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Cricket Team unknown

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Two Unknown Cricketers c.1910
Two Unknown Cricketers c.1910
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 28361
Photograph taken by Fred W.Dew, The Studio. Wigan. It would appear that the score board shows a significant score.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 23rd September 2016 at 10:59

The two lower numbers add up to 200, Ron - so I'm guessing that's the significance - the likelihood being that they're the openers for their team, with the other six runs being byes and no-balls.
It's a pity the scoreboard is obscuring most of the church behind - but perhaps there's enough showing to enable someone to identify the ground.

Comment by: RON HUNT on 23rd September 2016 at 11:05

Rev. I was thinking on similar lines that the teams score was 206 and these two batsmen had scored 200 of the 206.?

Comment by: RON HUNT on 25th September 2016 at 14:24

Could it be Highfield? The church's close proximity to the cricket ground fits, and also the pitch slopes from left to right as Highfield cricket field did.

Comment by: Philip Gormley. on 25th September 2016 at 15:50

The players might look a bit too fresh for having just taken part in a mammoth innings. Maybe the photo is a record of something special having been achieved previously. Whichever, the scoreboard tells they 'performed splendidly at the crease.'

Comment by: Perkin Warbeck on 28th September 2016 at 11:19

This was a record first wicket for Wigan cricket Club.
In a game against Bolton on July 4th 1914. On the left SG Unsworth 89 not out and on the righr R Tyler 111 not out.
I suppose they knew little of what was to happen only a few months later

Comment by: RON HUNT on 28th September 2016 at 12:43

Perkin thanks for the info. Where did you get it from? Is there a book about the history of the Cricket Club? So if the photo was taken at Bull Hey, I pressume the building must be the Rectory, recently in the process of renovation?

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