Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Scarborough and two at Lord’s. The remaining I Zingari first-class fixture was against the Gentlemen of the South at Canterbury. Carter as player or administrator was almost certainly involved with all of the 14 Scarborough games spread between 1877 and 1890. In 1877 the Reverends Carter and Sims again provided the amateur element to the Yorkshire side, with seasoned professionals such as Greenwood, Ulyett, Lockwood, Emmett, Pinder, and Hill to provide backbone to the side. That backbone failed in this match, I Zingari gaining a famous victory. The scores were I Zingari 103 and 93, Yorkshire 88 and 37. I Zingari won by 71 runs. Carter made 14 and nought and not a single Yorkshire player reached double figures in their second innings. R. Henderson had match figures against Yorkshire of 13 for 45. The MCC match was of equally disastrous proportions, Yorkshire making 71 and 46, and MCC 31 and 88 for three so MCC won by seven wickets. There must have been much muttering about the wicket. Carter might have been pleased with his 17 run out in the first innings and unhappy with four in the second innings. The Sheffield Independent had reported that ‘another aristocratic company patronised the ground’ but if they were Yorkshire aristocrats they would not have been happy with the Yorkshire performance in that week. 5: versus Nottinghamshire at Bramall Lane, Sheffield, September 1877 The team sheet for this match given in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph put the Rev E.S. Carter at the head of the list with the other players including Tom Emmett and Ephraim Lockwood in alphabetical order. No match report seen by the writer states who was captain of the team, though CricketArchive names Lockwood as captain. But maybe when the team was selected and Carter placed at the front of the list, he was being considered for a more permanent position as the club captain. If so that never quite came to pass. In Yorkshire’s previous home game at Bramall Lane, also in August, two amateurs had been in the side, E.T. Hirst and First-class matches 74