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| Venue | Devonshire Park, Eastbourne on 13th, 14th August 1879 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 4 |
| Players | 12 per side |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | [unknown], T Hearne |
| Close of play day 1 |
| Marylebone Cricket Club first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HJ Hill | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| EA Parke | b Ford | 4 | |||||
| ASD Duncan | c Baker b Northcote | 61 | |||||
| F Leese | c Game b Burge | 65 | |||||
| JF Cooper | run out | 33 | |||||
| WB Green | b Ingersoll | 27 | |||||
| L Chater | c Burge b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| RO Clayton | c Palmer b Ingersoll | 19 | |||||
| W Winter | b Palmer | 10 | |||||
| HJ Smith | not out | 25 | |||||
| GH Wood | b Ingersoll | 5 | |||||
| W Mycroft | b Palmer | 5 | |||||
| Extras | (14 b) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 98.1 overs) | 268 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-?, 11-268 (98.1 ov) | |||||||
| Devonshire Park bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ford | 17 | ? | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Palmer | 17.1 | ? | 82 | 4 | - | - | |
| Baker | 10 | ? | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ingersoll | 22 | ? | 63 | 3 | - | - | |
| Burge | 23 | ? | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| Northcote | 9 | ? | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Devonshire Park first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AFJ Ford | b Clayton | 91 | |||||
| AS Hirst | c Parke b Mycroft | 7 | |||||
| HK Avory | b Clayton | 17 | |||||
| AAE Oelrichs | b Clayton | 18 | |||||
| F West | c Leese b Mycroft | 16 | |||||
| T Palmer | b Clayton | 1 | |||||
| WA Baker | not out | 33 | |||||
| GR Burge | lbw b Mycroft | 0 | |||||
| EJ Game | b Mycroft | 2 | |||||
| EA Northcote | b Mycroft | 0 | |||||
| H Curteis | c Mycroft b Clayton | 0 | |||||
| HR Ingersoll | b Mycroft | 1 | |||||
| Extras | (8 b, 2 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 97.1 overs) | 196 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-?, 11-196 (97.1 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mycroft | 44.1 | ? | 80 | 6 | - | - | |
| Clayton | 40 | ? | 61 | 5 | - | - | |
| Parke | 5 | ? | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Hill | 5 | ? | 10 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wood | 3 | ? | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Marylebone Cricket Club second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| HJ Hill | b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| EA Parke | b Burge | 9 | |||||
| ASD Duncan | b Burge | 42 | |||||
| F Leese | c Baker b Palmer | 3 | |||||
| JF Cooper | c Burge b Palmer | 3 | |||||
| WB Green | b Palmer | 30 | |||||
| L Chater | c Ingersoll b Hirst | 2 | |||||
| RO Clayton | c Hirst b Ford | 62 | |||||
| W Winter | c Ford b Palmer | 0 | |||||
| HJ Smith | c Avory b Ingersoll | 45 | |||||
| GH Wood | c Game b West | 35 | |||||
| W Mycroft | not out | 2 | |||||
| Extras | (5 b, 9 lb, 1 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 127 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-?, 11-248 (127 ov) | |||||||
| Devonshire Park bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Palmer | 40 | ? | 73 | 5 | - | - | |
| Burge | 38 | ? | 70 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ingersoll | 22 | ? | 27 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hirst | 11 | ? | 32 | 1 | - | - | |
| Northcote | 3 | ? | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ford | 6 | ? | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| West | 7 | ? | 24 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Devonshire Park second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AFJ Ford | b Mycroft | 0 | |||||
| AS Hirst | b Mycroft | 7 | |||||
| HK Avory | b Mycroft | 0 | |||||
| AAE Oelrichs | c Parke b Mycroft | 10 | |||||
| F West | b Clayton | 4 | |||||
| T Palmer | b Clayton | 0 | |||||
| WA Baker | b Mycroft | 17 | |||||
| GR Burge | b Clayton | 6 | |||||
| EJ Game | b Clayton | 6 | |||||
| EA Northcote | not out | 7 | |||||
| H Curteis | did not bat | ||||||
| HR Ingersoll | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 37 overs) | 58 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-58 (37 ov) | |||||||
| Marylebone Cricket Club bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Mycroft | 19 | ? | 30 | 5 | - | - | |
| Clayton | 18 | ? | 27 | 4 | - | - | |
Notes
--> Bowling in the Marylebone Cricket Club first innings adds 1 run under
--> Bowling in the Marylebone Cricket Club second innings adds 4 runs over
Our thanks to Arthur Haygarth for collecting the information and to Roger Heavens for providing this scorecard which was first published in Arthur Haygarth's Cricket Scores and Biographies Volume 16. Copies of the book can be obtained from http://booksoncricket.net . Additions or corrections to this scorecard would be gratefully received.
A few minutes more play, had that been possible, would have given the MCC an easy victory.
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