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William Lambert — First to Score Two Centuries in a Match, Sussex v Epsom, July 1817

Sussex vs Epsom

1817-07-04

Between 2 and 5 July 1817 at the new Lord's, the Surrey-born professional William Lambert scored 107 not out and 157 for Sussex against Epsom — the first batsman known to have made two centuries in the same match. Sussex won by 427 runs. Three weeks later Lambert was banned from Lord's for match-fixing and never played a senior match again. The Sussex v Epsom innings, made on a low-scoring underarm pitch by a man at the height of his powers, stood as the only instance of two centuries in a match for almost seventy years.

#william-lambert#two-centuries-in-match#sussex

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First Centuries at the New Lord's — Ladbroke 116 and Woodbridge 107, 24-25 August 1815

Middlesex vs Epsom

1815-08-25

On 24-25 August 1815, in a Middlesex v Epsom match at the new Lord's, the Surrey amateurs Felix Ladbroke and Frederick Woodbridge scored 116 and 107 respectively — the first centuries made on the third Lord's ground at St John's Wood. The match was an unremarkable end-of-season fixture, but the dual hundreds, on a pitch barely sixteen months old, showed that the new ground could yield big scores in a way that the old grounds had never reliably done.

#lord-s#felix-ladbroke#frederick-woodbridge