When Nepean played Lord Sheffield’s Englishmen some of the local ‘name’ players were William Peter Howell, known as ‘Bill’ or ‘Farmer Bill’, who would play for NSW and Australia; James Oatley Cleeve, who would play for NSW in an Inter-colonial match in 1882 v Victoria; and, the earliest recorded Nepean District player to play First-class cricket (1874), Edwin ‘Ted’ Evans.
