Uruguay national cricket team

[1] In 2018, the team finished second place in the annual South American Cricket Championship hosted in Colombia.

Far away from home, in distant Montevideo, the expatriate Englishmen had yearned to play the familiar sports of their land.

Ten years later, the club took on the crew of a visiting vessel in a football game — the first such match played in the land.

The first was played at the Blanqueda ground over two days during the festival period in 1926, against a reasonably strong Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side.

Gubby Allen sat out for the match against Montevideo, but there was the England left-arm spinner Jack White and his guile was a bit too much for the local batsmen to handle.

White was too classy for the local talent and only Pennock managed to enter double figures by scoring 12.

But this minor cricketer, who answered to the full name Alec Douglas-Home and later became the Prime Minister of Britain, captured four wickets.

The team boasted several big names – including celebrated ageing stalwarts like Andy Sandham and RES Wyatt, as well as other Test stars like Jim Sims, Arthur Wood, Jack Durston and Fred Price.

Fifties by Wyatt and the Warwickshire veteran Reg Santall helped to take Sir Theodore Brickman’s XI to 280.

Eddie Watts, the Surrey teammate of Alf Gover and also his brother-in-law, ran through the batting with able help from Wyatt and the occasional fare of Sandham.

With the target a staggering 600, the hosts surrendered to Jim Sims whose legbreaks bamboozled seven batsmen in the space of eight overs.