 The Somerset team travelled to Lord 's in London in early August to face the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) . Somerset batted first after winning the toss , but lost three batsmen for ducks early in the innings . Somerset 's captain , Newton – playing his first match of the season for the county , batted for the rest of the innings to score 57 runs , and shared a large partnership with Francis Reed . The MCC started well in their innings , but the introduction of Fowler into the bowling attack brought their batting to a quick conclusion ; Fowler took four wickets while only conceding eight runs , and claimed a hat @-@ trick by bowling Edward Hawtrey , Charles Burke and Thomas Mycroft in successive deliveries . Somerset had a 25 @-@ run lead going into the second innings , in which Newton once again top @-@ scored . In addition to his total of 67 , Lyonel Hildyard made an unbeaten 59 , and Fowler scored 23 runs from just six scoring shots , including a six which went out of the ground . The Western Daily Press described Fowler as " possibly the hardest hitter amongst English cricketers " , while his history of the county , David Foot suggests that Fowler was " perhaps the earliest Somerset batsman to parade the fundamental skills of slogging . " Somerset totalled 219 , to leave the MCC needing to score 245 runs to win . Principally due to the batting of John Russel , the MCC reached the target , but only had one wicket remaining ; Fothergill having taken five wickets and Charles Winter four . 
