Scrapbook of items relating to I Zingari matches between 1851-1858. Includes newspaper reports of matches played by I Zingari alongside pictures of the places they visited during the season including Lord's, batting and bowling analysis for the 1851 season, reports on meetings of the I Zingari Committee, list of I Zingari officers in 1852, invitation card for R A Fitzgerald to attend a dinner hosted by The Old Stagers and I Zingari in August 1853, articles on cricket in Punch, drawings of the Marquis of Worcester, Spencer Ponsonby, Nicholas Felix, E S E Hartopp, H Fellows, W Clarke, Lord Guernsey, photographs of Tom Taylor, Lord Royston, C Morse, W Fiennes, C Fiennes, E C Leigh, Q Twiss, William H Bailie, E Tredcroft, the Earl of Strathmore, and of spectators watching the I Zingari vs. Houses of Parliament match at Lord's in 1857, lyrics for the song of I Zingari.
The scrapbook contains scores from the following I Zingari matches:
1851
Phoenix Park Club (Dublin), Denne Park, The Undergraduates of Cambridge, Royal Horse Guards Blue, The Members of Both Houses of Parliament (Lord's), Bullingdon, Guards Club (The Oval), Present Westminsters, Present Harrovians, Present Etonians, H Peters's Eleven, Houses of Parliament (The Oval), Hill Hall Essex, Royal Artillery, Eleven Gentlemen of Kent, Sevenoaks, Stamford Club, Southwell, Nine Gentlemen of Warwickshire with Wisden and Berry, Holkham
1852
Royal Horse Guards Blue (The Oval), Guards Club with Dean (Lord's), Sevenoaks, Guards Club (The Oval), Present Etonians, Fusilier Guards, Harrovians, Royal Artillery, Hill Hall Eleven, Gentlemen of Staffordshire with Tinley and Roby, Mr Peters's Eleven, Gentlemen of Kent, H Peters's Eleven (Denne Park), Perth Club, Gentlemen of Warwickshire with Wisden and Parr
1853
Horse Guards Blue (The Oval), Rugby School, Bullingdon, Household Horse Brigade, Present Westminsters, Earl of Uxbridge's Eleven, H Peter Esq's Eleven (Denne Park), Eton Collegians, Harrow School, Eleven of England (The Oval: Beagley's Benefit vs. 22 of I Zingari), H Peters's Eleven, Eleven of All England, Leamington, Gentlemen of Kent (Canterbury), Sevenoaks Vine, Aldermaston Park Club
1854
Royal Horse Guards Blue (Windsor), Bullingdon Club, Harlequin Club, Harrow School, Present Etonians, Present Westminster, Royal Artillery, Hungerford Park
1855
University of Cambridge, Second Life Guards, Bullingdon Club (with Rogers), Westminster School, Harrow School, Royal Horse Guards School (The Oval), Royal Horse Brigade (Lord's)
1856
Household Brigade, Gentlemen of Nottinghamshire (Southwell), First Life Guards (Windsor), Household Brigade, Harrow School, Westminster School, Wimbledon, Gentlemen of Kent, Royal Artillery
1857
Royal Horse Guards Blues, Windsor Garrison, Bullingdon Club (Oxford), Harrow School, Westminster School, Royal Household Brigade with one player (Lord's), Twenty-Two of the Houses of Lords and Commons, Gentlemen of Hants, Eleventh Hussars, Royal Artillery with Pollett, Wimbledon, Gentlemen of Kent, County of Norfolk
1858
Windsor Garrison, Present Etonians, Old Bullingdon Club and Ground, Westminster School, Houses of Parliament (Lord's), Royal Horse Guards (The Oval), Household Brigade (Lord's), Hungerford Park, Maidenhead, Harrow School, Aldershott Camp, Wimbledon, Gentlemen of Warwickshire with Page, Gentlemen of Kent, Gentlemen of Gloucestershire, Kingscote Club, Rickmansworth, Gentlemen of Norfolk, Royal Artillery.
