The team which arrived in England in May 1886 was not the Parsees’ best having been largely selected on the basis of who could afford to pay his own way rather than cricketing merit alone. Robert Henderson’s friend the Surrey secretary and former England centre-forward Charles Alcock had arranged a packed programme for them which kept them playing on most days between the last week in May and the first week in August on an itinerary which started in Sussex and took them as far north as Edinburgh. All told there were to play twenty-eight matches, winning just one, drawing eight and losing the other nineteen.
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