Lives in Cricket No 51 - Rev ES Carter

again until 1890. Now in the 21st century they never seem to play them at all. 7: versus Middlesex at Lord’s, July 1878 Wisden states that this game of 994 runs (unusually high for the 1870s) will always be known as ‘Lord Londesborough’s’- another reference to the support that he gave to this fixture. The Leeds Times stated that Lockwood and Greenwood were away through illness and that Pinder had to stand as umpire [!]. Whatever the full reasons, George Freeman made his first appearance in a first- class match for six years, and Edmund Carter was one of five amateurs in the visiting side, batting low down at number nine and making a contribution of just a single in the first Yorkshire innings and two retired hurt in his second knock. For the first time, however, he is to be found bowling for Yorkshire being the sixth bowler used as Middlesex scored 196 in their first innings (none for 15). When in the second innings Middlesex made a grand 346 Carter took two for 36. This was a match at Lord’s played before the current pavilion was built, and in which George Ulyett hit a ball over the players’ seats so that it pitched on the gravel path behind the then pavilion, measured from hit to pitch at 109 yards. Even today that would be quite some strike. Tom Emmett was in the Yorkshire side and CricketArchive shows him as captain, though as it is known that Carter was captain in the subsequent away game at Cheltenham, he could also have been captain in this match. 8: versus Gloucestershire, at Cheltenham, August 1878 This was another opportunity for Edmund Carter to take a summer break from his clerical duties and the Yorkshire game at Cheltenham was the second match in the newly created Cheltenham week. As mentioned in another chapter Carter, as Yorkshire captain, was at the banquet in the Plough Hotel the night before the match, and given in honour of the Gloucestershire eleven and W.G.Grace. ‘No less than 103 sat down to a splendid repast; after which toasts, speeches, and music caused the evening First-class matches 77