3-016-858 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Cricket-match at Melbourne [in Australia,] between the All-England Eleven and Twenty-Two of Victoria, 1864. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Davies and Co, showing '...the cricket-match played on New-Year's Day and three following days, upon the ground of the Melbourne Cricket Club, between the All-England Eleven and a double number of the best cricket-players of Victoria province...[The play] resulted in a drawn match, the time having expired at six o'clock on the fourth day with six of the All-England wickets in their second innings yet to go down. But, since the All-England men had already scored 281 runs, while the Victoria men, who had completed both their innings, numbered only 289, there could be no doubt that the All-England would have come off the winners by a large majority if the game had been regularly finished. The weather was very pleasant; the ground was in perfect condition for playing; and the bright, green turf, surrounded with forest trees, made it an agreeable place of resort. The space within the chain fence, and the grand stand, which held three thousand persons, were thronged with spectators'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.