259 for five. It was phenomenal scoring by contemporary standards and it was too much for an England team which included David Harris, the master of length bowling in the days of under-arm, whose duels with Beldham produced the high peaks of that era. Thus Lord’s in its earliest years at Dorset Square (it settled at its current home in 1814), established something of a tradition for Whitsuntide fixtures. Whitsun Frolics 11