Lives in Cricket No 44 - LCH Palairet

nought. After barely an hour and a half the side was dismissed for 87, with Woods making over half (46). By the close of play Yorkshire were all out for 325, taking a lead of 238 runs into the second day. At this point the Yorkshire Post commented that ‘Yorkshire have another comfortable victory in prospect’. In the evening the Somerset team were entertained by the Mayor of Leeds. It is alleged he promised that he would give the club £100, if Somerset could beat Yorkshire. Woods accepted the bet. However many of the team were planning to travel back to Somerset by the end of the second day, with the game poised in favour of Yorkshire. Apart from Woods no-one expected Somerset to win. Somerset commenced their second innings at 11.30am in hot sunny conditions, with only about 2,000 present. From the start Lionel and Braund got after the Yorkshire bowling. The pair soon sent the fifty up in 35 minutes. Lionel was the first to raise his fifty in just over the hour; Braund soon followed ten minutes later but already he had been dropped twice. By lunchtime the score had been raised to 222 in two hours and 20 minutes when Braund was bowled by Haigh for 107; Lionel went in unbeaten on 112. The Yorkshire team were unhappy as they thought they had Braund caught at short slip by Tunnicliffe when he had made 55; Braund stood his ground and as no umpire could see if a fair catch had been made, the umpires ruled in Braund’s favour. Those who saw the catch said it was a fair catch. Lionel continued and was almost caught at point when 135 off Rhodes. He continued in fine form until on 173 he gave a simple return catch to John Brown, the score now 341 for three. His innings had lasted three hours and 40 minutes and he had hit 28 fours. The hitting continued; Frank Phillips made 122 and Woods hit 66, as Somerset closed day two on 549 for five, the most runs the team has ever hit in a day. The following day this total was raised to 630 before Somerset were all out. Poor George Hirst had endured the worst day and a half of his bowling career as he took one for 189 off 37 overs. With only a draw to play for Yorkshire reached 57 for one before Cranfield and Braund ran through them for 113. Yorkshire actually lost their last six wickets for only 14. Somerset had won A new century and 1901 75