Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

and was to add another 28 first-class games to his curricular vitae over the next 17 years. In that summer vacation he returned to his home at Slingsby and the Gentlemen of Yorkshire team who went on to play Gentlemen sides from Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Nottinghamshire and Lancashire and, again, I Zingari. In one of those games, against Nottinghamshire, Edmund took 12 wickets in the match, and they must have been cheap for his opponents were bowled out for 27 and 36. His six victims in the first innings were all bowled but two of his six second innings victims were stumped so maybe his style of bowling had varied from fast to slow. In that second innings the Nottinghamshire side had reached 30 before a wicket fell and their last nine men only contributed three runs from the bat. This game was one of only two games in England that The Cricketer obituary mentioned for Carter 58 years later. 1866 In this summer, his second at Oxford, he had become a clear choice for the university side, playing ten times for them in a mix of one-day and first-class games. He played three first-class matches at the Magdalen Ground, used for first-class cricket until 1880, with one match in 1912, and the ground upon which Oxford were bowled out for 12 by MCC in 1877. Carter’s games were against the Gentlemen of England, MCC, and Southgate (a 12-a-side match but still first-class), and three more such games in June against MCC at Lord’s, Cambridge University, gaining his Blue, and Surrey at The Oval. The Varsity match was a thriller in which Oxford having been bowled out for 62 in their first innings still won the game by 12 runs. Edmund scored four and 15, and, with four-ball overs, two for four in 9.1 overs, and two for 13 in 15 overs. It was quite a match. The match against Surrey was the first in which he played against a county side. Edmund moved on from The Oval to meet again his friends the Gentlemen of Yorkshire who were engaged on a southern tour, and who in successive matches played on the Cattle Market Ground at Islington and then again at Lord’s. The Cattle Market Ground hosted 16 first-class games for Middlesex between 1864 Family 16