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unusual facts about first-class match



Anthony Cartwright

Anthony George Cartwright (born 8 August 1940 in Timaru) was a New Zealand cricketer who played six first-class matches for Otago in the Plunket Shield.

Craig Auckram

Craig Laurence Auckram (born 9 June 1967 in Levin) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 20 first-class matches for the Central Districts in the early 1990s.

Lindsay Crocker

Lindsay Mervyn Crocker, born 16 May 1958 in Taumarunui, is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 54 first-class matches for Northern Districts in the 1980s.


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1877 in sports

10 & 12 November — South Australia v. Tasmania at Adelaide Oval is the earliest first-class match played by South Australia who win by an innings and 13 runs, their team including George Giffen.

Allan Rutter

Two years later, he played a single first-class match for the Free Foresters against Cambridge University.

Australian cricket team in England in 1902

The then minor counties Glamorgan and Wiltshire fielded a combined team for a non-first class match at Cardiff Arms Park.

Bank of England Ground

In 1967, the ground hosted its only first-class match in 1967, when Oxford University played the touring South African Universities team.

Bertie Bolton

Cowie played four more matches for Hampshire, with his final first-class match coming against Somerset in 1922.

Charles Knott

Knott's final first-class match in 1957 came for the club in a match against Scotland at Mannofield Park.

Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground

A further eight years elapsed from that match to the next first-class match at the ground, which came in 1888 when an England XI played the Australians during their tour of England, with three further first-class matches on the ground from 1880 to 1900, which included CE de Trafford's XI playing the Australians in 1896, the South playing the Australians in 1899 and WG Grace's XI.

Dan Piachaud

In a first-class match for Oxford University against Hampshire in 1960, Piachaud was hit for 28 off an over bowled by Butch White: after bowling a dot ball, Piachaud was hit for four sixes and then a four.

Edgar Willsher

His older brother, senior by over ten years, William Willsher, would go on to have an inauspicious career with Kent three years before Edgar's own debut when, in 1847, he appeared in one first class match, scoring a pair at number eleven and not bowling.

Frederick McLaren

Later in 1908 McLaren played his second and final first-class match for Hampshire against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, where he became one of Bart King's five victims in Hampshire's first innings.

Fretwell Park

The ground held a first-class match in 2006 when New Zealand Whites played Pakistan A as part of the 2006 Top End series.

George Vassila

Vassila played a single first-class match for Middlesex in 1880 against Gloucestershire at the Clifton College Close Ground in Clifton, Bristol.

Herbert Brunwin

In the single first-class match in which he played, Brunwin, a tailender, made two runs before a first-innings declaration in an innings in which team-mates Reginald Taylor, Jack O'Connor and Stan Nichols each scored centuries.

Herbert Trevor

While in the British Raj in December 1892, Trevor was selected to play in Bombay's inaugural first-class match against Lord Hawke's XI at the Bombay Gymkhana.

Hunter Poon

Returning from the war, with shrapnel wounds in his right hand and lower back, Poon continued to star in Toowoomba cricket and was chosen to represent Queensland in a first-class match against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground starting 21 December 1923.

Jack Gentry

In 1925 Gentry played a single first-class match for Essex against Yorkshire at Leyton Cricket Ground.

James Sperry

Sperry's only first-class match that was not for Leicestershire came in 1947, when he appeared in a festival match at Harrogate in which two teams composed largely of county rather than Test players played a game organised by Maurice Leyland, who had retired from full-time cricket the previous year.

Jim Cumbes

However, it was to be almost three years before he played another First-Class match, and when that came (against Kent) his 4–42 was rather overshadowed by Derek Underwood's outstanding return of 6–9 for Lancashire's opponents.

Libby Waye

His success in grade cricket earned him a call up to the South Australian cricket team in the 1912/13 Sheffield Shield season, for a first-class match against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Manny Martindale

Immediately after this final Test, the West Indian team went to Blackpool to play a first-class match against a team raised by Sir Lindsay Parkinson; Martindale took eight wickets in an innings for the third time in the season, this time for 39 runs.

New Ground, Norwich

The first recorded match on the ground was in 1829 when pre-county club Norfolk played pre-county club Suffolk in a non first-class match.

Noor Ali

Only three other players: Arthur Morris, Nari Contractor and Aamer Malik have hit centuries in both innings of their debut first-class match.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Rex Townley

His claim to fame as a cricketer was dismissing Donald Bradman, caught and bowled for 369, in a first-class match against South Australia, the legendary batsman's second highest ever score at that level.

Ted Badcock

Immediately after the end of the Second World War, he played a series of games for New Zealand Services against a Lord's XI, Australian Imperial Forces, WR Hammond's XI, Sir PF Warner's XI, and the Royal Air Force, including a final first-class match in September 1945 against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI.

United North of England Eleven

The majority were minor matches played against odds while the last of the season, against Richard Daft's XI at Holbeck was a first-class match.

United Services Recreation Ground

A first-class match in 1971 between Hampshire and the touring Pakistanis saw protests by Bangladeshis protesting Pakistani actions in the Bangladesh Liberation War.

West Park, West Bridgford

The first recorded match on the ground was in 1928, when Sir J Cahn's XI played the touring West Indians in a non first-class match.

Ynysangharad Park

Glamorgan played 43 first-class matches at the ground between 1926 and 1996, playing their final first-class match there against the Pakistanis during their tour of England.