Great Cricket Matches 1772-1800

WHITE CONDUIT CLUB v MIDDLESEX Played at Lord’s Old Ground, Marylebone, June 14, 15, 1787. Middlesex won by eight wickets. WHITE CONDUIT CLUB 1 R.N.Newman b Boorman 0 c Louch 10 2 M.Rimmington b Boorman 12 b Weston 12 3 Sir P.Burrell b Boorman 6 b Boorman 22 4 R.B.Wyatt b Bedster 3 run out 26 5 Butcher b Weston 30 b Boorman 0 6 G.East c Weston 17 c Louch 0 7 Earl of Winchilsea b Weston 0 c Boorman 0 8 G.Drummond b Boorman 7 b Bedster 12 9 G.Talbot c Louch 1 b Bedster 3 10 R.Lawrence b Weston 0 absent - 11 J.Martin not out 2 not out 0 Byes 2 3 —— —— 80 88 FoW (1): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-80 FoW (2): 1- , 2- , 3-21, 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9-88 MIDDLESEX 1 Stanhope c Burrell 1 b East 7 2 N.Graham b Martin 4 c Wyatt 7 3 W.White c Newman 13 4 G.Louch c East 22 not out 16 5 J.Boorman b East 1 6 W.Bedster c Talbot 6 7 C.Slater run out 19 8 Gibbs c Burrell 9 9 W.Allen b Rimmington 1 not out 14 10 Dean c Wyatt 23 11 J.Weston not out 17 Byes 10 1 —— —— 126 (2 wickets) 45 FoW (1): 1- , 2- , 3- , 4- , 5- , 6- , 7- , 8- , 9- , 10-126 FoW (2): 1- , 2- Middlesex Bowling O M R W O M R W Boorman 4 2 Bedster 1 2 Weston 3 1 White Conduit Club Bowling O M R W O M R W East 1 1 Martin 1 Rimmington 1 Umpires: Close of Play: 1st day: White Conduit Club (2) 21-3 (Burrell 7*). Dean is assumed to be the Kent player. The World reports, ‘On the first day each side played an innings and the Club had scored 21 for 3, Sir P.Burrell being not out 7, when want of light stopped play at 8.30pm. Boorman’s bowling won the game. Mr Cumberland, second to none as a bowler and second to few as a fieldsman, was unable to play for the Club owing to an injured ankle.’ In WCC (2) Buckley added Lawrence b 2 but this is based on speculation. He took the scores from the World which omits Lawrence from the second innings. It also gives only individual scores and not team totals so Buckley has reasoned that Middlesex had to make 45 to win, therefore WCC must have made 90, but the scores add to only 88 so Lawrence must have contributed 2. But a simpler interpretation of the evidence is that Lawrence was omitted because he was absent, WCC made 88, and Middlesex were set 43 and reached it with a hit of 3 (probably a ‘booth ball’), hence the total of 45. 103