List of NSW Central Coast cricket matches (1858–99)

This is list of cricket matches played between 1858 and 1899 that involved a team from the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia for which there is a Trove article. Trove is the website of the National Library of Australia and contains digitised images of some Australian newspapers. The inline reference for each match is linked to the Trove article.

Prior to the existence of Trove, research for a cricket club history revealed that microfilm copies of the Gosford Times were in existence for single issues in 1892 and 1895 and multiple issues from July 1897 through to the end of 1899. It was therefore known that there was a Gosford Cricket Club in 1892, Kincumber Cricket Club in 1895 and Narara Cricket Club in 1898. An article in a 1920's issue of the Gosford Times reprinted, form a clipping, two matches from 1871, Blue Gum Flat (Ourimbah) versus Wamberal and a Brisbane Water district team against Wollombi. It was possible to find images of the original scorecards in the appropriate microfilm reel of the Sydney Mail.

The search capability of Trove permits a search for articles on matches. Trove articles are indexed by heading. The search can also find text that has been recognised. As the quality of the images is in some instances poor, the OCR is not perfect, and names of teams may be incorrect. It is therefore possible that further matches may be found with further searches of Trove.

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