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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;"It is difficult to believe that the English soldiers who flooded into Scotland in 1745/1746 did not bring cricket with them, but evidence has not yet emerges. The well-known 'first cricket match in Scotland' took place at Earl Cathcart's seat at Schow Park, Alloa, in September 1785, when Hon. Colonel Talbot's XI played the Duke of Atholl's XI. . . . Most of the players were English: no further matches in Scotland followed from it. However, a Scot, the Duke of Hamilton, had already joined the MCC, and a traveler hoping to inspect Hamilton Place in 1785 found that 'as the Duke plays cricket every afternoon, strangers don't get admittance then.'" John Burnett, &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860&lt;/span&gt; (Tuckwell Press, 2000), page 252. Burnett footnotes this passage &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;The Scottish Antiquary&lt;/span&gt;, 11 (1897), 82. &lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; we don't yet know which of the events are documented there.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Another source reports that the Talbot/Atholl match was played on September 8, 1785, for 1000 pounds per man. L. Stephen and S. Lee, eds., &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Dictionary of National Biography&lt;/span&gt; (Macmillan, New York, 1908), entry on Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch, page 359.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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