Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

Lamplough Wallgate. Wallgate scored nought and never played a county game for Yorkshire again. Scoring 32 out of a first innings score of 145 Carter actually did quite well with the Leicester Daily Mercury reporting: ‘A great deal of trouble was experienced in getting rid of Mr Carter [then] Daft went on who brought the successful but lucky innings of this gentleman to an end’. Bad weather restricted play and Carter had no chance of a second innings. The Sheffield Independent in its subsequent review of the season stated that the Nottinghamshire match had been Carter’s first for Yorkshire county and that he had exhibited ‘not only excellent form with the bat but some of the best fielding seen for years at Bramall Lane’. The reference to the game being Carter’s first for Yorkshire county may have a deliberate distinction from the Middlesex game of 1876 played under Londesborough auspices. First-class matches 75 The Yorkshire team of 1877 against Middlesex at Sheffield, August 13 to 15: G. Martin, umpire, G Ulyett, E.T.Hirst, A Hill, G.Pinder, L.W.Wallgate, T.Armitage, T.Emmett, D.Eastwood, E.Lockwood, R.Clayton, A.Greenwood. Carter was not in that side but played three games for Yorkshire shortly after