Minor Counties Championship 1895

19 MATCH NUMBER 6 : DURHAM V STAFFORDSHIRE At The Sunderland Cricket Club Ground, Ashbrooke, Sunderland on Wednesday 26, Thursday 27 June 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Staffordshire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Durham 2 (A Burn, R H Mallett); Staffordshire 3 (H R Brunt, G Mayer, F J Stanley) First day score: Staffordshire 189; Durham 155-4 wickets (J Young 49*) Staffordshire * C C Mott c Wilson b Gregory 4 (3) not out 0 King, J run out 47 (1) b Whitwell 1 Brown, J c Nichol b Mallett 48 H R Brunt c and b Whitwell 31 Brown, W b Whitwell 0 (2) not out 25 Stanley, F J b Whitwell 26 Briscoe, H c Adamson b Whitwell 3 Turner, W H c Lambert b Nichol 6 Darlow, J F b Whitwell 0 + Burrows, W not out 4 Mayer, G b Whitwell 8 Extras b 9, lb 2, nb 1 12 b 2 2 Total 189 (1 wicket) 28 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 65 129 130 147 167 176 177 177 189 Second innings 21 - - - - - - - - - Whitwell 31.1 10 62 6 - 1 (1) 11 5 17 1 - - Gregory 29 10 51 1 - - (2) 10 5 9 0 - - Nichol 15 5 36 1 - - Mallett 8 4 21 1 - - (3) 1 1 0 0 - - Wilson 2 1 7 0 - - Extras - - 12 1 - - - - 2 0 - - Total 85.1 30 189 10 0 1 22 11 28 1 0 0 Durham Welford, J W c and b Turner 48 J Young c Stanley b Darlow 67 J Dowson b Darlow 12 C Y Adamson b W Brown 22 W H Wilson b Briscoe 5 A Burn c Darlow b Briscoe 36 R H Mallett lbw b Darlow 22 * W F Whitwell b J Brown 69 + Lambert, T run out 10 Gregory, J not out 12 Nichol, D st Burrows b J Brown 1 Extras b 20, lb 5 25 Total 329 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 87 117 149 155 178 208 257 310 314 329 Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Darlow 23 5 64 3 - - Mayer 21 8 54 0 - - Stanley 5 1 18 0 - - Brown, J 14.3 1 35 2 - - Turner 38 14 94 1 - - Briscoe 12 4 25 2 - - Brown, W 4 1 14 1 - - Extras - - 25 1 - - Total 117.3 34 329 10 0 0 Notes: Match drawn with rain preventing a start on the second day until 2.10 pm and ending play early at 5.40 pm. For Durham, there was 1 five and 6 fours in Whitwell’s 69 and 6 fours in Young’s 67. In the Durham innings Whitwell and Lambert added 53 runs for the eighth wicket. The Durham innings total of 329 was the joint second highest of the season. [Missing: Umpires.] Sources: Durham Scorebook; Newcastle Daily Chronicle 28 June; Newcastle Daily Journal 27,28 June; Sunderland Herald 27,28 June; Staffordshire Post 26,27,28 June; Staffordshire Sentinel 26,27 June; The Sportsman 26,27,28 June.