First school cricket match

Pupils of Westminster School and Charterhouse School played a cricket match in London on 5 August 1794 which was recorded in the earliest known scorecard of a schools match.

A notebook compiled by G. B. Buckley held in the library at Lord's Cricket Ground contains the score of a match sourced from The Star, published on 7 August 1794. The match took place at the Dorset Square ground on Tuesday 5 August 1794 between teams of the City of London and the City of Westminster. A comparison with the Charterhouse and Westminster school registers shows that this was a match between pupils of Charterhouse and Westminster. The match preceded by two years the first fixture between Westminster and Eton on which occasion Dr. George Heath flogged the whole Eton XI on their return. The first recorded Eton-Harrow match did not take place until 1805.

According to H. T. Waghorn the match was played for 500 guineas, although this has been questioned.

London

Westminster

The scorecard does not reflect the Westminster total which actually adds up to 165.

All the Westminsters were still at school, but several of the Carthusians had already left

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