Date-stamped : 22 Jul94 - 22:26 Wild and Whacky First-class Matches (Jul 94) The candidates for the Bruce Reid batting clinic. 34 (16&18) Border v Natal East London 1959-60 42 (27&15) Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire Northampton 1908 47 (12&35) Oxford University v MCC Oxford 1877 The sticky wickets. 105-31 MCC v Australians Lord's 1878 134-31 Kent v Sussex Hawkhurst 1826 134-30 England v The B's Lord's 1831 147-40 Kent v Sussex Sevenoaks 1828 149-30 England v The Kent Lord's 1858 Hey were you really first class? Inns & 851 runs Railways (910-6d) v Dera Is. Khan Lahore 1864-5 Inns & 666 runs Vic (1059) v Tas Melbourne 1922-3 Inns & 656 runs Vic (1107) v NSW Melbourne 1926-7 Inns & 605 runs NSW (918) v S.Aus Sydney 1900-1 No really are you? Lancs (166-0 & 66-0) d Leics (108 & 122) Manchester 1956 Karachi (277-0d) d Sind (922 & 108) Karachi 1957-8 Railways (236-0d & 16-0) d J & K (92 & 159) Srinagar 1960-1 Karnataka (451-0d) d Kerala (141 & 124) Chikmangalur 1977-8 I tell you what why don't you try again we'll bat later. Middx (0-0d & 142-1) d Surrey (49 & 89) Lord's 1977 Fooled Yah, see we are first class. Hants (15 & 521) d Warwicks (223 & 158) Birmingham 1922 Gee these pitches get flate after a while ... 551 Bdos (175 & 726-7d) v Trinidad Bridgetown 1926-7 551 Pak (106 & 657-8d) v West Indies Bridgetown 1957-8 551 Middx (83 & 634-7d) v Essex Chelmsford 1983 543 Somerset (87 & 630) v Yorks Leeds 1901 531 Free Foresters (65 & 596-8d) v Camb Univ Cambridge 1919 524 Camb Univ (179 & 703-9d) v Sussex Hove 1890 506 Hants (15 & 521) v Warwicks Birmingham 1922 500 Essex (597 & 97) v Derbys Chesterfield 1904 Got'im, we win ... no hang on you win ... No let me see we have 176 runs you have 176 runs ... Aah it's a draw, no wait that's not right ... Lets call it a tie. MCC(69 & 107) v Combined Univ (115 & 61) Lord's 1839 Hang on we still got three batsmen left and there's two balls to go what do you mean there's no time? So is it a tie or a draw? Lancs (253 & 168-7) v Eng XI (193 & 288-6d) Blackpool 1905 What's Law 45 and why does it involve Mr Heygate? So's it's a tie is it? Somerset (243 & 103) v Sussex (242 & 104) Taunton 1919 What's this talk of new fangled one day cricket we were doing it back in 1931 milady. The B's (18 & 35) v England (81) Lord's 13 Jun 1831 Cambridge (81 & 54-2) v MCC (70 & 64) Cambridge 18 May 1837 A day? You get it over in a day? We can't even score 100 runs in a day! 95 Australia (80) v Pakistan (15-2) Karachi 1956-7 Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)