May 19th	L	Thrumpton	37	Long Eaton Primitives	50		Scorecard
June 2nd	D	Attenborough	109	Thrumpton	54-3		Scorecard
Jun 30th	W	Thrumpton	114-5	Long Eaton Baptists	51		Scorecard
Aug 25th	D	Long Eaton Baptists	66-5	Thrumpton	117		Scorecard
Sep 15th	W	Long Eaton St Lawrence	55	Thrumpton	221-8	H Dowson 109	Scorecard
						HA Cursham 52

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19th May 1894 Thrumpton v Long Eaton Primitives played at Thrumpton

Long Eaton Primitives				Thrumpton

T Start		b W Chalk	3	G Hibbard		b J Marshall	2
J Osborne		b G Hibbard	9	C Green		b T Bosworth	2
J Rice		b G Hibbard	7	E Whitby	run	out	0
G Crowe	ct W Shaw	b W Chalk	8	T Moss	run	out	6
R Booth		b W Chalk	17	W Chalk		b J Osborne	6
R Radford		b G Hibbard	0	J Shaw	ct and	b J Osborne	7
J Draycott		b G Hibbard	0	W Shaw	run	out	1
T Bosworth		b W Chalk	1	G Shaw		b J Osborne	0
G Stevenson		b G Hibbard	1	C Rushen	not	out	1
J Marshall		b W Chalk	1	C Thorne		b J Osborne	2
E Stuart	not	out	5	W Peberty		b G Crowe	5
		total	50			extras	5
						Total	37

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2nd June 1894 Attenborough v Thrumpton played at Attenborough

Attenborough				Thrumpton

S Roadley	ct J Shaw	b W Hill	22	J Shaw	run	out	12
A Towlson	ct J Shaw	b W Hill	25	W Shaw		b W Pritchett	19
T Day		b W Shaw	0	E Whitby	not	out	7
W Fritchett		b W Shaw	8	G Hibbard		b W Pritchett	0
E Hall		b G Hibbard	0	W Shaw		b W Pritchett	0
W Cowes		b W Shaw	1	T Moss	not	out	11
WJ Earl		b G Hibbard	1	G Whitby	did not bat
C Roe		b G Hibbard	3	W Hill	did not bat
W Scothern		b W Shaw	21	W Pebberdy	did not bat
J Litchfield	run	out	13	F Bonser	did not bat
C Durrance	not	out	5	R Hibbard	did not bat
		extras	10			extras	5
		Total	109			Total	54-3

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30th June 1894 Thrumpton v Long Eaton Baptists played at Thrumpton

Thrumpton				Long Eaton Baptists

W Cursham		b H Leonard	0	L Plackett		b R Hibbard	10
? Foreman		b T Woolley	30	W Turner	ct J Shaw snr	b ? Foreman	0
C Green	ct F Moss	b L Plackett	5	W Grundy	ct F Moss	b R Hibbard	4
F Moss	not	out	45	T Woolley		b ? Foreman	1
E Whitby		b M Plackett	12	MH Placket		b ? Foreman	6
J Shaw jnr	ct W Grundy	b W Turner	13	H Leonard		b ? Foreman	7
C Moss	not	out	5	H Hutchings	not	out	4
F Hibbard	dnb			J Gibbs	ct F Moss	b R Hibbard	2
R Hibbard	dnb			A Keble		b R Hibbard	0
W Hare	dnb			C Thorn	ct E Whitby	b R Hibbard	0
J Shaw jnr	dnb			J Hill	ct F Moss	b R Hibbard	0
		extras	6			extras	6
		Total	114-5			Total	51

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25th Aug 1894 Long Eaton Baptists v Thrumpton played at Long Eaton

Thrumpton				Long Eaton Baptists

J Shaw snr	ct J Kilbourne	b R Hooley	52	W Smith	ct J Shaw snr	b F Lacey	31
E Whitby	ct W Grundy	b R Hooley	0	W Scott		b F Lacey	7
T Moss		b H Woolley	0	R Hooley	not	out	15
E Moss	ct W Grundy	b R Hooley	5	W Woolley	run	out	2
C Green		b R Hooley	0	W Grundy		b G Hibbard	3
W Shaw		b J Kilbourne	6	J Gibbs	LBW	b G Hibbard	2
J Whitby	ct and	b H Woolley	26	C Hudson	not	out	6
J Shaw jnr		b R Hooley	1	J Hollingsworth	dnb		0
J Whitby		b H Woolley	0	T Woolley	dnb
G Hibbard	not	out	5	J Kilbourne	dnb
F Lacey		b R Hooley	0	J Roadley	dnb
		extras	2			extras	0
		Total	117			Total	66-5

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Nottingham Guardian Sep 15th 1894

Thrumpton v Long Eaton St Lawrence Saints Sep 8th 1894

Thrumpton beat Long Eaton St Lawrence Saints who scored 55. For Thrumpton H Cursham scored 52 and Dowson ran up 109. All the wickets were not down, yet the total was 221

Long Eaton St Laurence				Thrumpton

J Hyatt	ct J Shaw snr	b T Moss	12	H Cursham		b H Newsum	52
E Cox		b C Green	4	H Dowson	ct A Wragg	b H Newsum	109
C Dolphin		b T Moss	14	C Green	ct J Hyatt	b H Newsum	2
B Stevenson	ct H Cursham	b C Green	3	T Moss	ct sub	b H Newsum	13
H Hynds	ct H Cursham	b C Green	8	J Whitby	not	out	11
W Burton	run	out	0	J Shaw snr	not	out	0
E Hynds	ct H Cursham	b T Moss	9	E Whitby		b H Newsum	3
R Roberts		b T Moss	1	E Moss		b H Newsum	0
H Newsum		b T Moss	0	W Shaw	run	out	0
A Wragg	not	out	0	J Shaw jnr	ct C Dolphin	b H Newsum	11
J Hopkins	ct H Cursham	b C Green	2	G Cursham	dnb
		extras	3			extras	20
		Total	55				221-8

Hubert Arthur Dowson was a good lawn tennis player and held the three-quarter back position for Notts Rugby Club playing 48 games scoring 147 points from 20 tries between 1883 and 1894. He also played for Richmond and Midland Counties.

Later in life he became a prominent solicitor and was knighted for his services, becoming President of the Law Society in 1936.

Both H A Dowson and H A Cursham were selected for Notts Amateurs to play a two day game against the MCC the same season.

Henry Cursham was a Notts County and England International footballer whose record as the player who had scored the most ever goals in the FA Cup being 49 in total over 10 years. He had played for England 8 times as a footballer, was he related to the Curshams in the village?

Henry Arthur "Harry" Cursham (27 November 1859 — 6 August 1941) was an English footballer and cricketer. Cursham was born in Wilford, Nottinghamshire, and played for Notts County, as well as playing first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire. He was born in Wilford and died in Holme Pierrepont.

His cricketing career was slightly different playing 2 games for Nottinghamshire. His first being in 1880 and his second some 44 years later.