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| Venue | Grace Road, Leicester on 23rd, 24th, 25th August 1897 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 5 |
| Toss | Yorkshire won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | JJ Tuck, WAJ West |
| Close of play day 1 | Yorkshire (1) 323/6 (Moorhouse 46*, Mounsey 20*; 128 overs) |
| Close of play day 2 | No play |
| Yorkshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Tunnicliffe | c Geeson b Stocks | 1 | |||||
| JT Brown | c Geeson b Stocks | 45 | |||||
| D Denton | c Knight b Woodcock | 51 | |||||
| E Wainwright | c and b Stocks | 50 | |||||
| GH Hirst | c Geeson b Woodcock | 88 | |||||
| R Moorhouse | not out | 46 | |||||
| *Lord Hawke | c and b Stocks | 0 | |||||
| JT Mounsey | not out | 20 | |||||
| S Haigh | did not bat | ||||||
| +D Hunter | did not bat | ||||||
| J Shaw | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (12 b, 4 lb, 6 nb) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 128 overs) | 323 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2, 2-99, 3-110, 4-247, 5-275, 6-276 | |||||||
| Leicestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Woodcock | 43 | 11 | 93 | 2 | - | - | |
| Stocks | 43 | 17 | 88 | 4 | - | - | |
| Wood | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Geeson | 12 | 4 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| Coe | 19 | 5 | 50 | 0 | - | - | |
| Rudd | 7 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Leicestershire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *HH Marriott | did not bat | ||||||
| CJB Wood | did not bat | ||||||
| R Joyce | did not bat | ||||||
| GE Rudd | did not bat | ||||||
| AE Knight | did not bat | ||||||
| AD Pougher | did not bat | ||||||
| S Coe | did not bat | ||||||
| F Geeson | did not bat | ||||||
| FW Stocks | did not bat | ||||||
| +JP Whiteside | did not bat | ||||||
| A Woodcock | did not bat | ||||||