King Edward's School, Birmingham Cricket Records

102 possible at this time. 1877 Chronicle No 34 (July): Only internal matches played. 1878 Chronicle No 39 (March) contains a letter commenting on “what a lamentably bad condition the School Cricket is in”. Chronicle No 40 (May) records that a School meeting was held to consider cricket prospects. This appears to have had some effect: KES has played some matches in every year from 1878 onwards. 1888 P G Mason was dismissed “handled the ball” v Tettenhall (Tettenhall) – the only recorded instance in a KES match. 1889 Chronicle No 90 (February 1895) contains an account by ‘CFA’ (C F Andrews) of a match between KES and Bedford Modern School at Eastern Road on 6 July 1889: KES 93 all out, Bedford Modern 85 all out. J Manton won the match for KES by taking 9 wickets for 36. (This account refers to him by his nickname: “Tubby”.) KES batted a second time, making 55 for 6. KES won the match on first innings by 8 runs. 1890 The scorebook for 1890-92 was presented to the School in 1965, but it cannot now be found in the School Archives. 1902 Eastern Road was not available for home matches because of work being done on the ground. Home matches were played at the Edgbaston CC ground. 1903 Chronicle No 139 refers to the “new ground”. However, there is no suggestion that the location of the ground is different. A new pavilion is to be opened. (This pavilion was demolished in 1964-65.) 1904 Chronicle No 144 refers to the new pavilion. Matches against Tettenhall and Trinity College, Stratford were given up, presumably because they seldom provided strong opposition. 1909 Chronicle No 176: First reference to “the Eastern Road ground” (as opposed to “Bristol Road”). 1912 Chronicle No 194 refers to matches “played at Eastern Road”. However, this is an isolated instance, because subsequent Chronicles continue to refer to “Bristol Road”, the last such mention apparently being Chronicle No 212 in 1915. From Chronicle No 217 (1916) onwards, the ground is consistently referred to as “Eastern Road”. 1919 Chronicle No 231 (Dec): Mr Bache presented a cup in memory of his son, HG Bache (killed in action on 15 February 1916) to be held by the best sportsman of the School. 1928 Chronicle No 257 (March) refers to the new cricket blazers - white with thin blue and navy stripes. EW Elwood was apparently responsible for this intitative – see article in OE Gazette April 1982 p 34. Elwood also said that ES Baker, playing for Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire (in 1933 or 1934), hit H Larwood for 6.