Great Cricket Matches 1772-1800

MIDDLESEX v ESSEX Played at Lord’s Old Ground, Marylebone, May 31, 1787. Middlesex won by 93 runs. MIDDLESEX 1 Stanhope run out 3 b Butcher 1 2 T.Lord b Butcher 1 c Newman 36 3 J.Boorman b Butcher 23 b Butcher 37 4 W.White b Butcher 5 run out 12 5 Z.Boult st Clark 0 b Butcher 18 6 W.Bedster b Martin 13 st Clark 14 7 G.Louch b Martin 0 b Butcher 14 8 G.T.Boult b Butcher 3 b Martin 36 9 A.Boult b Martin 3 b Butcher 0 10 C.Slater b Butcher 0 b Martin 23 11 Oliver not out 0 not out 1 Byes 7 11 —— —— 58 203 FoW (1): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-58 FoW (2): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-203 ESSEX 1 R.N.Newman c Louch 51 b Boorman 5 2 M.Rimmington run out 28 c G.T.Boult 0 3 N.Graham b Bedster 4 run out 0 4 T.Clark c Louch 13 c Boorman 1 5 R.B.Wyatt b Boorman 5 c Louch 14 6 Butcher c Z.Boult 3 c Slater 0 7 Jones b White 16 c G.T.Boult 1 8 Davidson b Boorman 1 b Boorman 2 9 R.Denn not out 4 b White 1 10 J.Martin b White 0 not out 4 11 Barker b Boorman 2 b Boorman 9 Byes 3 1 —— —— 130 38 FoW (1): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-130 FoW (2): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-38 Essex Bowling O M R W O M R W Butcher 5 5 Martin 3 2 Middlesex Bowling O M R W O M R W Bedster 1 Boorman 3 3 White 2 1 Umpires: This is the first recorded match played at Thomas Lord’s first ground. Middlesex had two of Berkshire and one of Kent as given men; Essex had two given men. Z.Boult (1) and W.Bedster (2) are shown as PO Clark. ‘PO’, i.e. put out, is taken to mean stumped. Clark has a stumping in 1789 (Hornchurch v MCC, 6 August 1789), so he is known to have kept wicket. SB has ‘Davies’, otherwise unknown, in the Essex team: this is assumed to be Davidson, who appeared for Hornchurch in the previous match and in the ‘lost’ match on 2 August. Only one day is given but the scoring suggests that the match must have continued into at least a second day. 102