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'Worcestershire County Cricket Club 1882 to 1893'. Early and original brown calf leather bound scorebook for the club, with titles on laid down red leather in gilt to front cover and spine paper and marbled red end papers, was produced by Mercer & Sons, Printers and Lithographers, 270 Kennington Road, London. The pages of the scorebook titled to lower border 'Frederick Lillywhite's Registered Scoring sheet'. The scorebook, records one hundred and forty eight of the matches, home and away, played in the period 1882 to 1893 by Worcester C.C.C. and Worcestershire Club & Ground, with matches played against Emeriti (a wandering cricket club founded in 1871), Staffordshire, Shropshire, Gentlemen of Warwickshire, Malvern College, The Borderers Association, M.C.C., Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, East Gloucestershire, Worcester Regiment, Derbyshire Friars, Radnorshire, I Zingari, South Wales Cricket Club, Free Foresters, Witley Court, Keble College, Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford, Monmouthshire, Kidderminster, Warwickshire Club & Ground, Wiltshire, Radley Rangers, Warwickshire, Surrey 2nd XI, Devon, Cheshire, Durham, Oxfordshire, Uppingham Rovers, Worcester City, Hill Green (Croome), Lancashire 2nd XI, Birmingham etc. The main and most successful bowlers for the club appear to be Baines and Tyler. Some notable players taking part in these matches included C.E de Trafford, H.F. de Trafford, Briggs, Mold, Ward, Cadnam of Lancashire, C.W. Foley, P.H. Foley, Henry Knowles Foster, W.L. Foster, W.H. Foster, Bromley-Martin of Worcestershire, William Gunn, Scotton, Wheeler, Flowers, Attewell, Mordecai Sherwin, Farrands of Nottinghamshire, Burton, Edward Lyttleton, Henry Pickett, Percy John de Paravicini, C.P.Foley, Alfred Lyttleton, Studd of Middlesex, Walter Raleigh Gilbert (Cousin of the Graces), David Buchanan, Bromley-Martin, Earl of Coventry, H.T. Coventry, C.J. Coventry, James Wootton, Henry Forster of Hampshire, Viscount Throwley, C.J. Burnup of Kent, Arnold Fothergill of Somerset, W. Mycroft, William Chatterton, William Storer of Derbyshire, Hylton Jessop, Willam Woof of Gloucestershire, Prince Victor A.L.E.A.C. of Scheleswig, W.H. Ward (Earl of Dudley), Edwin Diver, A.F.A. Lilley, Sydney Santall, W.G. Quaife, W. Quaife of Warwickshire, Alfred Street, G.H. Watts of Surrey, A.P. Lucas etc. There are also annotated notes by the scorer on pages referring to certain matches 'First game with the County (v Lancashire 2nd XI 1893), 'A very wet wicket, rain having fell heavily during the previous night' (v Malvern College 1885), 'Mr Jackson (O.F.) was missed five times during his innings' (made 113 v Radnorshire 1885), 'The Rev M.B. Buckle accomplished the hat trick' (v Fifteen Colts, with a captain 1887, 'Worcestershire lost by 17 runs. Fine weather, loose fielding' (v I. Zingari 1888), 'Malvern College this year are the strongest team that has played for nineteen years and are probably the best Public School eleven at the present time' (v Malvern College 1891, two of the Foster brothers played in the game), 'A grand innings by Mr W.L. Foster [95] and a capital score by Mr Jobson were the main features of a pleasant match played in lovely weather on one of the most picturesque grounds in the kingdom (v Devonshire 1893) etc. The scorebook with wear to boards and extremities, rounding to corners and with splitting to spine. Some staining to rear board otherwise in good condition. Internally very good. This scorebook is of significant importance to the growth, prominence and history of Worcestershire cricket, portraying its slow but steady rise from playing friendly matches against some minor counties, wandering cricket clubs to facing M.C.C. and county second eleven's and eventually to achieve first class status in 1899. It also records the development of the Foster brothers at Malvern school and Eton, three were included in the county sides in this scorebook up until 1893, and eventual pre-eminence of the entire Foster brethren in lifting the
All the home matches in the scorebook were mainly played at Boughton Park, the ground which was used for the majority of Worcestershire home matches from 1865, the last match played there by the county was in 1902. The club moved to the New Road ground in 1896. Many matches particularly the later matches in 1892 and 1893 do not appear on search engines for matches played by the club. Worcestershire CCC was formed on 4 March 1865 at the Star Hotel in Worcester. The club owes much to Paul Foley. A player from 1878-1896, he was appointed club club secretary became involved with the club in the 1880s and helped to establish the Minor Counties Championship which began in 1895. Worcestershire shared the inaugural title with Durham and Norfolk before winning outright in 1896, 1897 and 1898. With this success behind it, the club applied for first-class status and entered the County Championship in 1899. Worcestershire CCC played its initial first-class match versus Yorkshire CCC on 4, 5 & 6 May 1899. The scorebook, with match scores written in a number of hands was purchased by a well known cricket writer approximately 40 years ago, who paid a pittance for it at a junk shop