Grand Cricket Match between the Gentlemen of the celebrated I Zingari Club, and the Gentlemen of the Leicester County Club, now playing on the Leicester Cricket Ground. State of the Game, Saturday, (6 o'clock) August 24th 1850

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Grand Cricket Match between the Gentlemen of the celebrated I Zingari Club, and the Gentlemen of the Leicester County Club, now playing on the Leicester Cricket Ground. State of the Game, Saturday, (6 o'clock) August 24th 1850
scorecard, printed on the ground by J. Windley, 248 x 185mm. (9¾ x 7¼in.)
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Lord's Ground. Gentlemen of England XI v. I Zingari ... June 6,7,8, 1904
scorecard printed on silk, recording Captain E. G. Wynyard's century of 147 in the second innings and an I Zingari win by 6 wickets, 236 x 153mm. (9¼ x 6in.), both framed and glazed. (2)

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The earlier scorecard shows the state of play after the fall of 2 wickets for 62 runs in IZ's second innings, a 22 run lead in the first having left the wandering club a target of 199 to win. The 1904 match was no less well balanced, a century of 162 by L. J. Moon giving the Gentlemen a first innings lead of almost a hundred runs. IZ owed their eventual win not only to Wynyard's century but the performance of B. J. T. Bosanquet who had bowling figures of 83 for 7 in the first innings, took a total of 11 wickets in the match, and made a second innings score of 66.

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