 After leaving Somerset , Hewett did not continue in county cricket at all , opting to play first @-@ class cricket only for amateur and representative sides . At the tail @-@ end of the 1893 season , he played three times for the South , scoring two half @-@ centuries . In July 1894 , Hewett made the second of his two appearances for the Gentlemen against the Players . Unlike his first appearance , made at Hastings , the match was played at Lord 's Cricket Ground , which was generally considered to be the more prestigious Gentlemen v Players fixture of the season , being the more representative . These matches were keenly contested during the 1890s , and were considered to be second in prestige only to gaining a Test cap . Batting at number three , Hewett scored 12 runs out of the Gentlemen 's total of 254 , before Stanley Jackson and Hewett 's former Somerset colleague , Sammy Woods , bowled the Players out for 108 and 107 . He appeared 11 times in 1894 , scoring 579 runs at an average of 34 @.@ 05 , higher than the previous season . Woods described Hewett as being " in splendid form " when he played , and lamented that he was no longer playing for Somerset . He scored his only century of the season for A. J. Webbe 's XI , reaching 110 after opening the innings against Oxford University . He continued his form with the bat into 1895 , twice scoring centuries for the Gentlemen against the universities , making 109 against Cambridge , and 102 against Oxford . During this season Hewett appeared in his first match for the amateur side I Zingari , who had strong links with both Harrow School and Somerset president Sir Spencer Ponsonby @-@ Fane . 
