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The University Match (cricket)

Index The University Match (cricket)

The University Match in a cricketing context is generally understood to refer to the annual fixture between Oxford University Cricket Club and Cambridge University Cricket Club. [1]

89 relations: A. G. Steel, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Alan Ratcliffe, Alfred Cochrane, Alfred Lyttelton, Anglia Ruskin University, Arthur Gilligan, Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868, Australian rules football, Avinash Sharma, Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer), Blue (university sport), C. B. Fry, Cambridge University Cricket Club, Charles Hill-Wood, Charles Wordsworth, Colin Cowdrey, Cricket, David Sheppard, Douglas Jardine, Duleepsinhji, Ed Smith (cricketer), ESPNcricinfo, Eton v Harrow, Fenner's, First-class cricket, Frank Cobden, G. O. Smith, Gamini Goonesena, Gentlemen v Players, Gilbert Jessop, Greville Stevens, Gubby Allen, Hubert Ashton, Ian Peebles, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Imran Khan, Jamie Dalrymple, Jock Hartley, Joe Sayers (cricketer), Ken Farnes, Kent county cricket teams, Lord's, M. J. K. Smith, Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946), Malcolm Jardine, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Martin Donnelly (cricketer), Marylebone Cricket Club, Matthew Hughes (cricketer), ..., Michael Atherton, Michael Munday, Mike Brearley, Neil Kruger, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford University Cricket Club, Oxford–Cambridge rivalry, Pelham Warner, Percy Chapman, Peter May (cricketer), Phil Hughes (cricketer), Philip Le Couteur, Playfair Cricket Annual, R. E. Foster, Ranjitsinhji, Reg Bettington, Richard Lowe (cricketer, born 1904), Robin Marlar, Sachin Mylavarapu, Salil Oberoi, Sam Agarwal, Samuel Butler (cricketer), Stanley Jackson, Stephen Rippingall, Surrey county cricket teams, Sussex County Cricket Club, Ted Dexter, The Boat Race, The Cricketer, Tom Wills, Tommy Enthoven, Tony Lewis, Twenty20, University Parks, Varsity match, Walter Robins, William Yardley (cricketer), World War II, 1827 English cricket season. Expand index (39 more) »

A. G. Steel

Allan Gibson "AG" Steel (24 September 1858 – 15 June 1914) was a Lancashire and England cricketer, who was reckoned by many in his day to be the equal of the legendary W G Grace.

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Abdul Hafeez Kardar

Abdul Hafeez Kardar (عبد الحفیظ کاردار) or Abdul Kardar (17 January 1925 – 21 April 1996) was an international cricketer, who is one of the only three players to have played Test cricket for both India and Pakistan, the other two being Amir Elahi and Gul Mohammad.

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Alan Ratcliffe

Alan Ratcliffe (31 March 1909 – 21 August 1967) was an English cricketer.

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Alfred Cochrane

Alfred Henry John Cochrane (26 January 1865 – 14 December 1948) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1884 and 1886, and for Oxford University between 1885 and 1888.

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Alfred Lyttelton

Alfred Lyttelton KC (7 February 1857 – 5 July 1913) was a British politician and sportsman from the Lyttelton family who excelled at both football and cricket.

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Anglia Ruskin University

Anglia Ruskin University is a public university in East Anglia, United Kingdom.

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Arthur Gilligan

Arthur Edward Robert Gilligan (23 December 1894 – 5 September 1976) was an English first-class cricketer who captained the England cricket team nine times in 1924 and 1925, winning four Test matches, losing four and drawing one.

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Australian Aboriginal cricket team in England in 1868

In 1868, a cricket team composed of Aboriginal Australians toured England between May and October of that year, thus becoming the first organised group of Australian sportspeople to travel overseas.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Avinash Sharma

Avinash Sunil Sharma (born 15 September 1981 in Whangarei, New Zealand), made his first class debut for Oxford University cricket team in 2010, scoring 185 not out in the Varsity Match, the oldest first class fixture in cricket, dating back to 1827.

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Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)

Bernard James Tindal Bosanquet (13 October 1877 – 12 October 1936) was an English cricketer best known for inventing the googly, a delivery designed to deceive the batsman.

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Blue (university sport)

A blue is an award earned by athletes at a university and some schools for competition at the highest level.

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C. B. Fry

Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956), was an English sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer.

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Cambridge University Cricket Club

Cambridge University Cricket Club, first recorded in 1817, is the representative cricket club for students of the University of Cambridge.

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Charles Hill-Wood

Charles Kerrison Hill Hill-Wood (5 June 1907 – 21 September 1988) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1928 to 1930 and for Derbyshire from 1928 to 1930.

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Charles Wordsworth

Charles Wordsworth (22 August 1806 – 5 December 1892) was Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in Scotland.

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Colin Cowdrey

Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, (24 December 19324 December 2000) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University (1952–1954), Kent County Cricket Club (1950–1976) and England (1954–1975).

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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David Sheppard

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool (6 March 1929 – 5 March 2005) was the high-profile Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth.

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Douglas Jardine

Douglas Robert Jardine (1900 – 1958) was a cricketer who played 22 Test matches for England, captaining the side in 15 of those matches between 1931 and 1934.

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Duleepsinhji

Duleepsinhji usually referred to as Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji or K. S. Duleepsinhji (13 June 1905 – 5 December 1959) was a cricketer who played for England.

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Ed Smith (cricketer)

Edward Thomas Smith (born 19 July 1977) is an English author and journalist, former professional cricketer, and cricket commentator.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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Eton v Harrow

The Eton v Harrow cricket match is an annual match between Eton College and Harrow School.

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Fenner's

Fenner's is the University of Cambridge's cricket ground.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Frank Cobden

Frank Carroll Cobden (14 October 1849 – 7 December 1932) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

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G. O. Smith

Gilbert Oswald Smith (25 November 1872 – 6 December 1943), familiarly known as G. O. Smith or simply as G. O. or Jo, was a nineteenth-century amateur footballer often referred to as "the first great centre forward".

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Gamini Goonesena

Gamini Goonesena (16 February 1931 – 1 August 2011), born in Colombo, was a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer prior to his country being granted Test status.

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Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players was a first-class cricket match generally held in England twice or more a year for well over a century.

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Gilbert Jessop

Gilbert Laird Jessop (19 May 1874 – 11 May 1955) was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known.

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Greville Stevens

Greville Thomas Scott Stevens (7 January 1901 – 19 September 1970) was an English amateur cricketer who played for Middlesex, Oxford University and England.

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Gubby Allen

Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen CBE (31 July 1902 – 29 November 1989) was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches.

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Hubert Ashton

Sir Hubert Ashton (1898–1979) was an English first-class cricketer, footballer and politician.

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Ian Peebles

Ian Alexander Ross Peebles (20 January 190828 February 1980) was a cricketer who played for Oxford University, Middlesex, Scotland and England.

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Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

Nawab Iftikhar Ali Khan, sometimes I. A. K. Pataudi (16 March 1910 – 5 January 1952) was the 8th Nawab of Pataudi and the captain of the India national cricket team for the tour to England in 1946.

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Imran Khan

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi PP, HI (born 5 October 1952) is the Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.

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Jamie Dalrymple

James William Murray Dalrymple (born 21 January 1981) is a Kenyan-born English cricketer.

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Jock Hartley

Colonel John Cabourn ("Jock") Hartley (15 November 1874 – 8 March 1963) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

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Joe Sayers (cricketer)

Joe Sayers (born Joseph John Sayers, 5 November 1983) is an English first-class cricketer, who has played for the Oxford University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, Oxford University and Yorkshire.

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Ken Farnes

Kenneth Farnes (8 July 1911 – 20 October 1941) was an English cricketer.

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Kent county cricket teams

Kent county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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M. J. K. Smith

Michael John Knight Smith OBE, better known as M.J.K. Smith or Mike Smith (born 30 June 1933) was a cricketer who was captain of Oxford University Cricket Club (1956), Warwickshire County Cricket Club (1957–67) and the England cricket team (1963–66).

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Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946)

Majid Jahangir Khan (ماجد جہانگیر خان) is a former cricketer, batsman and captain of the Pakistan cricket team.

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Malcolm Jardine

Malcolm Robert Jardine (8 June 1869 – 16 January 1947) was an English first-class cricketer who played 46 matches, mainly for Oxford University.

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Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan, Mansur Ali Khan, or M. A. K. Pataudi (5 January 1941 – 22 September 2011), nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team.

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Martin Donnelly (cricketer)

Martin Paterson Donnelly (17 October 1917 – 22 October 1999) was a New Zealand Test cricketer and England Rugby Union player.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.

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Matthew Hughes (cricketer)

Matthew Stephen Turner Hughes (born 17 April 1996) is an English cricketer.

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Michael Atherton

Michael Andrew Atherton OBE (born 23 March 1968) is a broadcaster, journalist and a former England international first-class cricketer.

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Michael Munday

Michael Kenneth Munday (born 22 October 1984 in Nottingham) is an English cricketer who played for Somerset until 2010.

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Mike Brearley

John Michael Brearley OBE (born 28 April 1942) is a retired English first-class cricketer who captained Cambridge University, Middlesex, and England.

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Neil Kruger

Neil Kruger (born 15 August 1981 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a first-class cricketer, who made his debut for Oxford University cricket team in 2008, scoring 172 in the Varsity Match.

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Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University is a public university in Oxford, England.

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Oxford University Cricket Club

Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC), which represents the University of Oxford, has always held important or first-class status and is classified as an important team by substantial sources from 1827 to 1894; classified as an official first-class team from 1895 by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the County Championship clubs; and classified as a List A team in 1973 only.

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Oxford–Cambridge rivalry

Rivalry between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is a phenomenon going back many centuries.

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Pelham Warner

Sir Pelham Francis Warner, (2 October 1873 – 30 January 1963), affectionately and better known as Plum Warner or "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket, was a Test cricketer and cricket administrator.

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Percy Chapman

Arthur Percy Frank Chapman (3 September 1900 – 16 September 1961), usually known as Percy Chapman, was an English cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1926 and 1931.

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Peter May (cricketer)

Peter Barker Howard May, CBE (31 December 1929 – 27 December 1994) was an English cricketer who played for Surrey, Cambridge University and England.

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Phil Hughes (cricketer)

Philip Heywood Hughes (born 17 June 1991) is an English cricketer.

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Philip Le Couteur

Philip Ridgeway "Pip" Le Couteur (26 June 1885 – 30 June 1958) was an Australian academic, philosopher and headmaster.

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Playfair Cricket Annual

Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin.

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R. E. Foster

Reginald Erskine Foster, nicknamed Tip Foster, commonly designated R. E. Foster in sporting literature (16 April 1878 – 13 May 1914) was an English first-class cricketer and football player.

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Ranjitsinhji

Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja, (10 September 1872 – 2 April 1933), often known as Ranji, was the ruler of the Indian princely state of Nawanagar from 1907 to 1933, as Maharaja Jam Saheb, and a noted Test cricketer who played for the English cricket team.

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Reg Bettington

Reginald Henshall Brindley Bettington (born 24 February 1900, Merriwa, New South Wales, died 24 June 1969, Gisborne, New Zealand) was an Australian first-class cricketer and medical specialist.

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Richard Lowe (cricketer, born 1904)

Richard Geoffrey Harvey Lowe (11 June 1904 – 5 July 1986) was an English amateur sportsman who played first-class cricket and association football for Cambridge University during the 1920s.

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Robin Marlar

Robin Geoffrey Marlar (born 2 January 1931 in Eastbourne, Sussex) was an English cricketer and cricket journalist.

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Sachin Mylavarapu

Sachin Venkata Srikar Mylavarapu (born 21 June 1991) is a Singaporean cricketer who has played at first-class level for Oxford University, making his debut during the 2013 season.

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Salil Oberoi

Salil Oberoi (born 7 December 1983 in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket in England for Oxford UCCE.

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Sam Agarwal

Samridh Sunil "Sam" Agarwal (born 13 July 1990) is an Indian cricketer who played for Oxford University and the associated Oxford MCCU.

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Samuel Butler (cricketer)

Samuel Evan Butler (born 15 April 1850 at Colombo, British Ceylon; died 30 April 1903 at Combe Hay, Bath, Somerset, England) was an English cricketer who attended Brasenose College, Oxford.

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Stanley Jackson

Sir Francis Stanley Jackson Jackson's obituary in the 1948 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

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Stephen Rippingall

Stephen Frost Rippingall (12 December 1825 – 11 January 1856) was an English rower and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1845 and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta in 1853.

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Surrey county cricket teams

Surrey county cricket teams have been traced back to the 17th century, but Surrey's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that.

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Sussex County Cricket Club

Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Ted Dexter

Edward Ralph "Ted" Dexter, (born 15 May 1935) is a former England international cricketer.

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The Boat Race

The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club, rowed between men's and women's open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England.

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The Cricketer

The Cricketer is a monthly English cricket magazine providing writing and photography from international, county and club cricket.

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Tom Wills

Thomas Wentworth Wills (19 August 1835 – 2 May 1880) was a sportsman who is credited with being Australia's first cricketer of significance and a founder of Australian football.

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Tommy Enthoven

Henry John Enthoven (4 June 1903 – 29 June 1975) was an English first-class cricketer who was born in Cartagena, Spain, and was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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Tony Lewis

Anthony Robert Lewis CBE (born 6 July 1938) is a former Welsh cricketer, who captained England, became a journalist, went on to become the face of BBC Television cricket coverage in the 1990s, and became president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

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Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket.

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University Parks

The Oxford University Parks, commonly referred to locally as the University Parks, the Uni Parks or just The Parks, is a large parkland area slightly northeast of the city centre in Oxford, England.

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Varsity match

A varsity match is a sporting fixture between two university rivals.

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Walter Robins

Robert Walter Vivian Robins (3 June 1906 – 12 December 1968) was an English cricketer and association football player.

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William Yardley (cricketer)

William Yardley (10 June 1849 – 28 October 1900) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club from 1868 to 1878 and for Cambridge University from 1869 to 1872.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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1827 English cricket season

1827 was the 41st season of cricket in England since the foundation of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_University_Match_(cricket)

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