Wigan Album
Cricket Team unknown
6 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 28361
The two lower numbers add up to 200, Ron - so I'm guessing that's the significance - the likelihood being that they're the openers for their team, with the other six runs being byes and no-balls.
It's a pity the scoreboard is obscuring most of the church behind - but perhaps there's enough showing to enable someone to identify the ground.
Rev. I was thinking on similar lines that the teams score was 206 and these two batsmen had scored 200 of the 206.?
Could it be Highfield? The church's close proximity to the cricket ground fits, and also the pitch slopes from left to right as Highfield cricket field did.
The players might look a bit too fresh for having just taken part in a mammoth innings. Maybe the photo is a record of something special having been achieved previously. Whichever, the scoreboard tells they 'performed splendidly at the crease.'
This was a record first wicket for Wigan cricket Club.
In a game against Bolton on July 4th 1914. On the left SG Unsworth 89 not out and on the righr R Tyler 111 not out.
I suppose they knew little of what was to happen only a few months later
Perkin thanks for the info. Where did you get it from? Is there a book about the history of the Cricket Club? So if the photo was taken at Bull Hey, I pressume the building must be the Rectory, recently in the process of renovation?