A light-hearted break in Bendigo
A match report from The Cricketer of the MCC's tour game against a Victorian Country XIII
23-Oct-2007
Drawn
This game was treated as a means of giving the Englishmen as much practice as possible before the third Test match, and MCC batted 12 men against the local side's 13. Both teams fielded 11 a side. During the tea interval on the second day the Bendigo Cricket Association received a telegram from W. H. Jeanes, Secretary of the Australian Board of Control, asking on whose authority the teams had agreed to bat thirteen and twelve respectively. The Bendigo Association replied that it was by mutual arrangement.