A Civil Service cricket team made just one appearance in first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

, when they played the touring New Zealanders

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

, who were on their first tour of England

New Zealand cricket team in England in 1927

The New Zealand cricket team toured England in the 1927 season. The team contained many of the players who would later play Test cricket for New Zealand, but the tour did not include any Test matches and the 1927 English cricket season was the last, apart from the Second World War years and the...

, at the Civil Service Sports Ground

Civil Service Sports Ground

The Civil Service Sports Ground is a multi-use sports ground in Chiswick, London. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1926, when the Civil Service cricket team played Australia in a non first-class match. The following year, the ground held its only first-class match when the Civil...

 in Chiswick

Chiswick

Chiswick is a large suburb of west London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It is located on a meander of the River Thames, west of Charing Cross and is one of 35 major centres identified in the London Plan. It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with...

 in 1927. The New Zealanders proved too strong for their hosts, winning by an innings and 15 runs

The result in cricket

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, although the result might have been different had Jackie Mills

John Mills (cricketer)

John Ernest 'Jackie' Mills was a New Zealand cricketer who played in seven Tests from 1930 to 1933....

 (104*

Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

) and Cyril Allcott

Cyril Allcott

Cyril Francis Walter Allcott played six Tests for New Zealand from 1930-32....

 (102*) not shared an unbroken stand of 190 for the eighth wicket to allow the New Zealanders to declare at 421/7.

For the Civil Service, the best performer with the bat was Edwin Bennett

Edwin Bennett

Edwin Howard Bennett was an English cricketer, who played four first-class matches. He was born in Shifnal, Shropshire, and he died at the age of just 35 in East Worthing, Sussex....

, who hit 73 and 60, while the best bowling came from Allinson Chapman, playing his one and only first-class match, who claimed 3-73 from his 21 overs.

The team also played the touring Australians

Australian cricket team in England in 1926

England won the 1926 Ashes series against Australia. England won the last Test of the series after the first four matches were drawn:*1st Test — drawn - *2nd Test — drawn - *3rd Test — drawn -...

 in 1926 and the West Indians

West Indian cricket team in England in 1928

The West Indian cricket team that toured England in the 1928 season was the first to play Test cricket. The team was not very successful, losing all three Tests by an innings and winning only five of the 30 first-class matches played....

in 1928, both matches being of two days' duration and not first-class.