Minor Counties Championship 1895

20 MATCH NUMBER 7 : LINCOLNSHIRE V NORFOLK At The Black Swan Ground, Stepping Stones Lane, Spalding on Thursday 27, Friday 28 June 1895 Result: Match drawn Points: None awarded Toss: Norfolk Umpires: F Renshaw and G T Rye Debutants: Lincolnshire 6 (H C Melbourne, R H Melbourne, T J Nicholson, H O Peacock, F A Soames, G F Wells-Cole); Norfolk 11 (Whole team) First day score: Lincolnshire 131; Norfolk 103. Lincolnshire A E Cheales lbw b Shore 11 (2) b Smith 79 * G F Wells-Cole b Cowles 4 (1) b Massingham 47 F A Soames c Raikes b Cowles 17 (3) b Skrimshire 29 C B Cheales b Shore 13 (4) c Blake b Skrimshire 0 H C Melbourne b Smith 21 (5) b Cowles 15 H O Peacock c and b Raikes 36 (6) c Smith b Cowles 18 Broadbent, WW b Shore 13 ( ) b Smith 10 R H Melbourne c Skrimshire b Shore 1 ( ) lbw b Cowles 5 Woodley, A c Birkbeck b Shore 2 ( ) not out 14 Nicholson, T J b Shore 5 ( ) b Cowles 2 + Brown, T not out 7 ( ) not out 3 Extras 1 15 Total 131 (9 wickets declared) 237 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 10 22 46 73 131 Second innings 79 156 156 166 - Shore 28.4 10 66 6 - - (2) 25 2 82 0 - - Cowles 22 9 40 2 - - (1) 23 3 53 4 - - Smith 1 0 5 1 - - (3) 10 4 23 2 - - Raikes 7 0 19 1 - - Darnell (4) 4 0 17 0 - - Massingham (5) 11 6 17 1 - - Skrimshire (6) 13 6 30 2 - - Extras - - 1 0 - - - - 15 0 - - Total 58.4 19 131 10 - - 86 21 237 9 - - Norfolk G B Raikes c Brown b Broadbent 27 J F Skrimshire b Broadbent 0 ( ) run out 83 E A Massingham b Broadbent 6 ( ) c Soames b Broadbent 0 Cowles, S R B b Broadbent 13 ( ) c C B Cheales b Broadbent 25 S D Page c and b Broadbent 5 ( ) c Broadbent b Woodly 22 Capt W H Birkbeck b Broadbent 22 ( ) b Woodley 0 * A R Buxton b Broadbent 12 ( ) b Nicholson 10 Darnell, A F b Nicholson 8 ( ) not out 16 C G Smith c Nicholson b Broadbent 0 ( ) not out 2 + G F Blake b Nicholson 0 ( ) b Broadbent 8 Shore, C not out 0 Extras 10 13 Total 103 (7 wickets) 179 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 5 19 45 60 82 103 103 103 103 Second innings 12 32 72 142 148 - - - Broadbent 25 5 47 8 - - (1) 41 8 101 3 - - Nicholson 16.1 6 31 2 - - (2) 21 12 28 1 - - Woodley 8 2 15 0 - - (3) 20 10 25 2 - - Soames (4) 3 0 12 0 - - Extras - - 10 0 - - - - 13 1 - - Total 49.1 13 103 10 - - 85 30 179 7 - - Notes: Match drawn after the Lincolnshire second innings declaration had set Norfolk a victory target of 266 in 2¾ hours. The game marked Norfolk’s debut in the Championship. For Lincolnshire, Broadbent took 11 wickets in the match for 148 runs, including 8 for 47 in the visitors’ first innings. A E Cheales top-scored for Lincolnshire with 79, while Skrimshire made Norfolk’s highest score with 83. Norfolk’s 179-7 wickets was the highest fourth innings total of the season. Raikes was permitted by Buxton, the Norfolk Captain, to withdraw from the match after the first day in order to play for Oxford University against Kent at Maidstone. He went on to win his Blue. [Missing: Extras breakdown; part fall of wickets; in Lincolnshire 2 nd inns boundaries in A E Cheales’s 79, and part batting order; in Norfolk 2 nd inns boundaries in Skrimshire’s 83, and batting order.] Sources: Lincoln, Stamford and Rutland Mercury 5 July; Lincolnshire Echo 28,29 June; Lincolnshire Free Press 2 July; Spalding Chronicle 29 June, 6 July; Norfolk Cricket Annual 1896, p 18-22; Eastern Daily Press 28,29 June; Eastern Evening News 28,29 June; The Sportsman 28,29 June.