The teams were raised by Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Cording Stevens OBE (born 1891, died 27 May 1968) who was president of Eastbourne Cricket and Football Club and Eastbourne Rugby Football Club.
[3] Tom Graveney scored the team's only first-class century in the 1961 match.
Five Col. L. C. Stevens' XI players made their first-class debuts in the 1960 match, including Dr David Rice,[4] at the age of 46, who captained the side in both matches.
[7] Derrick Robins played in several non-first-class matches for Col. L. C. Stevens' XI in the 1950s and 1960s.
[8] After Colonel Stevens' death he organised his own team, D. H. Robins' XI, which also played matches at The Saffrons, some of them first-class, from 1969 to 1978.