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| Venue | Grace Road, Leicester on 14th, 15th April 1879 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 4 |
| Players | Leicestershire: 12; Leicestershire Colts: 21 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | G Bishop, M Hawksworth |
| Close of play day 1 | Leicestershire Colts (1) 58/15 (Cumberledge 0*, Goadby 1*) |
| Leicestershire Colts first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Bostock | b Randon | 2 | |||||
| CA Mounteney | c Freer b Rylott | 3 | |||||
| WS Worthy | b Rylott | 2 | |||||
| W Colver | c Parnham b Rylott | 9 | |||||
| L Lambert | b Rylott | 2 | |||||
| F Dalby | c Parnham b Rylott | 1 | |||||
| F Simpkin | b Randon | 0 | |||||
| J Keen | b Rylott | 9 | |||||
| JH Pallett | run out | 16 | |||||
| *E Richardson | b Randon | 4 | |||||
| F Ball | lbw b Randon | 4 | |||||
| JH Jordan | b Randon | 0 | |||||
| HJW Wheeler | c Parnham b Rylott | 1 | |||||
| JA Cumberledge | not out | 0 | |||||
| FT Herbert | b Rylott | 0 | |||||
| J Winn | b Randon | 3 | |||||
| J Goadby | not out | 1 | |||||
| SG Elliott | did not bat | ||||||
| T Martin | did not bat | ||||||
| W Geary | did not bat | ||||||
| W Hewitt | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 1 | ||||||
| Total | (15 wickets, 69 overs) | 58 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-?, 11-?, 12-?, 13-?, 14-?, 15-? | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Rylott | 34 | 25 | 19 | 8 | - | - | |
| Randon | 29 | 14 | 31 | 6 | - | - | |
| Parnham | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| W Ball | did not bat | ||||||
| W Bottomore | did not bat | ||||||
| F Daft | did not bat | ||||||
| JL Freer | did not bat | ||||||
| *NJ Hughes-Hallett | did not bat | ||||||
| G Panter | did not bat | ||||||
| JT Parnham | did not bat | ||||||
| J Pickworth | did not bat | ||||||
| F Randon | did not bat | ||||||
| J Rodwell | did not bat | ||||||
| A Rylott | did not bat | ||||||
| HM Walter | did not bat | ||||||
Notes
--> There was no play on the final day.
No play possible on day 2 due to snow.
Our thanks to Arthur Haygarth for collecting the information and to Roger Heavens for providing this scorecard which was first published in Arthur Haygarth's Cricket Scores and Biographies Volume 16. Copies of the book can be obtained from http://booksoncricket.net . Additions or corrections to this scorecard would be gratefully received.
Source states that the Leicestershire Colts came from the following clubs: Anstey (Geary), Bottesford (Winn), Earl Shilton (Ball, Worthy), Kegworth (Lambert), Leicester (Bostock, Colver, Dalby, Elliott, Goadby, Herbert, Hewitt, Jordan, Keen, Martin, Richardson), Loughborough (Mounteney, Pallett, Simpkin), Lutterworth (Cumberledge) and Sutton Bonnington (Wheeler).
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