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RECORDS AND CURIOSITIES.
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A match was played between Eleven of the Messrs. Leatham and the Wakefield Club, at Wakefield, 2nd August 1875
Scores Leathams, 141; Wakefield, 45 first, 132 for wickets second innings.
A match was played between Eleven of the Messrs. Leatham and Pontefract Club, at Pontefract, 6th August 1884
Scores Leathams, 109 first innings, 72 for 4 wickets second; Pontefract, 60 first innings. Mr. A. E. Leatharr captured 9 wickets; the other was run out.
Eleven members of the Messrs. Robinson, belonging to Somerset and Gloucestershire, played 35 matches from to 1890, winning 26 and losing 9.
Eleven members of the Messrs. Lucas, Lyttelton, Christopherson, Caesar, Watney, and Brotherhood families have also played matches at one time or another.
The highest innings at the Oval was Surrey 698 v. Sussex, 9th August 1888
The first English team that visited South Africa sailed from London 21st November 1888
The first English team that visited India was Mr. G. P Vernon's, which left London 3ist October 1889
The Rule empowering a Captain to terminate his innings was first applied at Lord's in the M.C.C. and Ground v. Northumberland match, 10th August 1889
First-class matches have been finished in one day by
North v. South, at Lord's, 15th July 1850
M.C.C. and Ground v. Surrey, at Lord's, 18th May 1872
Middlesex v. Oxford University, at Prince's, 18th June 1874
North v. South, at Lord's, 17th May 1875
M.C.C. & Ground?. Oxford University, at Lord's, 24th May 1877
M.C.C. and Ground v. Australians, at Lord's, 27th May 1878
An England XI. v. Australians, at Birmingham, 26th May 1884
M.C.C. and Ground v. Lancashire, at Lord's, 18th May 1886
North v. South, at Lord's, 30th May 1887
Lancashire v. Surrey, at Manchester, 2nd August ... 1888
The Sergeants of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards defeated the Sergeants of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, at Bermuda, without losing a wicket in either innings, 11th February 1891
Scores: Sergeants R.A. & R.E., 34 first innings; 73 second. Grenadier Guards, 69 for no wicket, first innings (innings declared closed); 39 for no wicket, second.