Double Headers

77 The first category consists of a single instance in which there is a relatively trivial difference between the names of one of the participating teams, on the same lines as those described in the previous section, but in this case there is unanimity among the principal sources, in that the ACS match-list and CricketArchive both go along with the team-names used in Wisden . The instance is as follows: Season Play dates Fixture Venue Result 1931 (2)-3-4 Sept Gentlemen v Players Folkestone D (2)-3-(4) Sept Gentlemen of England v New Zealanders Eastbourne D The second category is made up of four instances – again, in end-of-season Festival matches – in which an MCC team was playing in one match, while a team representing the MCC (and including MCC in its name) was playing simultaneously elsewhere. But in all four cases, the latter MCC team was, or was intended to be, a side made up of players from the MCC Test-touring party from the preceding or the forthcoming winter, coming together for a first or a last hurrah, and was named accordingly: Season Play dates Fixture Venue Winners 1927 7-8-9 Sept Kent v MCC Folkestone MCC 7-8-9 Sept CI Thornton’s XI v MCC South African Touring Team Scarborough Drawn 1928 5-6-7 Sept Kent v MCC Folkestone MCC 5-6-7 Sept CI Thornton’s XI v MCC Australian Touring Team Scarborough Drawn 1929 11-12-13 Sept Yorkshire v MCC Scarborough Yorks 11-12-13 Sept MCC Australian Touring Team v The Rest Folkestone Rest 1930 6-8-9 Sept South v MCC Folkestone South 6-8-9 Sept Lord Hawke’s XI v MCC South African Touring Team Scarborough Drawn The four MCC touring parties in these games were respectively those due to travel to South Africa for the 1927/28 season (the original tour captain Guy Jackson played, before he later had to withdraw from the tour); those due to travel to Australia in 1928/29; again, the 1928/29 Australian tour party, supplemented by opener Patrick Kingsley; and the team due to tour South Africa in 1930/31. Other MCC tour parties had similar ‘home’ games in other seasons around this time, but no others of these ever coincided with another MCC fixture. The third category contains two other near-miss instances that have come to my attention. There may be others like them, but if so I’m afraid they have so far passed me by. Other instances in the British Isles