Used red leather ball with engraved metal band around it. North vs. South, Lord's 1900 match ball of Jephson. Inscription reads 'North v South, Lord's 1900. D L A Jephson \ 12 wickets for 198'. Metal band has become detatched; the pins that held on have all either broken or come out and been lost. Digby Loder Armroid Jephson (born at Brixton, London on 23 February 1871, and died at Cambridge on 19 January 1926) was a cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Surrey. Jephson was a right-handed middle order batsman. But his enduring fame rests on his reputation as one of the last lob bowlers, bowling slow right-arm underarm lobs. His action was described as a little like setting a wood in crown green bowling. In fact, he started as an overarm right-handed fast bowler, but switched to lobs with great success when he took up regular county cricket in the late 1890s.