Minor Counties Championship 1895

17 MATCH NUMBER 4 : DURHAM V CHESHIRE At The Darlington Cricket Club Ground, Feethams, Darlington on Monday 24, Tuesday 25 June 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Durham Umpires: T Hutton and A Smith Debutants: Durham 4 (A B Crosby, J Dowson, J Gregory, J WWelford); Cheshire 3 (J R Bates, H J Fish, E Town) First day score: Durham 122; Cheshire 166-4 wickets (T Pointon 74*, S Brown 4*) Durham A B Crosby c Pointon b Brown 15 (1) c Davenport b Brown 103 J Young c Smith b Brown 2 (2) c Fish b Town 36 J Dowson b Brown 12 (3) b Smith 25 C Y Adamson b Smith 5 (4) c Smith b Hartley 40 W H Wilson b Smith 16 (5) c Holden b Town 21 J F Whitwell c Disney b Town 45 (6) c Disney b Brown 8 Welford, J W b Brown 5 (7) c Pointon b Brown 64 + Lambert, T b Smith 7 (8) c Pointon b Town 5 * W F Whitwell b Smith 0 (9) not out 19 Gregory, J c Ravenscroft b Smith 9 Nichol, D not out 2 Extras b 4 4 b 1, lb 6, nb 1 8 Total 122 (8 wickets declared) 329 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 3 24 32 42 58 65 92 92 120 122 Second innings 142 142 184 223 232 257 275 329 - - Brown 27 10 46 4 - - (1) 31 6 89 3 - - Smith 27.1 7 70 5 - - (2) 25 7 85 1 - - Town 1 0 2 1 - - (3) 20 3 87 3 - - Pointon (4) 1 0 9 0 - - Hartley (5) 5 1 22 1 - 1 Holden (6) 5 0 29 0 - - Extras - - 4 0 - - - - 8 0 - - Total 55.1 17 122 10 0 0 87 17 329 8 0 1 Cheshire * J Ravenscroft lbw b Gregory 13 (1) st Lambert b Gregory 17 C Holden c Adamson b W F Whitwell 11 (2) c Welford b Gregory 2 Pointon, T b Nichol 110 (3) not out 33 Davenport, G run out 57 (4) not out 17 W Hartley b Gregory 1 Brown, S c Crosby b Nichol 26 H J Fish b Nichol 1 Bates, J R b Nichol 24 Smith, E b Nichol 0 Town, E b Nichol 6 + Disney, J J not out 2 Extras b 7, lb 1 8 0 Total 259 (2 wickets) 69 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 15 33 140 143 213 216 239 243 252 259 Second innings 18 23 - - - - - - - - W F Whitwell 23 4 72 1 - - (3) 6 2 13 0 - - Gregory 37 6 89 2 - - (2) 12 5 21 2 - - Nichol 25.2 10 56 6 - - (1) 11 3 24 0 - - Welford 6 2 22 0 - - Wilson 4 2 9 0 - - J F Whitwell 1 0 3 0 - - Adamson (4) 3 1 7 0 - - Crosby (5) 2 0 4 0 - - Extras - - 8 1 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 96.2 24 259 10 0 0 34 11 69 2 0 0 Notes: Match drawn after the Durham second innings declaration left Cheshire a victory target of 193 runs in 90 minutes. On the first day the game started two hours late because the Cheshire team missed their connecting train at Leeds. For the visitors, there were 17 fours, 2 threes and 6 twos in Pointon’s 110. It was the first century scored in a Championship match. Davenport’s 57 included 9 fours. In the Cheshire first innings, Pointon and Davenport added 107 runs for the third wicket. For Durham, Crosby’s 103 contained 17 fours, 2 threes and 6 twos, coincidentally the same innings breakdown as in Pointon’s century. There was 1 five and 11 fours in Welford’s 64. In the Durham second innings, Crosby and Young put on 142 runs for the first wicket, and Welford and W F Whitwell 54 runs for the eighth wicket. Durham’s second innings total of 329 for 8 wickets was the joint second highest of the season. The match run aggregate of 779 runs was also the second highest of the year. [Missing: In Durham 2 nd inns duration of Crosby’s innings of 103; in Cheshire 1 st inns duration of Pointon’s innings of 110.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 25 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 25,26 June, 4 July; Northern Echo 25,26 June; North Star 25,26 June; Cheshire County News 28 June; The Sportsman 24,25,26 June.