King Edward's School, Birminbgham - List of Matches

5 1873 1874 14 1875 15 1876 (P7 W3 L3 D1) On Cricket Archive: # KES v Winson Green Bham Mental Hosp 17 June W 16 KES v Queen’s College Eastern Road 22 June D 17 KES v Old Edwardians Eastern Road 24 June L KES v Wolverhampton GS Eastern Road 28 June W(D) KES v Perry Barr Eastern Road 1 July L KES v Sutton Coldfield GS Sutton 4 July L KES v Wolverhampton GS Wolverhampton 12 July W(D) 1877 (No matches played) 1878 (P4 W2 L2 D0) 18 On Cricket Archive: KES v Spring Hill College Moseley 14 May L(D) KES v Wolverhampton GS Eastern Road 25 May L(D) KES v Walmley CC Eastern Road June W KES v Birmingham Law Students Eastern Road 2 July W 1879 (P13 W3 L8 D2) On Cricket Archive: KES v Spring Hill College Unknown May W KES v Leamington College Leamington 12 June L KES v Leamington College Eastern Road 2 July L Not on Cricket Archive: + 10 1880 (P12 W3 L6 D3) On Cricket Archive: KES v Tettenhall Tettenhall Unknown W(D) OEG 1980 KES v Spring Hill College Moseley Unknown D KES v Kings Norton Unknown Unknown D KES v Redditch Redditch Unknown L KES v Kings Norton Unknown July L 14 Appears that no matches played. Chronicle No 11 (1875) p 104 says field never fit for play; also refers to large number of matches that have been lost during the last few years. 15 Appears that no matches played. Ground never fit for play (Chronicle No 22 (1876) p 19). 16 W 33 r. F Bond 7-. Chronicle No 24 (1876), which gives more complete score than CA source, contains no indication that match not played at Eastern Road. My article ‘Eastern Road: A 1976 Centenary?’ Old Edwardians Gazette, July 1975, 19 assumes match was played at Eastern Road. 17 QC 255-8, no opportunity for KES to bat. 18 Results may be incomplete: no statement of results in Chronicle.