RECORDS AND CURIOSITIES.
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| A match was played between Eleven of the Messrs. Leatham and the Wakefield Club, at Wakefield, 2nd August | 1875 |
| Scores Leathams, 141; Wakefield, 45 first, 132 for wickets second innings. | |
| A match was played between Eleven of the Messrs. Leatham and Pontefract Club, at Pontefract, 6th August | 1884 |
| Scores Leathams, 109 first innings, 72 for 4 wickets second; Pontefract, 60 first innings. Mr. A. E. Leatharr captured 9 wickets; the other was run out. | |
| Eleven members of the Messrs. Robinson, belonging to Somerset and Gloucestershire, played 35 matches from to 1890, winning 26 and losing 9. | |
| Eleven members of the Messrs. Lucas, Lyttelton, Christopherson, Caesar, Watney, and Brotherhood families have also played matches at one time or another. | |
| The highest innings at the Oval was Surrey 698 v. Sussex, 9th August | 1888 |
| The first English team that visited South Africa sailed from London 21st November | 1888 |
| The first English team that visited India was Mr. G. P Vernon's, which left London 3ist October | 1889 |
| The Rule empowering a Captain to terminate his innings was first applied at Lord's in the M.C.C. and Ground v. Northumberland match, 10th August | 1889 |
| First-class matches have been finished in one day by | |
| North v. South, at Lord's, 15th July | 1850 |
| M.C.C. and Ground v. Surrey, at Lord's, 18th May | 1872 |
| Middlesex v. Oxford University, at Prince's, 18th June | 1874 |
| North v. South, at Lord's, 17th May | 1875 |
| M.C.C. & Ground?. Oxford University, at Lord's, 24th May | 1877 |
| M.C.C. and Ground v. Australians, at Lord's, 27th May | 1878 |
| An England XI. v. Australians, at Birmingham, 26th May | 1884 |
| M.C.C. and Ground v. Lancashire, at Lord's, 18th May | 1886 |
| North v. South, at Lord's, 30th May | 1887 |
| Lancashire v. Surrey, at Manchester, 2nd August ... | 1888 |
| The Sergeants of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards defeated the Sergeants of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, at Bermuda, without losing a wicket in either innings, 11th February | 1891 |
| Scores: Sergeants R.A. & R.E., 34 first innings; 73 second. Grenadier Guards, 69 for no wicket, first innings (innings declared closed); 39 for no wicket, second. |
