Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football, Golf & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Friday, Saturday & Sunday
4th, 5th & 6th July 2025
Lot 429
Estimate: £80/120
‘The First Competitive Day/Night Match. AXA Life League- Warwickshire v Somerset’ 1997. Large limited edition colour print from the original by the artist C.B. Flinders of the first official day/ night match to be played in England, depicting the match in progress at Edgbaston 23rd July 1997. Limited edition no. 36/250, signed in pencil to the lower border by the artist and eleven members of the Warwickshire team including Giles, Brown, Moles, Penney, Munton, Welch, Small, Smith etc. Mounted, framed and glazed, overall 28.5”x23”. Very good condition. Sold with a large colour photograph of the Warwickshire team of 1998, framed and glazed 25”x19”, and a colour photograph by Roger Wootton of play in progress, England v West Indies, 4th Test, Edgbaston 1991. Mounted, framed and glazed overall 24”x12.5”. The photograph faded. Good condition. Qty 3.
The first day/ night match in England was to have been played at The Oval on 26th June 1997 but was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to heavy rain, hence the honour falling to the Edgbaston match.