Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics
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A cricket
tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics
, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes
. The only match of the tournament was played between teams representing Great Britain and France, and was won by 158 runs
by Great Britain.
Originally, teams representing Belgium
, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands
were scheduled to compete in the tournament. Belgium and the Netherlands pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France. Neither team was nationally selected. The British side was a touring club, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, while the French team, the French Athletic Club Union, consisted mainly of British expatriate
s living in Paris.
The two-day game commenced on 19 August 1900. Great Britain batted first and scored 117, and bowled France out for 78. Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings, setting the hosts a target of 185. The tourists bowled out France for 26 to win the match by 158 runs, a significant margin, but with only five minutes of the match remaining. The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower
. The match was formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, and the medals were later reassigned as gold and silver.
, being listed in the original programme for the Athens Games. Due to an insufficient number of entries, the event was cancelled. Four years later, at the Paris Games, there was also a shortage of entries. Belgium
and the Netherlands
, who for a time had been considered as possibilities to co-host the Olympics with France, withdrew from the cricket tournament when their co-hosting bids fell through. Their withdrawal left only Great Britain and the host nation, France.
The slightly haphazard nature of the cricket tournament was mirrored in the rest of the 1900 Olympics. Events took place throughout a six-month period from May through until October, and like the Games themselves, were often considered part of the Exposition Universelle
, a world's fair
held in Paris from 15 April until 12 November 1900.
in 1894 for a tour of the Isle of Wight
, had completed five other tours before travelling to France. The Wanderers were primarily formed from players of Castle Cary Cricket Club, five of whom played in the match, and also included four former pupils of Blundell's School
, a public school in Devon. The side was completed by a number of players from the surrounding areas who were able to get away from business and personal commitments for the two week period of the tour. Writing in the Journal of Olympic History, Ian Buchanan describes that both sides "were made up of distinctly average club cricketers". Only two members of the Wanderers side, and none of the French side, played first-class cricket. Montagu Toller
played six times for Somerset County Cricket Club
, all in 1897, while Alfred Bowerman
played for Somerset once in 1900, and again in 1905.
The French side was officially drawn from all the member clubs of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques
. Few of these clubs actually sported cricket teams, and so the eventual side was selected from just two clubs: the Union Club and the Standard Athletic Club. Both sides had strong English influences, and the majority of the team that competed for France in the Olympic match were British expatriates. The Standard Athletic Club had been formed ten years earlier by English workers who had moved to the country to help build the Eiffel Tower
.
, one of the four Old Blundellians, top-scored for the side with 38, followed by their captain, and Exeter Cricket Club opening batsman, C. B. K. Beachcroft with 23. The French were then bowled out for 78, the bowling led by Frederick Christian
who claimed seven wickets. Play closed at 5:00PM after both sides had completed their first innings, and the Wanderers had a lead of 39 runs. The Wanderers batting improved the following morning, and they added 145 runs for the second innings, declaring
their innings closed with five wickets down. Beachcroft was again successful, reaching a half-century, a feat also achieved by Bowerman, who top-scored with 59 runs. The French required 185 runs to win, but lost their first ten wickets for eleven runs. At this point they attempted to play out time, which would have meant the match was drawn. They succeeded for a time, and the match was just five minutes from the end when their eleventh, and final, wicket fell, granting the Wanderers a 158-run victory. Toller was the pick of the Wanderers bowlers in the second innings, claiming seven wickets and conceded nine runs.
After the match, the English side were awarded silver medals, and the French side were given Bronze medals, and both teams were also given miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower. The match was not covered in any national newspapers in England, although some of the local Devon papers did publish reports.
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Scorecard notes
Neither of the teams realised that they had competed in the Olympic Games, with the match advertised as part of the world's fair. The event was retrospectively recognised as an Olympic contest by the International Olympic Committee
in 1912, and the medals won by the teams were upgraded to Gold for Great Britain and silver for France. The scheduled competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics
, held in St Louis, was cancelled at short notice due to a lack of facilities, and the sport has not been played in the Olympic Games since.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
tournament, played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics
1900 Summer Olympics
The 1900 Summer Olympics, today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1900 in Paris, France. No opening or closing ceremonies were held; competitions began on May 14 and ended on October 28. The Games were held as part of...
, took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes
Vélodrome de Vincennes
The Vélodrome de Vincennes is a stadium in Vincennes, near Paris, France.Initially built as a velodrome in 1894, it became the main stadium for the 1900 Summer Olympics; Events that took place in the Velodrome at the 1900 Summer Olympics included cycling, cricket, rugby union, football and...
. The only match of the tournament was played between teams representing Great Britain and France, and was won by 158 runs
Run (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...
by Great Britain.
Originally, teams representing Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
were scheduled to compete in the tournament. Belgium and the Netherlands pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France. Neither team was nationally selected. The British side was a touring club, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers, while the French team, the French Athletic Club Union, consisted mainly of British expatriate
Expatriate
An expatriate is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing...
s living in Paris.
The two-day game commenced on 19 August 1900. Great Britain batted first and scored 117, and bowled France out for 78. Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings, setting the hosts a target of 185. The tourists bowled out France for 26 to win the match by 158 runs, a significant margin, but with only five minutes of the match remaining. The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
. The match was formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, and the medals were later reassigned as gold and silver.
Background
Cricket had been scheduled as an event at the first modern Olympics, the 1896 Summer Olympics1896 Summer Olympics
The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Athens, Greece, from April 6 to April 15, 1896. It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era...
, being listed in the original programme for the Athens Games. Due to an insufficient number of entries, the event was cancelled. Four years later, at the Paris Games, there was also a shortage of entries. Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, who for a time had been considered as possibilities to co-host the Olympics with France, withdrew from the cricket tournament when their co-hosting bids fell through. Their withdrawal left only Great Britain and the host nation, France.
The slightly haphazard nature of the cricket tournament was mirrored in the rest of the 1900 Olympics. Events took place throughout a six-month period from May through until October, and like the Games themselves, were often considered part of the Exposition Universelle
Exposition Universelle (1900)
The Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a world's fair held in Paris, France, from April 15 to November 12, 1900, to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next...
, a world's fair
World's Fair
World's fair, World fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo are various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All...
held in Paris from 15 April until 12 November 1900.
Team selection
Neither side was nationally selected, nor representative. Great Britain, or England as they were called in the advertising handbills, were represented by a touring club side, the Devon and Somerset Wanderers. The side, formed by William DonneWilliam Donne
William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union.-Cricket career:...
in 1894 for a tour of the Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
, had completed five other tours before travelling to France. The Wanderers were primarily formed from players of Castle Cary Cricket Club, five of whom played in the match, and also included four former pupils of Blundell's School
Blundell's School
Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school located in the town of Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. The school was founded in 1604 by the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the...
, a public school in Devon. The side was completed by a number of players from the surrounding areas who were able to get away from business and personal commitments for the two week period of the tour. Writing in the Journal of Olympic History, Ian Buchanan describes that both sides "were made up of distinctly average club cricketers". Only two members of the Wanderers side, and none of the French side, played first-class cricket. Montagu Toller
Montagu Toller
Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler....
played six times for Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club
Somerset County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Somerset...
, all in 1897, while Alfred Bowerman
Alfred Bowerman
Alfred James Bowerman was an English cricket player.- Personal life :Born in Broomfield, Somerset, Bowerman was a timber merchant in the Bridgwater area...
played for Somerset once in 1900, and again in 1905.
The French side was officially drawn from all the member clubs of the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques
Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques
Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques is a former French sports governing body. During the 1890s and early 1900s it organised numerous sports including athletics, cycling, field hockey, fencing, croquet and swimming...
. Few of these clubs actually sported cricket teams, and so the eventual side was selected from just two clubs: the Union Club and the Standard Athletic Club. Both sides had strong English influences, and the majority of the team that competed for France in the Olympic match were British expatriates. The Standard Athletic Club had been formed ten years earlier by English workers who had moved to the country to help build the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
.
Summary
The match had been intended to be a standard eleven-a-side contest, but by mutual agreement from the captains this was increased to twelve-a-side, a move which the scorecard printers had not expected, resulting in the extra name having to be added by hand. Play commenced at 11:00AM on Sunday, 19 August with the touring Wanderers batting first. They were bowled out for 117, with only four members of the team reaching double figures. Frederick CumingFrederick Cuming
Frederick William Cuming was a British cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics...
, one of the four Old Blundellians, top-scored for the side with 38, followed by their captain, and Exeter Cricket Club opening batsman, C. B. K. Beachcroft with 23. The French were then bowled out for 78, the bowling led by Frederick Christian
Frederick Christian
Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not...
who claimed seven wickets. Play closed at 5:00PM after both sides had completed their first innings, and the Wanderers had a lead of 39 runs. The Wanderers batting improved the following morning, and they added 145 runs for the second innings, declaring
Declaration and forfeiture
In the sport of cricket a declaration occurs when a captain declares his team's innings closed and a forfeiture is when a captain chooses to forfeit an innings. Declaration and forfeiture are covered in Law 14 of the Laws of cricket...
their innings closed with five wickets down. Beachcroft was again successful, reaching a half-century, a feat also achieved by Bowerman, who top-scored with 59 runs. The French required 185 runs to win, but lost their first ten wickets for eleven runs. At this point they attempted to play out time, which would have meant the match was drawn. They succeeded for a time, and the match was just five minutes from the end when their eleventh, and final, wicket fell, granting the Wanderers a 158-run victory. Toller was the pick of the Wanderers bowlers in the second innings, claiming seven wickets and conceded nine runs.
After the match, the English side were awarded silver medals, and the French side were given Bronze medals, and both teams were also given miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower. The match was not covered in any national newspapers in England, although some of the local Devon papers did publish reports.
Scorecard
 United Kingdom |
First innings | Second innings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsman | Method of dismissal Dismissal (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out . Colloquially, the fielding team is also said to have snared, bagged or captured a wicket. At this point a batsman must discontinue batting and leave the field permanently for the innings... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
Method of dismissal | Runs |
| C. B. K. Beachcroft | b Attrill | 23 | run out | 54 |
| Arthur Birkett Arthur Birkett Arthur Ernest Barrington Birkett was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics.- Olympic career :... |
b Anderson | 1 | ||
| John Symes John Symes John Symes, OBE was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he scored 15 runs in Great Britain's first innings and just one run in... |
c Anderson b Robinson | 15 | c Attrill b Roques | 1 |
| Frederick Cuming Frederick Cuming Frederick William Cuming was a British cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... |
c Browning W. Browning W. Browning was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain, he was dismissed for a duck in both French innings and took two catches in Great Britain's... b MacEvoy |
38 | c Attrill b MacEvoy | 18 |
| Montagu Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
b MacEvoy | 2 | ||
| Alfred Bowerman Alfred Bowerman Alfred James Bowerman was an English cricket player.- Personal life :Born in Broomfield, Somerset, Bowerman was a timber merchant in the Bridgwater area... |
b Anderson | 7 | b Roques | 59 |
| Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
c Browning W. Browning W. Browning was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain, he was dismissed for a duck in both French innings and took two catches in Great Britain's... b Robinson |
10 | b Roques | 4 |
| William Donne William Donne William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union.-Cricket career:... |
run out | 6 | ||
| Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
b Anderson | 0 | ||
| George Buckley George Buckley (cricketer, born 1876) George J. Buckley was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured at the Olympic Games. In the only match against France, Buckley scored two runs in the first innings and did not bat in the second. Nothing is known... |
b Attrill | 0 | ||
| Francis Burchell Francis Burchell Francis Romulus Burchell was an English cricket player. He was part of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured at the Olympics... |
not out | 0 | ||
| Harry Corner Harry Corner Harry Richard Corner was an English cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... |
lbw Anderson | 4 | not out | 5 |
| Extras | 9 | 4 | ||
| Totals | ||||
|}
 Early Modern France |
First innings | Second innings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs Over (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate.... |
Maidens Over (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate.... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
Wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s |
Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
| William Attrill | ? | ? | ? | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| William Anderson | ? | ? | ? | 4 | – | – | – | – |
| Arthur MacEvoy | ? | ? | ? | 2 | ? | ? | ? | 1 |
| Douglas Robinson | ? | ? | ? | 2 | – | – | – | – |
| F. Roques | – | – | – | – | ? | ? | ? | 3 |
| Early Modern France |
First innings | Second innings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsman | Method of dismissal Dismissal (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a dismissal occurs when the batsman is out . Colloquially, the fielding team is also said to have snared, bagged or captured a wicket. At this point a batsman must discontinue batting and leave the field permanently for the innings... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
Method of dismissal | Runs |
| Timothée Jordan | c Corner Harry Corner Harry Richard Corner was an English cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
11 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
0 |
| A.J. Schneidau | b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
8 | b Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
1 |
| Robert Horne | c Buckley George Buckley (cricketer, born 1876) George J. Buckley was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured at the Olympic Games. In the only match against France, Buckley scored two runs in the first innings and did not bat in the second. Nothing is known... b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
15 | b Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
1 |
| Henry Terry Henry Terry Henry Terry was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only game against Great Britain, he scored two runs in the French first innings, and one in their second.-References:***... |
c Cuming Frederick Cuming Frederick William Cuming was a British cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... b Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
2 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
1 |
| F. Roques | b Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
0 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
0 |
| William Anderson | b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
0 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
8 |
| Douglas Robinson | b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
0 | b Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
0 |
| William Attrill | lbw Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
0 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
0 |
| W. Browning W. Browning W. Browning was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain, he was dismissed for a duck in both French innings and took two catches in Great Britain's... |
b Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
0 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
0 |
| Arthur MacEvoy | b Bowerman Alfred Bowerman Alfred James Bowerman was an English cricket player.- Personal life :Born in Broomfield, Somerset, Bowerman was a timber merchant in the Bridgwater area... |
1 | c Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... b Corner Harry Corner Harry Richard Corner was an English cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... |
0 |
| Philip Tomalin Philip Tomalin Philip Humphreys Tomalin was member of the Norse Rowing Club in Richmond, and the Carlton Cricket Club that played at Regent's park before he left for France at the age of 21. He stayed there, 60 years until 1939 and died the following year at Bognor Regis... |
not out | 3 | not out | 6 |
| J. Braid J. Braid J. Braid was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain he top scored with 25 in the French first innings, and scored seven runs in their second.-References:*... |
run out | 25 | b Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
7 |
| Extras | 11 | 2 | ||
| Totals | ||||
|}
| United Kingdom |
First innings | Second innings | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowler | Overs Over (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate.... |
Maidens Over (cricket) In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate.... |
Runs Run (cricket) In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement... |
Wicket Wicket In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch... s |
Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
| Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... |
? | ? | ? | 7 | – | – | – | – |
| Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... |
? | ? | ? | 2 | ? | ? | 15 | 3 |
| Alfred Bowerman Alfred Bowerman Alfred James Bowerman was an English cricket player.- Personal life :Born in Broomfield, Somerset, Bowerman was a timber merchant in the Bridgwater area... |
? | ? | ? | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Montagu Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
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| Harry Corner Harry Corner Harry Richard Corner was an English cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... |
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Scorecard notes
Aftermath
The Devon and Somerset Wanderers played two further matches during their tour of France, both one-day contests, and won them both. They were not impressed by the French, who a journalist at the time described as "too excitable to enjoy the game".Neither of the teams realised that they had competed in the Olympic Games, with the match advertised as part of the world's fair. The event was retrospectively recognised as an Olympic contest by the International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
in 1912, and the medals won by the teams were upgraded to Gold for Great Britain and silver for France. The scheduled competition at the 1904 Summer Olympics
1904 Summer Olympics
The 1904 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the III Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States from 1 July 1904, to November 23, 1904, at what is now known as Francis Field on the campus of Washington University...
, held in St Louis, was cancelled at short notice due to a lack of facilities, and the sport has not been played in the Olympic Games since.
Medalists
| Event | Gold | Silver |
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| Cricket | C. B. K. Beachcroft (captain) Arthur Birkett Arthur Birkett Arthur Ernest Barrington Birkett was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics.- Olympic career :... Alfred Bowerman Alfred Bowerman Alfred James Bowerman was an English cricket player.- Personal life :Born in Broomfield, Somerset, Bowerman was a timber merchant in the Bridgwater area... George Buckley George Buckley (cricketer, born 1876) George J. Buckley was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured at the Olympic Games. In the only match against France, Buckley scored two runs in the first innings and did not bat in the second. Nothing is known... Francis Burchell Francis Burchell Francis Romulus Burchell was an English cricket player. He was part of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured at the Olympics... Frederick Christian Frederick Christian Frederick W. Christian was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he was bowled for a duck in Great Britain's first innings and did not... Harry Corner Harry Corner Harry Richard Corner was an English cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of Great Britain's gold medal winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... Frederick Cuming Frederick Cuming Frederick William Cuming was a British cricket player. He was educated at Blundell's School and was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics... William Donne William Donne William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union.-Cricket career:... Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland Alfred Powlesland was an English cricket player. He was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympic games. In the only match against France, Powlesland scored 10 in Great Britain's first innings and 4... John Symes John Symes John Symes, OBE was an English cricket player. He represented the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against France, he scored 15 runs in Great Britain's first innings and just one run in... Montagu Toller Montagu Toller Montagu Henry Toller was an English cricket player. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler.... |
William Anderson William Attrill J. Braid J. Braid J. Braid was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain he top scored with 25 in the French first innings, and scored seven runs in their second.-References:*... W. Browning W. Browning W. Browning was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only match against Great Britain, he was dismissed for a duck in both French innings and took two catches in Great Britain's... Robert Horne Timothée Jordan Arthur MacEvoy Douglas Robinson F. Roques A. J. Schneidau A. J. Schneidau Arthur John Schneidau was an English-French cricketer of the late 19th–early 20th century who was a member of France's silver-medal-winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time in the history of the quadrennial games that cricket had standing as a competitive sport.Born... Henry Terry Henry Terry Henry Terry was a member of the silver medal winning French cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Olympics. In the only game against Great Britain, he scored two runs in the French first innings, and one in their second.-References:***... Philip Tomalin Philip Tomalin Philip Humphreys Tomalin was member of the Norse Rowing Club in Richmond, and the Carlton Cricket Club that played at Regent's park before he left for France at the age of 21. He stayed there, 60 years until 1939 and died the following year at Bognor Regis... (captain) |
| Reference: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australian Broadcasting Corporation The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster... |
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