Lives in Cricket No 17 - Fuller Pilch

Alfred Mynn, travelled 300 miles down to Brighton to appear in the last-ever match played on Box’s Ground on 27, 28, 29 and 30 September. 14 Mynn played as a ‘given’ man for Sussex while the others appeared for England. Fuller top-scored with 39 in England’s first innings but Sussex won by 27 runs. Then Fuller, Mynn, Martingell, Guy and Parr went back up to Stourbridge in Worcestershire for the last contract of the summer in Clarke’s All-England Eleven against Eighteen of Stourbridge, with Hillyer and Box. Fuller played nine times for Clarke that year and had agreed to serve on the All-England committee with Mynn and Hillyer. He made a few runs here and there, his highest score being 43 against Eighteen of Manchester. He managed to score 178 runs from his 16 innings, but George Parr, anxious to 100 The new St Lawrence Ground Part of the well-known picture of 1847 by Nathaniel Felix, showing Fuller Pilch and colleagues in William Clarke’s All-England Eleven. From left to right: J.Dean, N.Felix, O.C.Pell, W.R.Hillyer, F.W.Lillywhite, W.Dorrinton, F.Pilch and T.Sewell, sen. 14 This ground, also known as the Royal New Ground, Ireland’s Gardens and the Hanover Ground (among others) off Lewes Road, Brighton staged 49 first-class matches between 1814 and 1847, 29 of them involving Fuller himself.