First Tour scorebook

The Scorebook of the Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England is a copy, in Charles Lawrence's hand, of the original scorebook. It records names of both teams for all innings, scores, results, umpires' names and other details for every match. The scorebook also includes scores for 22 of Dublin v United Ireland Xl, 1856 and United Ireland XI v 22 of the North of Ireland, 1860.

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Transcript: Scorebook of the Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England, copy by Charles Lawrence

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Aboriginals v Richmond
Played at the Old Deer Park	June 5th & 6th 1868
1st innings Richmond	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
I Nales	hit W	Mullagh	0	not out		1
A[?] B Stopford	bd	Cuzens	1	bd	Cuzens	17
N C Allix	ct Cuzens	Mullagh	2	bd	Mullagh	37
F F Cuppage	bd	Cuzens	10	ct King Cole	Cuzens	40
H Jupp	bd	"	19	bd	Bullocky	15
A W Park	bd	"	5	bd	Cuzens	24
C Noble	run out		21	ct Red Cap	Bullocky	8
E M Walsh	bd	Cuzens	0	bd	Mullagh	31
R Barton	not out		3	ct & bd	Lawrence	14
C Morgen	bd	Mullagh	2	bd	Mullagh	2
J P Laurell	bd	Lawrence	7	bd	"	26
Byes 2 leg byes 2			4	byes 16 l.b. 3	wides 2	21
			74			236

Sir William Dawson Governor of New South Wales

in 1856 was present and requested an introduction to

the Aboriginals and expressed himself pleased to

see them and asked to be allowed to make them a

present of 10/- each I need not say how delighted

they were Sir William no doubt was a lover of

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Aboriginals v Richmond

1st innings Aboriginals	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
Cuzens	bd	Morgan	24	bd	Laurell	0
Bullocky	run out		3	not out		15
Tiger	bd	Laurell	19	bd	Laurell	10
Mullagh	ct Allix	"	1
Red Cap	ct Laurell	Morgan	6	bd	Morgan	7
C Lawrence	not out		16	not out		42
Dick a Dick	ct Noble	Morgan	8
King Cole	ct & bd	Park	6
Twopenny	run out		4
Peter	ct Jupp	Laurell	0
Charlie Dumas	bd	"	0
Byes 4 leg byes 2	wides 4		10	byes 2 Lb 1	Wides 5	8
			-----			-----
			97			82

Match unfinished

the game for I heard in Sydney that he was the first

that grantd permison the use of the Domain for cricket

and there all practice and all important matches was

were played

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Aboriginals v Gentlemen of Sussex
Played at Hove Brighton June 8 & 9 1868

1st innings Aboriginals	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
Bullocky	ct Smith	W Napper	14	run out		1
Cuzens	ct Winslow	Frere	4	ct Frere	Blaker	1
Red Cap	ct Leigh	W Napper	8	ct Leigh	"	6
Mullagh	bd	Frere	39	not out		27
Tiger	bd	W Napper	3	ct W Napper	"	3
C Lawrence	ct Rigden	"	63	ct Winslow	Frere	33
Dick a Dick	bd	Frere	11	bd	"	4
Twopenny	not out		10	bd	Blaker	6
King Cole	bd	Frere	10	ct Winslow	"	0
Peter	L.b.W	Blaker	0	L.b.W	Frere	4
Dumas	run		1	ct E Napper	Blaker	1
Byes 4 leg byes 4			8	byes 1 Lb 2		3
			171			89

Bowler

Balls

Runs

Umpires W Shepherd & Tappenden

Sussex winning by nine wickets

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1st innings Sussex	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How Out	Bowler	Runs
O E Winslow	ct Bullocky	Mullagh	9	not out		71
C H Smith	bd	Lawrence	1	run out		14
Hon T Pelham	bd	Mullagh	5
C G Wynch	st Mullagh	Lawrence	34	not out		27
Spencer A Leigh	bd	Mullagh	50
H C Blaker	ct Dick a Dick	"	2
E Napper	run out		30
C Horwood	run out		0
W Rigden	ct Lawrence	Mullagh	0
H Frere	not out		13
W Napper	bd	Lawrence	0
byes 6 leg byes 1			7
			151			112

Bowler	Balls	runs	Bowler	Balls	runs
Lawrence	90	64	Mullagh	52	45
Mullagh	132	55	Lawrence	28	33
Cuzens	36	25	Cuzens	32	34

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Aboriginals v Gentlemen of Lewisham
played at Ladywell near Lewisham	10 & 11 June 1868

1st innings Lewisham	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
E Wade	bd	Mullagh	0	bd	Mullagh	19
H Lugg	bd	"	12	bd	"	0
I Clarricvats	ct Mullagh	Lawrence	0	bd	"	0
W Penn	ct Lawrence	Mullagh	13	bd	Cuzens	4
F Penn	ct King Cole	Lawrence	19	bd	Lawrence	7
C Samuels	ct Dick a D	"	0	bd	Mullagh	8
S S Brown	bd	Mullagh	3	bd	Lawrence	0
F Ingersoll	bd	"	0	not out		2
N A Hinde	ct Cuzens	"	11	bd	Cuzens	0
R Biggs	L.b.W.	Lawrence	0	run out		1
I Clutterbuck	not out		1	bd	Cuzens	0
byes 1			1	byes 12		12
			60			53

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1st innings Aboriginals	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
Bullocky	bd	Wade	1	L.b.W.	W Penn	3
Tiger	ct F Penn	Brown	0	bd	Wade	14
Dick a Dick	ct & bd	"	0
Mullagh	ct W Penn	Wade	1	ct Samuels	Wade	0
C Lawrence	ct "	Wade	0	not out		32
Cuzens	bd	"	8	ct F Penn	Brown	11
Red Cap	ct Lugg	"	12	not out		2
King Cole	not out		11
Twopenny	ct W Penn	Wade	4
Peter	bd	Brown	0
C Dumas	bd	"	1
Leg byes 4			4	Byes 4 Lb 5	Wides 1	10
			42			72

The Blacks winning by six wickets
Umpires T Perch & W Shepherd

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Aboriginals v Marylebone
played at Lords Grd June 12th & 13th 1868

1st innings MCC	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
Earl of Coventry	bd	Mullagh	25	bd	Cuzens	14
N C Allix	"	"	20	run out		12
C Gee	"	"	5	bd	Mullagh	12
C F Buller	"	"	14	ct Peter	"	23
Lieut-Col F H Bathurst	"	Cuzens	0	bd	Cuzens	0
R A Fitzgerald	"	"	50	"	"	3
H W Fellows	"	"	6	"	"	1
Capt F Trevor	"	"	10	"	"	18
A W Fitzgerald	"	Mullagh	6	"	"	16
Viscount Downe	"	Cuzens	10	not out		9
T Smyth	not out		3	bd	Mullagh	0
byes 12 leg byes 3			15	byes 8	Leg byes 1}
				wides 3	No balls 1 }	13
			164			121

Bowlers	Balls	runs	Balls	runds	Wides
Mullagh	184	82	65	19
Cuzens	156	52	100	65	3
Lawrence	32	15
Red Cap			32	24

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Aboriginals v Marylebone
played at Lords June 12th & 13 1868

1st innings Aboriginals	2nd innings

Names	How out	Bowler	Runs	How out	Bowler	Runs
Bullocky	bd	Buller	11	Absent ill
Tiger	bd	Smyth	0	bd	Smyth	0
Cuzens	bd	Buller	0	ct Bathurst	"	21
Red Cap	bd	Buller	13	ct Allix	Buller	5
Mullagh	bd	"	75	ct Downe	"	12
C Lawrence	bd	Fellows	31	run out		1
King Cole	run out		7	bd	Smyth	0
Dick a Dick	ct & bd	Buller	8	bd	Buller	0
Twopenny	bd	"	6	bd	Smyth	3
Peter	bd	Smyth	3	ct Trevor	"	0
Charlie Dumas	not out		0	not out		0
byes 18	leg byes 3}			byes 1	leg Byes 1}
Wides 7	no balls 3}		31	Wides 1}		3
			185			45

Umpires F H Farrands and J Grundy
MCC winning by 55 runs

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Transcript: Scorebook of the Aboriginal Cricket Tour of England, copy by Charles Lawrence