Minor Counties Championship 1895

23 MATCH NUMBER 10 : STAFFORDSHIRE V WORCESTERSHIRE At The County Ground, Victoria Road, Stoke-on-Trent on Monday 8, Tuesday 9 July 1895 Result: Worcestershire won by ten wickets Points: Worcestershire 1, Staffordshire -1 Toss: Worcestershire Umpires: Not known Debutants: Staffordshire 6 (C E Booth, J H Copestake, C A W Gilbert, W E Harrison, H Spencer, F R Twemlow); Worcestershire 6 (W Bird, F L Bowley, P H Foley, E P Jobson, F W Romney, T Straw) First day score: Worcestershire 239; Staffordshire 87-9 wickets (W E Harrison 7*) Worcestershire E P Jobson c W Brown b Darlow 17 Arnold, E G b Darlow 13 (1) not out 9 Bowley, F L lbw b King 9 (2) not out 0 G E Bromley-Martin b Darlow 106 Millward, A b Darlow 7 Fereday, J B c J Brown b Darlow 4 + Straw, T b W Brown 5 F W Romney b Spencer 34 Raynor, S b J Brown 7 * P H Foley not out 4 Bird, W absent - Extras nb 3 33 0 Total 239 (no wicket) 9 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 27 32 49 65 72 132 220 239 - Second innings - - - - - - - - - - Darlow 32 7 82 5 - 2 (1) 1 0 5 0 - - Spencer 11.3 7 27 1 - - (2) 0.1 0 4 0 - - King 10 1 40 1 - 1 Brown, J 15 8 25 1 - - Gilbert 6 1 15 0 - - Brown, W 7 2 17 1 - - Extras - - 33 0 - - - - 0 0 - - Total 81.3 26 239 9 - 3 1.1 0 9 0 0 0 Staffordshire (Followed on) * C C Mott c Straw b Raynor 20 (1) st Straw b Raynor 38 King, J b Raynor 0 (3) b Bird 5 Brown, W b Raynor 2 (4) not out 41 Brown, J c Bowley b Millward 10 (6) b Raynor 9 J H Copestake b Raynor 1 (5) b Arnold 18 WE Harrison not out 7 (2) c Romney b Bird 11 CA W Gilbert c Straw b Millward 13 (7) c Foley b Raynor 1 F R Twemlow b Millward 12 (8) b Raynor 15 + C E Booth b Millward 1 (10) b Raynor 3 Spencer, H b Arnold 15 (9) b Raynor 5 Darlow, J F b Arnold 0 (11) b Raynor 0 Extras 6 nb 2 14 Total 87 160 Fall of wickets 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First innings 12 34 87 87 Second innings 43 62 69 104 118 126 142 156 160 160 Millward 21 6 40 4 - - (1) 20 12 18 0 - - Raynor 22 6 41 4 - - (2) 25.3 6 75 7 - 1 Arnold 1.1 1 0 2 - - (3) 17 9 22 1 - 1 Bird (4) 24 13 31 2 - - Extras - - 6 0 - - - - 14 0 - - Total 44.1 13 87 10 - - 86.3 40 160 10 - 2 Notes: Worcestershire won by ten wickets at 3.35 pm on the second day, after Staffordshire followed-on 152 runs behind. For the visitors, there were 17 fours and 5 threes in G E Bromley-Martin’s 106, scored in 2¼ hours. Raynor took 11 wickets in the match for 116 runs, including 7 for 75 in the Staffordshire second innings. In the Worcestershire first innings Bromley-Martin and Romney added 88 runs for the seventh wicket. Bird was absent in the Worcestershire first innings having missed the train according to Berrow’s Worcester Journal, his Club having refused leave according to The Staffordshire Post, and having sprained a wrist according to The Staffordshire Sentinel. On the second morning, Darlow, the remaining Staffordshire batsman, arrived 15 minutes late, and play was held up to await his arrival. He was bowled by the first ball he received. [Missing: Umpires; extras breakdown; part fall of wickets] Sources: Staffordshire Advertiser 13 July; Staffordshire Chronicle 13 July; Staffordshire Post 9,10 July; Staffordshire Sentinel 8,9 July; Berrow’s Worcester Journal 13 July; Worcester Herald 13 July; Worcestershire Echo 9,10 July; Birmingham Daily Post 9,10 July; Sporting Chronicle 10 July; The Sportsman 9,10 July.