Early Cricket
AMPEN: Cricket was one of the English institutions the colonists brought with them. Why, I believe the first game was played at Russell as early as 1841, and I shouldn’t be surprised if there weren't some games with bat and ball on the Bay of Islands beaches long before that. Palmer: Probably. Wellington had its first real game in 1842, about the time of year the Plunket Shield matches are now played. It’s so well reported by a commentator of the time that I’m going to read his account to you. Here it is: "We notice with pleasure that the members of the Wellington Club played a match between themselves, and one in which they all may have said to have been winners, as, after the sports of the day, they adjourned to the Ship’s hotel, where they partook of a true Christmas dinner’ of roast beef and plum pudding, and so equally were the parties matched that it was difficult to say who first bowled out his neighbour." Then follow the results: Ist innings, Reds got 64 notches, Blues 67. 2nd innings-Reds got 60 notches; Blue got 59 notches. Palmer: But what are all the notches in aid of? You’d think that was scalp-hunting, not cricket. Lampen: You would, wouldn’t you, but I’ve heard the old hands say they used to have sticks on which they notched the runs they made. This used to be a practice in England. There were no score sheets. (ZL. R. Palmer and Major F. H. Lampen " Background of New Zealand : Sport," 2Y A, October 14).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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264Early Cricket New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 71, 1 November 1940, Page 7
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