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All-England Eleven v United All-England Eleven — The First Annual Fixture, Lord's, June 1857

On 1-3 June 1857 the All-England Eleven and the United All-England Eleven met for the first time at Lord's, the boycott of the previous five years lifted by William Clarke's death the previous August. George Parr's AEE beat John Wisden's UAEE; the fixture became the most heavily attended annual match in English cricket and continued every summer until 1869.