At the end of the season he would muster his own eleven to take on the club. From the October 1886 edition of the local deanery magazine comes the report

Sep 11 1886 Rev. P Douglas XI Thrumpton Hall v Thrumpton Cricket Club

The club won by an innings and 19 runs chiefly owing to batting by B Redfern and J Shaw. The bowling of G Holmes was unplayable.

Rev P Douglas XI 1st Innings 38
2nd Innings 18

Thrumpton cc 1st Innings 70

In an edition of the deanery edition for the year comes the next classic piece of the cricket club history, the averages for the 1886 season.

They do take some understanding but probably 16 over 1 means 16 runs scored in 1 Innings and so on

The team played just 9 games, winning 7 of them, drawing 1 and losing 1

Batting

B Redfern 16 over 1
J Shaw 11 over 1
J Oliver 8 over 0
J North 8 over 0
T Moss 7 over 3
E Whitby 6 over 5
J Whitby 6 over 4
A Whitby 5 over 2
J Hill 5 over 0
W Wilkinson 5 over 0
I Priestley 4 over 5
W Jones 4 over 1
G Whitby 1 over 2
G Holmes 1 over 0

Bowling

G Holmes has done some good work with the ball, also has J Shaw, A Whitby and T Moss. The bowling has been good all season.

Next Wednesday sees more games from 1886