| Men's cricket at the Games of the II Olympiad |
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| Venue | Vélodrome de Vincennes | ||||
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| Date | August 19–20 | ||||
| Competitors | 24 from 2 nations | ||||
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At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a cricket tournament was contested. Although four teams were originally expected to compete, Belgium and Holland pulled out of the competition, leaving Great Britain to play France.
Neither team was nationally selected. The British side was a touring club team, the Devon & Somerset Wanderers Cricket Club (a team formed by William Donne in 1894 and made up from Blundells School old boys and members of Castle Cary Cricket Club). The French team consisted mainly of Britons living in Paris, reportedly mostly members of the British Embassy, but drawn from two clubs: the now defunct Union Club and the Standard Athletic Club.
By Captain's agreement the game was played as a 12-a-side game, unlike the usual 11 in most cricket matches. The two-day game was played at the Velodrome Municipal de Vincennes commencing on August 19, 1900. Great Britain batted first and scored 117. France were then bowled out for 78. Great Britain then scored 145 for 5 in their second innings, setting the hosts a target of 185, who were promptly bowled out for 26. This meant that Great Britain was convincingly the winner of the contest.
The Great Britain team was awarded silver medals and the French team bronze medals, together with miniature statues of the Eiffel Tower. The medals were later retroactively reassigned as gold and silver.
With the match billed as part of the 1900 Universal Exposition, neither side appears to have realised they were competing in the Olympics. The match was only retrospectively formally recognised as being an Olympic contest in 1912, when the International Olympic Committee met to compile the definitive list of all events in the five modern Olympiads up to that point.
Since then cricket has not appeared in an Olympic Games although there have been recent attempts to introduce Twenty20 Cricket into the games.[1]
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Medalists
These medals are retroactively assigned by the International Olympic Committee; at the time, winners were given a silver medal.
| Gold |  Devon and Somerset WanderersGreat Britain (GBR) |
| Silver |  French Athletic Club UnionFrance (FRA) |
Results
| 19 August – 20 August Scorecard |
Devon and Somerset Wanderers 117 |
v | French Athletic Club Union 78 |
Devon and Somerset Wanderers won by 158 runs Vélodrome de Vincennes Umpires: Delorme & Wilian |
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| Frederick Cuming 38 W. Andersen 4 |
J. Braid 25 Frederick Christian 7 |
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| 145/5d | 26 | ||||
| Alfred Bowerman 59 F. Rogues 3 |
W. Andersen 8 Montagu Toller 7/9 |
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Rosters
Devon and Somerset Wanderers
- C.B.K. Beachcroft (captain)
- Arthur Birkett
- Alfred Bowerman
- George Buckley
- Francis Burchell
- Frederick Christian
- Harry Corner
- Frederick Cuming
- William Donne
- Alfred Powlesland
- John Symes
- Montagu Toller
French Athletic Club Union
- W. Andersen
- W.T. Attrill
- J. Braid
- W. Browning
- R. Horne
- T.H. Jordan
- Arthur McEvoy
- D. Robinson
- F. Rogues
- A.J. Schneidau
- Henry Terry
- Philip Tomalin (captain)
External links
References
- Cricket at the 1900 Games, Ian Buchanan, The ISOH Journal, Spring 1993, Vol. 1 No. 2
- International Olympic Committee medal winners database
- De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cricket 1900". Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at [1].
- Mallon, Bill (1998). The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 0-7864-0378-0.
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