhart 17 CF Lyttelton not out 11 not out 57 LH Tennyson st Holme b Lockhart 3 c Wright b Adams 21 Extras b17, lb3, w3, nb1 24 b9, w1, nb1 11

Total (all out) 295 (for 9 wickets) 150 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/295 1/0, 2/0, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?,

8/?, 9/? O M R W O M R W Olivier 25 4 88 1 14 3 45 2 Adams 16 3 48 1 7 0 13 1 Lockhart 22.2 3 86 7 17 1 66 6 Priestley 9 0 36 1 3 0 15 0 Mann 3 0 13 0

Source: Cricket 1909 page 150; Sporting Life 21, 22 and 24 May 1909; Sportsman 21 May 1909 Close of Play: Day 1 – Perambulators (1) 60-2 (Falcon 14, Griffin 8); Day 2 – Perambulators (2) 102-1 (Ramsbotham 28, Nason 20) MEC Baggallay was a full substitute and batted in place of NC Tufnell in Perambulators (2). HR Holme recorded eight stumpings in the match, all of different batsmen and all off the bowling of JHB Lockhart (aka JH Bruce-Lockhart). He never played first-class cricket.

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Folkestone v Oxford University Authentics 1909 1 Venue Cheriton Road, Folkestone, Kent Date 21, 22 July 1909 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Thanks: HW OU Authentics First innings Second innings

FD Brown c and b Bush 67 c and b Bush 5 OH Walters c Bush b Boddam-Whetham 38 c Radford b Bush 35 JB Brooks c Boddam-Whetham b Bush 27 c Fleming b Bush 19 PR Le Couteur c Gore b Bush 4 b Bush 123 GC Latham c Muir b Bush 24 c Muir b Bush 119 SE Gay lbw b Bush 57 c and b Bush 9 HD Lanning b Bush 4 b Bush 10 WGM Gay b Cooper 9 b Houghton 18 IE Snell c Radford b Bush 0 c Boddam-Whetham b Bush 34 FN Tuff not out 7 b Bush 4 GR Venables c Gore b Bush 2 not out 8 Extras 12 17


9/?, 10/401 O M R W O M R W Bush 8 9 Boddam-Whetham 1 Cooper 1 Houghton 1 Folkestone First innings

HS Bush b Snell 245 Skinner b Venables 0 AH Muir c SE Gay b Snell 21 DM Radford c WGM Gay b Snell 1 Fleming b Snell 0 GS Cooper b Snell 22 SK Gore b Venables 20 Isacke b Tuff 71 GA Boddam-Whetham b Snell 2 WJ Houghton not out 27 S Pearson c Venables b Snell 8 Extras 39

Total (all out) 456 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/152, 7/391, 8/?, 9/?,

10/456

O M R W Snell 7 Venables 2 Tuff 1 Source: Folkestone Herald 24 July 1909; Folkestone Express 28 July 1909; The Sportsman 23 July 1909; Cricket 1909 page 300 Close of play, Day 1: Folkestone batting (score not known; Bush 162*) None of the sources (including Gross) states the figure of runs conceded by Bush in either innings, but the Herald says he took his 17 wickets ‘for 13 runs apiece’, which puts his figure for the match as a whole in the range 212 to 230. A week earlier, as reported in Field on 24 July, GC Wingham had taken 16-184 (nine wickets plus seven wickets) for Folkestone in their 12-a-side match against I Zingari on 14-15 July.

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Melbourne University v Sydney University 1909/10 1 Venue University Oval, Melbourne Date 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 January 1910 Result Melbourne University won by 253 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: AJ, Ken W Melbourne University First innings Second innings

*CW Miller c Broughton b Single 22 c Williams b Broughton 255 FAH Boynton c Single b Minnett 99 (3) c Minnett b Ducker 17 WL Jack c McElhone b McIntosh 12 (4) b Ducker 57 FR Kerr b Minnett 4 (9) b Ducker 35 R Matthews b Ducker 34 (6) b Ducker 85 L Darby c McElhone b McIntosh 66 (5) b Single 8 ER Cordner c James b McIntosh 34 c Single b McIntosh 13 + AH O’Hara Wood b McIntosh 4 (10) not out 7 WA Hailes b Ducker 44 (8) b Broughton 9 AJ Waters not out 17 (2) b Single 26 RP McMeekin b Ducker 0 b Terry 17 Extras (b4, lb5, w1, nb1) 11 (b22, lb8, nb9) 39


8/292, 9/347, 10/347 1/52, 2/81, 3/191, 4/220, 5/394,

6/446, 7/470, 8/539, 9/542, 10/568 O M R W O M R W Terry 13 2 41 0 19 3 43 1 Single 17 2 53 1 33 8 99 2 McIntosh 18 1 53 4 29 4 77 1 Ducker 10.2 1 22 3 39 5 106 4 Minnett 27 2 80 2 39 8 100 0 Broughton 23 1 87 0 17 0 71 2 James 4 0 15 0 Massie 2 0 4 0 Williams 3 0 14 0 Sydney University First innings Second innings

JA James c Waters b McMeekin 5 c O’Hara Wood b Darby 8 OB Williams b Matthews 40 b Darby 25 FE McElhone c Waters b Darby 51 b Matthews 123 RB Minnett c Miller b McMeekin 108 b Darby 1 NG Ducker c Miller b Darby 7 lbw b Darby 11 *JB Lane c O’Hara Wood b Darby 1 c Cordner b Darby 9 HHI Massie b Kerr 21 b Kerr 1 GD McIntosh b Darby 3 b Kerr 4 LC Terry b Matthews 22 c Cordner b Kerr 0 CV Single b McMeekin 14 not out 141 NVJ Broughton not out 0 b Cordner 24 Extras (b15, lb3) 18 (b21, lb3, w1) 25


8/236, 9/290, 10/290 1/19, 2/40, 3/44, 4/62, 5/82, 6/86, 7/96, 8/328, 9/328, 10/372

O M R W O M R W Matthews 25 8 66 2 11 2 32 1 McMeekin 13.3 2 49 3 23 1 102 0 Kerr 12 1 55 1 16 0 58 3 Darby 14 2 49 4 34 6 92 5 Cordner 18 2 58 0 11 2 43 1 Waters 6 2 11 0 Miller 2 0 9 0 Source: The Referee (Sydney) 2 February 1910; The Herald (Melbourne), The Argus (Melbourne), and the Sydney Morning Herald, all 26-31 January 1910. The Referee gives a full scorecard, including all falls of wickets, and has been preferred in the event of any differences between the sources.

Close of Play: Day 1 – Mel (1) 315-8 (Hailes 22, Waters 7); Day 2 – Mel (2) 30-0 (Miller 11, Waters 15); Day 3 – Mel (2) 400-5 (Miller 180, Cordner 0); Day 4 – Syd (2) 220-8 (McElhone 80, Single 64)

Miller’s 255 for Melbourne University included one six and 21 fours.

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Havelock v Whareriti 1909/10 1 / 4 Venue Auckland Domain, Auckland, NZ Date 19 March 1910 Result Whareriti won by an innings and 17 runs Toss Havelock Umpires Thanks: HW Havelock First innings Second innings

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extras b2 2

Total (all out) 2 24 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/2 1-9 not known, 10/24 O M R W O M R W Blackie 0 9 Lloyd 0 1 Whareriti First innings

W Blackie 14 Lloyd

Total (all out) 43 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/43 O M R W Source: Reported in various contemporary NZ newspapers (see below)

Gross recorded that Havelock were dismissed for 0. However, contemporary Auckland papers (NZ Herald 21 and 24 March, Auckland Star 21 March) say that while no batsman made a run in the innings, there were two byes, to give an innings total of 2. The occurrence was subsequently reported in numerous other contemporary newspapers from across the country, generally using the words “a whole team was dismissed without scoring a single run” - which would be a reasonable statement if the only runs in the innings were Extras. The Poverty Bay Herald of 23 March 1910 adds that Blackie made 14, which was the top score of the Whareriti innings (and probably of the match). The Auckland Star of 21 March gives the result of the match as a win by an innings and 17 runs, which if correct means that Havelock had a second innings in which they were dismissed for 24. There is no reference to such an innings, or result, in any of the other sources; but at the same time there is no reason to doubt its accuracy. In papers from outside Auckland, both teams were often reported as consisting mostly of postal workers. The winning team is given as ‘Whareti’ by Gross, but as ‘Whareriti’ in NZ sources.

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Burwood v Middle Harbour 1909/10 1 Venue St Luke’s Park, Concord, Sydney, NSW Date 16, 23 April 1910 Result Burwood won on first innings by 118 runs Toss Burwood Umpires WJ Bruton and - Wallace Burwood First innings

+ W Prentice st Long b Randell 2 *A Diamond b Randell 88 PW Docker st Long b Randell 35 C Docker c Scott b Middleton 4 JS Taylor st Long b Randell 27 K Docker st Long b Randell 5 F McMullen not out 21 H Dupain c Long b Randell 0 G Saunders st Long b Randell 0 T Owen st Long b Randell 16 J Smith st Long b Randell 8 Extras 10


10/216

O M R W Randell 20.2 3 92 9 Middleton 22 9 41 1 Gee 12 2 41 0 Bull 5 0 22 0 Walton 3 1 10 0 Middle Harbour First innings Second innings (following on)

E Middleton b C Docker 0 not out 25 Scott b Smith 3 Bull b Smith 13 (2) b Smith 14 Gee c and b C Docker 11 (3) c Diamond b Smith 17 Brownlow b C Docker 11 (4) b Smith 1 Hodgkinson c Prentice b C Docker 6 Lowe st Prentice b Owen 13 (5) b Dupain 2 J Randell b Smith 11 Woollcott not out 12 (6) not out 4 + EJ Long st Prentice b Owen 9 Walton c C Docker b Owen 4 Extras 5 1


10/98 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?

O M R W O M R W C Docker 33 4 3 0 Smith 3 25 3 Owen 3 21 0 PW Docker 7 0 Dupain 4 1 Source: The Referee (Sydney) 20 April 1910 for first day; Sunday Sun (Sydney) 24 April 1910 for second day.

Close of play, Day 1: Burwood 216 all out

The Arrow (Sydney, 23 April) reported that, as well as recording eight dismissals including seven stumpings, Long also missed C Docker off Middleton the ball before he was out, and also missed stumping Diamond off Randell. As the scorecard shows, these were two of the three Burwood players who he did not dismiss in this innings.

Randell took a hat-trick in the Burwood innings, with all the victims dismissed by Long (1ct, 2st).

Gross says that Burwood’s opponents in this match were North Sydney, but Middle Harbour (sometimes given as Middle Harbor) is correct.

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St Mark’s Church Lads Brigade v Centam 1910 1 Venue Clapham Common, London Date 11 June 1910 Result Centam won by an innings and 86 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW St Mark’s Chrurch Lads Brigade First innings Second innings

Tondeur c Budd b Tiffen 0 G Clayton b Tiffen 0 Brown b Frances 0 Berry b Frances 0 Beasley b Frances 0 C Simpson c and b Frances 0 Newill b Tiffen 0 W Simpson b Frances 0 F Clayton c Edwards b Frances 0 Loveday b Frances 0 AN Other not out 0 Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 25 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/25 O M R W Tiffen 4 4 0 3 Frances 3.1 3 0 7 Centam First innings

E Tiffen A Frances Budd Edwards Extras

Total (all out) 111 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/111 O M R W Source: Cricket 1911 page 347. The spelling of ‘Frances’ is taken from this source, although Gross records it as ‘Francis’. The match is not mentioned in the Clapham Observer. There are other potential newspapers in the BL catalogue, but only the Clapham Junction & District Review is available for researchers; their copies of the Balham & Tooting News and the South Western Star are described as ‘unfit’.

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Taruheru v Wanderers 1910/11 1 Venue Taruheru, Gisborne, NZ Date 3, 10 December 1910 Result Wanderers won by an innings and 474 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: FP, HW Taruheru First innings Second innings

Brisbane b Glennie 8 (4) b McMahon 0 Golding b Glennie 5 (3) b Monk 4 Stitchbury c Moore b Young 0 (5) b McMahon 0 Slingsby b Glennie 0 absent Sharples b Young 5 (9) c McConnell b Monk 6 Nelson b Glennie 0 c McConnell b McMahon 0 Creighton b Young 0 (8) not out 10 Gough b Young 8 (10) b Monk 0 Hannigan b Young 7 (7) b McMahon 0 Monzari b McMahon 2 absent Wood not out 0 absent Whiteley (1) b McMahon 5 Ingram (2) b McMahon 3 Extras 8 6

Total (all out) 43 (all out) 34 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/43 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/34 O M R W O M R W Young 11.3 2 14 5 Glennie 8 2 20 4 (1) 4 2 4 0 McMahon 3 2 3 1 (2) 10 4 14 6 Monk (3) 6 2 10 3 Wanderers First innings

SG Glennie b Sharples 7 A Young b Stitchbury 275 *FL McMahon not out 226 Monk Moore McConnell Extras 43

Total (for 2 wickets, declared) 551 Fall 1/33, 2/551 O M R W Brisbane 19 1 101 0 Nelson 13 0 97 0 Sharples 18.1 0 81 1 Hannigan 11 0 56 0 Monzari 7 0 39 0 Gough 9 0 75 0 Golding 1 0 14 0 Creighton 2 0 10 0 Ingram 4 0 27 0 Stitchbury 3 0 8 1 Source: Poverty Bay Herald 29 November, 2, 5, 12 and 19 December 1910; Greymouth Evening Star 5 December 1910; Cricket 1911 pages 26 and 340. Correction to McMahon’s name from Francis Payne. The match-dates of 3/10 Dec are confirmed from the NZ paper; Cricket incorrectly says 2/9 Dec at one point

Close of play, Day 1: Wanderers 412-1 (Young 210, McMahon 154)

Whiteley and Ingram were allowed to play as full subs in place of two of Taruheru’s second-day absentees.

‘Taruheru’ is the correct spelling of the defeated team. Various other incorrect spellings have also been seen.

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Patiala v Kashmir 1910/11 1 Venue Umballa (now Ambala), Punjab, India Date 7, 8, 9 February 1911 Result Patiala won by an innings and 227 runs Toss Patiala Umpires Players per side: 12 Patiala First innings

KM Mistri b Barkat Ram 5 FA Tarrant b Barkat Ram 261 Maharaja of Patiala b Barkat Ram 0 Jaginder Singh lbw b Barkat Ram 17 Tara Chand lbw b Barkat Ram 20 Jaswant Singh c and b Ram Kishan 35 Lala Gokal Chand run out 6 Badesi Ram lbw b Saleh Mohammad 25 Abdulghani lbw b Barkat Ram 0 Kishan Singh not out 54 Ziaul Haq b Barkat Ram 0 Sadan Singh b Bhagwan Das 1 Extras 25

Total (all out) 449 Fall 1/?, 2/11, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/?, 11/449

O M R W Barkat Ram 7 Ram Kishan 1 Saleh Mohammad 1 Bhagwan Das 1 Kashmir First innings Second innings

Ram Kishan c Tara Chand b Tarrant 31 b Ziaul Haq 3 Boota Ram c Ziaul Haq b Tarrant 17 c Sadan Singh b Tarrant 16 Maharaja of Kashmir b Tarrant 11 absent - Saleh Mohammad b Tarrant 12 b Tarrant 1 Salamat Rai c Sadan Singh b Mistri 14 c and b Tarrant 46 Akbar Khan st [unknown] b Mistri 0 [Unknown] not out 2 Manak Chand b Mistri 12 c Abdulghani b Tarrant 20 Feroz Deen b Tarrant 0 b Tarrant 4 Barkat Ram b Tarrant 0 c Ziaul Haq 0 Wazir Ganga Ram not out 0 c Mistri 0 Salig Ram b Tarrant 0 b Ziaul Haq 4 Bhagwan Das b Mistri 0 b Tarrant 7 Extras 1 21

Total (all out) 98 (all out) 124 Fall 1/40, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?,

11/98 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/124

O M R W O M R W Tarrant 7 6 Mistri 4 1 Ziaul Haq 3

Source: Cricket 30 March 1911 page 34 An unnamed substitute batted for Akbar Khan in Kashmir (2) It is not clear whether the fixture would be better termed ‘Maharajah of Patiala’s XII v Maharaja of Kashmir’s XII’, but Cricket just names the sides as Patiala and Kashmir.

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West of Scotland Second XI v Poloc Second XI 1911 1 Venue Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow Date 19 August 1911 Result Poloc Second XI won by an unknown number of wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires West of Scotland Second XI innings

E Stott c Galt b Murray 5 TC Barbour b Thuraiappa 8 Carter lbw b Thuraiappa 6 JM Henderson b Thuraiappa 0 GB Tennant c and b Thuraiappa 4 T Paisley c - Law b Murray 0 M Cameron c – Law b Thuraiappa 7 A Meyer b Murray 0 HA Simpson b Murray 0 R Miller b Murray 4 W Bremner not out 0 Extras 0


10/34

O M R W Murray 5 Thuraiappa 5 Poloc Second XI innings

WM Coulter b Carter 0 J Galt not out 101 RM Thuraiappa b Carter 0 T Law b Carter 0 JT Murdoch b Carter 5 GB Paterson lbw b Carter 0 PH Pawsey lbw b Stott 0 F Law b Henderson 3 GF Drummond b Carter 2 GW Stevenson b Miller 0 GA Murray b Miller 0 Extras 1 Total (all out) 112 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/112

O M R W Carter 6 Henderson 1 Stott 1 Miller 2 Source: Scottish Referee 21 August 1911; Cricket 2 September 1911 page 495 Players’ initials are taken from the Scottish Referee; they differ in some cases from those given in Cricket.

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Unknown v Unknown 1911/12 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1911/12 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that J Treloar and C Barnes shared a partnership of 358 for their side’s sixth wicket, in this match in the Manly B Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Old Buckenham Hall v Harrow Blues 1912 1 Venue Old Buckenham Hall, Attleborough, Norfolk Date 16, 17 August 1912 Result Old Buckenham Hall won by an innings and 328 runs Toss Umpires Old Buckenham Hall First innings

HV Baumgartner b Allsopp 4 RF Popham run out 226 RV Minnett not out 291 PH Wilson c England b Williams 25 GN Foster not out 1 FN Tuff DM Whitcomb R Trew TFE Rockliffe C Haywood AC MacLaren Extras 16

Total (for 3 wickets, declared) 563 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/? O M R W Allsopp 1 Williams 1

Harrow Blues First innings Second innings (following on)

VCH Hollender b Baumgartner 0 c Rockliffe b Tuff 1 AHS Hollender c Foster b Rockliffe 1 c Minnett b MacLaren 0 Col. Jenkins c Trew b Baumgartner 22 b Tuff 3 KG de Jongh c Whitcomb b Baumgartner 19 c Minnett b Tuff 3 RC Tacon c Whitcomb b Baumgartner 2 b Tuff 0 CD Williams b Rockliffe 1 b Haywood 9 K Boyd c Haywood b Baumgartner 6 lbw b Tuff 2 LA de Jongh c and b Rockliffe 2 c Popham b Haywood 9 FD England c Wilson b Baumgartner 10 c Rockliffe b Tuff 0 CC Tee not out 9 c Popham b Tuff 4 W Groom c Haywood b Baumgartner 0 not out 0 Extras 8 24

Total (all out) 80 (all out) 55 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?. 10/80 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?. 10/55 O M R W O M R W Baumgartner 7 Rockliffe 3 Tuff 7 Haywood 2 MacLaren 1 Source: Eastern Daily Press 19 August 1912 (also partly in Cricket 1912 page 449) Some names in the Harrow Blues XI have been supplemented or corrected by reference to the Harrow School Register. The Eastern Daily Press confirms (as per Gross) that Popham and Rupert Minnett (brother of Test player Roy) added 463 runs for Old Buckenham Hall’s second wicket, but the score at the fall of the relevant wickets are not given.

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Royal Engineers v Royal Garrison Artillery 1912/13 2 Venue Diyatalewa, Ceylon Date 1912/13 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that this match produced 905 runs, all made in a single day. He gives no other details. Various newspapers from Ceylon around this time are in the British Library, but they have not yet been investigated. The occurrence is not mentioned in Cricket.

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Baildon Green v Saltaire 1915 1 Venue Baildon Green, West Yorkshire Date 15 May 1915 Result Saltaire won by 79 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Saltaire innings

S Smith b Whitwam 69 S Swithenbank b Berry 8 A Holmes b Slack 8 SF Barnes lbw b Whitwam 10 H Whitaker b Whitwam 2 H Cook b Whitwam 1 H Robinson c Hardaker b Whitwam 0 JJ Williams b Whitwam 0 WG Bateman b Berry 8 R Lindley b Berry 2 + F Whitehouse not out 3 Extras 2

(all out) 113 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/113 O M R W Whitwam 21 6 Berry 3 Slack 1 Baildon Green innings

H Whitwam lbw b Barnes 4 A Hodgson st Whitehouse b Barnes 11 R Graham st Whitehouse b Barnes 6 W Hancock not out 7 F Robertshaw b Barnes 0 J Berry b Barnes 0 J Slack b Barnes 2 S Hardaker lbw b Barnes 0 R Paley b Barnes 0 E Pedley b Barnes 0 F Greenwood b Barnes 0 Extras 5

(all out) 34 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/34 O M R W Barnes 6 1 14 10 Source: Bradford Weekly Telegraph 21 May 1915; Leeds Mercury 17 May 1915 Both sources say that SF Barnes took the last five wickets of the Baildon Green innings with successive deliveries, thus corroborating Gross’s listing of this feat. On pp 120-121 of his biography of Barnes SF Barnes – Master bowler, Leslie Duckworth says that he took 5 in 5, 6 in 9, 7 in 11, and 8 in 12. These details are not confirmed (or refuted) in the sources noted. This was a match in the Bradford League.

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9th Brigade, Canadian Expeditionary Force v Canadian ASC 1917 2 Venue France Date August 1917 Result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that J Leake took eight wickets with consecutive deliveries for the CEF side, and in all took ten wickets in 12 balls. Leake’s final analysis is not included in any of Gross’s lists of players taking all ten wickets for six runs or fewer. He gives the date of August 1917 in one of his books of scores (see page 31 of Scorecards Part 2 on the Cricket History website), but otherwise no other details of the match have been traced, either in Gross’s online records or in the newspapers in the BNA. The scope for further investigation would appear to be limited. From military records, Harry Watton has identified three members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW1 named ‘J Leake’ – two Johns and a James Francis. It is not known which was the successful bowler in this match.

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Railways & PWD v Government Services (?) 1917/18 2 Venue Colombo, Ceylon Date 1917/18 season Result Not known Toss Umpires KSW

Gross records that AP Wijeytunga (263) and W Fernando (80) added 230 for the eighth wicket in the Railways-PWD innings. The spelling of Wijeytunga is as given by Gross. This has not yet been explored further, e.g. in Ceylonese newspapers. The match is referred to at three places in Cricket Quarterly, each time with different team-names involved: CQ Vol 4 no 1, page 46: Railways v PWD CQ Vol 6 no 4, page 206: Railways & PWD v Government Services CQ Vol 7 no 1, page 21: GPO v PWD (GPO batted)

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Windhill v Saltaire 1918 1 Venue Windhill, Bradford, West Yorkshire Date 25 May 1918 Result Saltaire won by 73 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Saltaire innings

R Outram b Keighley 12 A Welburn lbw b Keighley 17 N Firth b Cupitt 4 SF Barnes b Cupitt 0 W Moody b Cupitt 4 S Swithenbank b Cupitt 3 H Feather c Moorhouse b Cupitt 7 P Tetley c Crapper b Keighley 9 J Slack not out 1 P Whitley b Keighley 17 A Walsh b Keighley 0 Extras 15

Total (all out) 89 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/89 O M R W Keighley 5 Cupitt 24 5 Windhill innings

W Cantrill b Slack 4 JR Hardcastle b Barnes 2 E Pallister b Slack 9 J Illingworth b Barnes 0 C Crapper b Barnes 0 S Parker b Barnes 0 H Moorhouse b Barnes 1 AL Bairstow b Barnes 0 EG Keighley b Barnes 0 A Mackenzie b Barnes 0 J Cupitt not out 0 Extras 0

Total (all out) 16 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/16 O M R W Barnes 3.1 2 4 8 Slack 2 Source: Shipley Times & Express 31 May 1918; Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, both 27 May 1918 Gross lists Barnes as taking six wickets in eight deliveries in the Windhill innings, but contemporary sources including the Liverpool Echo and the Nottingham Evening Post, both of 27 May (though not the Shipley Times & Express, which makes no mention of such a feat) all say he took six wickets in seven deliveries. All sources agree that he took a hat-trick in the innings. This was a match in the Bradford League.

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Port Chalmers District High School v Kaikorai School 1918/19 2 Venue Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand Date 1 March 1919 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that wicket-keeper H Whyte made four stumpings off successive deliveries in the Kaikorai School innings. This feat is corroborated by a report in the Southland Times of 7 March 1919, and various other papers, as follows: “A unique performance in public schools’ cricket was witnessed at Port Chalmers last Saturday. King, playing for the local team, secured the fine average of eight wickets for three runs, including the ’hat trick’. Whyte, the wicket-keeper, stumped four batsmen off consecutive balls.” Unfortunately no further details of the match are given. The match is also noted in the Evening Star (Dunedin) of 28 February 1919, and the Otago Witness of 12 March 1919. The match is not mentioned in the Otago Daily Times. A contemporary report of prizegiving at the Port Chalmers District High School names Herbert Whyte as winning an [academic] prize around this time, and it would seem very likely that he was the wicketkeeper concerned. It is on the strength of this news item, together with the reference to “public schools’ cricket” in the above-quoted report, that indicates that the home team should be shown as above, and not just as ‘Port Chalmers’ as given by Gross. Further information from Harry Watton.

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Murphy Brothers Pipeworks v North A 1919/20 1 Venue Wellington, New Zealand Date 29 November, 6 December 1919 Result Murphy Brothers Pipeworks won by an innings and 644 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW North A First innings Second innings

Ward [details unknown] 13 [details unknown] 10 Moss [details unknown] 10 [details unknown] 15 Extras


9/, 10/46

O M R W O M R W Harris 34 6 Smith 7 4 4 3 Keys 39 4 Murphy Brothers Pipeworks First innings

V Harris [details unknown] 100 W Church [details unknown] 112 E Keys [details unknown] 30 A Erskine [details unknown] 171 D Binnie [details unknown] 66 H Murphy [details unknown] 62 F Smith McKay [unknown] [unknown] [unknown] Extras

Total (all out) 741 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/741 O M R W Source: Evening Post (Wellington), Dominion (Wellington), and NZ Times (Wellington, all 1 and 8 December 1919; also Dominion 24 November 1919, and Free Lance (Wellington) 10 December 1919. Close of play, Day 1: Murphy Brothers Pipeworks 369-4 (Erskine 51, McKay 17) This was a match in the junior division of the regular Wellington Championship. F Smith recorded a hat-trick in the first innings of North A. The Free Lance gives Murphy Bros score as 731-7 declared, but other sources agree on 741. Gross incorrectly names the defeated team as Petone (who were another team in the same competition, but in a different division). Further information from Harry Watton

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School House A v Ferox Hall 1920 1 / 4 Venue The Head, Tonbridge School, Kent Date 19 July 1920 Result School House A won by an innings and 240 runs Toss Umpires School House A First innings

CH Knott c Shelley b FC Panckridge 372 GB Baldwin c Sumner b Armistead 10 ML Eggar run out 14 LHL Adkins c Roberts b Armistead 9 EJ Finn c – Panckridge b Shelley 31 GB Heap b Francis 6 HM Hammerton c Nicoll b Francis 8 EW Hayward b Francis 0 + RGW Deighton c Armistead 15 AJ Knott c and b Francis 6 RC Bond not out 12 Extras b36, lb1 37

Total (all out) 520 Fall 1/40, 2/95, 3/121, 4/179, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/322, 10/520

O M R W Francis 31 4 179 4 Armistead 32 0 226 3 Shelley 7 0 47 1 FC Panckridge 6 0 31 1 Ferox Hall First innings Second innings (following on)

TES Francis c Adkins b CH Knott 50 c Eggar b CH Knott 48 PTFG Shelley st Deighton b CH Knott 6 (4) b CH Knott 13 V Armistead b CH Knott 16 c Finn b Bond 50 W Panckridge b CH Knott 4 (5) b CH Knott 17 FC Panckridge b CH Knott 3 (6) b CH Knott 4 DC Munro not out 21 (2) c Hayward b CH Knott 4 Young c Finn b CH Knott 3 c Heap b Bond 14 GA Nicoll b CH Knott 0 b Bond 1 HE Roberts lbw b Eggar 4 lbw b CH Knott 5 AV Dickins b Eggar 0 c Bond b CH Knott 1 GC Sumner b Eggar 0 not out 1 Extras 7 8


9/?, 10/166 O M R W O M R W CH Knott 16 1 55 7 23 1 94 7 Adkins 7 1 30 0 (3) 8 1 21 0 Finn 5 0 19 0 (4) 3 1 10 0 Eggar 3 1 3 3 (2) 6 2 15 0 Bond 6 3 16 3 Source: The Tonbridgian 1920; some details from photocopy of the scorebook in A century of cricket and cricketers at Tonbridge School 1900-2000 by Peter Bathurst. Both courtesy of Beverley Matthews, Tonbridge School Archivist. The former says that “the last wicket put on 200, of which CH Knott compiled 180-odd while Bond collected twelve”. Gross also has their partnership as 200, but the fall of wickets in the scorebook shows the stand to have been worth ‘only’ 198, and Bathurst’s text confirms this – as did Knott’s own recollections of the match (as noted in Bathurst’s book). From the scorebook, all of Bond’s runs were scored in singles. Other sources (including the Nottingham Evening Post 20 July 1920) say that Knott scored 58 fours and eight sixes, and batted for 3 hours 20 minutes. The details of his boundaries cannot be confirmed from the scorebook, the reproduction of which in Bathurst’s book is not always clear. The match was the final of the school’s inter-house competition for 1920. It is not clear whether or not it was completed in a single day, but only one date is given in the sources seen to date.

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South Lee AC v Old Stillnessians 1920 2 Venue Lee, Kent Date 1920 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that FA Harvie recorded a hat-trick of stumpings in this match for South Lee, off the bowling of HG Sherrold. The match, or the feat, is not recorded in any newspaper in the BNA. Various possible options at Lewisham library/archives have yet to be explored. Nowadays, Stillness is a junior and infant school in Brockley Rise, Lewisham.

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Small Arms Factory No. 1 v Bowenfels 1920/21 1 Venue Small Arms Factory Ground, Lithgow, New South Wales Date 16 October 1920 Result No result Toss Umpires Thorn, Walker Thanks: HW Small Arms Factory No. 1 innings

G Conran not out 295 Coad run out ? P Watsford not out 214

Total (for 1 wicket) 530 Fall 1/5 O M R W Bowenfels - did not bat

Source: The Sun (Sydney) 19 October 1920; The Referee (Sydney) 20 October 1920; The Cricketer 1921 page 21; Lithgow Mercury 1 and 15 October 1920

Gross reverses the batsmen’s scores, giving Percy Watsford 295 and Gus Conran 214, but all contemporary sources support the scorecard as above. There are no reports of the game continuing on to a second day (presumably 23 October), although the report in the Sun suggests that the above play all took place on “the first day” of the match. The full Small Arms Factory squad for this match consisted of G Conran, P Watsford, McKevett, Shepherd, Rickard, McKibbin, Phelan, Hutchison, Hoy, Morton, Chapman (1 and 2) and Noad (1 and 2). ‘Coad’ as given in the above scorecard was presumably one of the players named as ‘Noad’ in the newspapers ahead of the match; whether ‘Coad’ or ‘Noad’ is correct is uncertain. This was a match in the Hartley District Cricket Association.

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Pickwick v Wanderers 1920/21 5 Venue Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Date 8, 15, 22, 29 Jan, 5, 12, 19 Feb 1921 Result Wanderers won by 358 runs Toss Wanderers Umpires KSW Wanderers First innings Second innings

+ R Challenor b Tarilton 51 b Greaves 20 G Challenor b Greaves 206 c Hoad b Browne 133 HW Ince c sub b Hoad 106 c Tarilton b Browne 150 LC Hutson lbw b KG Wood 1 (5) c Greaves b CA Wood 49 K Mason b Browne 79 (4) b Hoad 7 CL Abrams hit wicket b Hoad 4 (8) c sub b Hutchinson 22 CS Batson lbw b LO Wood 23 (9) run out 2 HG Massiah not out 47 (6) b Hoad 32 HE Skeete b Hutchinson 23 (10) st Tarilton b Hoad 5 AS Gardner lbw b KG Wood 25 (11) not out 0 HBG Austin absent - (7) run out 48 Extras b19, lb5, w1 25 21

Total (all out) 590 (all out) 488 Fall 1/?, 2/342, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/550, 9/590 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/, 10/488 O M R W O M R W Greaves 33 1 116 1 (4) 29 4 70 1 Hoad 51 2 165 2 (3) 40.1 1 137 3 Hutchinson 15 2 42 1 (6) 21 2 62 1 LO Wood 22 2 81 1 Browne 32 2 100 1 (2) 35 1 131 2 CA Wood 6 1 16 0 (7) 13 1 36 1 Tarilton 7 0 28 1 (1) 3 1 9 0 KG Wood 6.3 1 17 2 (5) 5 0 22 0 Pickwick First innings Second innings

PH Tarilton c Batson b G Challenor 130 c R Challenor b Mason 67 LR Hutchinson c R Challenor b Skeete 20 (9) b Massiah 1 JM Kidney b Skeete 17 (8) not out 36 CF Browne b G Challenor 68 (7) c Gardner b Mason 19 LO Wood c sub b Skeete 17 (3) c R Challenor b Skeete 57 HO Emtage b Massiah 19 (5) c R Challenor b Mason 11 FL Archer run out 9 (4) lbw b Skeete 3 CA Wood c R Challenor b Skeete 103 (6) c Batson b G Challenor 15 KG Wood run out 16 (10) c [unknown] b Massiah 7 J Hoad c G Challenor b Skeete 20 (2) c R Challenor b Skeete 52 KG Greaves not out 11 (11) st R Challenor b Massiah 8 Extras b3, w3 6 8

Total (all out) 436 (all out) 284 Fall 1/40, 2/68, 3/229, 4/243, 5/?, 6/?, 7/298, 8/?,

9/?, 10/436 1/?, 2/169, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/284

O M R W O M R W G Challenor 24.6 3 73 3 29 6 58 1 Skeete 47 5 140 4 24 3 56 3 Hutson 17 4 33 0 (6) 8 0 22 0 Mason 20 4 42 0 (3) 31 9 56 3 Abrams 13 1 46 0 (7) 2 0 6 0 Ince 7 0 21 0 Gardner 3 0 13 0 (4) 10 0 32 0 Massiah 14 1 53 1 (5) 18 0 46 3

See notes on following page

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Source: CA scorecard misc 386934, supplemented by details of bowling figures, and some falls of wickets, from the Barbados Globe 17, 24, 31 January and 14, 21 February 1921 (edition of 7 Feb is not on the microfilm at BL). Barbados Times also seen, but adds nothing. Batting and bowling orders are taken from the Globe rather than CA. Close of play: Day 1 – Wanderers (1) 320-1 (G Challenor 190, Ince 61); Day 2 – Wanderers (1) 590 all out; Day 3 – Pickwick (1) 262-4 (LO Wood 17, Emtage 8); Day 4 – Wanderers (2) 76-1 (G Challenor 49, Ince 2); Day 5 – Wanderers (2) nk (Ince 149, AN Other ?); Day 6 – Pickwick (2) 100-0 (Tarilton 64, Hoad 32) Gross says that G Challenor and Ince added 224 for the 2nd wicket in Wanderers’ first innings, and 201 for the second wicket in their second innings. Whilst entirely plausible from the scorecard, the relevant fall of wicket details are not given in the sources. It is known (from the report in the Globe) that the score in their first innings had passed 100 before the first wicket fell. Challenor’s figure of 24.6 overs in Pickwick (1) is as given in all editions of the Globe. The inference is that eight-ball overs were in use, but this is not confirmed anywhere else, and CA says the match used six-ball overs. All editions of the Globe also show Browne bowling ‘3.5-1-131-2’ in Wanderers (2), but this is assumed to be a misprint for ’35 overs’. The dismissal of KG Wood in Pickwick (2) is not included in the scorecard in the Globe, but it is mentioned in the match report that he was caught [by an unnamed fielder] in the deep. His personal score of 7 in this innings is as given in CA; the team score then adds correctly to 284.

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Port Adelaide v Colts 1920/21 4 Venue Adelaide Date 1920/21 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross says that wicket-keeper GB Inkster made six stumpings in the Colts innings. However, this is definitely an error. Port Adelaide did not play Colts during the 1920/21 season – not in a Premier Grade match in any case, as there was no Colts side in that competition. Moreover, Gordon Inkster was no longer playing in Adelaide in 1920/21 (he had moved to New South Wales during the preceding off-season). Geoff Sando has confirmed that from his records of cricket in the city, Inkster never made more than five stumpings in an innings in any match. Further information from Harry Watton, from the News (Adelaide) for 8 October 1927 and the Register (Adelaide) for 10 October 1927: Contemporary reports of the match between Colts and Port Adelaide on 1 and 8 October 1927 vary as to whether Inkster made five or six stumpings in an innings for Port Adelaide. Some scorecards show six, but the card in the Register only shows five, and its text corroborates that one of the batsmen shown as ‘stumped’ in the News was actually dismissed ‘bowled’. Taken together with the information provided by Geoff Sando, the balance of argument is considered to favour the view that Inkster only made five stumpings in the innings concerned.

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Marlborough College v Col. RMT Gillson’s XI 1921 1 Venue Marlborough College, Wiltshire Date 1 June 1921 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Marlborough College innings

EA Dearman b Powis 18 EGB Faulkner st Pratt b Darell 48 CR Ashfield c Pratt b Ward 73 GH Seeley c Broome b Darell 200 +JI Outram c Butler b RW Awdry 72 HH Smith not out 0 J Young R Leach EH Oakley RCR Kirkpatrick CGH Christian Extras 8

Total (for 5 wickets, declared) 419 Fall 1/22, 2/103, 3/230, 4/410, 5/419 O M R W RW Awdry 57 1 Powis 41 1 Durell 64 2 Ward 36 1 Col RMT Gillson’s XI innings

Maj RH Broome b Leach 76 Capt E Ward b Kirkpatrick 8 GS Butler c Kirkpatrick b Seeley 147 Lt-Col Darell c Seeley b Kirkpatrick 45 Maj RW Awdry not out 67 Flt-Lt Thomson c Outram b Leach 19 GA Laverton c and b Leach 17 Lt-Col RMT Gillson not out 1 + Capt Pratt Sgt Powis Capt N Awdry Extras 12

Total (for 6 wickets) 392 Fall 1/23, 2/155, 3/280, 4/286, 5/?, 6/384 O M R W Kirkpatrick 45 2 Christian 0 Leach 65 3 Seeley 6 1 [unknown] [unknown] [unknown] Source: The Marlburian, June 1921 (with thanks to Grainne Lenehan, Marlborough College Archivist). Match date from The Cricketer 1921. All the play took place on a single day, beginning at 11.30am; Col. Gillson’s XI began their reply “about 4 o’clock”. The day’s play produced a total of 811 runs for 11 wickets. The organiser of the visiting side is named as ‘Col Gibson’ in The Cricketer and by Gross, but The Marlburian has “Gillson”. The Marlburian gives the score at the fall of the fifth wicket in Gillson’s innings as 242, but that is clearly an error (maybe 342?). The Marlburian also confirms that seven bowlers were used in the Gillson innings, but only names four.

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Imperial Service College v Incogniti 1921 1 Venue Imperial Service College, Windsor, Berkshire Date 14 July 1921 Result Incogniti won on first innings by 158 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Imperial Service College First innings Second innings

Niven b Gray 15 Heane c Airey b Gray 1 Hickie c Airey b Jeffcock 7 Cubitt st Beckwith b Jeffcock 1 Allright c Gray b Jeffcock 12 Dudley b Gray 0 + Cook c Airey b Jeffcock 0 Hughes st Beckwith b Jeffcock 7 McEwan st Beckwith b Jeffcock 11 Gore not out 0 Newson-Smith st Beckwith b Jeffcock 0 Extras 2

Total (all out) 56 (for 6 wickets) 80 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/56 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, O M R W O M R W Gray 3 Jeffcock 37 7 Incogniti First innings

Col RB Airey st Cook b Hickie 0 AB Kay b Hickie 0 JA Wall b Cubitt 20 VS Jones b Hickie 0 HP Chadwick-Healey st Cook b Hickie 32 GS Churchill st Cook b Allright 31 CD Gray b Cubitt 80 PE Jeffcock c Dudley b Cubitt 27 BA White run out 12 CAE Greene not out 5 + EGA Beckwith absent - Extras 7

Total (all out) 214 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/214 O M R W Hickie 4 Cubitt 3 Allright 1 Source: The Cricketer 30 July 1921 page 25. The match was not reported in the Windsor, Eton & Slough Express. Jeffcock performed the hat-trick in the ISC first innings, the three victims (Hughes, McEwan and Newson-Smith) all being stumped by EGA Beckwith. Beckwith was the Headmaster of ISC at the time.

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Hughenden v Woodcroft 1921 3 Venue Bristol Date 1921 season Result Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW

Gross records that a player named W White took all 20 wickets for Hughenden in this match, conceding a total of 37 runs in the process. But there is no report of any such instance in the Bristol Evening News for 1921, nor in The Cricketer (where it has been sought on every page), nor in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA. Neither have teams named either Hughenden or Woodcroft been found in the Bristol area at any time. Both placenames can be found in England, but not in close proximity. Roger Gibbons (Gloucestershire CCC President and historian) and his colleagues have been unable to identify anything further about this alleged instance. I am sceptical about this performance, but further research into it is handicapped without some further information about exactly where – and perhaps when - it took place (if at all). Harry Watton has noted that there are a Hughenden Road and a Woodcroft Road in Bristol, about 6 miles apart. The feat is mentioned in Cricket Quarterly vol 7 no. 2 page 56, where White’s figures are given as 10-9 and 10-28.

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Central Mission v Ngaio 1921/22 1 Venue Basin Reserve No. 2 Ground, Wellington, NZ Date 22 October 1921 Result Central Mission won by an innings and 95 runs Toss Umpires Central Mission First innings

J Fullford Harris


10/106

O M R W Ngaio First innings Second innings (following on)

Total (all out) 11 (all out) 0 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/11 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0,

9/0, 10/0 O M R W O M R W Fullford Harris Source: Evening Post (Wellington) 21 and 24 October 1921.

Harris and Fullford both took hat-tricks for Central Mission, and Fullford took five wickets for no runs in one innings, but the reports do not state in which innings these feats were recorded. This was a match in the Boys Intermediate B League

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Cliffe v Eastrington 1922 1 Venue Cliffe, East Yorkshire Date 6 May 1922 Result Cliffe won by 75 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Cliffe innings

W Batty c Hains b Lilley 19 E Saynor b Smith 21 T Barker c and b Lilley 6 L Tune c – Martinson b Lilley 3 J or GJ Tune c Hains b Lilley 5 F Vause not out 12 R Batty b Hains 4 E Fell b Hains 0 H Holey c Smith b Hains 0 W Jacques b Walker 1 J Brown b Hains 1 Extras 5

Total (all out) 77 Fall 1/33, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/65, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/77

O M R W Lilley 4 Smith 1 Hains 3 2 4 Walker 1 Eastrington innings

S White b GJ Tune 0 Joe Martinson not out 0 H Smith b GJ Tune 0 JE Connell b GJ Tune 0 WN Hains b GJ Tune 1 WE Walker b GJ Tune 0 GC Hoggard b GJ Tune 0 G Lilley b GJ Tune 0 J Martinson b GJ Tune 0 C Scoffins b GJ Tune 0 H Hawerett b GJ Tune 0 Extras b1 1


O M R W GJ Tune 5 5 0 10 Source: Goole Journal 10 May 1922, supplemented by a letter published in The Cricketer 1922 no. 4 page 17 The successful Cliffe bowler was fast bowler Jennings Tune. The Goole Journal states that he “undoubtedly found a spot on the worn pitch from which the ball came off at remarkable speed and seldom left the ground, making him practically unplayable”. At one stage he took five wickets in six balls. The Journal also confirms that Joe Martinson carried his bat through the innings, though its statement that “he never received a ball from Tune” may be open to question. Harry Watton also cites the Northern Daily Mail (West Hartlepool) 15 May 1922, which gives the successful bowler as GJ Tune. He notes too that this was a match in the Howden & District Cricket League. This match, and that between Watford and Stanmore in which AE Barker took 10-0 for Watford, were played seven days apart.

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Watford v Stanmore 1922 1 Venue Sedgwick’s Meadow, Watford, Hertfordshire Date 13 May 1922 Result Watford won by an innings and 66 runs Toss Umpires Stanmore First innings Second innings

JW Le Carpentier b Barker 2 lbw b Norton 2 J Lee b Barker 0 b Thompson 1 A Bicknell c A Grimsdell b Barker 0 not out 12 F Lee b Barker 0 b Norton 3 J Romer b Barker 0 b Danby 0 J Hickman b Barker 0 b Danby 1 Stokes b Barker 0 c Williams b Danby 0 Theobald b Barker 0 c Thompson b Norton 0 Cheshire b Barker 0 b EF Grimsdell 0 Tyce b Barker 0 b Danby 0 Nicholson b Barker 0 b Danby 0 Extras 3 0


9/?, 10/19 O M R W O M R W Barker 3.3 3 0 10 Vickers 3 2 0 Norton 3 Thompson 1 Danby 5 EF Grimsdell 1 Watford First innings

H Howes not out 23 CD Greenhalgh not out 58 JC Danby AE Barker EF Grimsdell A Grimsdell + R Williams AA Thompson J Vickers CA Wood RA Norton Extras 9

Total (for no wicket, declared) 90 Fall

O M R W Source: West Herts & Watford Observer, -- May 1922; West Herts Post 18 May 1922. The match was not reported in the Harrow Observer. The not-out batsman in Stanmore (1) is not known. Both the Hertfordshire newspapers give dismissal details for all 11 players. A Grimsdell (Watford) is the England international footballer Arthur Grimsdell (CA player 29818).

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Wattstown v Ferndale Co-operative 1922 1 Venue Wattstown, Glamorgan Date 13 May 1922 Result Ferndale Co-operative won by 77 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW Ferndale Co-operative innings

P Carpenter R Thomas Extras

Total (all out) 77 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/77 O M R W Evans Wattstown innings

A Jones b Carpenter 0 WJ Reeves b Thomas 0 MJ Roberts b Carpenter 0 BP Bowen hit wicket b Thomas 0 D Morgan b Carpenter 0 EJ Evans b Carpenter 0 G Jones run out 0 TE Roberts not out 0 T Edwards b Carpenter 0 I Thomas c James b Carpenter 0 TJ Thomas b Carpenter 0 Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Carpenter 0 7 Thomas 0 2 Source: Gross includes the full card of the Ferndale Co-operative innings in his books of scorecards, but this match is not included in his list of totals of 0 all out. The date and broad details of the match are corroborated by a report in the Gloucester Citizen of 15 May 1922, which also refers to Carpenter’s four-in-five (as below). Carpenter took a hat-trick, and four wickets in five balls, at one point during the Wattstown innings. The full scores are not given in the Rhondda Fach Gazette, but that newspaper (20 May 1922) confirms that Ferndale Co-operative batted first and were dismissed for 77 “thanks to some good bowling by EJ Evans”. It also names the bowler taking 7-0 as Percy Carpenter, rather than R Carpenter as in the Gloucester Citizen. Other Welsh newspapers may provide additional details – these have yet to be investigated. This was a match in the First Division of the Rhondda Cricket League.

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Eastbourne v Uppingham Rovers 1922 1 Venue The Saffrons, Eastbourne, Sussex Date 7, 8 August 1922 Result Eastbourne won by an innings and 29 runs Toss Umpires Uppingham Rovers First innings Second innings

CS Hurst lbw b Smith 34 c Hayley b Knott 38 KB Harper c Hayley b Smith 70 c Burton b Hayley 16 GW Palmer b Smith 18 c and b Knott 18 HW Priestley c Browne b Smith 61 b Knott 10 LC Dorman b Smith 0 b Smith 15 PJ Reiss b Browne 30 c Young b Smith 1 HF Terry c Knott b Browne 15 c Hayley b Smith 13 JM Carey b Browne 1 c and b Knott 0 FR Eiloart b Browne 3 not out 8 EH Tattersall c Smith b Browne 0 hit wicket b Smith 0 GEM Weir not out 0 b Browne 0 Extras 8 12


10/240 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/131

O M R W O M R W Smith 86 5 21 4 Browne 48 5 1 Knott 4 Hayley 1 Eastbourne First innings

WHG Heath b Priestley 1 HD Stratton c Dorman b Reiss 29 RO Burton c Tattersall b Reiss 0 FH Knott run out 10 H Hayley c Reiss b Eiloart 30 HS Scott c Tattersall b Eiloart 9 JV Young b Eiloart 0 CR Browne not out 142 *E Smith c Palmer b Terry 160 E Matheson b Eiloart 3 FG Wagener not out 1 Extras 15

Total (for 9 wickets, declared) 400 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/84, 8/390, 9/? O M R W Priestley 1 Reiss 2 Eiloart 4 Terry 1 Source: Eastbourne Chronicle 12 August 1922. The scorecard and the report of the match and partnership are on different pages of this paper. Close of play, Day 1: Eastbourne 198-7 (Browne 53, Smith 60) Browne and Smith added 306 for the eighth wicket in the Eastbourne innings, as given by Gross and confirmed by the Eastbourne Chronicle. .

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Redhill Wednesday XI v Major JRE Cunliffe’s XI 1922 1 Venue Outwood, Surrey Date 6 September 1922 Result Redhill Wednesday XI won by an unknown number of wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Maj JRE Cunliffe’s XI innings

RC Adams not out 43 EG Allen c Finlayson b Prebble 2 F Smith c Prebble b Wells 0 Gibson b Wells 8 JRE Cunliffe c Mason b Wells 7 HR Burt c Stapley b Prebble 0 EE Peel b Wells 0 T King b Wells 5 H Morley b Prebble 3 S Long c Stapley b Prebble 0 W Piper lbw b Prebble 4 Extras 8

Total (all out) 80 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/80 O M R W Wells 31 5 Prebble 41 5 Redhill Wednesday XI innings

H Stapley c Gibson b Piper 7 A Brown c Smith b Piper 0 A Prebble c Allen b Gibson 13 J Finlayson c Piper b Gibson 4 F Locket run out 0 JB Holmes c Long b Gibson 17 C Wells not out 173 R Mason b Piper 3 DJ Smith b Burt 15 C Hawker c Peel b Piper 5 F Halfpenny c Peel b Cunliffe 59 Extras 10


10/306

O M R W Piper 4 Gibson 3 Burt 1 Cunliffe 1 Source: Surrey Mirror 8 September 1922; also in The Cricketer 16 September 1922, page 6 The tenth-wicket partnership of 201 is confirmed by the report in the Surrey Mirror, as is Adams’ feat of carrying his bat through the innings of Maj Cunliffe’s XI. Wells’ 173* included 33 fours. .

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Penrith-Waratah v St Mary’s 1922/23 1 Venue Penrith Showground (Day 1), St Mary’s (Day 2), Penrith, NSW Date 17, 24 March 1923 Result Penrith-Waratah won by 83 runs Toss Penrith-Waratah Umpires Thanks: AJ Penrith-Waratah First innings Second innings

L Reddan b R Morrison 2 (8) b A Morrison 23 G Gow b M Bennett 0 (5) b M Bennett 0 F Knight b M Bennett 2 (2) c and b M Bennett 16 H Wright b R Morrison 14 (6) b R Morrison 16 LR Benaud c M Bennett b R Morrison 9 (7) c G Bennett b M Bennett 1 T Glasscock not out 49 (9) c and b A Morrison 30 A Edwards b M Bennett 6 (1) c Beacroft b R Morrison 0 R Burns c M Bennett b Moore 0 (3) retired out 8 C Thorndike c H Dollin b M Bennett 0 (4) c Ward b Dougherty 8 L Moore run out 5 (11) run out 2 + N Greaves b Moore 3 (10) not out 3 Extras 8 9

Total (all out) 98 (all out) 116 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/98 1 – 9 not known, 10/116 O M R W O M R W M Bennett 31 4 29 3 R Morrison 25 3 24 2 G Bennett 21 0 (5) 10 0 Moore 13 2 18 0 Dougherty (3) 15 1 H Dollin 6 0 A Morrison 5 2 St Mary’s First innings Second innings

H Dollin b Benaud 4 (6) st Greaves b Benaud 10 R Morrison b Benaud 1 (5) c Wright b Benaud 24 E Dougherty c Glasscock b Benaud 10 (1) c Wright b Banaud 4 M Bennett c Gow b Benaud 4 c Reddan b Benaud 0 A Morrison c Wright b Benaud 10 (7) b Benaud 0 J Beacroft b Benaud 16 (3) b Benaud 3 G Bennett b Benaud 0 (2) st Greaves b Benaud 4 D Turner b Benaud 0 b Benaud 0 W Dollin b Benaud 0 st Greaves b Benaud 18 W Ward lbw b Benaud 0 not out 11 G Moore not out 0 b Benaud 0 Extras 7 5

Total (all out) 52 (all out) 79 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/52 1 – 9 not known, 10/79 O M R W O M R W Benaud 6 30 10 12 35 10 Wright 15 0 (3) 8 0 Edwards (2) 21 0 Reddan 10 0

Source: Nepean Times (Penrith) 24 and 31 March 1923; Alfred James - Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the NSW Districts Cricket Association 1903 to 2003; R and J Benaud (ed): The Kid from Coraki. Some further information from Alfred James, June 2020.

Close of play Day 1: Penrith-Waratah (2) 47-4 (Burns 8, Wright 10). Burns did not resume his innings on Day 2

Some details of the batting orders differ between the two editions of the Nepean Times. Those shown here come largely from the paper of 31 March. Various other discrepancies in the newspaper scorecards (e.g. totals not adding correctly) are no longer present in the James book, which has therefore generally been followed here. These also include the name of the winning team, which is given simply as ‘Waratah’ in the newspaper (but ‘Penrith Waratah CC’ in the Sydney Morning Herald of 27 March 1923). In some sources the bowler dismissing Edwards in PW(2) is shown as A Morrison, but this seems unlikely from consideration of the batting order and A Morrison’s innings figures. In StM(2), W Dollin is sometimes shown as ‘bowled’ rather than ‘stumped’.

Lou Benaud (father of Richie) took a hat-trick in St Mary’s (1). This was a match in the B Grade of the Nepean District Cricket Association (hence the St Mary’s side does not need to be identified as ‘St Mary’s B’.

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Eastbourne v FH Gresson’s XII 1923 1 Venue The Saffrons, Eastbourne Date 30, 31 July 1923 Result Eastbourne won by ten wickets Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 FH Gresson’s XII First innings Second innings

G Proctor b Platt 6 b Platt 3 AD Womersley c May b Platt 6 c and b Platt 5 LH Savill b Platt 1 b Platt 16 GHN Todd b Platt 20 b Platt 46 LD Womersley c Bentinck b Platt 6 c and b Platt 34 RH Hill c and b Smith 39 c Heath b Platt 58 *FH Gresson b Platt 20 b Platt 3 RM Powell b Platt 1 st Howell b Platt 0 MC Powell c Howell b Platt 9 b Platt 23 RA Chettle b Platt 0 b Platt 2 RG Streatfield not out 10 c Smith b Stacey 12 D Smythe b Platt 8 not out 0 Extras 6 12


11/130 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/214

O M R W O M R W Platt 18.1 5 48 10 27 7 59 10 Vaughan 11 0 32 0 10 1 36 0 Smith 12 3 22 1 15 6 61 0 Stacey 8 3 15 0 13 2 37 1 Swainson 3 1 7 0 2 0 9 0 Eastbourne First innings Second innings

RC Matthews c and b Gresson 9 CG May lbw b Smythe 14 A Bentinck b Gresson 14 *E Smith c – Powell b Todd 58 (1) not out 39 WHG Heath c Proctor b - Powell 71 (2) b MC Powell 26 WG Swainson b Gresson 6 PW Pearkes lbw b - Powell 5 WF Stacey c Todd b Gresson 13 + RG Howell c – Powell b Smythe 47 (3) not out 11 EG Jacobs b Gresson 0 AJ Platt b Smythe 15 L Vaughan not out 5 Extras 9 5

Total (all out) 266 (for 1 wicket) 81 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?,

11/266 1/?

O M R W O M R W Gresson 5 Smythe 3 Todd 1 -Powell 2 MC Powell 1 Source: Eastbourne Chronicle 4 August 1923; The Cricketer 1923 no. 16 page 31; article by Gross in Journal of The Cricket Society vol 4 no. 3, page 17 The report in the Eastbourne Chronicle has Gresson’s XII batting first and third, and winning by ten wickets (as here). Some other sources, including Gross as cited above, show Eastbourne batting first and winning by 3 runs after a third-innings declaration. The successful bowler AJ Platt [sic; not Platts] had not been due to play in the match but was added to the side when he called into the pavilion by chance.

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East Torrens v Sturt 1923/24 1 Venue Adelaide Oval Dates 29 March, 5, 12, 15 April 1924 Result East Torrens won by 274 runs Toss East Torrens Umpires East Torrens innings

RF Middleton b Barrett 3 CH Adams c and b Bruce 10 JT Murray b Barrett 248 WN Riley b Whiting 0 HL Emerson b Whiting 17 VB Stephens c and b Willsmore 24 *EA Loveridge c Bartlett b Golding 8 AD Chapman b Whiting 25 AJ Baker b Barrett 102 WF Richardson not out 11 + E Schultz b Barrett 2 Extras b4, lb14, nb2 20


8/453, 9/464, 10/470

O M R W Barrett 24.3 1 97 4 Townsend 16 3 52 0 Bruce 13 0 79 1 Whiting 26 3 73 3 Willsmore 25 5 76 1 Golding 7 0 33 1 Hodder 5 0 17 0 Richardson 4 0 23 0 Sturt innings

FK Gould c and b Loveridge 93 HB Willsmore b Murray 19 *VY Richardson c Stephens b Murray 6 AJ Bartlett c and b Loveridge 1 VP Selth c Stephens b Murray 6 RJB Townsend c Adams b Loveridge 18 AE Hodder c Baker b Loveridge 22 FH Golding c Emerson b Murray 0 JJ Barrett c Schultz b Loveridge 15 JK Bruce not out 9 GA Whiting st Schultz b Murray 0 Extras b2, lb5 7


8/174, 9/195, 10/196

O M R W Riley 9 2 20 0 Emerson 10 1 49 0 Murray 18.3 0 90 5 Loveridge 22 9 30 5 Source: Various contemporary Adelaide newspapers – the Mail, the Register, the Advertiser, the News and the Daily Herald – between 29 March and 17 April 1924. Also noted in The Cricketer 1924 no.4 page 123. Close of play: Day 1 – East Torrens 226-7 (Murray 118, Baker 8); Day 2 – East Torrens 470 all out; Day 3 – Sturt 151-5 (Gould 80, Hodder 14) This was the Grade A Final of the Adelaide Premiership Murray and Baker added 257 for the 8th wicket. Murray batted 419 minutes and hit 27 fours; Baker batted 239 minutes. Murray was the first out.

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Holmesdale School, Reigate v Horley Council School 1924 1 Venue Reigate, Surrey Date May 1924 Result Holmesdale School, Reigate, won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Horley Council School First innings Second innings

No details known Extras

Total (all out) (all out) 7 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/? 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/? O M R W O M R W Tucker 16 6 0 10 Holmesdale School First innings

S Tucker 12 Extras

Total (all out) Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/? O M R W Source: The Cricketer 9 August 1924 page 456. There is no reference to the match in the Reigate-based Surrey Mirror. The order in which the sides batted, the first-innings totals, and whether Holmesdale School had a second innings, are not known. Gross refers to the home side as ‘Homedale British School’, but no reference to such an establishment has been traced. ‘Holmesdale’ was a school in the Reigate area, and has therefore been preferred. The visiting team is named as Hooley Council School in The Cricketer, but as Horley Council School by Gross. Hooley and Horley are both villages (or larger, nowadays) in Surrey, and neither is far from Reigate, so the identity of the visiting school is uncertain. The successful bowler Sidney Tucker was aged 13.

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Wanderers v Wakefield 1924/25 1 Venue Nelson, NZ Date 8, 15 November 1924 Result Not known Toss Umpires Wanderers innings

RC Eden not out 252 H Knapp c Lawson b Batt 6 MR Eden not out 179 Eden Eden Eden Knapp Doidge Baigent Eggers Eyles Extras 15

Total (for 1 wicket) 452 Fall 1/15 O M R W Batt 1 Wakefield – did not bat

O Price W Banks H Griffith B Griffith W Batt J Eves RB Lawson H Currin R Davies W Brisbane JR Clark Extras

Total Fall O M R W

Source: Nelson Evening Mail 10 and 15 November 1924

Reports after 8 November indicate that the match was due to continue on 15th, but there is no mention of the game in the newspapers following that date. Several games in the area were badly affected by rain on 15th, but whether there could be no play in this match on that date, or whether Wakefield had conceded, is not indicated. Five members of the Eden family were in the Wanderers’ side. Those who batted were Reg Eden and Maurice Eden. Reg hit 31 fours and one six; Maurice hit five fours and ten sixes. This was a match in the Waimea Cricket Association Senior Championship

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Eden v University 1924/25 1 Venue Eden Park No. 1 Ground, Auckland Date 31 January, 7 February 1925 Result Eden won on first innings Toss Umpires Thanks: HW University innings

LH Saunders c Whelan b Postles 0 DR Garrard c and b Cooper 38 Player b Cooper 62 *+ WR Garrard b Taylor 23 CL Metge b Blair 109 E Gee c Brook-Smith b Whelan 17 LG Goodwin c Whelan b Taylor 12 PW Burbridge c Taylor b Cooper 19 CR Jones b Cooper 6 R Kelly not out 12 E Wells c Gillespie b Blair 11 Extras 18

Total (all out) 327 Fall 1/0, 2/88, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/210, 7/?, 8/?, 9/313,

10/327

O M R W Postles 47 1 Whelan 68 1 Cooper 80 4 Taylor 25 2 Blair 30 2 Eden innings

JE Mills not out 236 HD Gillespie c Gee b Burbidge 234 G Twentyman b WR Garrard 9 HW Buckley c Saunders b WR Garrard 2 RF Whelan lbw b WR Garrard 1 AJ Postles LW Cooper RC Taylor WA Blair W Brook-Smith A Weir Extras 4

Total (for 4 wickets) 486 Fall 1/441, 2/?, 3/?, 4/486 O M R W Player 88 0 DR Garrard 133 0 Wells 36 0 Jones 17 0 Goodwin 40 0 Saunders 58 0 Gee 17 0 Kelly 22 0 Burbidge 41 1 WR Garrard 20 3 Metge 10 0 Source: New Zealand Herald 2 and 9 February 1925; Auckland Star 9 and 13 February 1925; Evening Post (Wellington) 2 February 1925. Close of Play, Day 1: University 327 all out.

The number of boundaries by Mills and Gillespie is unknown. Metge hit 17 fours in his 109

The paper of 2 February names the Eden no. 11 as McCarthy, that of 9 Feb as A Weir. As the latter would presumably have batted had he been required to do so, his name is given here.

This was a match in the Auckland Association, Senior Grade. Further information from Harry Watton

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Farnham v Half Axes XV 1924/25 1 Venue Stuart Town, NSW, Australia Date 22 March 1925 Result Half Axes XV won by 74 runs Toss Thanks: HW Umpires Players per side: Farnham 11, Half Axes 15 Half Axes First innings Second innings

H Brazier 60 19 L Jones 14 0 V Dickerson 65 8 T Dutfield 0 59 -Dong 7 3 -Dong 4 5 F Brown 1 0 C Sloane 7 0 W Brazier 6 0 W Lawson 0 0 A Jones 0 2 R Dickerson 3 1 C Barker 5 9 A Paix 6 0 W Dutfield 0 5 Extras 8 10

Total (all out) 186 (all out) 121 Fall 1-13 not known, 14/186 1-13 not known, 14/121 O M R W O M R W Farnham First innings Second innings

R Stibbard 26 10 W Sloane 12 0 S Lawson 33 6 B Collins 10 8 H Priest 3 17 B Mitchell 25 4 J Gleeson 0 8 F Gleeson 11 9 E Sloane 4 0 C Marning 13 0 J Simms 3 0 Extras 6 5

Total (all out) 146 (all out) 87 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/146 1-9 not known, 10/87 O M R W O M R W H Brazier 10 9 Source: Wellington Times (NSW) 12, 26 March and 6 April 1925; The Leader (Orange, NSW) 3 April 1925

Gross says that in this match between 11 adults and 15 boys, H Brazier took 19 of the adults’ wickets in the match. He just refers to the fixture as ’15 Boys v 11 Men’. The Cricketer also reports on the feat, saying that H Brazier of Orange (NSW), aged 16, took 19 wickets and caught the other, with his side winning by 150 runs (a figure not consistent with the fuller scores given in local sources).

The Sydney Morning Herald names the bowler as Harry Brazier. The Wellington Times of 26 March states that he took the last five wickets of the match in seven balls, ending with a hat-trick.

The published scorecards show two players named W Dong in the Half Axes side. Players named W Dong and N Dong played together in other matches for Half Axes and for Stuart Town Juniors in March 1925, and it is therefore likely that both played in this game – but which batted at no. 5 and which at no. 6 is uncertain.

Paix (Half Axes) is sometimes given as Paikes.

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Linwood 7th Grade v Cathedral Grammar School 1925/26 1 Venue Hospital Corner No. 10 Ground, Christchurch, New Zealand Date 5 December 1925 Result Linwood 7th Grade won by an innings and 80 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Linwood 7th Grade First innings

A Rimmer Extras


10/144

O M R W O M R W Cathedral Grammar School First innings Second innings


10/34 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/30

O M R W O M R W Rimmer 4 10 12 10

Source: The Press (Christchurch) 2, 3, 7 December 1925; NZ Truth 12 December 1925 Albert Rimmer took all 20 wickets in the two Cathedral GS innings for a total of 16 runs, including a hat-trick in the first innings. He is referred to in the Referee (Sydney) of 23 December 1925 as a 14-year-old schoolboy from Waltham (Christchurch) who had been coached by Frank Shacklock (Notts, Otago etc). His feat is also noted in several other NZ newspapers, but with no further details. Linwood named a squad of 13 two days before the match: Rimmer, Falgar, Brown, J Hobson, Graham, Todd, Priest, Harris, Prisk, Paton, Barnes, Brooke and Parsons. Details of the final XI are not known. This was a match in the Canterbury Boys Cricket Association, 7th Grade

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Warringa v Public Works 1925/26 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 26 September 1925 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that J O’Reilly and H Moorehouse shared a partnership of 245 for Warringa’s ninth wicket, in this match in the Northern Suburbs A Grade Association. The match is noted in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney) of 28 September 1925, which says that O’Reilly scored 225 and H Moorehouse 91, and that their stand was worth 246 for the ninth wicket. This contemporary detail is preferred. The Telegraph also says that the match was in the North Sydney Junior Association – whether the Northern Suburbs Association was part of the North Sydney Association, or whether the two were entirely separate, is not known.

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Horley v HC Furness’s XI 1926 1 Venue Horley, Surrey Date 17 August 1926 Result Horley won by 2 wickets (and batted on) Toss HC Furness’s XI Umpires Thanks: HW HC Furness’s XI innings

HC Furness c Motion b GHS Parsons 49 RH White c and b Barton 0 AM Coppin b Barton 5 JG Mason b Green 17 RA Grimston b GHS Parsons 0 R Wickens c P Parsons b Harris 6 AO Coppin c Goulding b P Parsons 48 JC Sopper b Young 26 RWF Godfrey not out 16 WS Smythe b Young 0 RJ Jolliff b Young 6 Extras 20

Total (all out) 193 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/193 O M R W GHS Parsons 10 2 Young 10 3 Harris 1 Green 1 Barton 2 P Parsons 1 Horley innings

PN Barton b Sopper 1 KR Pickard lbw b AO Coppin 7 C Goulding c White b Wickens 0 JT Motion b AM Coppin 6 W Harris c Sopper b AO Coppin 3 K Green b Wickens 0 B Le May b AO Coppin 0 Spring Rice c Sopper b Furness 17 TA Young not out 97 GHS Parsons c Godfrey b Sopper 153 P Parsons b AM Coppin 2 Extras 27

Total (all out) 313 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/81, 9/288,

10/313

O M R W Sopper 2 AM Coppin 2 AO Coppin 3 Wickens 2 Furness 1 Source: Surrey Mirror 20 August 1926 Gross says that Young and GHS Parsons [Gross just has ‘S Parsons’] added 230 for Horley’s ninth wicket, but from the source report the partnership was actually worth 207. The Mirror says that Mr Furness’s XI had originally been intended to be a side from his own school (Broadfield), “but [later he] had to include four adults. The Horley team also included seven players from various schools, together with four adults. The seven schoolboys batted first in the Horley innings”.

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North Fitzroy United v Coles CC 1926/27 1 Venue Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Date 22 January 1927 Result North Fitzroy United won by an innings and 112 runs Toss North Fitzroy United Umpires Gange and Janner Thanks: HW Coles CC First innings

S Wardley R Michie Lister 48 Quinlan not out 63


9/?, 10/31 O M R W O M R W Wardley 0 5 7 3 Michie 0 5 10 1 Lister 2 3 North Fitzroy United First innings Second innings

S Wardley R Michie Lister 48 Quinlan not out 63

Total (for 4 wickets, declared) 143 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? O M R W Source: Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 22, 29 January 1927; The Argus (Melbourne) 24 January 1927; The Sun (Sydney) 23 January 1927. Umpires from The Herald (Melbourne) 21 January 1927 Gross names the losing side as Cole’s XI, but the above is correct. Further information from Harry Watton confirms that Coles CC batted first. This was a match in the North Suburban Cricket Association Third Grade, B Section.

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Westfield Lodge v School House A 1927 1 Venue Upper Field, Bishops Stortford College, Hertfordshire Date 18 May 1927 Result School House A won by 7 wickets and batted on Toss Westfield Lodge Umpires Thanks: HW Westfield Lodge innings

GE Valentine c Williams b JH Wagstaff 58 WF Mauger c Steel b Collett 0 FW Knight c Titchmarsh b Collett 0 K Pritchard c Steel b JH Wagstaff 0 JF Weston b Collett 1 CT Delaney b Collett 0 C Hotson b Collett 0 BG Nichol b Collett 0 JN Starkey run out 0 BW Leonard b JH Wagstaff 0 EF Moxey not out 1 Extras 0

Total (all out) 60 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/59, 10/60 O M R W Collett 6 JH Wagstaff 3 School House A innings

APM Nolan b Valentine 0 HH Wagstaff not out 32 WG Williams b Valentine 0 KLJ Smith b Valentine 21 SJ Houlden b Valentine 6 JH Wagstaff R Collett FG Rhodes NJ Methuen RD Steel PF Titchmarsh Extras 3

Total (for 4 wickets) 62 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/?, 4/62 O M R W Valentine 19 4

Source: The Stortfordian Vol XLI no. 122 (July 1927) GE Valentine, who was ninth out for Westfield House, scored 58 out of 59 runs added while at the crease in this house match (98.30%), and 58 out of the innings total of 60 (96.67%). The match report in The Stortfordian gives the result as a win by six wickets, but from the scorecard School House A must have reached their winning target before losing their fourth wicket. School House A was a separate house in its own right; there was also an entirely separate School House B. George Engebert Valentine subsequently won a rugby Blue at Cambridge (St Catharine’s College) and played in an England trial match. He was awarded the DSO in WW2, and was killed in action on 3 September 1941.

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Ceylon v New Zealanders 1927/28 5 Venue Colombo, Ceylon Date 8 October 1927 Result Match drawn Toss Ceylon Umpires F Ondaatje. AB Ricketts Ceylon innings

MK Albert c and b Allcott 49 WT Brindley st James b Allcott 24 EHLG Sinclair b Henderson 17 FA Waldock b Henderson 4 *CH Gunasekara st James b Merritt 47 EGS Kelaart c Blunt b Merritt 48 T Cuming st James b Merritt 0 S Saravanamuttu st James b Merritt 0 DA Wright c Oliver b Merritt 6 LV Jayaweera lbw b Blunt 0 + VC Schokman not out 14 Extras lb1, nb1 2


8/194, 9/195, 10/211

O M R W McGirr 2 0 16 0 Henderson 15 6 38 2 Merritt 20 1 86 5 Allcott 14 4 32 2 Blunt 11 1 36 1 Dempster 1 0 1 0 New Zealanders innings

HM McGirr c Schokman b Gunasekara 0 ML Page b Jayaweera 1 CS Dempster c Cuming b Brindley 87 RC Blunt lbw b Gunasekara 7 CCR Dacre c Gunasekara b Sinclair 37 CJ Oliver b Sinclair 5 *TC Lowry b Brindley 12 CFW Allcott c Schokman b Brindley 0 + KC James c Schokman b Brindley 45 WE Merritt not out 3 M Henderson not out 0 Extras 0

Total (for 9 wickets) 197 Fall 1/0, 2/2, 3/9, 4/64, 5/70, 6/96, 7/111, 8/176,

9/197

O M R W Gunasekara 8 4 19 2 Jayaweera 9 1 32 1 Sinclair 8 0 71 2 Brindley 17 4 51 4 Kelaart 11 3 24 0 Source: Cricket Archive, scorecard misc30238 CA says that Merritt took a hat-trick in the Ceylon innings (Kelaart, Cuming, Saravanamuttu).

Gross records Merritt’s HT as being all-stumped, but that is not borne out by the details in the above card. Men in White however says (on page 95) that all three victims of the HT were stumped, and this is also the opinion of Francis Payne (in email correspondence during 2019). There is little mention of the match in papers currently (March 2020) in Papers Past, but the all-stumped HT is specifically noted in the NZ Herald of 16 November [sic] 1927 – though indicating that these were wickets 6, 7 and 8: “The fifth wicket fell at 191. The next man in was stumped first ball off Merritt. The next two batsmen were also stumped by James off the first ball they received from Merritt, who thus obtained the ‘hat trick’.”

It all depends who was first out of Kelaart and Gunasekara. Ceylonese newspapers have not yet been explored.

https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/529/529.html

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J Bayley & Sons v Marcus Clark 1928/29 1 Venue Moore Park, Sydney Date 8, 15 September 1928 Result J Bayley & Sons won by an innings and 397 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW J Bayley & Sons First innings

P Williams not out 216 N West not out 226 Extras 25

Total (for no wicket, declared) 467 Fall O M R W Marcus Clark First innings Second innings

Total (all out) 47 (all out) 23 Fall O M R W Source: The Arrow (Sydney) 7 and 14 September 1928; Sydney Morning Herald 19 September 1928; The Referee (Sydney) 19 September 1928 Close of Play: Day 1 – J Bayley & Sons 467-0 (Williams 216*, West 226*) 18-year-old Williams hit 41 fours in his 216*, and West hit 47 fours in his 226* N West took 4-22 for J Bayley & Sons in one of the innings of Marcus Clark This was a match in the Moore Park Cricket Association, Wholesale and Retail Grade Further information from Harry Watton

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Dawsmere v Long Sutton Scouts 1929 1 Venue Dawsmere, Lincolnshire Date July 1929 Result Long Sutton Scouts won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Dawsmere innings

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Petchell 0 7 Wiles 0 2 Long Sutton Scouts innings

P Mackinder 22 W Petchell Wiles

Total (all out) 50 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/50 O M R W Source: Spalding Guardian 20 July 1929 - in the ‘Long Sutton news’ section of the paper rather than the sports pages. The Guardian does not give the exact date of the match. If it was a Saturday fixture, it would have been 13 July. The newspaper also does not indicate which side batted first – hence the uncertainty over the precise result. It is also not clear if these were adult or junior sides – ‘Scouts’ may be a team name rather than an indicator that the visitors were members of the Boy Scouts organisation; or it may not. There is no express suggestion that the Dawsmere side was anything other than the village’s first XI. Gross names the bowler who took 7-0 as W Mitchell, but the Guardian is clear on W Petchell. That surname can be found in the Long Sutton area around this time, and I am content to go with the contemporary local paper. Similarly, the paper’s venue of Dawsmere is preferred over Gross’s listing of the match as being in Long Sutton.

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Totteridge v Fortess CC 1929 4 Venue Totteridge, Middlesex Date 1 September 1929 Result Match tied Toss Umpires Players per side: 12-a-side Totteridge First innings Second innings

KD Farnham b Murphy 0 c Cambell b Murphy 6 R Farnham lbw b Murphy 0 c Lynch b Murphy 0 F Ensten b A Francis 0 c Cambell b -Francis 1 H Jenkin b Lovelace 16 b Lovelace 13 A Warnock b Lovelace 17 b Murphy 1 W Dennison b Lovelace 1 c Cambell b Lovelace 4 F Page b Murphy 0 b Weedon 3 W Taylor b Lovelace 13 c King b -Francis 2 D MacFarlane c Lynch b -Francis 8 run out 17 G Grant b Lovelace 13 not out 7 N Briers not out 15 c Cambell b Graham 0 J Slow b -Francis 0 b Graham 2 Extras 11 17

Total (all out) 94 (all out) 73 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/94 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/,

9/?, 10/?, 11/73

O M R W O M R W Murphy 3 3 A Francis 1 0 Lovelace 5 2 -Francis 2 2 Weedon 1 Graham 2 Fortess CC First innings Second innings

E Francis b Briers 3 b Dennison 9 C Whynny c K Farnham b Briers 2 run out 3 W Cambell run out 20 b Warnock 6 A Francis c Taylor b Briers 4 b Warnock 0 H Ring c Jenkin b Taylor 1 c Page b Warnock 3 J Graham lbw b Taylor 0 c Jenkin b Dennison 1 R Lovelace c Page b Taylor 0 b Dennison 1 C Young b Dennison 13 c Warnock b Briers 18 T Weedon c K Farnham b Ensten 23 run out 3 B Laird b Taylor 2 not out 6 F Lynch not out 4 c -Farnham b Warnock 10 J Murphy b Warnock 18 c Dennison b Briers 6 Extras 3 7

Total (all out) 94 (all out) 73 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/?, 11/94 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/?, 11/73

O M R W O M R W Briers 3 2 Taylor 4 0 Dennison 1 3 Ensten 1 0 Warnock 1 4

Gross records the match between Totteridge and Fortress Club [sic] as having been a four-way tie, with both teams scoring 94 in each of their innings. But the details of the match in the Barnet Press for 7 September 1929 – as above – show that although this was a tie, and although both teams tied on their first and their second innings, the scores in those two innings were not the same. The match does not therefore meet the strict definition of a four-way tie as listed by Gross. The Barnet Times is consistent in naming the Fortess player as ‘Cambell’, and here and in other matches naming his side as Fortess and not Fortress (as given by Gross). Fortess’s first innings score totals to 93 …

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Bedford School v Marylebone Cricket Club 1930 5 Venue Bedford School Date 7 June 1930 Result Marylebone Cricket Club won by 4 wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires KSW Bedford School innings

GM Moll b Powell 11 LP Cocks st Mathias b Powell 23 RG Wise st Mathias b Powell 23 JS Moll st Mathias b Powell 2 RAE Traill b Smith 26 FGC Gilbert st Mathias b Powell 0 JA Edwards st Mathias b Powell 10 WE Suter b Powell 6 WR Geering b Powell 0 GC Noble not out 3 FJO Lasbrey st Mathias b Powell 0 Extras b7, lb3 10

Total (all out) 114 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/114 O M R W Powell 49 9 Smith 1 Marylebone Cricket Club innings

HW Taylor b Wise 49 HW Dods c Wise b Traill 36 CG Maude b Wise 2 + OL Mathias b Gilbert 2 JB Orr lbw b Gilbert 2 SL Trevor not out 31 GC Melluish b Noble 6 TH Carlton Levick b Traill 12 TGA Miles c Lasbrey b Traill 1 JA Powell c JS Moll b Traill 5 CIJ Smith absent hurt - Extras b6, lb2 8

Total (all out) 154 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/154 O M R W Wise 2 Traill 4 Gilbert 2 Noble 1

Source: MCC scores for 1930. Also checked against the scorecard in the Bedfordshire Times 13 June 1930; there are some relatively minor differences between the two sources, but the MCC book has been preferred. The MCC book states the result as a win by the Club by 40 runs, though it is more correct to give it as a win by an unknown number of wickets. HW Taylor was the former South African captain, while JA Powell and CIJ Smith were contemporary or future Middlesex players. Since the first edition of ‘Major Feats’ the scorecard of this match has been placed on Cricket Archive, which gives the result as above, and not as a win for MCC by 40 runs as stated in their own book of match scores. CA also gives CIJ Smith as ‘absent hurt’ rather than just ‘absent’ as in the MCC book.

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Hythe v Free Foresters 1930 1 Venue Hythe, Kent Date 11, 12 August 1930 Result Free Foresters won by an innings and 134 runs Toss Umpires Hythe First innings Second innings

LT Marson b Holloway 47 b Holloway 0 R Munds b Holloway 31 st Castle b Ashton 21 DAT Standring b Holloway 0 c Castle b Ashton 10 H Sutherland b Holloway 1 b Holloway 12 CK Douglas b Holloway 2 b Tuff 55 F Phillips b Holloway 4 c Castle b Holloway 2 J Goddard b Holloway 4 b Holloway 16 AW Stansfeld b Holloway 1 not out 32 EM Brittan b Holloway 7 c Blaxland b Ashton 2 RAM Bassett lbw b Wheatley 0 lbw b Ashton 0 JS Fuller not out 0 b Tuff 3 Extras 2 11

Total (all out) 99 (all out) 164 Fall 1/71, 2/71, 3/77, 4/?, 5/81, 6/88, 7/89, 8/91,

9/99, 10/99 1/1, 2/31, 3/43, 4/59, 5/63, 6/85,

7/156, 8/159, 9/160, 10/164 O M R W O M R W Holloway 24 9 23 4 Wheatley 52 1 25 0 Hough 17 0 31 0 Blaxland 4 0 20 0 Ashton 45 4 Tuff 4 2 Free Foresters First innings

IDK Fleming not out 203 CR Tuff b Phillips 6 J Kilgour b Phillips 3 LB Blaxland b Phillips 12 G Ashton c Bassett b Phillips 0 GD Hough b Phillips 14 + LMT Castle b Bassett 5 RC Huband not out 120 JB Wheatley Snowden NJ Holloway Extras 34

Total (for 6 wickets, declared) 397 Fall 1/?, 2/24, 3/45, 4/45, 5/?, 6/87 O M R W Phillips 100 5 Bassett 89 1 Fuller 52 0 Douglas 19 0 Standring 12 0 Stansfeld 18 0 Goddard 19 0 Brittan 21 0 Marson 23 0

Source: Folkestone Herald 16 August 1930

Close of Play, Day 1: Free Foresters (1) 240-6 (Fleming 125, Huband 53). [Note that ‘Huband’ is the correct name.]

Gross says that Fleming and Huband added 265* for the seventh wicket, but from the above score the partnership was actually worth 310*. This figure is expressly stated in the Folkestone Herald, and tallies with all other details in the match report, including the statement that they had added 153* overnight. Fleming hit one six and 28 fours, while Huband hit 14 fours.

Gross names the FF opener as ‘JDK Fleming’; the Herald just names him as ‘ID’. The Kent player IDK Fleming played for FF at Tonbridge School later in the week, so it may be assumed that he played in this match too. The successful bowler NJ Holloway was a former Sussex player.

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Mitre House v Priory House 1930 1 Venue First Ground, Repton School, Derbyshire Date 10 July 1930 Result Priory House won by nine wickets Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Priory House First innings Second innings

JF Mendl c Hodgkinson b Wood 27 c Browne b Blomefield 8 LD MacBrayne c Hudson b Yule 81 not out 1 DF Mendl c Weinberg b Blomefield 22 not out 2 KJ Mendl c Browne b Yule 27 A Clyde-Smith not out 9 RD Llewellyn b Blomefield 13 + HWP Middleton lbw b Blomefield 0 JDNC Henderson b Weinberg 4 BR MacNamara b Weinberg 0 AC Mackay lbw b Blomefield 3 CD Beaumont lbw b Blomefield 2 Extras 15 0

Total (all out) 203 (for 1 wicket) 11 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/203 1/?

O M R W O M R W Blomefield 63 5 1 Wood 1 Yule 2 Weinberg 2 Mitre House First innings Second innings (following on)

HG Hudson lbw b KJ Mendl 1 b KJ Mendl 18 EA Hodgkinson c KJ Mendl b MacBrayne 13 st Middleton b Beaumont 7 EJD Mackintosh c Llewellyn b Henderson 9 c Middleton b KJ Mendl 10 WE Blomefield c Mackay b KJ Mendl 4 st Middleton b Beaumont 22 EA Kaye c Middleton b Henderson 3 st Middleton b Beaumont 3 GB Browne c Mackay b KJ Mendl 0 c Middleton b Beaumont 11 AG Wood b KJ Mendl 3 st Middleton b Beaumont 19 J Furnival b KJ Mendl 20 st Middleton b Beaumont 0 SJL Lawry not out 7 not out 15 JJ Weinberg b MacBrayne 14 c Middleton b Beaumont 7 RA Yule c KJ Mendl b MacBrayne 0 st Middleton b Beaumont 1 Extras 17 9

Total (all out) 91 (all out) 122 Fall 1/1, 2/1, 3/1, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/91 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/122

O M R W O M R W KJ Mendl 37 5 2 MacBrayne 3 Henderson 2 Beaumont 47 8 Source: The Reptonian October 1930, courtesy of Paul Stevens (Repton School Archivist) Gross agrees that Middleton made nine dismissals in an innings of this match, but divides them as 1ct 8st. Wisden also gives these figures. However, the scorecard in The Reptonian shows 3ct 6st, and as the most contemporary source, and that closest to the match itself, this is assumed to be correct. This was a first round match in the school’s house competition. The date of the match is as given in Wisden 1940 page 96 (where the details are given as 1ct 8st).

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Smithfield v Aliwal North 1930/31 1 Venue Smithfield, Orange Free State, South Africa Date 1930/31 season Result Smithfield won by 19 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Smithfield innings

P Hugo Extras

Total (all out) 22 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/22 O M R W Aliwal North innings

Extras (b1) 1

Total (all out) 3 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/3 O M R W Hugo 2 10 Gross, and several other sources (including Wisden), say that Paul Hugo took nine wickets with consecutive deliveries in this schoolboy match for Smithfield, and Gross states elsewhere that his final innings figures were ten wickets for two runs. In reporting the latter, he gives the venue of the match as Johannesburg. But Smithfield and Johannesburg are actually nearly 300 miles apart, and so Smithfield appears the more plausible venue. The match and Hugo’s performances were also briefly noted in e.g. the Liverpool Echo and the Belfast Telegraph, both of 10 March 1931. These reports are said to be sourced from a correspondent to the Johannesburg Morning Post: this may be the source of Gross’s recording of the match as taking place in Johannesburg. They state that Hugo was a left-arm bowler, and that he took his nine-in-nine with the last three balls of his first over, and all six balls of his second over. It is unclear whether his tenth wicket, and the two runs he conceded, came in the course of the first three balls of his first over, or in a third over. No further information on the game has been traced. The British Library holds the Bloemfontein-published newspaper The Friend for the years in question, but all their volumes for this period are declared to be unfit to show to researchers.

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Reading School v Marylebone Cricket Club 1931 1 Venue Reading School, Berkshire Date 2 June 1931 Result MCC won on first innings by 103 runs Toss Umpires Players per side: 12 Thanks: HW Reading School First innings Second innings

JE Scrivener b McCaskie 0 HE Dollery not out 104 EJ Vernon b McCaskie 0 RJ Wilson b McCaskie 0 LH Sandiford b McCaskie 2 RCW Thomas run out 1 CC Wilson c Stephens b Hawkins 1 LM McSweeney run out 1 not out 13 + KB West c McCaskie b Hawkins 2 not out 24 DB McKenzie st Hugonin b McCaskie 1 b Gilliat 0 GD Heath st Hugonin b Hawkins 3 b Gilliat 0 DG Stokes b McCaskie 0 b Gilliat 0 Extras 0 lb1, w4 5


10/115

O M R W O M R W McCaskie 6 Hawkins 3 Gilliat 3 Marylebone Cricket Club First innings

Capt WTF Holland st West b Vernon 32 IAW Gilliat c Thomas b Vernon 51 N McCaskie b Dollery 48 Maj WGM Sarel lbw b McSweeney 1 Col G Matthews b McSweeney 0 Capt GC Wall b Vernon 10 G Tylden-Wright c Stokes b Scrivener 10 FA Hawkins not out 22 D Stephens st West b Scrivener 12 Rev J Barker not out 13 + Capt FE Hugonin Col HF Darell Extras b15, lb3, nb1 19 Total (for 8 wickets, declared) 218 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?

O M R W Vernon 3 Dollery 1 McSweeney 2 Scrivener 2 Source: The Cricketer 20 June 1931 page 254; A History of Cricket at Reading School (various authors, no date); MCC Scores for 1931. Players’ initials are taken from the MCC source. In some sources (but not MCC’s own book of match-scores) the visiting side is named as ‘An MCC XI’.

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Married v Single 1932 2 Venue South Woodford, Essex Date 8 May 1932 Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that a player from each side took all ten wickets in an innings in this match - E Martin for Married and AH Knight for Single. This was an early-season match within the South Woodford club. It is reported as a news item (without scores) in The Cricketer (28 May 1932 page 106; the former bowler is here named as ‘E Marten’), and is also mentioned in the Chelmsford Chronicle of 13 May 1932, which reports that EG Martin took 10-31 for the bachelors (i.e. Single), and leg-spinner Albert Knight took 10-24 for Married. (Note that this reverses the teams as compared with Gross’s record of the event.) There is no reference to the match in either the Woodford Times or the Woodford & District Advertiser.

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Marimallappa High School, Mysore, v Bangalore Wesleyan High School 1932/33 1 Venue University Athletic Ground, Mysore, India Date 16 October 1932 Result Marimallappa High School won by six wickets Toss Umpires Bangalore Wesleyan HS First innings Second innings

Extras


10/72 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/29

O M R W O M R W Ramaswami 21 10 10 10 Marimallappa HS First innings Second innings

YS Ramaswami


10/91 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?

O M R W O M R W

Source: Times of India 20 October 1932. Some details from article at mysoregymkhana.blogspot.com- /search/label/All-twenty%20wickets The match is not reported in contemporary issues of the Madras Mail. YS Ramaswami (CA player 40569) took a hat-trick in the second innings of Bangalore Wesleyan HS. This was the final of the Dusserah Cricket Tournament (Junior)

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Wendover v Weston Turville 1933 1 Venue Wendover, Buckinghamshire Date 10 June 1933 Result Match tied Toss Umpires Wendover First innings Second innings

Extras


9/, 10/31

O M R W O M R W Weston Turville First innings Second innings

Extras

Total (all out) 31 (for 3 wickets) 31 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/31 1/?, 2/?, 3/? O M R W O M R W Source: Bucks Herald 16 June 1933 The Bucks Herald gives no other details, beyond saying that the tie was secured when two runs were scored off the last ball of the match. The occurrence is also recorded in the Uxbridge & West Drayton Gazette of 7 July 1933, with no further details; but it is not noted in the Bucks Advertiser or the Thame Gazette. Gross says that Weston Turville were 31-8 in their second innings [rather than 31-3]. This may well have been the case, but at this stage I prefer to stick with the above contemporary source.

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Beaconsfield v Old Harvistians 1933 1 Venue Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Date 11 June 1933 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Beaconsfield innings

SJ Saunders b Edwards 21 HA Graham c Overall b Aplin 23 RM King c and b Aplin 18 P Lyons st Butland b Aplin 3 JL Montague st Butland b Aplin 24 BG Rodd st Butland b Aplin 48 R Flatt st Butland b Aplin 9 VG Baylis st Butland b Aplin 7 E Hodges not out 2 VC Baylis st Butland b Snowden 30 AHT Vane Extras 14

Total (for 9 wickets, declared) 199 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/199 O M R W Aplin 7 Edwards 1 Snowden 1 Old Harvistians innings

Edwards not out 23 Smith st [unknown] b Hodges 5 Aplin c Graham b Hodges 4 + A Butland b VG Baylis 6 Overall b Graham 25 Baker c Hodges b Graham 1 H Finch b Graham 4 V Snowden not out 2 D Hearley Church R Grove Extras 14

Total (for 6 wickets) 84 Fall 1/, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/? O M R W Hodges 2 VG Baylis 1 Graham 11 3 Source: Bucks Free Press 16 June 1933 The Bucks Free Press does not give any initials of those in the Old Harvistians side. However, five of those players may be identified with five who played for the same team v Hampstead Grammar School in July 1933, where they are named in the Hendon Times of 14 July as A Butland, H Finch, V Snowdon [sic], D Hurly [sic] and R Grove. The spellings of the surnames in the Free Press are given here in preference to those in the Hendon Times, but with no great conviction as to their accuracy.

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Childwell Choir Boys v Garston Choir Boys 1933 2 Venue Childwell, Liverpool Date 1933 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that the Childwell side was dismissed for 0 in this match. The match is not mentioned in any newspapers currently available in the BNA. Various other newspapers covering the Liverpool area are available at the BL, though the likelihood of an event in such an apparently minor, junior, game being reported in any local newspaper is probably small.

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Sir Julien Cahn’s XI v Bedfordshire 1934 1 Venue Loughborough Road, Nottingham Date 6, 7 June 1934 Result Sir Julien Cahn’s XI won by an innings and 34 runs Toss Bedfordshire Umpires Thanks: HW Bedfordshire First innings Second innings

AB Poole c Richmond b Morkel 25 b Peebles 18 RV Smith lbw b Heane 5 c Blunt b Peebles 0 EE Ward b Heane 5 b Peebles 0 F Rawlins b Heane 0 c Gibb b Heane 21 EC Howard b Morkel 0 c Gibb b Peebles 10 SP Keech st Maxwell b Peebles 61 b Peebles 4 Clifford Rawlins b Heane 8 (9) c Summers b Morkel 79 CB Bailey c Peebles b Richmond 38 b Cahn 26 CW Rawlins b Richmond 16 (7) b Morkel 45 RV Ward not out 27 not out 5 + E Page b Richmond 1 lbw b Peebles 0 Extras 11 16

Total (all out) 197 (all out) 224 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/39, 4/39, 5/39, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/197 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/62, 7/163, 8/?, 9/?, 10/224

O M R W O M R W Heane 40 4 51 1 Morkel 61 2 27 1 Cahn 43 0 (5) 50 1 Richmond 33 3 9 0 Summers 3 0 (6) 13 0 Peebles 6 1 (3) 55 6 Reddick 3 0 Sir Julien Cahn’s XI First innings

SD Rhodes b RV Ward 8 PA Gibb lbw b CW Rawlins 31 DPB Morkel c EE Ward b F Rawlins 158 GF Summers b Poole 246 J Cahn not out 5 TB Reddick RC Blunt + CR Maxwell GFH Heane IAR Peebles L Richmond Extras 7

Total (for 4 wickets, declared) 455 Fall 1/?, 2/39, 3/443, 4/455 O M R W CW Rawlins 116 1 Bailey 84 0 RV Ward 64 1 Keech 50 0 C Rawlins 69 0 F Rawlins 39 1 Poole 26 1 Source: Nottingham Evening Post 6, 7 June 1934; Nottingham Journal 7, 8 June 1934; Bedfordshire Times 8 June 1934 (Correction to Howard’s initials courtesy Harry Watton.) Close of play, Day 1: Cahn’s XI 145-2 (Morkel 42, Summers 58) Summers hit 30 fours and four sixes; Morkel hit 16 fours and two sixes. Morkel was first out (at 443). In the Cahn’s XI innings, the Bedfordshire Times gives Gibb 34 and Extras 4. Both Nottingham papers give 31 and 7, as above.

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Sir Julien Cahn’s XI v Leicestershire Gentlemen 1934 1 Venue Stanford Hall, Stanford on Soar, Nottinghamshire Date 3, 4 September 1934 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Sir Julien Cahn’s XI First innings

GFH Heane c Munt b Luker 55 TB Reddick c Stephenson b Partridge 71 SD Rhodes c Hole b Partridge 43 RC Blunt c Beresford b Stephenson 59 FCW Newman c Partridge b Beisiegel 0 EP Solbe b Beisiegel 0 + CRN Maxwell not out 183 GF Summers c Beresford b Stephenson 122 DPB Morkel not out 3 RWV Robins IAR Peebles Extras 28

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 571 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, O M R W Luker 1 Partridge 2 Stephenson 2 Beisiegel 2 Leicestershire Gentlemen First innings Second innings (following on)

DN Hoole st Maxwell b Robins 24 b Rhodes 0 KSB Lucking c Summers b Robins 24 c Maxwell b Summers 0 AT Sharp st Maxwell b Robins 22 b Rhodes 5 WE Beisiegel b Robins 1 lbw b Newman 41 CLM Brown lbw b Robins 7 c Summers b Reddick 44 RH Stephenson b Peebles 1 b Reddick 14 NE Partridge c Robins b Peebles 16 st Maxwell b Robins 12 HR Munt st Maxwell b Robins 5 b Newman 2 HA Beresford lbw b Peebles 0 not out 9 L Richmond not out 1 not out 10 DAM Rome absent ill - Extras ? 4

Total (all out) 108 (for 8 wickets) 141 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/108 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/? O M R W O M R W Robins 44 6 (2) 1 1 Peebles 3 Newman (1) 9 2 Rhodes (3) 25 2 Reddick (4) 26 2 Summers (5) 23 1 Source: Nottingham Journal 4 and 5 September 1934. The match was not reported in the Nottingham Evening Post.

Close of play, Day 1: Cahn’s XI 571-7 (Maxwell 183, Morkel 3)

The Journal does not give the number of Extras in the first innings of the Leicestershire Gentlemen. The batsmen’s scores as given here add to 101; 108 is the innings total as given in the paper’s scorecard, but its match report gives the total as 106.

Gross says that the seventh-wicket partnership between Maxwell and Summers in the Cahn XI innings was worth 293, but there is no mention of the size of the partnership in the newspaper report.

The player named in the Journal as ‘WE Beisiegel’ was probably occasional Leicestershire CCC player WK Beisiegel. No other ‘W Beisiegel’ can be traced via ancestry.co.uk

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Lane Cove v North Shore Gas Company 1934/35 1 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 23 February, 2 March 1935 Result Lane Cove won by an innings and 266 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Lane Cove First innings

H Dick 169 J Sheen 86 Tucker 43 L Lee 28 Toomey Extras

Total (all out) 436 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/436

O M R W Morrison 62 2 North Shore Gas Co First innings Second innings (following on)

Galloway not out 28 Straith 21 R Morrison Extras

Total (all out) 77 (all out) 93 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/77 1-9 not known, 10/93

O M R W O M R W Toomey 6 3 Sheen 25 5

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that H Dick and J Sheehan shared a partnership of 237 for Lane Cove Juniors’ eighth wicket, in this match in the Northern Suburbs C Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove. Additional information from the Sydney Morning Herald 26 February and 4 March 1935, courtesy Harry Watton. The SMH makes no mention of the Dick/Sheen [sic] partnership.

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Pennant Hills v Carlingford 1934/35 1 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 16, 23 March 1935 Result Pennant Hills won by an unknown margin Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Pennant Hills innings

R Mills 188 F Munro 229


10/473

O M R W McDonald 152 7 Carlingford innings

No details known

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 37) that F Munro and B Mills shared a partnership of 423 for Pennant Hills’ first wicket, in this match in the Northern Districts Association.

Summary scores found by Harry Watton in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 and 25 March 1935. The Pennant Hills score of 473 is given in both papers; other details here are from the edition of 25 March (18 March gives Mills 187, Munro 216, McDonald 7-150). Neither paper gives any details of the Carlingford innings, but that of 25th gives the result as a win for Pennant Hills. Neither paper confirms the size of the stand between Mills and Munro.

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East Fremantle v Workers 1935/36 1 Venue Fremantle, WA Date 30 November 1935 Result East Fremantle won by an innings and 55 runs Toss Umpires Workers First innings Second innings

Extras


9/?, 10/15 O M R W O M R W Doig 7.n 2 15 10 6.n 2 6 10 East Fremantle First innings Second innings

*W Doig not out 40 S Jones 28 Read ? C Knapp not out 23

Total (for 2 wickets, declared) 98 Fall 1/39, 2/? O M R W O M R W

Source: Fremantle Advocate 5 December 1935; Mirror (Perth) 30 November 1935; Daily News (Perth) 2 December 1935. Billy Doig took all 20 wickets for East Fremantle, including a hat-trick in Workers (2). The Fremantle Advocate gives his over-by-over analysis, and says that in the match he bowled 13 full overs and two part-overs. The number of balls delivered in his final over of each innings is not stated. The total of 15 for the Workers’ second innings is taken from the Fremantle Advocate, which has a full report of the game and gives this figure in two places (and says that only four batsmen broke their ducks and that the highest individual score in this innings was 7). Other papers generally give the total as 18, but I have followed the fuller report in the most local newspaper. This was a match in the Fremantle Mercantile Association. Gross erroneously describes the fixture as Great Fremantle v East Fremantle at Perth.

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Great Harwood Council of Social Services v Blackburn Gamecock Club 1936 1 Venue The Cliffe, Great Harwood, Lancashire Date 18 August 1936 Result Great Harwood CSS won by an unknown number of wickets Toss Umpires Blackburn Gamecock Club innings

Forrest

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Slater 0 6 Dewhurst 0 3 Great Harwood Council of Social Services innings

F Slater F Dewhurst

Total (all out) 25 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/25 O M R W Forrest 8 6 Source: Blackburn Times 22 August 1936 A separate report in the Blackburn Times suggests that the Great Harwood side played two matches on 18 August – this one in the afternoon, and then a charity match against Great Harwood Amateurs in the evening. If these two matches were indeed played on the same day (the paper just refers to each of them, in separate reports, being played ‘on Tuesday’) then it seems likely that the Great Harwood CSS XI against Gamecock was very similar to the one that played in the later match – which was J Nixon, JW Sunderland, F Hartley, W Hineson, W Dunn, H Tattersall, J Rutter, F Dewhurst, R Sagar, R Birtwistle, and F Slater. This was a knock-out cup match in the Mid-Lancashire Unemployed Cricket League. The same two sides had met twice in league matches in the previous week: on 11 August Gamecock were bowled out for 13 (Dewhurst 6-11, Slater 4-2), and on 13 August they were bowled out for 21. In some other reports, Dewhurst is sometimes spelled as Dewhirst.

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Great Western Railway v Concert Artistes Association 1936 1 Venue GWR Ground, Castlebar Park, Middlesex Date 23 August 1936 Result Great Western Railway won by six wickets (and batted on) Toss Concert Artistes Association Umpires Thanks: HW Concert Artistes Association innings

+ E Winson c Morris b King 7 K Deans b King 27 CF Genge b King 0 F Hyner c Green b King 18 F Bert c Green b King 0 L Groves c Green b Honeyball 19 C Harrington b Morris 1 J Bishop b King 5 R Davies b King 4 R Scanlon not out 0 R Thomas b King 0 Extras 2

Total (all out) 83 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/83 O M R W King 11 5 20 8 Honeyball 1 Morris 1 Great Western Railway innings

AL Dodson b Hyner 16 J Church c Hyner b Deans 11 VG King not out 213 EA McDonald lbw b Deans 1 JD Swain b Deans 0 JJ Green not out 157 Morris Honeyball [unknown] [unknown] [unknown] Extras 12

Total (for 4 wickets) 410 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/53 O M R W Hyner 1 Deans 3 Source: Acton Gazette 28 August 1936; also in Middlesex County Times and West Middlesex Gazette, issues of 29 August 1936. Correction to initials (Genge) courtesy Harry Watton; scorecards in papers also name Scanlon as ‘B Scanlon’ – was this my mistype, or do the match reports refer to him as ‘Bob’? Victor King (31 fours, 2 sixes) and Jack Green (22 fours, 2 sixes) added 357* for GWR’s fifth wicket – reportedly in two and a quarter hours.

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Eastbourne v Liverpool Pilgrims 1938 1 Venue The Saffrons, Eastbourne Date 25, 26 July 1938 Result Liverpool Pilgrims won by an innings and 30 runs Toss Umpires Liverpool Pilgrims First innings

TB Roberts b Tuppin 19 GR Charnley c Chambers b Lewis 4 DDL Little b Sharp 19 K Cranston c and b Sharp 289 JM Synge b Sharp 0 AH Bowman c Knight b Oakes 13 JFH Carson not out 101 AM Cheetham run out 0 G Lloyd not out 0 NB Stokes P Turner Extras lb2, nb2 4

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 449 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/70, 6/442, 7/? O M R W Tuppin 93 1 Lewis 64 1 Sharp 121 3 Oakes 89 1 Eastbourne First innings Second innings (following on)

AW Agutter c Roberts b Stokes 87 (3) c sub b Stokes 8 + J Eaton c Stokes b Turner 87 (4) c sub b Stokes 0 E Chambers c Bowman b Turner 1 (5) b Stokes 14 AK Sharp lbw b Turner 6 (6) c Little b Turner 2 C Oakes c and b Turner 95 (1) run out 5 JW Wigham c Bowman b Turner 2 (7) c Roberts b Turner 2 A Tuppin run out 3 (2) b Turner 2 LAW Knight c Bowman b Cranston 15 b Turner 57 SJ Smith b Turner 1 b Lloyd 7 AE Lewis lbw b Cranston 2 not out 0 WS Grevett not out 1 b Loyd 8 Extras b2, lb3, nb6 11 b1, nb2 3 Total 311 108 Fall 1/179, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/311 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/108

O M R W O M R W Stokes 99 1 31 3 Turner 62 6 27 4 Cranston 71 2 Lloyd 12 2 Source: Eastbourne Gazette 27 July 1938; Eastbourne Chronicle 30 July 1938. Liverpool Pilgrims’ innings also given by Gross in the Journal of the Cricket Society. Cricket Archive (card 550480, match misc343927) only gives details of the Liverpool Pilgrims’ innings. It gives the match result as a draw, but the fuller details in the Eastbourne newspapers confirm the result as a win for the Pilgrims. The scores at the fall of the fifth and sixth wickets in the Pilgrims’ innings, and hence the stand of 372 for the sixth wicket, are confirmed by the Eastbourne Chronicle, which says that the partnership lasted about 2½ hours. The spelling of Tuppin and Bowman is taken from the Eastbourne Chronicle; the former matches CA but not the Gazette (which has Tuppen), while the latter matches the Gazette but not CA (which has Bowmen). Gross also has Tuppin and Bowman.

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Hounslow Second XI v Malden Wanderers Second XI 1938 1 Venue Church Meadow, Hounslow, Middlesex Date 13 August 1938 Result Malden Wanderers Second XI won by 1 wicket (and batted on) Toss Umpires Hounslow Second XI innings

Holden st London b Randall 11 Wylie c McDougall b Randall 19 + Henderson c Fryer b Illingworth 4 Hatton st London b McDougall 15 Lugg st London b Randall 1 Coleman st London b Randall 5 Rhodes st London b McDougall 15 Napper run out 34 Penman st London b McDougall 24 Murray st London b McDougall 6 Head not out 9 Extras 9

Total (all out) 152 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/65, 7/?, 8/?, 9/131,

10/152

O M R W Randall 4 Illingworth 1 McDougall 4 Malden Wanderers Second XI innings

Corben b Lugg 11 + P London b Napper 21 Lake b Lugg 5 Garland c Wylie b Napper 22 Tatchell b Penman 36 Randall b Napper 0 Illingworth c Holden b Penman 12 Pierce c Lugg b Head 10 Walker c Wylie b Head 4 Fryer st Henderson b Head 7 McDougall not out 6 Extras 29


10/163

O M R W Lugg 2 Napper 3 Penman 2 Head 3 Source: Middlesex Chronicle 20 August 1938; Merton & Morden News, 19 August 1938 The Chronicle reported the ending of the match as follows: “Nine wickets were down for 145, but McDougall hit Head into the Vicarage [for six, as confirmed elsewhere in the report], and four byes give the Wanderers the victory. A great game!” From the Merton & Morden News: “In fact [London] dislodged the bails eight times, but it was found that the batsman had just snicked the ball. The decision was run out.”

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Rajindra Gymkhana v JD Antia’s XI 1938/39 1 Venue Baradari Grounds, Patiala, India Date 24, 25, 26 December 1938 Result Not known Toss Rajindra Gymkhana Umpires KSW Rajindra Gymkhana First innings

Prithviraj B Vajifdar 14 Abdul Rehman B Tarpore 14 Wazir Ali B Vajifdar 29 L Amarnath Not out 123 Mhj of Patiala C Vajifdar b Khot 284 Shahabuddin

Fall 1/16, 2/47, 3/66. 4/479 O M R W Vajifdar Tarpore Khot JD Antia’s XI First innings

HG Vajifdar N Canteenwala A Captain DK Kapadia J Khot K Tarpore H Printer

Source: Hindustan Times 26, 27 December 1938. This reports the first day’s play only; the match is not referred to on subsequent days (up to and including the end of the first week of January 1939). Close of Play, Day 1: Rajindra Gymkhana 479-4 (Amarnath 123) Gross says that L Amarnath (123*) and the Maharajah of Patiala (284) added 400 for the fourth wicket in the Rajindra Gymkhana innings. The report of the match in the Hindustan Times includes a scorecard for the first day only. This confirms the two batsmen’s scores, and shows only one not-out batsman – from which it may be inferred that the Maharajah was out at the end of the first day’s play, thus giving the size of the partnership as 413. The match report says that the Maharajah took 62 minutes to reach 100, and 142 minutes to reach 200. Amarnath’s 100 took 160 minutes. Gross’s refers to the visiting side as Jam Antia’s XI, but this is thought likely to be an error for JD Antia’s XI, a Bombay-based side that played a similar match v Patiala in December 1934 (CA scorecard 168080) and various others elsewhere in India and Ceylon around this time. The Hindustan Times refers to the side as ‘The Parsees’.

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Griffith v Temora 1938/39 1 Venue Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Date March 1939 Result Griffith won by 103 runs Toss Umpires Griffith innings

R Green not out 11 L Bowditch not out 183 Extras

Total (for 9 wickets, declared) 297 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/97 O M R W Temora innings

F Bowditch [dismissal not known] 76 Extras


10/194

O M R W

Source: The Sun (Sydney) 2 April 1939; Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW) 14 April 1939 The tenth-wicket partnership in the Griffith innings was worth 200*. Gross gives Green’s score as 50*, but the Riverine Grazier says more plausibly – see below - that his score was 11*, and this is accepted here. The report in The Sun says that Len Bowditch went in at number 11 with the score 97-9, and scored his 183* in 60 minutes, with 19 fours and 13 sixes. He reportedly reached 100* in 34 minutes, and had scored 100 before his partner Green had scored a run. Len Bowditch (Griffith) and Fred Bowditch (Temora) were brothers. Gross names the fixture as Temora v Griffith at Temora, but the Grazier confirms the venue as Griffith.

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Lomaloma v HMS Leith 1939/40 2 Venue Lomaloma, Lua Province, Fiji Date 1939/40 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that S Vunisakiki took eight wickets with consecutive deliveries for Lomaloma in this match (which he says was played at the Fijian capital of Suva). From other sources (among them the Cricketer Spring Annual of 1941, page 40, as well as other online sources) the bowler concerned was Saiasi [sometimes Siasi or Saisi] Vunisakiki [sometimes Vuanisokiki), who took all eight wickets in the course of a single eight-ball over. PA Snow’s Cricket in the Fiji Islands mentions the event (with the bowler named as Saisi Vunisakiki. “the headman of the village of Lomaloma on beautiful Vanuabalavu in Lau provice”), who, he says, “in an eight-ball over took eight wickets against HMS Leith, all clean bowled, with left-arm swingers as fast as those of EW Clark of Northamptonshire and England.” Snow adds that Vunisakiki was injured ahead of the Fijians’ 1947/48 tour to New Zealand – implying that he was a contender to go on that tour otherwise. But he does not give any score details of the HMS Leith match. There is no reference to the match, or to Vunisakiki’s feat, in the Fijian Times & Herald covering the likely dates of the game.

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Lancing College v Westminster School 1940 4 Venue Lancing College, Sussex Date 14, 15 June 1940 Result Match drawn Toss Umpires Lancing College First innings Second innings

MJS Spearing b Whittington 0 not out 10 PW Pierrepont b Whittington 1 not out 12 AA McIntyre c Ferrers-Guy b Sinclair 141 AC Burnett c Hinge b Whittington 0 + RBR Wilson lbw b Whittington 0 JR Lamb c Hinge b Whittington 0 WJ Thomas b Whittington 2 RH Bradley lbw b Whittington 5 B Roberts b Cremer 5 RH Burton c Whittington b Cremer 83 RF Young not out 7 Extras 6 3

Total (all out) 250 (for no wicket) 25 Fall 1/0, 2/1, 3/1, 4/1, 5/1, 6/6, 7/17, 8/66, 9/191,

10/250

O M R W O M R W Whittington 34 11 75 7 Cremer 18 8 44 2 Sinclair 11 0 47 1 Westminster School First innings Second innings (following on)

ROI Borradaille b Young 0 c Burnett b Bradley 25 SJW Nicol c Pierrepont b McIntyre 1 c Wilson b Young 61 DC Evans b Bradley 8 st Wilson b Burton 4 KAH Hinge c Bradley b Young 41 st Wilson b Burton 67 RW Young b Young 26 not out 12 VTMR Tenison st Wilson b Young 31 c Pierrepont b Young 2 IA Renny c Wilson b McIntyre 13 (8) not out 11 RG Whittington c Wilson b McIntyre 0 (7) b Young 22 JH Ferrers-Guy c Pierrepont b McIntyre 6 RJ Cremer not out 15 JW Sinclair c Wilson b Young 5 Extras 3 6

Total (all out) 148 (for 6 wickets, declared) 210 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/148 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? , 5/?, 6/? O M R W O M R W Young 21.3 7 41 5 26 6 65 3 McIntyre 22 4 53 4 Bradley 10 2 29 1 (3) 18 3 44 1 Burton (2) 16 2 43 2 Source: The Lancing College magazine for July 1940 (courtesy of Lesley Edwards, Lancing College Archivist); The Elizabethan (Westminster School magazine), December 1940 (courtesy of Felicity Crowe, Westminster School Archives Assistant) Gross says that McIntyre and Burton – who he credits with 93 – added 204 for the ninth wicket in Lancing (1). This is definitely plausible, but the match report and the fall of wickets in the Lancing College magazine are consistent in [credibly] saying that they added 125, and that Burton and Young then added a further 59 for the last wicket. Hinge and Nicol added 106 for the second wicket in Westminster (1). There are various minor differences of detail between the two sources. I have generally followed the details as given in the report of the school more closely concerned – e.g. I have gone with Lancing’s ‘McIntyre’ rather than Westminster’s ‘MacIntyre’, and with Westminster’s crediting of the catch of Renny in Westminster (1) to Wilson rather than to Thomas (as in the Lancing magazine).

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Burwood United v Summer Hill 1940/41 1 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date November 1940 Result Burwood United won on first innings by 311 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Burwood United First innings

RJ Wild not out 224 V Bowden 127

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 461 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/? O M R W Summer Hill First innings Second innings

Wilton 110 not out 72

149 (for 5 wickets) 201 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/149 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?

O M R W O M R W

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that RJ Wild and V Bowden shared a partnership of 328 for Burwood United’s seventh wicket, in this match in the Western Suburbs B Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove. Additional information from the Sydney Morning Herald, 20 and 30 November 1940, courtesy of Harry Watton. The size of the partnership between Wild and Bowden is not stated in the SMH.

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Navy House v ‘Navy XI’ 1941 1 Venue Port Said International Sporting Club, Egypt Date September 1941 Result Match tied Toss Umpires ‘Navy XI’ First innings Second innings

Extras

Total (all out) 76 (for 3 wickets, innings closed) 76 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/76 1/?, 2/?, 3/?,

O M R W O M R W Navy House First innings Second innings

Extras

Total (all out) 76 (for 6 wickets) 76 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/, 10/76 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/? O M R W O M R W Source: The Cricketer Spring Annual 1942, page 47 ‘Navy XI’ is the team-name given by Gross. The side was actually an XI from a Royal Navy ship in harbour at Port Said, but wartime restrictions prevented it being named. The Cricketer records the progress of the match as follows: “After each side had completed an innings, an extra hour’s batting for both teams was agreed upon, HMS totalling 76 for 3 and Navy House 76 for 6.” From that description, it is inferred that the ‘Navy XI’ batted first, and that their second innings was closed at the agreed time.

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School House v Unknown 1941 3 Venue Canford School, Wimborne, Dorset Date 1941 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that IP Campbell (later of OU and Kent) scored 205 out of 236 in a house match at Canford School in 1941. It is not clear whether 236 was his side’s all-out total (in which case he scored 86.86% of his team’s runs in the innings, or a higher proportion if extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Campbell was at the wicket. The match is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA. Canford School’s magazine is available online, and although the issue covering the wartime cricket seasons mention that Campbell was in School House (hence the part-title of this match above), no reference to such a performance is made in the magazine. The match scorecard may be given in a contemporary issue of The Cricketer or in the Wimborne & District News (not available at the British Library), but both seem unlikely for a house match at a relatively minor public school. Another possible source – Campbell’s own autobiography – has yet to be investigated.

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Malvern College v Merchant Taylor’s School 1943 4 Venue Malvern College, Worcestershire Date 1943 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that KA Lee scored 99 out of 110 for Malvern College in this match; if 110 were his side’s all-out total he would have scored exactly 90% of his side’s runs in the innings. However, Wisden for 1944 refers to Lee scoring “99 of the first 110” runs in this match, which indicates that his side’s total was actually greater than 110, and that therefore this is not a performance that meets the criteria for inclusion here. It has therefore not been explored further.

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Southgate v Enfield 1946 1 Venue Walker Ground, Southgate, Middlesex Date 30 June 1946 Result Southgate won by 5 wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Enfield innings

J Whyte c Gillham b Cooper 3 RE Drake c and b Cooper 19 J Fricker b Cooper 22 RG Bullock c Barron b Mackenzie 13 R Swallow c and b Cooper 53 R Bowerman c Edwards b Mackenzie 1 AD Buckley c -Broadbridge b Cooper 19 R Crowl c and b Smith 0 WC Gregson b Smith 2 F Barwick run out 0 + H Walton not out 1 Extras 8

Total (all out) 141 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/135, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/141

O M R W Cooper 5 Mackenzie 2 Smith 2 Southgate innings

Dale c Drake b Barwick 22 Drakes c Walton b Barwick 31 Mackenzie st Walton b Bullock 10 Edwards st Walton b Gregson 35 Green st Walton b Gregson 23 Gillham st Walton b Bullock 23 Smith st Walton b Gregson 14 Cooper c Whyte b Bullock 0 T Broadbridge st Walton b Bullock 0 RJ Broadbridge not out 4 Barron st Walton b Bullock 9 Extras 10


10/172

O M R W Barwick 2 Bullock 5 Gregson 3 Source: Enfield Gazette 5 July 1946; Enfield Weekly Record 5 July 1946 This was a Sunday fixture. The successful wicketkeeper, Harry Walton, was not Enfield’s regular Saturday keeper. Gross says the match was at Enfield, but the contemporary local sources confirm that it was at the Walker Ground at Southgate.

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Bittern v Somerville 1946/47 1 Venue Victoria, Australia Date [2], 9 November 1946 Result Bittern won by 128 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Bittern innings

E Allen 39 F Allen 23 Langholz jnr not out 23 J Wilson G Allen Extras

Total (for 8 wickets declared) 144 Fall 1-8 not known O M R W Somerville innings

S Hawker not out 7 J Witherspoon b G Allen 1 S Thornell b G Allen 0 S Armstrong lbw b G Allen 0 J Commons lbw b G Allen 7 M Vidler b G Allen 0 L Sullivan b G Allen 0 W Hutchinson b G Allen 0 K Clarke b G Allen 0 W Thornell c Langholz b G Allen 0 C Thornell b G Allen 0 Extras (w1) 1

16 Fall 1/1, 2/3, 3/3, 4/11, 5/11, 6/11, 7/12, 8/12, 9/12, 10/16

O M R W G Allen 6.1 6 0 10 F Allen 3 0 10 0 Wilson 3 0 6 0

Gross says that G Allen took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Bittern. The feat is mentioned in a number of newspapers in Trove, but none of those sources includes a scorecard. Some report that Allen was 26 years old. The Sporting Globe (Melbourne) of 16 November said that Gordon Allen was a medium-pace bowler, and that seven of his victims were clean bowled. From the Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) and several other newspapers we learn that his other three wickets consisted of two lbws and one caught, and that he took six wickets in his opening over [presumably of eight balls] and four in his second – though The Age (Melbourne) says he bowled 6.1 overs in all. The Barrier Miner (and several other papers, using a common report) adds that Somerville did not score a single run – though this is not corroborated from any other source. This was an A grade match in the Northern [Mornington] Peninsula competition. The Mornington Peninsula lies just to the south of the city of Melbourne.

Scorecard details from Bradmans of the Bush by Ken Piesse & Alf Wilson.

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Callan Park v Postal 1946/47 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date ? March 1947 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 36) that L Ferguson took 19 wickets for 86 runs for Callan Park in this match in the City Houses A Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove. Additional information (including correct team names) from the Sydney Morning Herald 2 April 1947, courtesy of Harry Watton: Les Ferguson took 9-53 and 10-33 in the match. The order of innings and team scores are not given.

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Sidmouth v South Oxfordshire Amateurs 1947 1 Venue Sidmouth, Devon Date 4 September 1947 Result Sidmouth won by 24 runs Toss Sidmouth Umpires Sidmouth First innings Second innings

TB Scott c Sutton b Ladbrook 0 lbw b Ladbrook 14 LE Wharfe c Strang b Ladbrook 6 (4) c and b Ladbrook 8 JMA Marshall b Pether 5 c Sutton b Ladbrook 5 AR Hodges b Pether 2 (8) b Strang 24 + AH Holladay b Pether 14 c Shaw b Strang 5 J Twells run out 32 c Crawshay b Ladbrook 0 * TV Hollingworth c Shaw b Elwin 6 not out 49 E Bolus c Ladbrook b Elwin 20 (2) c Crawshay b Pether 0 A Davies c Strang b Elwin 5 DP Runtz c Elwin b Pether 8 T Lock not out 0 (9) not out 1 Extras 22 9

Total (all out) 120 (for 7 wickets, declared) 115 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/34, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/120 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/37, 7/?

O M R W O M R W Pether 16 2 47 4 10 2 25 1 Ladbrook 7 2 13 2 12 2 39 4 Strang 9 4 17 0 5 2 26 2 Elwin 7.2 2 21 3 2 0 16 0 S Oxfordshire Amateurs First innings Second innings

JFC Shaw c Bolus b Marshall 6 (7) c Holladay b Marshall 25 OPF Sutton lbw b Marshall 2 (9) lbw b Marshall 20 DI Darling st Holladay b Marshall 8 (5) st Holladay b Marshall 13 + RS Crawshay c and b Marshall 0 (1) lbw b Marshall 31 DFG Walker st Holladay b Marshall 9 (2) c and b Marshall 15 RE Ladbrook c Hollingworth b Marshall 2 (8) b Marshall 2 RB Jackson b Marshall 11 (3) b Marshall 4 R Strang b Marshall 1 (6) c Scott b Marshall 14 S Pether b Hollingworth 3 (10) b Marshall 23 PMC Onions b Marshall 0 (4) lbw b Marshall 0 * M Elwin not out 0 not out 3 Extras 4 15


10/46 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/94, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/165

O M R W O M R W Marshall 9 1 29 9 (1) 17 1 65 10 Hollingworth 8.2 5 13 1 (4) 7 0 23 0 Scott (2) 2 0 20 0 Bolus (3) 5 1 20 0 Runtz (5) 3 0 24 0 Source: Sidmouth Herald 6 September 1947; South Oxfordshire Amateurs match report (details kindly supplied by Julian Lawton Smith). SOA second innings bowling (taken from the SOA report) adds two runs too many. Gross says that Marshall took 19-89 in the match, and the Sidmouth Herald expressly says that he took 10-60 in the second innings figures, in which case the bowling adds three runs too few. The SOA report is the only one supplying full bowling figures for both teams, so I have followed that in this instance. JMA Marshall is the Warwickshire spinner who played for the county between 1946 and 1950.

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St George’s School Under-10s v Hardenwick School Under-10s 1947 1 Venue St George’s School, Harpenden, Hertfordshire Date 1947 season Result St George’s School Under-10s won by 41 runs Toss Umpires St George’s School Under-10s innings

RC Usherwood 20 Extras

Total (all out) 52 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/52 O M R W Hardenwick School Under-10s innings

Extras

Total (all out) 11 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/11 O M R W Usherwood 4.3 4 0 10 Source: The Georgian (magazine of St George’s School) courtesy of Alistair Robertson In the return fixture at under-10 level in the same season, Richard (Dick) Usherwood scored 28* out of his team’s total of 46, and took six wickets for one run as Hardenwick were dismissed for 6. He also took 5-15 and 4-9 in the two matches between the schools at under-12 level in the same season. Usherwood later took up wicketkeeping in preference to bowling. He moved to Brighton College and played for their First XI in 1955 and 1956. Wisden 1957 described him as ‘a fine captain and reliable wicket-keeper’. Contrary to Gross, this match was in 1947 and not 1948.

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St Alban’s Epping v Burwood Baptist 1947/48 2 Venue Meadowbank Park, Sydney Date 20 September 1947 Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW St Alban’s Epping innings

V Cleary not out 257 [unknown] [unknown dismissal] S Atkin not out 144 Extras

Total (for 1 wicket) 411 Fall 1/4 O M R W Burwood Baptist

No details known Extras

Total Fall O M R W Source: Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 20 September 1947; St George Call (Kogarah, NSW) 26 September 1947; The Sun (Sydney) 21 September 1947. The Sydney source confirms that St Alban’s first wicket fell at 4, and that at close of play the total had reached 411-1, thus confirming the partnership as 407*. The batsmen concerned were Vincent Cleary (46 fours) and Stacey Atkin (16 fours), both stated to be over 40 years old. According to the St George Call, the partnership lasted 183 minutes. It is not known if there was further play on any later date. This was a match in the NSW Churches Cricket Association (St George Area Union) B Grade, Western Division Further information from Harry Watton

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North Stamford Boys v South Stamford Boys 1948 3 Venue Stamford School, Lincolnshire Date 1948 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW

Gross records that IHS Balfour scored 128 and 139*, and took 12 wickets for 39 runs, for South Stamford Boys in this match. This feat is also noted in The Cricket Statistician no. 20 (December 1977), where the details are said to have come from Balfour himself. This article says his first-innings score was 128 not out, and that his bowling figures for the two innings were 7-10 and 5-29. Although the match is said to have been played at Stamford School, there is no mention of it in contemporary issues of The Stamfordian, so it may have been a ‘town’ match rather than a school fixture. Three different editions of the Lincoln, Rutland & Stamford Mercury are available at the British Library, but these have yet to be explored. Balfour’s performances in 1948, when he would have been around 14 years old, are something of a mystery. Neither this match nor that in which he is reported as taking all 20 of his opponents’ wickets is mentioned in the school magazine covering that summer. Indeed, Balfour’s name is not seen in that magazine for his cricket performances in this or any other year for which the magazine is available at the BL. Neither is he listed in the school’s averages in any subsequent season when he might have been expected to have been still at the school. Moreover, a member of the present writer’s family who was at Stamford School at the same time as Balfour’s reported performances – and who was himself a cricketer, if not of First XI standard – has no recollection of him at all. Further investigation of all this is needed.

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Marrickville Presbyterians v Unknown 1948/49 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1948/49 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that C Whittaker and G Walters shared a partnership of 232 for Marrickville Prebyterians’ eighth wicket, in this match in the NSW Churches C Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Stratford Police Division v Warwick Police Division 1949 1 Venue NFU Mutual Insurance Society Ground, Tiddington,

Warwickshire Date 4 August 1949

Result Warwick Police Division won by an innings and 14 runs Toss Stratford Police Division Umpires Thanks: HW Stratford Police Division First innings Second innings

G Watson b Morgan 0 6 V Sandel c Morgan b Ponsford 0 R Cox c Wagstaff b Morgan 0 11 L Hince b Morgan 0 *G Lapworth b Morgan 0 P Huggins c Ponsford b Morgan 0 9 B Scarth c Dyas b Ponsford 0 J Liddle b Morgan 0 H Cook c Dyas b Morgan 0 D Pickthorne c Ponsford b Morgan 0 J Lockwood not out 0 not out 5 Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 (all out) 38 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?,

9/?, 10/38 O M R W O M R W Morgan 2 2 0 8 19 6 Ponsford 1.3 1 0 2 12 3 Dyas 5 1 Warwick Police Division First innings Second innings

Dyas 24 not out 52 Hunt 9 13 Cresswell 6 Ponsford 5 *P Morgan (3) not out 13 Wagstaff Extras 2

Total (all out) 52 (for 1 wicket) 80 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/52 1/? O M R W O M R W Liddle 15 7 Huggins 23 3 Source: Fullest scorecard is from the Tewkesbury Register 13 August 1949, but the match was noted in several other newspapers at the time, including the Coventry Evening Telegraph of 5 and 6 August, the Birmingham Daily Gazette of 5 August, and the Sunday Indian Express of 7 August (this last courtesy of Sreeram B Iyer). Toss detail from the Daily Herald of 5 August 1949, courtesy of Harry Watton. The reports indicate that this match, in the Police Divisional League, would normally have been a single-innings affair, but that after the first two innings it was agreed to continue it as a two-innings game. Why Warwick PD batted a second time when they had already won the match by an innings is not stated. The Tewkesbury Register – which I have followed in cases of difference with other sources – says that Inspector Percy Morgan took two hat-tricks in the course of his two overs. Other scorecard variants in some sources are that Warwick PD scored 53 rather than 52 in their first innings, and that Ponsford bowled eight, rather than nine, deliveries in Stratford PD (1).

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Woolwich Garrison v Nore Command 1949 4 Venue Woolwich, London Date 1949 season Result Woolwich Garrison won by an innings and an unknown number of runs Toss Umpires Nore Command First innings Second innings

Total Woolwich Garrison First innings

MLY Ainsworth not out 270 [unknown] [unknown] PBH May not out 157

Total Fall 1/?, 2/96 Gross says that MLY Ainsworth (270*) and PBH May (157*) added 427* for the third wicket in the Woolwich Garrison innings. However, Robert Rodrigo’s biography of Peter May (pp 26-28) strongly suggests that this is an error. Rodrigo says that May joined Ainsworth at 96-2 (after Nore had been bowled out for under 100), and that they took the score to 466-2 by the end of the day, with Ainsworth 270* and May 157*. Those individual scores match those given by Gross at the end of the partnership. There is no mention of an overnight declaration by the Woolwich team, but Rodrigo does mention that Nore were bowled out for a second time before lunch on the second day of the match; so such a declaration seems highly likely. The two batsmen’s individual scores add to 427, which may be the source of Gross’s figure; but from this evidence it seems much more likely that the stand was actually worth ‘only’ 370, taking the score from 96 to 466. It is not known whether Ainsworth batted at number 1, 2 or 3.

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St James, Croydon v Unknown 1949/50 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 21 January 1950 Result Not known Toss Umpires

In the Annual Report of the NSW Churches’ Cricket Union for 1982/83, it is recorded (on page 74) that N Le Huray and A Smith shared a partnership of 225 for St James’s tenth wicket, in this match in that Union’s D Grade Association. (Courtesy of Alfred James) The performance is also referred to in the Sydney Morning Herald of 23 January 1950, naming the batsmen as Allan Smith and Noel Le Huray (in that order), but giving no other details of the scores of the match. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Queen’s College v Selborne College 1949/50 1 Venue Parry Davies Field, Queen’s College, Queenstown, South Africa Result Queen’s College won on first innings by 41 runs Date 25 March 1950 Toss Umpires Selborne College First innings Second innings

Geach c Brown b Edwards 0 c Bartosch b Maitland 6 M Griffiths b Edwards 2 c Botha b Edwards 0 Hutchinson c Sugden b Edwards 1 b Muller 24 + Johnstone c Phillips b Edwards 2 b Maitland 26 Shone c Botha b Edwards 0 not out 16 K Griffiths c Whindus b Edwards 0 lbw b Muller 8 Viljoen b Edwards 3 not out 1 Wilensky b Edwards 0 Lones b Edwards 1 Dewberry not out 0 Jones b Edwards 0 Extras lb1 1 5

Total (all out) 10 (for 5 wickets) 86 Fall 1/0, 2/2, 3/3, 4/3, 5/5, 6/6, 7/6, 8/9, 9/10,

10/10 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?

O M R W O M R W Edwards 9.7 9 0 10 4 1 6 1 Maitland 9 2 9 0 11 2 24 2 Brown 6 0 23 0 Muller 5 1 11 2 Keys 2 0 11 0 Phillips 1 0 1 0 Queen’s College First innings

B Whindus st Johnstone b Viljoen 50 T Brown b Jones 6 J Botha b M Griffiths 0 G Sugden c Johnstone b Jones 1 *WE Edwards b M Griffiths 9 J Muller lbw b Viljoen 8 E Phillips run out 1 L Price c Hutchinson b Lones 1 D Bartosch c Geach b K Griffiths 3 C Keys not out 11 V Maitland b Viljoen 0 Extras lb1 1


9/89, 10/91

O M R W Jones 11 2 18 2 M Griffiths 7 0 27 2 Hutchinson 5 0 13 0 Viljoen 4.3 0 12 3 K Griffiths 3 0 12 1 Lones 3 0 8 1 Source: Daily Representative (Queenstown) 27 March 1950 Wynton Edwards took his first-innings wickets as follows: one with the first ball of the match, one in each of his overs 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9, and two in each of overs 3 and 10. Eight-ball overs were in use. From the Daily Representative: “With a light breeze blowing from fine leg, [Edwards] found conditions ideal for the out-swinger. He also obtained several wickets with an in-swinger, which he bowled every third or fourth ball … This year’s Selborne team is considered their best in recent years, and they have been doing very well in their league matches in East London.”

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Sea Point Boys High School v Lansdowne 1950/51 1 Venue Cape Town, South Africa Date 25 November, 2 December 1950 Result Sea Point Boys High School won by four wickets Toss Umpires Lansdowne First innings Second innings

Roberts 17 not out 15 Mitchell 11 Louw 14 Jackson 12 Banfield 12 Stern Ridgway Extras


10/38 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/76

O M R W O M R W Pothecary 18 10 36 10 Sea Point Boys HS First innings Second innings

Proctor 20 JE Pothecary 18 13


10/91 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?,

O M R W O M R W Stern 7 4 Roberts 10 3 Ridgway 11 3 Source: Cape Times 1 and 8 December 1950 The feat of future Test player Jim Pothecary in taking all 20 of his opponents’ wickets is also reported in the Rand Daily Mail [RDM] of 5 December, but with various differences in the score details. The RDM gives the Lansdowne totals as 38 and 71, totalling 109, and Sea Point 91 and 30-5, totalling 121. The RDM’s scores make no sense when Sea Point won batting fourth; whereas the scores in the Cape Times add to the credible figures of 114 and 118. For this reason – and because it is the newspaper closer to the venue of this match – it is inferred that the details in the Cape Times are more reliable, and they have therefore been followed here. The name of the bowler taking 4-7 in Sea Point (1) is given as Steyn in the Cape Times of 1 December, and Stern in that of 8 December. This player is not named in the RDM report.

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Griffith v Griffith Teachers 1950/51 2 Venue ? Griffith, New South Wales Date ? April 1951 Result Not known Toss Umpires

The Riverine Grazier (Hay, NSW, 24 April 1951) reported that Keith Savage played an innings of 402 for Griffith (or possibly Griffith Colts) in this match, out of an innings total of 805. Other sources (unknown) suggest that his score was actually 408. The name of the bowling side is not given in these sources. The match was a semi-final of the Riverina competition. No further details have been traced. Whether Griffith were the home team is not known. The match is referred to on page 70 of Ken Piesse’s Extraordinary book of Australian Cricket, in which it is confirmed that the match was a Riverina semi-final, in which Savage batted at number 3 for Griffith v Griffith Teachers. He was 23 years old, and a right-handed batsman. No other details are given.

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Thornley Waratahs v Unknown 1950/51 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1950/51 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that A Ward and H Ward shared a partnership of 211* for the Waratahs’ tenth wicket, in this match in the Northern Districts First Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Bookham v Electrical Trades Commercial Travellers Association 1951 1 Venue Bookham, Surrey Date 2 June 1951 Result Bookham won by ten wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Electrical Trades Commercial Travellers Association innings

Royce c Chandler b Rollinson 0 Pike b Fowler 0 Clowes b Fowler 0 Linsoll b Fowler 0 Picton b Robinson 0 Mills b Rollinson 0 Hudson b Rollinson 0 Moss b Fowler 0 Jennings b Rollinson 0 Allnatt not out 0 Arnold b Fowler 0 Extras lb1 1

Total 1 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 O M R W Rollinson 5 5 0 5 Fowler 4.3 4 0 5 Bookham innings

RS Butler lbw b Mills 0 D Earl b Royce 0 LA Saunders b Royce 7 EA Ayres b Mills 7 SJ Toby b Royce 0 DW Chandler not out 16 IJ Watson b Mills 0 S Rollinson b Mills 0 LW Denning b Royce 1 JL Fowler b Pike 16 AW Saunders b Royce 1 Extras 9

Total 57 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?,4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/57 O M R W Mills 18 4 Royce 17 5 Pike 13 1 Source: Surrey Advertiser 9 June 1951. Also noted in Gross’s article in Journal of The Cricket Society vol 4 no. 3, on pages 20-21 As noted by Gross (and reported, e.g. in the Yorkshire Post 16 June 1951), the first ball of Bookham’s innings, bowled by Mills, went for four byes, thereby securing the victory before a single run had been scored in the match off the bat.

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Headstone v Maurice 1951 1 Venue Pinner, Middlesex Date 22 July 1951 Result Headstone won by 24 runs Toss Umpires KSW Headstone innings

Robertson not out 30 + B Wootton Phipps

Total (for 8 wickets, declared) 101 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/? O M R W James 24 3 Maurice innings

James


O M R W Phipps 37 8 Source: Harrow Observer 26 July and 2 August 1951 Gross says that wicketkeeper B Wootton made seven stumpings in an innings for Headstone. The Harrow Observer only gives the brief score of this fixture (as above) in its issue of 26 July 1951, and makes no mention of any such feat by Wootton. However, the following week’s edition (2 August) refers to Wootton as having made “a brilliant wicket-keeping performance the previous Sunday [which from the report is 22 July], when he stumped seven opponents and caught one”. So the performance is corroborated, even if no scorecard can be found. Approaches in 2020 to Parkfield & Headstone CC, successors to the Headstone club, have drawn a blank. The Middlesex County Times may be the only remaining hope for finding out more on this performance. The match is not noted in the Ruislip-Northwood Gazette.

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Gladesville-Henley v Unknown 1951/52 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1951/52 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that A Killen and H Chapman shared a partnership of 381 for Gladesville-Henley’s fifth wicket, in this match in the Gladesville B Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Mahinda College v Galle 1952/53 (?) 2 Venue Galle Esplanade, Ceylon Date Uncertain (see Notes) Result Toss Umpires KSW

Gross records that wicketkeeper WN Bennett had a hand in all ten dismissals in an innings in a school match in Ceylon, recording four catches and six stumpings. If so, this is the only known example of a wicket-keeper’s ‘all ten’. The feat is also noted in other sources, which say that Bennett was playing for Mahinda College against Galle CC. Wisden however records the feat differently, saying it was for Mahinda College against Richmond College, and that his victims were 6ct 4st. Gross and Wisden say the match was in the 1952/53 season, and an online article about this feat (at www.island.lk/2010/03/25/features3.html) dates it precisely to 1 March 1953. However, the records in ESPNcricinfo say the feat was performed in 1954, while correspondence with George Thomas says that the feat is referred to in the Ceylon Observer of 3 February 1950 (taking this from SS Perera’s Sri Lankan cricket history). But searches of the Ceylon Observer for the first few days of February 1950 – and the first few days of March, in case a date of ‘3.2.50’ should be interpreted as 2 March – have drawn a blank: there is no reference to the feat at all. There is also nothing about the match, or the feat, in the Ceylonese newspapers at the British Library covering the 1952/53 season (Times of Ceylon, Ceylon Daily News). George Thomas has said (in private correspondence) that Bennett was playing for Galle, not against them; but this is contradicted by the online article referred to above, which is unequivocal that he was playing for Mahinda College [sic – not Mahindra College) – and that Galle CC were his opponents and not Richmond College. Cricket Quarterly vol 7 no. 1 page 18 names the wicketkeeper as WJ Bennette, and dates the feat to 1954.

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Wadworth v Roche Abbey 1954 2 Venue Wadworth, South Yorkshire Date 1954 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that Wadworth were dismissed for 0 in this match. The match is not mentioned in any newspapers currently available in the BNA. Wadworth lies just south of Doncaster, and Roche Abbey is (or rather was) in nearby Maltby. Several newspapers covering this area are held at the BL and at Doncaster Central Library, but these have yet to be investigated.

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Mahendra College v Government College (Rupar) 1956/57 2 Venue Patiala, India Date 1956/57 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross, and various other sources, say that Chaman Lal (aka M Chamanlal, CA player 38485) scored 502* for Mahendra College (aka Mahindra or Mohindra College), but no further details have been found either in contemporary newspapers or by attempts to contact the college itself. Gross also says that the innings included 78 boundaries, of which 76 were fours; and that Chaman Lal’s next innings was a score of 360. Other sources say that he went on to score over 1000 runs in the course of three innings. In an email from Indian statistician Rajneesh Gupta to the present writer, dated 2 February 2020 (12 days before Chamanlal’s death), Gupta wrote “I managed to talk to the man himself today! He clearly remembers about the innings and told me that he hit 80 fours and two sixes in his innings. This innings was followed by another innings of 365 and a 140 thereafter. Unfortunately, he did not have any newspaper clipping or other material to share with me.”

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Municipality v Irrigation Department 1959 1 Venue Colombo Date 5, ?, 8, 22 July 1959 Result Municipality won by 805 runs Toss Umpires KSW Municipality innings

M Makim Salih c Ratnayake b Munasinghe 62 Sarath Silva c Munasinghe b Kuthdoos 160 DP de Silva c Blake b Vamadevan 276 L Rodrigo c Perera b Rajawasam 74 HI Fernando lbw b Manamperi 28 D Sylva c Rajawasam b Kuthdoos 39 SKP Jayawardena b Munasinghe 53 +AC Deutrom c Vamadevan b Kuthdoos 78 DP Buultjens c Ratnayake b Kuthdoos 50 A Polonowita c Blake b Rajawasam 63 S Yatawara not out 20 Extras 22

Total (all out) 925 Fall 1/148, 2/267, 3/418, 4/475, 5/566, 6/709,

7/716, 8/828, 9/862, 10/925

O M R W Munasinghe 45 2 208 2 Weerasinghe 20 2 130 0 Manamperi 39 3 190 1 Kuthdoos 47 2 170 4 Rajawasam 30 1 124 2 Vamadevan 9 0 44 1 Blake 6 0 37 0 Irrigation Department innings

A Kuthdoos run out 50 HC Perera c Deutrom b Yatawara 18 B Manamperi c Jayawardena b Polonowita 5 BT Rajawasam b Polonowita 16 DSB Ratnayake b Jayawardena 0 E Weerasinghe b Polonowita 12 E Vamadevan not out 5 D Munasinghe b Polonowita 0 MS Gaffoor st Deutrom b Polonowita 2 SA Blake absent - R Fernando absent - Extras 12


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O M R W Yatawara 12 2 29 1 Buultjens 14 2 37 0 Polonowita 14 8 16 5 Jayawardena 8 0 26 1 Source: Times of Ceylon, various dates The third day of the match was 8 July; the players – or some of them – returned to complete it on 22 July. (However, Cricket Quarterly vol 7 no. 1 page 18 gives the match-dates as 5, 6, 20, 21, 22 July.) This was a semi-final match in the Government Services ‘A’ Division. Municipality went on to defeat Police in the final by 124 runs over five days.

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Australian Abrasives v Fairfield High School 1959/60 1 Venue Fairfield, Sydney Date 6 February 1960 Result Fairfield High School won by an innings and 69 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Fairfield High School First innings

D Carter G Knox Extras

Total (for 1 wicket, declared) 115 Fall 1/? O M R W Australian Abrasives First innings Second innings (following on)

[Unknown] [unknown] b Carter 0 [Unknown] 0 [Unknown] [unknown] b Carter 0 [Unknown] [unknown] b Carter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Extras 0


9/?, 10/46 O M R W O M R W Carter 0 5 Knox 0 4 Source: The Biz (Fairfield, NSW) 17 February 1960; Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, page 41 Dan Carter took a hat-trick with his first three balls of the Abrasives’ first innings. Alfred James says that Abrasives were all out for 1 in their second innings, but the newspaper source gives the figure of 46. I have gone with the latter, on the basis that it seems unlikely that the paper would have erred in this way, especially after such a first innings. This was an under-16 match in the Auburn-Lidcombe Districts Cricket Association.. In Out for a Duck, Kersi Meher-Homji says that Fairfield were all out for 390 in their only innings, and that Abrasives were dismissed for 1 in their second innings, with the only run scored by a player named Collis, whose ankle was in plaster. I still prefer the immediately contemporary sources.

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St Benedict’s College v St Anne’s College 1959/60 1 Venue Colombo, Ceylon Date 1959/60 season? Result St Benedict’s College won by an innings and an unknown number of runs Toss Umpires KSW St Anne’s College First innings Second innings

(details not known) Extras

Total (all out) 50 ? Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/50 O M R W O M R W Fernando 24 10 2 St Benedict’s College First innings

L Fernando not out 204 Extras

Total (for 7 wickets, declared) 342 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/? O M R W Source: Email 22 January 2020 from George Thomas, citing SS Perera’s Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket 1832-1996. The figure of runs conceded by Fernando in St Anne’s (1) is from Gross. Gross dates the match to 1959/60, but it is not reported in the Times of Ceylon covering that season. Perera does not give a date, or even a season, for the match. The successful all-rounder was Lionel Fernando, CA player 26249 – though he is named as D Fernando on page 20 of Cricket Quarterly vol 7 no. 1.

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Cranborne v Bournemouth Electric 1961 1 Venue Cranborne, Dorset Date 21 May 1961 Result Bournemouth Electric won by 19 runs Toss Umpires Bournemouth Electric innings

D Gordon CG Woodrow Spiller Extras

Total (all out) 38 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/38 O M R W R Loader 12 6 Plumley 24 4 Cranborne innings

R Loader A Plumley Extras

Total (all out) 19 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/19 O M R W Woodrow 8.2 8 0 10 Spiller 19 0 Source: Bournemouth Evening Echo 23 May 1961; Bournemouth Times 26 May 1961 The successful bowler for Bournemouth Electric was Colin Woodrow. His ten wickets reportedly consisted of nine ‘bowled’ and one caught at the wicket. He took four wickets, including a hat-trick, in his third over. The bowler taking 6-12 for Cranborne was Ron Loader. He has been given his initial here because a namesake, Michael Loader, also played for the club, and may have been playing in this game. This match was a friendly, played on Whit Sunday. Bournemouth Electric played in Division 1 of the Bournemouth & District League, in which at the time they were positioned in mid-table.

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Hockley v Brentwood Radio 1962 3 Venue Hockley, Essex Date 1962 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that D Walpole scored 100* out of 108 for Hockley in this match. It is not clear whether 108 was his side’s all-out total (in which case he scored 92.59% of his team’s runs in the innings, or a higher proportion if extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Walpole was at the wicket. The match is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA. Its scorecard may be given in a contemporary issue of The Cricketer, or in any one of up to a dozen local newspapers at the British Library that may cover this area, but these have not yet been explored.

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United Services v Bromley Wanderers 1962 3 Venue Morden, Surrey Date 1962 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW

Gross says that JH Hoad scored 202* and took 10-29 in an innings for United Services. The feat is also noted in The Cricketer Winter Annual 1962 (no. 11 page 36), though it is not clear from this report which team Hoad was playing for. The Cricketer says that Hoad bowled 17.4 overs, and that he is the son of Test cricketer ELG Hoad. Searches to date for anything more on this have been unrewarded. There is no mention of the match, or the feat, in the Merton & Morden News, the Wimbledon Borough Gazette, the Mitcham & District Advertiser, the South London Press, or the Clapham Observer for 1962, or in any other newspaper currently in the BNA. The Clapham Observer gives the scores of nearly all matches played by the United Services side (named in one case as ‘United Services [Balham]’) in 1962 but not this one – though on a few weekends no United Services matches are reported. Other possible newspapers are available at Wandsworth Library and in the BL, but these have not yet been explored. Whether the visiting team was from Bromley in Kent, or Bromley in East London, or somewhere else is unclear; it may even have been Bramley rather than Bromley. (But note that a Bromley Wanderers side from Kent has been noted in a fixture in 1972.) The feat is mentioned on page 53 of Cricket Quarterly vol 7 no. 2, with the same details as given by Gross except that there is no mention of Hoad being ‘not out’.

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Baroda Schools v Gujarat Schools 1962/63 5 Venue PYC Ground, Poona, India Date 29, 30 December 1962 Result Baroda Schools won by 60 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Baroda Schools First innings Second innings

B Modi 29 M Tejwani 22 CS Aslot 35 SG Shinde 19 + L Fernandes 19 JM Patel Extras


10/137 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/97

O M R W O M R W N Desai 47 4 32 4 CN Shah 40 5 28 4 Gujarat Schools First innings Second innings

CN Shah 36 18 R Patel 30 N Desai 14 P Vora 15 N Shah Extras

Total (all out) 81 (all out) 93 Fall 1/71, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?,

10/81 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/93

O M R W O M R W Tejwani 15 5 42 6 Patel 7 4 17 3 Source: Cricket Archive potted match-score misc32664. Many details also noted in the Times of India 30 and 31 December 1962, but they do not add to the scorecard details in CA. There is also nothing additional in Indian Cricket for the relevant year, nor in Indian Cricket Field 1963/64. It is recorded in the Times of India that L Fernandes made six stumpings in the first innings of Gujarat Schools. This is not noted on the CA scorecard. This was the West Zone semi-final of the 1962/63 Cooch-Behar Trophy

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Strathmore v Strathmore North 1962/63 2 Venue Strathmore, Victoria Date 1962/63 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: Ken W

Gross says that J Burr took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Strathmore. The feat is not noted in The Age, nor in any paper currently (March 2020) available in Trove. Ken Piesse refers to this schools’ match on page 43 of The Extraordinary Book of Australian Cricket. He says that Burr was 11 years old, and took 10-0 from 18 balls – six wickets in his first [eight-ball] over, two from the first two balls of his second, and two from the first two balls of his third over, for an analysis of 2.2-2-0-10.

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Elgin v Ross County 1964 1 Venue Cooper Park, Elgin, Scotland Date 30 May 1964 Result Elgin won by 145 runs Toss Umpires Ross County fielded only ten players Thanks: NL, HW Elgin innings

T Manley b Oliver 28 B Woolfson b Hendry 0 J Wright b Niven 43 F Muir lbw b Niven 8 J Leithead not out 36 W Phimister b Niven 6 R Draggan not out 12 D Murray Stewartson [unknown] [unknown] Extras 12

Total (for 5 wickets, declared) 145 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/? O M R W Hendry 15 0 53 1 Northcliffe 7 1 20 0 Niven 11 2 42 3 Oliver 4 1 18 1 Ross County innings

B Kenny c Phimister b Woolfson 0 G Shiels c Stewartson b Murray 0 J Hendry b Woolfson 0 W Oliver b Woolfson 0 J Niven hit wicket b Murray 0 R Hannant lbw b Woolfson 0 I Taylor b Woolfson 0 S Bull not out 0 J Northcliffe b Murray 0 N Frazer b Murray 0 Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0 O M R W Woolfson 2 2 0 5 Murray 2 2 0 4 Source: Aberdeen Press & Journal 1 June 1964; Centenary History of the North of Scotland Cricket Association (1993); match scoresheet from Elgin CC Gross refers to the match as Elgin County v Ross County, and the Elgin CC scoresheet (which is a typescript, not the original scorebook) also has Elgin as the home side. But the Aberdeen Press & Journal gives the venue as Strathpeffer in Ross & Cromarty, in which case Ross County were at home. Whatever the venue, the winning team is correctly just ‘Elgin’. In the event of inconsistency between the sources, players’ surnames and initials are taken from the Elgin CC scoresheet. The reliability of this is, however, uncertain: e.g. the Ross County no. 5 is given as ‘Niven’ in the batting details, but as ‘Nevin’ in the bowling. Other differences in the Press & Journal: in the Elgin side, F Moir, R Draffen, Stewarton; for Ross County, G Sheils, J Frazer. Stewartson and Northcliffe sometimes given as Stewardson and Northcliff. The bowling order here is as given in the Elgin scoresheet. Bernard Woolfson dismissed Kenny and Hendry with the first two balls of the Ross County innings, and both he and David Murray took three wickets in their respective second overs. This was a match in the North of Scotland League. The reason why Ross County fielded only ten players is not known.

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St Kilda v Essendon 1964/65 5 Venue Melbourne Date 1964/65 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that wicketkeeper D McLean took eight catches in an innings for St Kilda. The full scorecard is now in Cricket Archive (vca5602), and is therefore not repeated here. The CA card confirms Douglas McLean’s eight catches (in an innings in which only nine wickets fell). EW Seccombe kept wicket for St Kilda in Essendon’s second innings, recording 1 catch and 2 stumpings.

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West Zone Schools v Central Zone Schools 1965/66 1 Venue Islam Gymkhana Ground, Bombay Date 21, 22, 23 November 1965 Result West Zone Schools won by an innings and 164 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW; KSW Central Zone Schools First innings Second innings

P Shukla lbw b Naik 13 c and b Naik 5 S Jagdale b Naik 0 (7) st Hansia b Solkar 1 Gulrez Ali b Naik 2 (4) st Hansia b Rege 5 Laxman Singh c Hansia b Naik 3 (3) lbw b Solkar 20 J Ansari c Hansia b Rege 70 b Solkar 55 Mahapendra Singh run out 0 b Rathor 4 Nazbilley st Hansia b Solkar 20 (8) c Hansia b Solkar 4 Hassan Ali c Gavaskar b Rege 17 (9) c Rege b Solkar 2 M Sheth b Solkar 17 (2) lbw b Baxi 34 Ijaz Ali c Rathor b Rege 19 st Hansia b Solkar 5 Parikshit Singh not out 0 not out 0 Extras 15 21

Total (all out) 166 (all out) 156 Fall 1/8, 2/17, 3/20, 4/23, 5/24, 6/65, 7/86, 8/112,

9/156, 10/166 1/14, 2/51, 3/64, 4/80, 5/110, 6/126, 7/146, 8/148, 9/155, 10/156

O M R W O M R W Rathor 8 1 22 0 14 5 25 1 Naik 13 4 28 4 5 0 21 1 Solkar 17 4 52 2 (4) 20.1 14 19 6 Rege 18.3 10 28 3 (3) 23 8 45 1 Baxi 3 2 4 0 9 7 5 1 Quereshi 1 0 1 0 4 3 3 0 Mankad 2 0 16 0 5 2 17 0 West Zone Schools First innings

A Quereshi lbw b Laxman Singh 203 SM Gavaskar not out 246 MD Rege b Ijaz Ali 5 Atul V Mankad not out 19 Rathor A Naik *ED Solkar J Baxi + Hansia Extras 13

Total (for 2 wickets, declared) 486 Fall 1/421, 2/? O M R W Hassan Ali 43 0 105 0 Ijaz Ali 8 0 57 1 Gulrez Ali 19 0 113 0 Jagdale 8 0 33 0 Parikshit Singh 16 1 53 0 Mahapendra Singh 15 0 91 0 Nazbilley 3 0 17 0 Ansari 1 0 4 0 Laxman Singh 1 1 0 1 Source: Times of India 22, 23 November 1965; Indian Cricket 1966.

Close of play, Day 1: WZ 228-0 (Quereshi 83, Gavaskar 133); Day 2: CZ(2) 132-5 (Ansari 42, Jagdale 1)

Gavaskar 240 minutes, 42 fours; Quereshi 215 minutes, 23 fours.

The fixture is indexed in CA as a Cooch-Behar Trophy quarter-final match (misc32069), but no scorecard details are given there.

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St Andrew’s v Methodist 1965/66 1 Venue Ararat, Victoria, Australia Dates 12, 19 February 1966 Result St Andrew’s won by ten wickets (and batted on) Toss Umpires Thanks: WR, Ken W Methodist Innings

O Wilkinson c Wilkinson b Gunstone 5 A Fiscilani c Lever b Gunstone 13 A Wilkinson b Gunstone 6 J Martin b Gunstone 16 I Drever b Bourke 56 J Castles c and b Graham 0 R Dallinger c Rutherford b Graham 17 M Sheehan c and b Bourke 10 K Carmichael b Barr 10 J Gwilt c Padgett b Bourke 1 D Cameron not out 4 Extras 16

Total (all out) 154 Fall 1-9 not known, 10/154 O M R W Gunstone 71 4 Bourke 32 3 Graham 25 2 Barr 13 1 St Andrew’s Innings

FH Gunstone c Castles b Ahpee 334 H Bourke c Martin b Dallinger 201 R Flavell c Gwilt b Ahpee 4 D Padgett not out 7 R Graham c Gwilt b Dallinger 5 D Barr not out 3 D Lever Rutherford Extras 5

Total (for 4 wickets) 549 Fall 1/521, 2/?, 3/?, 4/? O M R W Drever 26 0 Dallinger 199 2 R Ahpee 96 2 Gwilt 74 0 Carmichael 48 0 Fiscilani 76 0 Castles 27 0 Source: The Age (Melbourne) 14, 21, 24 February 1966 Nothing in Trove, Feb 2020

Close of Play: Day 1 – St Andrew’s 72-0 (Gunstone 53, Bourke ?) This was a match in the Grampians & District Association. Full scorecard from Grampians CA website, at grampiansca.vic.cricket.com.au, courtesy of William Rice (Cricket Victoria). Wicket-taker R Ahpee for Methodist does not appear in their batting card. Some further information from Ken Williams.

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Panania-Easts v Regent’s Park 1965/66 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1965/66 season Result Not known Toss Umpires KSW

Gross says that N Doherty took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Panania-Easts. The feat is also listed on page 45 of Alfred James’s Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the NSW Districts Cricket Association 1903 to 2003, from which the spelling ‘Panania’ is taken, in preference to Gross’s ‘Penania’. The feat is not noted in the Sydney Morning Herald, nor in any paper currently (March 2020) available in Trove. James shows this as a match in the Bankstown Under-10 Association. The feat is confirmed in Cricket Quarterly vol 4 no. 3, page 183, where it is stated that Doherty was aged 9, and took 5-8 in Regent’s Park’s second innings.

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Taunton’s School v Glen Eyre 1966 2 Venue Southampton, Hampshire Date 1966 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that D Poole took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Taunton’s. The feat is also noted in a letter in The Cricketer 1966 (no. 12 page 18), which confirms that this was an Under-13 match, and that Glen Eyre were bowled out for 13. It also has a photograph of Poole. The feat is not noted in any paper currently (March 2020) available in the BNA, but newspapers in Southampton have yet to be checked.

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Toronto v Victoria Park 1966 3 Venue Toronto, Ontario, Canada Date 1966 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that T Norton scored 146* out of 164 for Toronto in this match. It is not clear whether 164 was his side’s all-out total (in which case he scored 89.02% of his team’s runs in the innings, or a higher proportion if extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Valentine was at the wicket. The match is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA, but there are two contemporary newspapers at the BL that would be worth exploring further – the Toronto Daily Star and the Globe & Mail.

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St Brendan’s College v MCCC 1966/67 2 Venue Devonport, Tasmania Date 1966/67 season Result Not known Toss Umpires KSW

Gross records that B Anderson (125*) and K Anderson (207*) shared an unbroken stand of 325 for the sixth wicket in the St Brendan’s innings. He gives the venue simply as ‘Mersey Valley’, without identifying a country let alone anything more precise. Detective work indicates that the match was probably at or near Devonport in the Mersey Valley in Tasmania, where St Brendan’s (now St Brendan-Shaw College, so renamed in the 1970s or early 1980s) is a leading Catholic school. The nearby town of Burnie is home to Marist College, another leading Catholic school, so this could be the ‘MCCC’ referred to by Gross; but that might equally be Mersey [something] Cricket Club. (Information from Ric Finlay, with thanks). The feat is noted in Cricket Quarterly vol. 5 no. 2 page 59, but with no more detail than given by Gross, except that it adds that the partnership lasted 100 minutes. There is scope for further investigation in Tasmanian newspapers.

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Seaforth v Pittwater 1966/67 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1966/67 season Result Not known Toss Umpires KSW

Gross says that D Norquay took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Seaforth. The feat is also listed on page 45 of Alfred James’s Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the NSW Districts Cricket Association 1903 to 2003. The feat is not noted in the Sydney Morning Herald, nor in any paper currently (March 2020) available in Trove. It is however noted in Cricket Quarterly vol. 5 no. 2 page 60, where it states that Norquay was aged 13 but gives no other details of the match. James shows this as a match in the Manly Under-13 Association.

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Marlborough College A v Bohally Intermediate School 1967/68 1 Venue Blenheim, New Zealand Date 2 December 1967 Result Marlborough College A won by an innings and 25 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: FP Bohally Intermediate School First innings Second innings

Extras b2 2


10/17 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/3

O M R W O M R W Holdaway (3) 0.5 0 0 2 [unknown] 1 0 1 0 Fleming 0.1 0 0 1 (1) 1 1 0 8 Marlborough College A First innings

S Fleming G Holdaway Extras

Total (for 9 wickets, declared) 45 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/? O M R W

Source: Marlborough Express (Blenheim, NZ) 4 December 1967. Marlborough College have been unable to provide any additional information. Stephen Fleming took wickets with each of the nine balls he bowled in the match. His eight second-innings wickets consisted of two ‘caught’ (off the second and fourth balls of the over) and six ‘bowled’. He was replaced for the third over of Bohally (2) by Graham Holdaway, who had taken a hat-trick in their first innings. The report in the Express on 4 December said that Fleming was 14 years old. On 6 December the same paper said that he was aged 15. There is a photograph of him in the edition of 6 December. During 2020 Stephen Fleming has been tracked down by NZ statistician Francis Payne, who plans to write about him in the 2021 edition of the NZ Cricket Almanack.

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Fairfield Patrician Brothers v St Barnabas 1967/68 1 Venue Sydney, NSW Date 27 January 1968 Result Fairfield Patrician Brothers won by an innings and 51 runs Toss Umpires Fairfield Patrician Brothers First innings

S Booth Extras

Total (for an unknown number of wickets, declared)

53

Fall O M R W St Barnabas First innings Second innings (following on)

Extras 0 w1 1

Total (all out) 0 (all out) 2 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/?,

9/?, 10/2 O M R W O M R W Booth 0 0 Source: Sydney Morning Herald 28 January 1968; The Biz (Fairfield, NSW) 1 February 1968 Stephen Booth took 11 wickets for no runs across the two innings of St Barnabas. As reported in the SMH, the Brothers’ coach said that ‘the looseness in the bowling [in the latter part of the match] resulted when he gave a change bowler an over late in the innings’. This was an Under-12 fixture in the Southern District Cricket Association’s junior competition.

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Bradma v Fort Vijay 1967/68 3 Venue Bombay, India Date 1967/68 season Result Fort Vijay won by ten wickets Toss Umpires Bradma innings

Extras 0

Total (all out) 0 Fall 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0 O M R W Desai 0 7 Fort Vijay innings

PC Desai Extras b1 1

Total (for no wicket) 1 Fall O M R W Source: Gross. No corroboration can be found in scores from the 1967/68 season given in the Times of India, although the scores are given of some other matches by these teams. Fort Vijay reportedly won the match by scoring a bye off the first ball of their innings. Whether they batted on after this is not known.

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Granville HS v James Ruse HS 1967/68 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1967/68 season Result Not known Toss Umpires KSW

Gross records that P Love recorded a hat-trick of stumpings in this match for Granville HS. The feat is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove. It is however noted, with no additional details, in Cricket Quarterly vol. 6 no. 3 page 117; no bowler is named. The bowler’s performance is not included in the list of hat-tricks in Australia in the same item in CQ, which suggests that Love’s three stumpings may have involved two different bowlers.

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Svanholm v Ringsted 1968 2 Venue Svanholm, Denmark Date 1968 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that LF (?Leif) Hansen scored 236* for Svanholm, and took 13-36 across his opponents’ two innings, including a hat-trick. This feat is not mentioned in Wisden for 1969, and Hansen is not listed in the name-index for The Cricketer, or the player-index in Cricket Archive. Sources of Danish scores require further investigation.

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Beachport Colts v Cellulose Colts 1968/69 1 Venue Millicent, South Australia Date 12, 19 October 1968 Result Beachport Colts won by 10 wickets Toss Umpires Cellulose Colts First innings Second innings

A Scanlon c Walters b Morgan 0 b Morgan 0 J Yates b Morgan 2 c Walters b Morgan 9 W Armfield b Morgan 0 c McIntyre b Morgan 13 P Barnes b Morgan 1 b Morgan 2 W Salmon b Morgan 0 c K Justice b Morgan 0 F Armfield b Morgan 0 b Morgan 0 G Redden not out 1 b W Justice 0 J Scanlon c McIntyre b Morgan 0 lbw b W Justice 0 M Armfield b Morgan 0 b Morgan 2 T Clapham b Morgan 0 c K Justice b W Justice 0 I Summerfield 0 not out 0 Extras 2 7


9/?, 10/33

O M R W O M R W Morgan 0 10 13 9 6 7 K Justice 4 0 17 0 W Justice 6 3

Beachport Colts First innings Second innings

W Justice b Salmon 8 not out 4 K Justice b W Armfield 0 not out 11 T Best b Yates 1 P Walters lbw b W Armfield 3 R Morgan b Salmon 6 T McIntyre c Barnes b M Armfield 4 C Copping b G Armfield 5 B Rivett c Yates b M Armfield 1 D Varcoe b G Armfield 0 C Taylor b Clapham 1 D Dunsford not out 0 Extras 7 2

Total (all out) 36 (for no wicket) 17 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/36 O M R W O M R W W Armfield 6 2 9 0 Yates 11 1 6 0 Salmon 2 2 M Armfield 7 2 G Armfield 3 2 Clapham 0 1 Source: Scorecard from Geoff Sando (Adelaide), citing the South Eastern Times (Millicent, SA) for 15 and 24 October 1968. Beachport Colts presumably batted on after winning. Their successful bowler was named Robert Morgan, who was aged 15 according to the Cricket Quarterly. The name ‘G Armfield’ as a bowler in the Beachport innings does not match the names in the Cellulose batting card. Whether this was a misprint in the original source for one of the three Armfields in the Cellulose XI, and if so which one, is not known. This was a match in the Colts Grade of the Millicent Cricket Association

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Buller v West Coast 1968/69 5 Venue Westport, New Zealand Date 1968/69 season Result Not known Toss Umpires Thanks: FP

Gross says that wicketkeeper E Tait took eight catches in an innings for Buller. The match is not reported in any newspaper currently (April 2020) in Papers Past. The ‘full’ scorecard is in Cricket Archive (misc603044), and so is not repeated here. Francis Payne has confirmed that Tait’s catches were taken in the field, not as wicketkeeper, but details of players’ dismissals are not given in CA (or in any other source traced so far). Payne reports that Tait’s catches were taken at slip and mid-on, off the bowling of GW Hart (4), RN Parker (3) and CR Aldridge (1). These catches were taken in the second innings, in which the other dismissals were by means of a catch by B McGuire and a stumping by JW Mumm. Tait had earlier taken one catch in the field in the first innings.

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Municipals v Union 1968/69 3 Venue Port Elizabeth, South Africa Date 1968/69 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that M Woodin scored 140* out of 141 off the bat for Municipals in this match. It is not clear whether 141 was his side’s all-out total (in which case he scored 99.29% of his team’s runs in the innings), or just the number of runs added while Woodin was at the wicket. The match is not noted in any newspaper in the BNA, but there are two contemporary newspapers at the BL that would be worth exploring further – the Eastern Province Herald and the Port Elizabeth Evening Post.

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Leverington A v Schweppes 1969 1 Venue Leverington, Cambridgeshire Date 23 May 1969 Result Leverington A won by 49 runs Toss Umpires Leverington A innings

R Warden b Roberts 0 *J Rawlings b Garford 3 J Grimmer b Garford 11 R Dicks b Garford 3 C Bailey b Tuck 4 R Edwards c and b Tuck 7 B Isley c Garford b Boyle 9 B Hawkins c Spencer b Boyle 4 F Morgan b Boyle 2 A Gagen b Tuck 4 M Missin not out 0 Extras 3

Total 50 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/50 O M R W Roberts 4 2 10 1 Garford 5 2 19 3 Tuck 4 3 6 3 Boyle 2.4 0 12 3 Schweppes innings

M Tuck c Grimmer b Bailey 0 M Berry c Morgan b Bailey 0 M Hunns c Missin b Grimmer 1 *P Boyle b Bailey 0 J Alexander c Rawlings b Bailey 0 L Jones b Grimmer 0 M Garford b Bailey 0 P Carter b Bailey 0 G Spencer not out 0 J Roberts b Bailey 0 C Gay b Bailey 0 Extras 0

Total 1 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?,4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 O M R W Bailey 5 4 1 8 Grimmer 4 4 0 2 Source: Wisbech Standard 30 May 1969 This was a first-round match in the Wisbech Cricket League’s Sandall Cup competition. Schweppes were a new team in the league, and this was their first match of the season. For league matches, both they and Leverington A were in the competition’s second division. The full names of the Schweppes team were Milton Tuck, Michael Berry, Michael Hunns, Pat Boyle, John Alexander, Laurie Jones, Malcolm Garford, Paul Carter, Graham Spencer, John Roberts, and Chris Gay.

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Schweppes v Barroway Drove 1969 1 Venue Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Date 31 May 1969 Result Barroway Drove won by 48 runs Toss Umpires Barroway Drove innings

A Howlett b Roberts 21 B Banks c Gay b Roberts 0 D Fendley lbw b Roberts 2 B Fletcher b Howlett 17 E Golding b Garford 5 R Wheeler c Carter b Garford 0 N Griffin b Tuck 1 T Good c and b Tuck 0 C Southwell not out 0 D Johnson b Tuck 2 K Good b Tuck 0 Extras 1

Total 49 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/49 O M R W Roberts 6 1 13 3 Howlett 5 3 18 1 Garford 3 0 13 2 Tuck 3.5 0 4 4 Schweppes innings

M Garford c Golding b Fendley 0 M Tuck b Fletcher 0 R Savage b Fletcher 0 M Berry b Fletcher 0 J Alexander b Fletcher 0 A Howlett c Fletcher b Fendley 1 P Carter b Fendley 0 M Briston b Fendley 0 C Hourihan b Fendley 0 J Roberts b Fletcher 0 C Gay not out 0 Extras 0

Total 1 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?,4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/1 O M R W Fendley 3.3 3 0 5 Fletcher 3 2 1 5 Source: Wisbech Standard 6 June 1969

This was Schweppes’ second league match of the season, and came eight days after they had been dismissed for 1 in their opening Cup match. Seven players played for them in both matches.

In their first league match (played between the two ‘1 all out’ matches) they had scored 29 all out (Garford 16, Extras 10) to lose to Welney by eight wickets.

Over the season as a whole, in matches reported by the Wisbech Standard – which is most of them – their highest innings total was 57 (v Walpole Highway A; lost by eight wickets) and their second-highest was 32. Although not again dismissed in single figures, their record included all-out totals of 12, 17, 18 and 19.

They forfeited a number of matches during the scheduled 16-game season, including all their last three matches. They secured their only league point in a mid-season tie v Walpole Sports (Sports 27 [Roberts 5-16, J Christieson 5-7]; Schweppes 27 [Nobbs 6-5]), in a match for which they arrived with only eight players and ‘borrowed’ two home supporters to make up their ten-man team.

Gross names the winning team as ‘Barroway Drive’, but ‘Drove’ is correct.

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West Torrens v Woodville 1969/70 1 Venue Barton Oval, Adelaide, South Australia Date 13, 18 October 1969 Result West Torrens won on first innings by 40 runs Toss Umpires West Torrens First innings Second innings

AJ Smith lbw b Pearson 0 b Jarman 5 BW Isaac c Clingly b Pearson 4 lbw b Clingly 3 B Parham c Philp b Cross 13 not out 15 RJ Niehuus b Manuel 56 IF Edgley c Howe b Clingly 33 (4) not out 24 + RP Blundell c and b Manuel 23 DH Smith c and b Manuel 12 DT Rex c Cross b Manuel 24 BF Flaherty b Pearson 24 KJ Lewis not out 7 GE Stanford b Cross 3 Extras 17 6

Total (all out) 217 (for 2 wickets) 53 Fall 1/0, 2/7, 3/26, 4/76, 5/133, 6/144, 7/159,

8/183, 9/212, 10/217 1/4, 2/10

O M R W O M R W Pearson 17 1 47 3 2 1 4 0 Cross 14 1 54 2 Hosking 3 1 9 0 Clingly 17 4 35 1 (2) 3 2 3 1 Manuel 24 4 55 4 (4) 2 0 5 0 Jarman (3) 3 0 21 1 Causby 1 0 2 0 Sparrow 1 0 12 0 Woodville First innings

JP Causby st Blundell b Flaherty 39 GJ Hosking c Flaherty b Rex 28 BN Jarman b Stanford 7 MJ Philp st Blundell b Flaherty 27 S Howe st Blundell b Flaherty 6 R Sparrow st Blundell b Flaherty 16 MT Clingly c Flaherty b Lewis 30 PW Williams st Blundell b Flaherty 13 F Cross st Blundell b Flaherty 5 JA Manuel st Blundell b Lewis 1 TJ Pearson not out 0 Extras 5


8/176, 9/177, 10/177

O M R W Stanford 17 4 54 1 Rex 8 2 19 1 DH Smith 5 0 32 0 Flaherty 18 4 43 6 Lewis 10.3 2 24 2 Source: Scorecard supplied by Geoff Sando (Adelaide) Close of play, Day 1: Woodville 6-0 (Causby and Hosking batting)

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St John’s v Punchbowl Soccer 1969/70 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1969/70 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on pages 42 and 45) that G Hughes (St John’s) took all ten of his opponents’ wickets for no runs, in this match in the Canterbury Under-14 Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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West Killara v West Pymble 1969/70 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1969/70 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 41) that West Killara were dismissed for 0 in this match in the Gordon Junior Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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St John’s School, Leatherhead v Epsom College 1970 1 Venue St John’s School, Leatherhead, Surrey Date 16 May 1970 Result St John’s School, Leatherhead won by 20 runs Toss Umpires AE Wellard, JAR Meikle St John’s School, Leatherhead innings

+JL Rose c Jinnah b Owen 95 GA Law lbw b Owen 0 *RH Sutcliffe b Owen 2 RJ Tremeer b Owen 0 PA Aitken b Owen 0 C van Vessem b Booth 0 PJC Stone b Owen 0 HGMD House c Smith b Owen 0 PR Woodburn lbw b Wilson 5 PRJ Knight c and b Owen 0 RF Tambling not out 0 Extras b3, lb3 6


9/108, 10/108

O M R W Owen 14.4 3 49 8 Booth 10 2 30 1 Hartley 3 1 8 0 BM Smith 3 0 11 0 Wilson 2 0 4 1 Epsom College innings

*+ BM Smith c and b Law 12 RH Jinnah c and b Law 13 C Trim c van Vessem b Tambling 0 ML Porter c and b Law 38 RPG Wilson c House b Law 4 DA Boldy lbw b Law 4 IR Drybrough-Smith run out 5 FM Harding st Rose b Tambling 0 JG Owen c Tambling b Law 1 AM Booth run out 0 RA Hartley not out 2 Extras b6, lb2, nb1 9


8/78, 9/78, 10/88

O M R W Knight 3 0 10 0 Woodburn 6 2 15 0 Law 21.4 10 32 6 Tambling 18 8 22 2 Source: St John’s School scorebook, courtesy of Sally Todd (Archivist, St John’s School). Rose was ninth out at 108, having batted 115 minutes and hit nine fours and one six. There were only five other scoring strokes in the St John’s innings – two singles by Sutcliffe, and a single and two twos by Woodburn.

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Georges River-Penshurst v Auburn-Lidcombe 1973/74 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1973/74 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 24) that wicketkeeper S Pepper recorded eight stumpings in an innings for Georges River-Penshurst, all off the bowling of N Bagnall who took 8-15. This was a match in the Arch Cawsey Shield (a junior competition). No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove. Match mentioned by Kersi Meher-Homji on page 73 of Cricket Quirky Cricket, which names the successful bowler as Neil Bagnall aged 12. Wicket-keeper Stuart Pepper is also named, and stated to be 12 years old. Meher-Homji claims that Pepper made a hat-trick of stumpings, but makes no reference to the possible eight stumpings in the innings. He names the sides as Georges River v Auburn, and says that his source was a piece by John Benaud in Australian Cricket for March 1974.

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Revesby Workers Club v St Felix No. 2s 1974/75 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date November 1974 Result Not known Toss Umpires St Felix No. 2s innings

O M R W Ball 0 10 Revesby Workers Club innings

R Ball retired 31

Gross says that R Ball took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Revesby WC. The feat is also noted in the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier for 19 November 1974, which says that “ten-year-old Robbie Bell took ten wickets for none – five of them clean bowled, including a hat-trick – in an under-11 cricket competition in Sydney at the weekend, then opened his … team’s innings and scored 31 before retiring.” The weekend before that newspaper was Sat-Sun 16-17 November. The feat is not noted in any other paper currently (March 2020) available in Trove.

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Clifton v Frenchay 1975 3 Venue Bristol, England Date 1975 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that HWH Alpass scored 101 out of 107 for Clifton in this match. It is not clear whether 107 was his side’s all-out total (in which case he scored 94.39% of his team’s runs in the innings, or a higher proportion if extras are excluded), or just the number of runs added while Alpass was at the wicket. The match is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in the BNA, but there are three contemporary Bristol newspapers at the BL that would be worth exploring further – the Western Daily News, the Evening Post, and the New Observer. None of these, nor The Cricketer, has yet been investigated.

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ICI Organics Division v Fodens 1975 2 Venue Sandbach, Cheshire Date 1975 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that wicketkeeper A Wroe took eight catches in an innings for ICI Organics Division. The match is not reported in any newspaper currently (April 2020) in the BNA.

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Sri Lanka Army v University of Peradeniya (?) 1975/76 3 Venue Colombo, Sri Lanka Date 1975/76 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross says that, in a match between Nondescripts and Saracens in 1975/76, TD Rajapakse (240) and WW Fernando (222) added 471 for Nondescripts’ fourth wicket. Such a partnership is mentioned in Wisden 1977, but without the names of the teams involved. There is no reference to such a match in CA in the 1975/76 season. However, SS Perera’s SL cricket history says the partnership was worth 470, that Rajapakse scored 241 and WF (sic) Fernando 212 – and that they did so for the Army against the University of Peradeniya. CA shows these teams meeting four times in calendar years 1975 and 1976, and gives the dates of these matches, but it does not have scorecards for any of them. But no such match is reported in the Ceylon Daily News around any of the four dates in question, so this occurrence remains a mystery.

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Ananda College v St Joseph’s College 1977/78 3 Venue Colombo, Sri Lanka Date 1977/78 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

Gross records that A Ranatunga scored 315* and took 11-24 for Ananda College in this match. The match has been sought in the Ceylon Daily News for the first half of 1978 (the school season in Sri Lanka), but without success. The sides met on 20 January 1978, but Ranatunga was not playing. The only mention of him seen in the papers over this period was playing in an Under-15 side against a Sri Lanka women & girls’ team. Ranatunga would have turned 14 at the beginning of December 1977. Perhaps this wasn’t a performance for his college first XI – but you’d still expect it to have been mentioned in the SL newspapers. No reference to such a performance has been found online. In particular, Ranatunga’s triple-century is not included in the (short) lists of 300 in SL schools’ matches published online in March 2020 when ND Paranavithana became the first to score a 400 in these games. Further investigation needed, but given the later celebrity of the cricketer concerned, it is surprising that no mention of this feat has yet been traced in any source.

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Sandown High School Under-13s v King Edward VII School Under-13s 1978/79 2 Venue Johannesburg, South Africa Date 1978/79 season Result Toss Umpires

Gross records that the Sandown side was dismissed for 0 in this match. The match has not yet been sought in newspapers in the British Library, or elsewhere. The only possible newspaper available at the BL is the Rand Daily Mail. Whether that would report such a minor school match must be doubtful. It has also not to date been sought in The Cricketer or in early editions of Wisden Cricket Monthly.

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RAEC Beaconsfield v JATE Brize Norton 1979 1 Venue Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Bucks Date 23 or 30 May 1979 Result RAEC Beaconsfield won by 117 runs Toss Umpires RAEC Beaconsfield innings

M Walters Laurie Extras

Total (for 3 wickets; 20 overs) 127 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/? O M R W O M R W JATE Brize Norton innings

[Unknown] lbw b Walters 2 Watson [unknown dismissal] b Laurie 0 Woodley not out 3 Fairclough b Walters 0 Edgington b Walters 0 Dalton [unknown dismissal] b Laurie 0 Gillies b Walters 2 Bunford b Walters 0 Higgs b Walters 0 Shields b Walters 0 Whitfield b Walters 0 Extras 3

Total (all out) 10 Fall 1/2, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/7, 6/10, 7/10, 8/10, 9/10,

10/10

O M R W Walters 2.5 1 2 8 Laurie 2 0 5 2 Source: Scorecard reconstructed from reports and details of scorebook shown in the Bucks Free Press, Friday 1 June 1979 – in which the match was said to have been played “last Wednesday”. The match was not reported in the Bucks Advertiser or the Bucks Herald. Major Mike Walters took his eight wickets with consecutive balls. His full analysis was .2…. | …www | wwwww There was reported to have been a ten-minute rain-break between the balls with which he took his fourth and fifth wickets. His eight wickets consisted successively of batsmen 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. The teams’ full names were Royal Army Educational Corps, Beaconsfield; and Joint Air Transport Establishment, Brize Norton.

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Wanderers v Unknown 1979/80 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1979/80 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 38) that J Connors and J Shelley shared a partnership of 308 for Wanderers’ seventh wicket, in this match in the Gordon A Grade Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

266

Old Gaytonians Third XI v Entech 1981 1 Venue South Vale, Harrow, Middlesex Date 23 August 1981 Result Entech won by 57 runs Toss Umpires KSW Entech innings

G Turner Extras

Total (all out) 131 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/131 O M R W Purcell 19.5 2 69 10 Old Gaytonians Third XI innings

S Purcell Extras

Total (all out) 74 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/74 O M R W Turner 14.2 4 20 10

Source: Harrow Observer 28 August 1981. Also noted in The Cricketer November 1981, page 55 The successful bowler for the Old Gaytonians, Stuart Purcell, was 15 years old. Gary Turner took all ten for Entech. Old Gaytonians is the Old Boys side of Harrow County School. It is not known whether the Entech side was their first, second or third eleven, but the Harrow Observer is clear that it was the Gaytonians’ third eleven. Inferentially from the report in the newspaper, this was an adult match in which a 15-year-old happened to be playing, rather than a junior match.

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Hymers College Under-12s v Pocklington School Under-12s 1981 2 Venue Hymers College, Hull, East Yorkshire Date 1981 season Result Pocklington School Under-12s won by 24 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: HW Pocklington School U-12s innings

*+ JP Robins JS Pickard

Total (all out) 53 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/53 O M R W Hymers College U-12s innings

Total (all out) 29 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/29 O M R W Pickard 5 4

Gross records that JP Robins recorded a hat-trick of stumpings in this match for Pocklington School, off the bowling of JS Pickward. This is confirmed in the Pocklington School Magazine 1980/81 pp 30 and 32, and 1984/85 pp 19-20, which also establishes that this was an Under-12 fixture (rather than a First XI fixture, as Gross’s details suggest), that the wicketkeeper was named John Robins, and that the bowler was correctly spelled Pickard rather than Pickward.

The school magazine names 11 others who played for Pocklington’s Under-12s in 1980/81, from whom the missing nine names in the team for this match must have been drawn: R Eggleston, JM Mears, JP Traill, RM Gaines, MD Wigglesworth, NJH Lumley, SA Clarke, AGC Sutton, SJ Herbert, JC Mayo and AR West. Pocklington School is between York and Beverley, and nearer to York; Hymers College (no apostrophe) is in the centre of Hull. So if the match was at Hull as stated by Gross, Hymers must have been the home team. The venue is not stated in the school’s magazine.

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Redcliffe-Sandgate v University 1981/82 1 Venue Redcliffe, Brisbane, Queensland Date December 1981 Result Not known Toss Umpires University innings

D Crosby not out 398 J Stephens 89 J Foster 158

Total (for 2 wickets, declared) 669 Fall 1/216, 2/666 O M R W Redcliffe-Sandgate innings

Extras

Total Fall O M R W

Source: Wisden Cricket Monthly January 1982 page 5 Don Crosby’s 398* included 54 fours and two sixes. He added 216 with John Stephens, and 450 with John Foster This was a Brisbane fifth-grade match, played on a synthetic pitch

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Unknown v Unknown 1981/82 2 Venue East Thomastown, Victoria, Australia Date 1981/82 season Result Toss Umpires

Wisden Cricket Monthly (May 1982 page 38), citing the magazine Australian Cricket, records that Peter Morfea and A Morrison shared an unbroken partnership of 419 for the first wicket in an under-14 match. From Gross, Morfea scored 214* and Morrison 167*. From WCM, Morfea was aged 13, and this was the third in a series of successive innings of 102*, 118 and 216*. So whether his score in this match was 214* or 216* is uncertain. The match was not reported in The Age, nor in any other newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Bankstown-Canterbury v Sydney University 1982/83 2 Venue Sydney Dates 27 November 1982 Result Not known Toss Umpires Sydney University innings


10/236

O M R W Bankstown-Canterbury Innings

+L Andrews

Total Fall O M R W Source: Wisden Cricket Monthly February 1983, page 7

The source records that Les Andrews caught nine of the ten batsmen in the Sydney University innings, with the other wicket falling to a run-out at the bowler’s end. This was a Sydney first grade match

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Narrikup v Centrals 1982/83 1 Venue Sounness Park, Mount Barker, Western Australia Date 19, 20, 26, 27 March, 2 April 1983 Result Narrikup won by 333 runs Toss Narrikup Umpires Thanks: BR Narrikup First innings Second innings

P McKenzie c Rowe b T Thompson 16 (2) b Pickles 0 WB Sounness c B Thompson b Wright 201 (1) c T Thompson b B Thompson 201 C Norton c T Thompson b Pearce 2 C Hammond b Pickles 8 B Williamson c Scott b Pearce 17 c B Thompson 5 K Bennett lbw b B Thompson 15 b T Thompson b M Thompson 68 *+ M Sims b Pickles 3 (7) lbw b M Thompson 11 K Draper not out 54 (6) c Hammond b Back 46 R Smallwood b Wright 26 (9) b T Thompson 10 G Bush lbw b Pearce 4 (8) c T Thompson b Back 30 B Smallwood c Pearce b Wright 6 b T Thompson 3 K Stan-Bishop c B Thompson b Wright 3 not out 6 Extras 8 10


9/?, 10/398 O M R W O M R W Pickles 25 1 94 2 B Thompson 64 1 57 1 Pearce 52 3 (4) 32 0 M Thompson 54 0 (5) 64 3 T Thompson 65 1 (6) 57 2 Wright 62 4 (3) 5 0 Back 35 0 27 2 Scott 4 0 Centrals First innings Second innings

R Scott c Bush b Draper 7 c Stan-Bishop b Bush 78 *T Thompson c Bennett b Draper 54 c Sounness b Draper 46 B Thompson lbw b Draper 10 b Bush 46 B Wright c Bennett b Draper 75 c Norton b Bush 1 W Pearce c B Smallwood b Draper 5 c Stan-Bishop b Bennett 2 T Back b Bush 3 c Sims b Bush 0 J Pickles lbw b Bush 8 st Sims b Bennett 2 M Thompson c McKenzie b Stan-Bishop 18 c Draper b Bush 2 + D Rowe b Draper 0 c B Smallwood b Bush 1 T Simon c Bush b Stan-Bishop 0 (11) not out 7 M Hammond not out 10 (10) c Draper b Bennett 1 Extras 35 18


9/?, 10/194 O M R W O M R W Draper 120 6 64 1 Stan-Bishop 49 2 60 0 Bush 40 2 37 6 Williamson 14 0 Bennett 17 3

Source: Full scorecard from Bill Reynolds (Perth, WA). Match noted in The Cricketer April 1984 page 14 Close of play: Day 1 – not known; Day 2 – Centrals (1) 119-4 (Wright 21, Back 1); Day 3 – not known; Day 4 – Centrals (2) 111-0 (Scitt 57, T Thompson 45) The match was the final of the Mount Barker Cricket Association competition for 1982/83, and was scheduled to be played to a finish.

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Beecroft v West Pennant Hills 1990/91 1 Venue Parklands Oval, Mt Colah, New South Wales Date 23, 24 March 1991 Result Match drawn Toss West Pennant Hills Umpires W Hooper, M Gubenko Thanks: AJ Beecroft innings

S Fairall c Quodling b Carey 5 J Gumbley b Thomas 1 G Reid c Armstrong b Thomas 10 G Honeyman c Armstrong b Thomas 11 A Nash c Morel b Quodling 329 S Radajewski run out 0 A Jones c Morel b Friend 36 S Reid not out 212 M Slip b Friend 15 J Spraul c Carey b Taylor 47 J Gilling b Driscoll 11 Extras (b26, lb17, w4, nb1) 48


9/691, 10/725

O M R W O M R W Carey 22 2 95 1 Armstrong 7 0 48 0 Thomas 24 6 94 3 Richmond 3 0 16 0 Taylor 32 2 135 1 Quodling 3 0 23 1 Driscoll 18 3 90 1 Bishop 6 0 31 0 Friend 23 2 119 2 Davies 4 0 31 0 / continued in next column West Pennant Hills innings

D Richmond b Jones 57 S Quodling c [unknown] b Radajewski 29 M Taylor c [unknown] b Honeyman 27 A Driscoll st [unknown] b Honeyman 5 C Thomas st [unknown] b Honeyman 2 A Davies lbw b Honeyman 1 D Armstrong not out 16 J Friend b Nash 5 A Morel not out 1 *D Carey J Bishop Extras (b7, lb2, w2) 11

Total (for 7 wickets) 154

Fall 1/40, 2/118, 3/125, 4/125, 5/127, 6/128, 7/151 O M R W Radajewski 9 2 33 1 Nash 8 2 26 1 Honeyman 12 2 31 4 Fairall 8 0 39 0 Jones 5 2 10 1 Gumbley 1 0 2 0 Spraul 1 0 2 0 Gilling 1 0 4 0

Source: Scorecard supplied by Alfred James. Close of Play, Day 1: Beecroft 460-6 (Nash 271, Reid 89)

Adam Nash and Scott Reid shared a partnership of 427 for Beecroft’s seventh wicket. Nash was 55* when the partnership began; in all he hit 47 fours, one five and four sixes in 386 minutes. Reid hit 18 fours in about 450 minutes. This was the B2 Grade Final of the Hornsby – Ku-ring-gai and Hills District Association. At the end of the Beecroft innings, West Pennant Hills needed to score 726 in 150 minutes to gain the Premiership.

273

Bishop Auckland Juniors v Newton Aycliffe Juniors 1994 1 Venue Kingsway, Bishop Auckland, Co Durham Date 23 June 1994 Result Bishop Auckland Juniors won by 103 runs Toss Umpires Thanks: BH Bishop Auckland Juniors innings

D Marambe not out 54 J Birbeck not out 68 A Kelly Extras

Total (for 1 wicket; 20 overs) 150 Fall 1/? O M R W Newton Aycliffe Juniors innings

[unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly [unknown] b Kelly Extras

Total (all out) 47 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/47 O M R W Kelly 4.3 4 0 10 Source: Newcastle Journal 24 and 25 June 1994 The successful bowler for Bishop Auckland was Alex Kelly (17), a right-arm pace bowler. All ten of his wickets were reportedly clean bowled. He did not come on to bowl until Newton Aycliffe were 27 for no wicket (or 36, or 37 depending on the source). This was a match in the Durham County Junior League (under-18s) Information from Brian Hunt (former scorer to Durham CCC): The scorecard of this match is now ‘long gone’, according to Bishop Auckland CC Juniors. Alex Kelly has himself sought for it in vain, but he [Alex] confirms that he did indeed dismiss all ten batsmen ‘bowled’. He left the game soon after his junior days, and is now understood to work in IT and live in Germany.

274

Campbell’s Creek v Muckleford 1994/95 2 Venue Campbell’s Creek, Victoria, Australia Date 1994/95 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

It is reported (source unknown) that KL Stevens played an innings of 401* for Campbell’s Creek in this match. No

further details have yet been traced.

ESPNcricinfo records that Stevens shared a partnership of 521 with C Pietsch for his side’s fifth wicket.

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Winston Hills v Unknown 1994/95 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1994/95 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 37) that S Seaman and D Headley shared a partnership of 404 for Winston Hills’ second wicket, in this match in the Parramatta Association. No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Metropolitan East v Metropolitan West 1995/96 1 Venue Penrith, New South Wales, Australia Date 26 February 1996 Result Not known Toss Umpires Metropolitan East innings

Extras

Total (all out) 7 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?, 7/?, 8/?, 9/?, 10/7 O M R W Liddell 7.4 7 0 10 Metropolitan West innings

E Liddell Extras Total Fall O M R W Source: Sydney Morning Herald 27 February 1996; Wikipedia 15-year-old Emma Liddell – later a Test cricketer – is the only female cricketer known to have taken all ten wickets for no runs in an organised match.

277

Sutherland v Unknown 1996/97 2 Venue Sydney, New South Wales Date 1996/97 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

In Alfred James’ Statistical Appendix to the Centenary History of the New South Wales Districts Cricket Associations 1903 to 2003, it is recorded (on page 24) that wicketkeeper J Bowmer recorded one catch and eight stumpings in an innings for Sutherland in this match. It was a match in the WS Gee Memorial Shield (a junior competition). No further information about this performance has yet been traced. It is not noted in any newspaper currently (March 2020) in Trove.

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Bayside Muddies v Ranatungas 1998/99 2 Venue Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Date 1998/99 season Result Not known Toss Umpires

A list in ESPNcricinfo says that David Morton took all ten wickets in an innings for no runs for Bayside Muddies in this match. An item in ‘What did you say stopped play?’ – 25 years of the Wisden Chronicle (ed. Matthew Engel) says that the Ranatungas were dismissed for 20 in this match in the Brisbane Warehouse Cricket Association B3 South Saturday competition, and that the match was played in 1999. No further information on this performance has yet been traced.

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Easterns Women U-19s v Mpumalanga Women U-19s 2016/17 1 Venue Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Date 11 December 2016 Result Mpumalanga Women U-19s won by 42 runs Toss Umpires Mpumalanga Woment U-19 innings

C Swanepoel run out 0 S-L Swart not out 160 N van Rensburg b Sekukune 0 J de Vos b Sekukune 0 Y Vellelo lbw b de Neysschen 0 A Vos b Nchapelen 0 M Malaza b Sekukune 0 S Nades b Sekukune 0 L Tlou lbw b Sekukune 0 N Phiri not out 0 N Nkabinde Extras 9

Total (for 8 wickets, inns closed) 169 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/108, 7/108, 8/108 O M R W Sekukune 15 5 de Neysschen 18 1 Nchapelen 56 1 Easterns Women U-19 innings

C Nagel 63 R de Neysschen 19 T Sekukune 10 D Nchapelen Extras

Total (for 6 wickets, inns closed) 127 Fall 1/?, 2/?, 3/?, 4/?, 5/?, 6/?

O M R W Swart 21 2 de Vos 34 1 Nkabinde 10 1 Source: www.cricketcountry.com, posted on 15 December 2016, from which the following notes derive. Shania-Lee Swart faced 86 balls, and hit 18 fours and 12 sixes. She added 50 with Yonilla Vellelo for the fifth wicket, and 61* with Nicholate Phiri for the tenth wicket. Three maidens were bowled in the Mpumalanga innings. Tumi Sekukune took a hat-trick in the Easterns innings (Maria Malaza, Shivani Nades, Lebone Tlou). This was a match in the CSA Girls’ T20 competition.

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Central/Stirling Black v West Augusta 2017/18 1 Venue Braddock Park, Port Augusta, South Australia Date 14 October 2017 Result West Augusta won on first innings Toss Umpires West Augusta innings

*+ J Bulman b Davis 2 T Blinman b Davis 7 J Dunstan b Chapman 307 A Pfeiffer b Chapman 0 A Stroyan b Chapman 0 D Kemp b Reynolds 0 J Lawson b Reynolds 0 B Russell not out 18 B Cox b Finlayson 4 C Pool lbw b Finlayson 0 A Martin not out 9 Extras b1, w5, nb1 7

Total (for 9 wickets, inns closed) 354 Fall 1/10, 2/71, 3/72, 4/72, 5/125, 6/125, 7/328,

8/341, 9/341

O M R W Broadwood 8 0 99 0 Davis 8 1 34 2 Baxter 5 0 80 0 Chapman 6 0 69 3 Reynolds 4 1 28 2 Lloyd 1 0 20 0 Finlayson 2 0 15 2 Chilvers 1 0 9 0 Central/Stirling Black innings

T Baxter c Lawson b Kemp 83 + J Briggs c Lawson b Kemp 2 J Tate c Pfeiffer b Kemp 1 G Lloyd b Blinman 5 C Finlayson b Stroyan 29 *B Davis c Kemp b Pfeiffer 66 D Chapman c and b Lawson 0 S Broadwood b Pfeiffer 11 KT Reynolds b Dunstan 0 T Chilvers not out 17 B Tate not out 12 Extras b2, lb2, w9, nb5 18

Total (for 9 wickets) 244 Fall 1/37, 2/67, 3/91, 4/95, 5/182, 6/183, 7/202,

8/205, 9/213

O M R W Stroyan 8 1 44 1 Kemp 8 1 44 3 Blinman 5 0 28 1 Lawson 4 0 55 0 Dunstan 5 0 35 1 Pfeiffer 4 0 16 2 Source: Scorecard on mycricket.cricket.com.au (posted to ACS forum by ‘Mark’ on 15 October 2017) The West Augusta innings was closed after 35 overs. The card above shows their opponents only facing 34 overs, though the source states the result to be a win ‘on first innings’ for West Augusta. This was a match in the Port Augusta Cricket Association B Grade. Dunstan’s innings of 307 included nine fours and 40 sixes [sic]. He was seventh out in the innings, and was batting while 176 legitimate balls were bowled, scoring 307 out of the 318 runs scored in that time. He hit 27 off one over from Broadwood, and 24, 23, 23 and 22 off other overs during the innings.

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