This is the scorecard as the Marylebone Cricket Club printed it across the first half of the twentieth century: serif numerals in black ink, ruled into a tabular ledger and set on an off-white card that rests on the deep grass green of the Lord's outfield. The famous egg-and-bacon club stripe — yolk gold and bacon red — runs as the only ornament a gentleman's card permits. Everything else is restraint: even rules, true alignment, statistics that speak for themselves on the open field.