f5404	Gentlemen v Players
	Other First-Class matches in England 1900
Venue	Lord's Cricket Ground, St John's Wood on 16th, 17th, 18th July 1900 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Gentlemen won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Players won by 2 wickets
Umpires	J Phillips, J Wheeler
Close of play day 1	Players (1) 66/2 (Abel 29*, Quaife 4*)
Close of play day 2	Players (2) 44/1 (Quaife 15*, Brown 20*)

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Gentlemen first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AO Jones	c Ward b Trott	9
CB Fry	b Rhodes	68
CL Townsend	run out	30
RE Foster	not out	102
JR Mason	b Trott	2
DLA Jephson	lbw b Rhodes	9
GL Jessop	c Lilley b Rhodes	18
*SMJ Woods	c Lilley b Rhodes	7
E Smith	c Rhodes b Gunn	26
CJ Kortright	b Gunn	4
+H Martyn	c Brown b Gunn	3
Extras	(15 b, 4 lb)	19
Total	(all out, 95.3 overs)	297
Fall of wickets:
1-26, 2-99, 3-127, 4-132, 5-177, 6-201, 7-216, 8-273, 9-277, 10-297 (95.3 ov)

Players bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rhodes	30	4	93	4	-	-
Trott	27	11	66	2	-	-
Mead	21	5	58	0	-	-
Gunn	17.3	3	61	3	-	-

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Players first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*R Abel	b Jessop	30
A Ward	c Jones b Mason	16
TW Hayward	b Jessop	8
WG Quaife	c Foster b Jessop	9
JT Brown	c Foster b Mason	18
HA Carpenter	run out	14
+AFA Lilley	b Mason	10
AE Trott	c Foster b Mason	9
JR Gunn	c Martyn b Kortright	4
W Rhodes	not out	1
W Mead	b Kortright	4
Extras	(9 b, 4 lb)	13
Total	(all out, 52.4 overs)	136
Fall of wickets:
1-48, 2-61, 3-67, 4-79, 5-97, 6-111, 7-120, 8-125, 9-131, 10-136 (52.4 ov)

Gentlemen bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Kortright	12.4	4	30	2	-	-
Jephson	4	0	9	0	-	-
Mason	17	7	40	4	-	-
Jessop	14	5	28	3	-	-
Jones	5	0	16	0	-	-

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Gentlemen second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AO Jones	b Rhodes	5
CB Fry	hit wkt b Ward	72
CL Townsend	b Rhodes	22
RE Foster	c Brown b Trott	136
JR Mason	c Lilley b Trott	27
DLA Jephson	not out	18
GL Jessop	b Trott	18
*SMJ Woods	c Carpenter b Ward	0
E Smith	c Brown b Trott	16
CJ Kortright	c sub b Trott	12
+H Martyn	c Quaife b Trott	4
Extras	(5 b, 4 lb)	9
Total	(all out, 67.2 overs)	339
Fall of wickets:
1-5, 2-43, 3-238, 4-258, 5-260, 6-298, 7-302, 8-306, 9-306, 10-339 (67.2 ov)

Players bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rhodes	15	2	51	2	-	-
Trott	20.2	0	142	6	-	-
Mead	14	1	57	0	-	-
Gunn	7	3	23	0	-	-
Ward	10	3	39	2	-	-
Quaife	1	0	18	0	-	-

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Players second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
A Ward	c Martyn b Jessop	4
WG Quaife	lbw b Jones	29
JT Brown	c Jones b Smith	163
*R Abel	c Jones b Jessop	98
TW Hayward	c Martyn b Kortright	111
HA Carpenter	b Woods	9
+AFA Lilley	b Mason	30
AE Trott	not out	22
JR Gunn	b Kortright	3
W Rhodes	not out	7
W Mead	did not bat
Extras	(13 b, 8 lb, 4 nb, 1 w)	26
Total	(8 wickets, 156.5 overs)	502
Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-81, 3-246, 4-348, 5-379, 6-448, 7-469, 8-485

Gentlemen bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Kortright	18	4	60	2	-	-
Jephson	14	2	46	0	-	-
Mason	34	11	92	1	-	4
Jessop	28	8	74	2	-	-
Jones	23	4	69	1	-	-
Woods	19.5	3	70	1	1	-
Smith	18	3	57	1	-	-
Townsend	2	0	8	0	-	-

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Notes
--> JT Brown (1) passed 13000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 2
--> TW Hayward (2) passed 12500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 60
--> WG Quaife (2) passed 7000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 1
--> JT Brown (2) passed 1000 runs in First-Class matches for the season when he reached 82
--> W Rhodes reached 150 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when taking his 3rd wicket in the Gentlemen first innings
--> CJ Kortright reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when taking his 1st wicket in the Players first innings
--> JR Mason reached 350 wickets in First-Class matches when taking his 4th wicket in the Players first innings
--> AE Trott reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches for the season when taking his 2nd wicket in the Gentlemen second innings

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Foster became the first batsman from either side to score two centuries in the same match in this series. His 102* included 15 fours and his 136, made in 105 minutes, 24 fours.This was only the second time a score of over 500 had been made in the fourth innings. Brown hit 1 five and 29 fours in his innings of 163 which lasted 285 minutes. Over 10,000 spectators were present on the first day

 

 

 

 

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