Minor Counties Championship 1895

16 MATCH NUMBER 3 : CHESHIRE V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Stockport Cricket Club Ground, Cale Green, Stockport on Monday 17, Tuesday 18 June 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: - Booth and A Smith Debutants: Cheshire 11 (Whole team); Staffordshire 6 (H Briscoe, J Brown, W Burrows, J King, Rev P E Mainwaring, F S Sheldon) First day score: Staffordshire 178; Cheshire 176-9 wickets (S Brown 61*, J J Disney 6*) Staffordshire C C Mott b S Brown 4 (4) not out 8 King, J not out 62 (1) b Bromley-Davenport 20 Brown, W b Holden 35 (3) b Holden 26 T S Fishwick b Bromley-Davenport 15 (5) not out 0 G E Simmonds b Bromley-Davenport 6 (2) c substitute (T S Fishwick) b S Brown 2 Brown, J c Disney b S Brown 19 Briscoe, H run out 6 F S Sheldon b S Brown 18 * Rev P E Mainwaring c Pointon b S Brown 0 + Burrows, W b Smith 4 Darlow, J F b Smith 0 Extras 9 5 Total 178 (3 wickets) 61 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 7 71 91 99 131 146 170 170 178 178 Second innings 9 51 59 - - - - - - - Bromley-Davenport 27 9 52 2 - - (4) 5 2 5 1 - - Brown, S 36 17 55 4 - - (1) 19 5 22 1 - - Smith 17 7 34 2 - - (2) 17 11 10 0 - - Cookson 4 0 16 0 - - Holden 7 1 12 1 - - (3) 6 1 19 1 - - Extras - - 9 1 - - - - 5 0 - - Total 91 34 178 10 - - 47 19 61 3 - - Cheshire C Holden b Darlow 28 W Hartley lbw b Darlow 5 Davenport, G c Mott b King 13 Pointon, T b J Brown 27 J Cookson lbw b King 7 Rev F C L Hamilton c Briscoe b King 8 Brown, S c Darlow b King 70 Smith, E b Darlow 2 * J Ravenscroft lbw b Darlow 0 H R Bromley-Davenport b Darlow 4 + Disney, J J not out 14 Extras 15 Total 193 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 11 48 58 70 193 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Darlow 27 7 81 5 - - Briscoe 8 1 22 0 - - King 15.2 4 48 4 - - Brown, J 10 1 27 1 - - Extras - - 15 0 - - Total 60.2 13 193 10 - - Notes: This match was drawn. Rain prevented play after lunch on the second day, and the match was abandoned at 3.45 pm. For Staffordshire, King’s 62 not out contained 5 fours and it was one of only two instances during the season of a batsmen carrying his bat throughout an innings. For Cheshire, there were 10 fours in S Brown’s 70. The substitute catch to dismiss Simmonds in the Staffordshire second innings was held by his team-mate, T S Fishwick. Cheshire were making their debut in a Minor Counties Championship match, but they did not ‘qualify’ for the Championship itself, playing home and away games with Durham, Staffordshire and Worcestershire. [Missing: Umpire Booth’s initials; extras breakdown; in Staffordshire 2 nd inns for whom Fishwick fielded as substitute; in Cheshire inns fall of 5 th to 9 th wickets.] Sources: Cheshire County News 21 June; Cheshire Evening Echo 17 June; Liverpool Daily Post 18,19 June; Stockport Advertiser 21 June; Staffordshire Advertiser 22 June; Staffordshire Chronicle 22 June; Staffordshire Post 17,18 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 17,18 June; Birmingham Daily Post 17,18 June; Sporting Chronicle 18,19 June; The Sportsman 17,18,19 June.